Sailing

Auckland will host another major Louis Vuitton yachting event this summer as part of a new world series that will put the big names of international sailing back on the world circuit.

Auckland’s Waitemata harbour erupted with boat horns and cheers as the host team – Emirates Team New Zealand – scored a decisive 3-1 victory over top challenger Alinghi in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series on Saturday (14.02.09).

As Emirates Team New Zealand and Alinghi set sail in the final stages of the inaugural Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, the chances of the international yachting event happening again – and in Auckland - are growing stronger by the day.

Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour is hosting a celebrity line-up – not all famous yachties – during the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series races on the Hauraki Gulf.

Fast boats and world famous yachtsmen are no strangers to Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour but the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series will provide some extraordinary scenes when racing gets underway this Friday (30.01.09).

The world’s top yachtsmen have begun arriving in New Zealand for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, a friendly summer regatta that will bring top sailing teams together for the first time since the 2007 America’s Cup.

A rare visit from a humpback whale and her calf to Auckland’s marine doorstep has scientists and whale watchers very excited.

Race yachting teams for the Team New Zealand-hosted Louis Vuitton Pacific Series were announced in Paris today (November 6).

International yachting teams have raced to submit entries for the new Louis Vuitton Pacific Series to be sailed in Auckland – New Zealand’s ‘city of sails’ – in February 2009.

Come summer 2009, international yachting fever will return to Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour as the world’s top racing yachties set sail in a new Louis Vuitton-sponsored yacht regatta.