Russell will join Chris Bake's Team Aqua this week-end, and compete in the famous Round the Island regatta for the first time on board their Extreme 40 catamaran.

Coutts will join 1,700 plus other entrants for the classic race. The course, established in 1931, which goes westward 50 miles round the Isle of Wight, starting and finishing in Cowes, the centre of British yachting.



Coutts will sail on Team Aqua with fellow New Zealander Cameron Appleton and other members of Team Aqua.