Dalton home, but hurting 'big time'
Team New Zealand manager Grant Dalton says the "what ifs" will go through his head for the rest of his life.
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.
Sir Russell Coutts says the foil-adjusting technology rumoured to be the key to Oracle's comeback in the America's Cup was a figment of someone's imagination.
Seven-year-old Harry Wurr watched every America's Cup race in the final exasperating week from Shed 10 on Auckland's waterfront.
Under-pinning Oracle's gripping come-from-behind defence of the America's Cup is an irrefutable truth.
From a young man in the limelight to a tested leader, Suzanne McFadden assesses a career in sailing.
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.
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.
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.
The coming days, possibly weeks, will provide a good test of the maturity of New Zealand the sporting nation.
The old yachting romantics told me there's nothing like the first leg of the first race of the America's Cup.
Emirates Team New Zealand managing Grant Dalton has categorically ruled out making any legal challenge against Oracle Team USA.
Don't be unduly surprised if next Saturday night at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, the All Blacks are upstaged by 95-year-old Nelson Mandela kitted out in a Springbok jersey and reprising his 1995 World Cup final gig.
Emirates Team New Zealand's defeat at the hands of Oracle is a blow for this country's boatbuilding businesses and Government backing for a future America's Cup challenge will be crucial for the local marine sector, says an industry group boss.
Back in May, a couple of weeks after Team New Zealand had packed up their operations for San Francisco, I found myself walking around the empty corridors of their abandoned Halsey St base.
Not since the Mayflower has the English seafaring community made such a big claim in America.
Steven Joyce says the Government is keeping an open mind about funding another America's Cup bid but Kim Dotcom has made a firmer commitment.
Here's how it might have gone down. This is entirely fictionalised and based on a lot of the talk buzzing round America's Cup circles right now.
New Zealand Olympic Committee chief Mike Stanley has written an open letter expressing his pride in Team NZ.
Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom has vowed to help pay for Team New Zealand's next America's Cup campaign if the Government doesn't stump up funding.
It was the eerily quiet, almost sombre, atmosphere as the team launched their boat yesterday morning that hinted it was all over before it began.
Oracle Team USA's secret weapon is still that - secret.
Russell Coutts has been credited as the mastermind behind Oracle Team USA's remarkable America's Cup comeback, overseeing his fifth Cup triumph.