Big boat match racing returns this weekend when TeamOrigin, the British challenger for the beleaguered America’s Cup, is one of 10 teams competing in the southern hemisphere in the inaugural Louis Vuitton Pacific Series.

The British team led by Sir Keith Mills will on Friday have its first opportunity to go head to head with a full fleet of America’s Cup challengers while arrangements for the running of the 33rd America’s Cup remain held up in the American Supreme Court. A series of legal wrangles, including an attempt by Larry Ellison’s BMW-Oracle to supplant the Swiss holder Alinghi’s choice as Challenger of Record, the Club Nautico Espanol de Vela, and a continuing row between Louis Vuitton and America’s Cup Management has stalled the event worldwide.