James Dagg got into multihull racing with the team in 2011, competing in both Extreme Sailing Series and ACWS regattas. With a long list of keelboat regattas to his credit, including the Farr 40 and Mumm 36 circuits, James joined Team New Zealand in 1996 specialising in trimming (the genoa upwind and the spinnaker or gennaker downwind). He was part of the successful defence in 2000; he was back in 2003 and again in Valencia 2007. James has trimmed for the team throughout the Louis Trophy regattas and raced NZL380 in the successful 2009 and 2010 Audi MedCup campaigns.