Louis Vuitton Pacific Series - Pools and Draw for Round Robin 1
by Richard Gladwell, Sail-World.Com on 27 Jan 2009
The skippers await the commencement of the draw for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series Richard Gladwell
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The draw for Round Robin 1 in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series was made Tuesday at Sky City Convention Centre in front of a large gathering of Team skippers, media and crew.
It was standing room only in the convention centre room as the first real act in racing for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series
Also on show was the exquisite Louis Vuitton Pacific Series trophy in its especially made Louis Vuitton travelling case.
See the link below, at bottom of page, to hear the full media conference including comments from Bruno Trouble (LVPS), Kevin Shoebridge (Emirates TNZ), Dyer Jones (Event Director), Bill Edferton (Chief Umpire), and John Lee-Richards (Auckland Harbourmaster).
The first announcement was the pools into which the teams had been seeded, which are as follows:
Pool A:
Emirates Team New Zealand, Pataugas K-Challenge, BMW Oracle Racing, Damiani Italia Challenge and China Team
Pool B:
Greek Challenge, Team Origin, Team Shosholoza, Alinghi and Luna Rossa
As there are five teams in each pool and only four boats, one team in each pool will have a Bye each race day.
There will be four races each day, with each team racing once per day.
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