
Yachting: Govt funding depends on win
Prime Minister John Key says the Government is only likely to fund another New Zealand bid for the America’s Cup if Team New Zealand win the competition.
Prime Minister John Key says the Government is only likely to fund another New Zealand bid for the America’s Cup if Team New Zealand win the competition.
Oracle Team USA bounced back from a demoralising loss in this morning's opening race to claim their first win of the America's Cup.
Live updates of races 3 and 4 of the America's Cup series between Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA.
They might be at the helm of "$10 million carbon fibre missiles", but it's no surprise that neither Dean Barker nor Jimmy Spithill backed down when they came to close quarters.
Oracle Team USA will have had a long night watching where they went wrong yesterday, and their main worry will be their upwind speed.
If you were a student of body language, you'd have loved the first after-race press conference at the 34th America's Cup.
Americans look for answers as Team New Zealand crew outwits, out-manoeuvres and outclasses US boat.
Emirates Team New Zealand have won both of the opening races in the America's Cup and need just seven more victories to claim the Auld Mug.
Oracle Team USA might have the advantage today. It's all set for the first race against Emirates Team NZ for the 34th America's Cup.
The commodore of the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron - the yacht club behind Team New Zealand - was fuming last night at what he said was a calculated snub by the America's Cup Event Authority, the body set up by Oracle Team USA to run the event.
No matter what happens in the first two races in the America's Cup this morning, this isn't just a regatta - it's a watershed.
Team New Zealand were last night left wondering why only 17 tickets came their way to an 800-person America's Cup cocktail party do at Pier 19.
Larry Ellison's book The Billionaire And The Mechanic opens with a powerful chapter about Ellison, his yacht Sayonara, and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race when six sailors died and 55 were rescued by helicopter.
Landmark speeds upwards of 50 miles an hour are on the cards when the America's Cup finals get underway tomorrow morning.
James Spithill is tired. He's got a big zit erupting out of his ginger stubble, he looks drawn and it's not hard to see the pressure is telling on him.
Hanging precariously off the side of his 30ft sloop as it bashes upwind through the agitated seas approaching the Golden Gate Bridge, Mike Peterson is in his element.
Despite all the drama and controversy that has marred the build-up to this America's Cup, there has never been so much expectation and intrigue attached to an opening race.
Team New Zealand is a remarkable organisation. It ought to have disappeared, quietly, years ago.
Wynyard Quarter and a wharf extension to Halsey St are shaping up as the preferred waterfront locations should the America's Cup come back to New Zealand.
For Kiwis who give a damn about the pursuit of one of sport's most tainted, yet highly prized trophies, it would be easy to cast multi-billionaire Ellison as the villain to Team New Zealand's state and corporate-sponsored heroes.
In the six years since Team New Zealand's last America's Cup campaign, their family support contingent has more than doubled in size.