Team New Zealand are challenging the legality of moves from America's Cup organisers to push through changes that would effectively alter the design rule.

Many of us would be happy if Emirates Team New Zealand won this year's America's Cup.

Like an out-of-control catamaran, the America's Cup continues to cartwheel towards ever-mounting disaster.

When the Government announced they'd be chipping in $36 million to get Dean Barker and his crew on the startline, there were howls of protest across the country.

Grant Dalton has vowed to invoke a nationality clause and slash the costs of competing by around 50 per cent.

For the America's Cup to survive beyond this year, Grant Dalton believes budgets need to be slashed by more than half.

While the nation's love affair with the ultimate all-or-nothing contest ended a decade ago, 2013 offers the chance of reconciliation.

Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton is concerned rivals are using the recent tragedy involving Artemis as an opportunity to push their own agendas for the America's Cup.

A panel of investigators has asked America's Cup teams to hold off sailing following the death of Artemis sailor Andrew Simpson.

There was a sentence from America's Cup Racing Management boss Iain Murray that will have raised the heart rates of the challengers - particularly that of Team NZ.

The America's Cup regatta may begin in just over seven weeks - but the possibility of civil legal action after the death of Artemis sailor Andrew Simpson remains.

With the competitors having invested upwards of half a billion dollars in the event, America's Cup organisers have declared the show must go on, writes Dana Johannsen.

America's Cup organisers have confirmed this year's event will go ahead following the death of British sailor Andrew Simpson last week.

Team New Zealand will be represented by Kevin Shoebridge at tomorrow's competitors' meeting in San Francisco as America's Cup organisers try to plot the way forward for the event.

America's Cup holder Oracle have produced a second yacht optimised for September's lighter winds in San Francisco

Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton kicked off a heated debate with Sir Russell Coutts when the two yachting adversaries squared off in a charity dinner last night.

The culture in NZ is, no doubt, a leading element of what has been achieved by Team NZ in bringing this catamaran campaign to its impending pinnacle, Keith Turner.

Some time back, I flew off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger in an F-14 Tomcat. One of the great days of my life.

More signs have emerged that Emirates Team New Zealand's America's Cup strategy is the right one with the temporary disappearance of fellow challenger Artemis from San Francisco waters.

The first of the off-water battles in 2013 has begun in the America's Cup, with Team NZ and Oracle in an unofficial race to get back on the water, writes Dana Johannsen.

Twelve young Auckland sailors saw Emirates Team New Zealand's new America's Cup catamaran up close over the weekend.