With Love My New Zealand & Touch of Spice
America’s Cup experts and New Zealand’s top luxury travel and experience curators join forces to launch the Larry Keating & Friends America’s Cup project; curated by Touch of Spice, Love My New Zealand, Larry Keating and Jack Griffin.
Explore below what your perfect beginning in Auckland could look like and take a journey with us throughout New Zealand.
Cruise and enjoy the action of this world prestigious sailing event.
Choose from our handpicked Auckland itineraries you will love.
Larry Keating is well known in America's Cup circles and for his award winning book 'Exposed – The Dark Side of The America’s Cup' nominated as one of the Best Books for 2018 by Yachting Year. Having travelled the world extensively for over 40 years, ten of those sailing around the Mediterranean with wife Deborah in their yacht Chinano, Larry is a passionate yachtsman who built a strong interest in America’s Cup history, working at various levels in the international sports media, from photography to broadcasting and film making.
His experience has taken him to ten America’s Cup events, two Olympic Games and found him crewing in the 1989/90 Whitbread Around the World Race. As a film producer/raconteur, Larry has interviewed some of the world’s most famous characters from Olympic sports stars, Hollywood actors to Nelson Mandela. A true-blue Kiwi, Larry's knowledge of New Zealand is vast, having lived and travelled the length and breadth of the country.