America’s Cup-winning skipper Peter Burling has proposed to long-term partner Lucinda Nelson and is set to tie the knot in the new year.
Nelson, a trained lawyer, who previously worked in banking and property finance, has recently joined forces with her mother, Deborah Nelson, in her successful interior design business based in Auckland.
The couple have been close for four years, with sources telling Spy 33-year-old Nelson has been a big part of 31-year-old Burling’s life over that time.
He proposed in New York following the US Sail Grand Prix: Chicago event in June. It is understood his sailing partner, Blair Tuke, and friends were there to celebrate afterwards with the happy couple.