A challenge for the 37th America's Cup has already been issued and accepted, with the start of the process beginning out on the water as soon as Team New Zealand secured the Auld Mug earlier on Wednesday.
Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron general manager Hayden Porter confirmed the club had received a new challenge when speaking to Newstalk ZB's Heather du Plessis-Allan yesterday afternoon, but would not say where the challenge had come from.
"We have received a challenge for the 37th America's Cup. There's a lot of details to come; discussions will evolve over the next few days, weeks and months and things will happen from there ... it was all done out on the water – all details will be revealed in the next wee while," Porter said.
There have been suggestions the challenge has come from the Royal Yacht Squadron from the United Kingdom, with RYS commodore James Sheldon in Auckland with his associates.