The Government has pledged an "interim'' investment of $5 million into Team New Zealand while a decision is made about the next America's Cup bid.

Cabinet is expected to recommend funding for Emirates Team New Zealand tomorrow for a new America's Cup campaign, possibly to be held in 2017.

What do you do with an old America's Cup campaign yacht? Oracle and Boeing are working out how to reuse three tonnes of carbon fibre.

The Australian-born sailor who broke New Zealand's hearts with his come-from-behind victory in the America's Cup admits he lied at press conferences during the regatta.

As America's Cup followers watched in wonder at the speed gains made by Oracle Team USA.

When he was a teenager Ben Ainslie was invited to the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony in recognition of his winning a sailing championship.

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom plans to approach Team New Zealand next week to discuss funding an America's Cup challenge.

There was no visible Plan B; only a Plan A predicated on a win, writes Murray Stott. This, one can understand. However, any good business model would have had a Plan B.

Thousands of loyal Emirates Team New Zealand fans are expected to turn out for the crew's official welcome home event tomorrow.

If Team NZ decide to mount a challenge for the next America's Cup, it's "probably inevitably'' the Government will provide them with more funding, John Key said today.

Team New Zealand manager Grant Dalton says the "what ifs" will go through his head for the rest of his life.

Dean Barker says a decision about the Team NZ's involvement in the next America's Cup challenge must be made before sailors are poached.

From a young man in the limelight to a tested leader, Suzanne McFadden assesses a career in sailing.

Under-pinning Oracle's gripping come-from-behind defence of the America's Cup is an irrefutable truth.

Team New Zealand crew members are back on home soil and say the support they got from Kiwis during the Cup campaign was 'humbling'.

I was told Team New Zealand would not win because Larry Ellison "does not lose". As though that was bad in a competition, or unusual when two rich men fight over something.

Investing in the America's Cup is a bona fide vote winner and can be justified as an investment in economic development, writes Andrew Alderson.

Dean and Mandy Barker have a new multimillion-dollar project when they return from the America's Cup.

Dylan Cleaver places little or no stock on Grant Dalton's weary resignation that he does not have another America's Cup campaign left in him.

Kiwi taxpayers subsidised American billionaire Larry Ellison's Oracle victory in the America's Cup with more than $1 million in grants and tax breaks.

If they'd won the America's Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand were understood to be looking into the development of a new, fast monohull yacht as part of their options for the next one.

The coming days, possibly weeks, will provide a good test of the maturity of New Zealand the sporting nation.