Could the America's Cup be hosted in Queenstown? According to our very own sailing legend Sir Russell Coutts, it could.
When asked this week if Auckland could again host the world's most famous yachting regatta he replied: "Why not have it in Queenstown?"
Queenstown's land-locked, so the regatta would be held on Lake Wakatipu.
It wouldn't be the first time an America's Cup vessel has sailed there. A few years ago a company offered sailings on a yacht skippered by Mr Coutts in 1992.
And it wouldn't be the first time a Cup race has been held on a lake. In June, Chicago's Lake Michigan became the first-ever freshwater venue for a qualifier.
It's slightly bigger though. Lake Michigan is 494 kilometres long compared to Lake Wakatipu's 80 kilometre length.
But Mr Coutts says the course only needs to be a two to three kilometres long, and he's a big fan of lake sailing.
And how would you get the boats there?
The current America's Cup yachts are 14 metres long - they get shorter all the time, making them easier to transport.
They're typically disassembled, packaged and shipped on boats, planes - and in cases where the race is somewhere land-locked - trucks.
That was the case with the vessel used on Lake Wakatipu. It was trucked down the North Island, ferried across the Cook Strait, driven to the lake and lifted into the water by a crane.
And given these yachts cost up to $10 million, that's a lot of precious cargo.
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