The accolades just keep coming for Peter Burling and Blair Tuke.
The Olympic gold medallists, Team New Zealand crew and World Sailors of the Year winners picked up the highest honour in New Zealand yachting for a record fourth consecutive year.
Burling (Tauranga Yacht and Powerboat Club) and Tuke (Kerikeri Cruising Club) stamped their mark even deeper in New Zealand's sailing history books with the acclaimed 49er skiff duo named the winners of the 2016 HRG Sailor of the Year at the Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards on Friday night.
There really was no other contenders to match the two hugely popular sailors following a dominant Olympic campaign which culminated in Rio gold this year.
Burling and Tuke made history last year when they won the Sir Bernard Fergusson Trophy for the third time - a feat no other individual or crew had ever achieved since it was first awarded in 1963.