
America's Cup: San Francisco's ill winds could blow Team NZ some good
The advance weather forecast for today's America's Cup racing is not good - depending on how you look at it.
The advance weather forecast for today's America's Cup racing is not good - depending on how you look at it.
The AC72's success in providing nail-bitingly good racing has everyone thinking highly of them. But as Paul Lewis writes, it'll be the last time we see them.
The advance weather forecast for tomorrow's America's Cup racing is not good - depending on how you look at it.
The pressure on the Kiwi crew throughout the America's Cup match has been relentless, but heading into yesterday's 10th race the stakes were impossibly high.
San Francisco's St Francis Yacht Club - the one Larry Ellison didn't select as the Cup defender - has just lost a sailor whose life was devoted to eliminating noise.
Yesterday's race 10 in the 34th America's Cup match between Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA will, according to many observers, go down in the history books.
The prospects for Auckland redeveloping more of its formerly industrial waterfront and the fortunes of many big planned new city projects are being seen as enhanced.
'If you didn't enjoy today's racing then I think you should probably find another sport." In Dean Barker's words it doesn't get much more exciting than yesterday's thriller.
Emirates Team New Zealand are taking action against Golden Gate Yacht Club vice-commodore Tom Ehman.
The tide has turned, writes Paul Lewis.
The bubbly has already been on ice longer than expected - and venues catering to yachting fans are no longer taking it for granted that victory celebrations are imminent.
Nearly one million people tuned in to watch Team New Zealand's nail-biting efforts on Sunday morning.
That was Australian Glenn Ashby's perspective from the dizzy heights of a Team New Zealand AC72 hull close to capsize after that nerve-jangling near-disaster on Sunday.
On Sunday, New Zealand's America's Cup campaign hung in the balance with their alarming near-disaster. Yesterday, their campaign hung on Race 10.
Missed the drama out on the water? Read back over our updates of today's America's Cup racing in San Francisco.
Emirates Team New Zealand won a thrilling race 10 in the 34th America's Cup to regain advantage of the regatta.
As Emirates Team NZ push hard for victory in the America's Cup, marine companies are pinning their hopes on a win and a boost to the industry.
Oracle Team USA do not seem to have radically altered their boat at all, in spite of their improved showing upwind in yesterday's thriller Race 8 in the America's Cup.
They didn't flip the boat, but the 34th America's Cup match went through another somersault yesterday as Team NZ teetered on the edge of disaster.
Half a degree is how close Barker's team's $120 million America's Cup campaign came to ending in tatters.
Framing the TV set is a makeshift banner where someone has scrawled "Go Dean-Go Ray" with a marker pen on pieces of paper.
More than 1000 America's Cup fans packed Auckland's waterfront yesterday to watch Emirates Team New Zealand take on Oracle.
Get your hearts out of your mouths and back in your chest, New Zealand.
The grinders would say they are always the heroes but, in a stirring display of composure and discipline, they helped prevent a capsize.
A friend of mine recounted a story to me a few years ago - he was hosting an American company executive for a few days and had decided to take him to a one-day cricket international at Eden Park.
Winning the America's Cup might be the most valuable option for growth New Zealand ever buys.
Tourist groups would target luxury travellers overseas if New Zealand wins the America's Cup.