Danny Sunkel - Ocean Rower

The Team

Continuing Danny's Philosophy of doing things properly we have/are are putting a passionate team together of the best people in their fields. This campaign has many different area's and we still have some specialist area's we'd need help in if your interested. The area's we are looking for are: Legal, Finance, PR, Admin and Sales/Sponsorship

Meet the team of people already commited to our campaign:

Martin Carter

As shore manager its Martin that gets it if any thing goes wrong. A bit rough but he tells us he's thick skinned - so he should be fine. Martin comes with a huge background in ocean racing yacht build and fit out. If we
rolled up his specialties its historically been repairs and installations to engineering, electrical, electronic, plumbing and hydraulic systems on race boats.

Currently with a day job at C-Quip overseeing the installation of their carbon fibre goodies in Super yachts worldwide, much to his wife's disgust (or possibly she prefers it that way) out of the country more than in it. Prior to that he Project Managed build, refits and/or engineering systems for numerous boats including Volvo 70 'Telefonica', Open 60 class yacht

Ecover, Ecover 3, Vendee Global Kingfisher many of these as Project Manager for Owen Clark Design and/or their clients.

Martin also has experience in managing or actual work on many other round the world boats, delivery of boats, shore crew and other duties for America's cup and Volvo Ocean teams etc etc etc etc.

Phil Tidswell

In charge of producing pretty pictures, sponsor proposals that people cant say no too and all other things design. Phil is also on the overall management team for the campaign. He oozes passion for design and creating lasting relationships.

Phil brings a strategic approach to our communications, whilst his grassroots and down to earth approach still endures. With over 12 years in the industry, working across all media producing a wide range of work. He has a particular interest in the non profit and government sector and has also constantly led the charge of award winning Annual Reports for this

sector over the past seven years.

Phil is the Director of our brand and design partners PORT Group. Phil has a Degree in Media Arts from Waikato, and continues his professional development through Unitec. When not working hard on your brand, Phil can be seen entertaining his two children and wife and sometimes even manages to get a tramp through New Zealand's spectacular landscape.

Craig Loomes

With a background as a professional boat builder as well as being a multi award winning naval architect with a flair for styling and ergonomics Craig has a real intuitive feel for the design of efficient hull forms which is validated by theory and extensive tank testing. Craig has more than 11000 miles of offshore sailing, was successful at top level dinghy racing and the winning of power boat trophies assures that our boat will both be a rocketship and look stunning.

A meticulous thinker, Craig has an eye for detail and a passion for excellence which is applied not only to the varied technical aspects of boat and yacht design, but to the thousands of aesthetic and ergonomic subtleties that combine to form good design.

Craig is a Director at our Design Partners LOMOcean - Design philosophy focussed on practical boats, strong on innovation with strikingly good looks.

Andre Moltschaniwskyj

Andre is our "the boat will be strong and light" guy. He brings to the team, over a decade of composite structural design experience on boats ranging from high volume production runabouts to top level, custom built race and super yachts. Formerly a senior engineer with leading composite materials technology company, High Modulus, he has a broad range of expertise

including business development and sales experience. Andre also spent a number of years in Britain in a senior consulting role, working with clientele across mainland Europe on the structural design of large sailing and motor yachts.

All this experience and rubber stamped with a New Zealand Certificate of Engineering and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering.

Andre is a Director at our Design Partners LOMOcean - Carrying overall responsibility for the structural elements of the design of LOMOcean Designs boats

Rachel Brown

Following on our attitude of only working with the best, Dr Rachel Brown (Yes we officially have someone with Dr in front of their name on the team) is a lecturer and sports nutritionist at the University of Otago. She has worked with individuals and groups with the goal of improving nutritional status and thereby influencing health, physical performance, and well-being.

Danny thought Rachel sounded like his type of person when she first told him he would be able to eat anything and preferably the fattier the better and it wasn't a bad thing carrying a bit of extra weight - somehow we think that's not exactly what she said and think that his hearing may have been slightly selective.

Not just here for her pretty face, Rachel has extensively researched the influence of diet on health, sports performance, body composition and energy regulation. Her expertise has been sought by some of New Zealand's top athletes. She has designed nutrition plans for the successful New Zealand crews in the Trans-Atlantic Rowing Challenge, America's Cup Yachtsmen, and

Olympic Athletes.

Rachel completed her qualifications at the University of Otago where she studied Human Nutrition, Biochemistry, Epidemiology and Exercise Physiology. She went on to complete a PhD in Sports Nutrition.

Alan and Julie Sunkel

Danny asked for Alan and Julie to be listed as Ground crew. We think that "Heaven Crew" may be more appropriate as they will be looking down on him at sea when none of us can be there. As they did so many times as he grew up, egging him on with the "You can do anything you set your mind too" and "never give up" spirit that he grew up with. It's this grounding that gives him the Strength to take on such a challenge in the first place.

For those of you that don't know danny parents passed away when he was 17 and 21 and he maintains that they were and always will be his lighthouse.

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