He was considered Team New Zealand's lucky charm earlier in the regatta, but team boss Grant Dalton has curiously been left out of the crew for the past four days of racing.

OTUSA have now won the last four races to be sailed in a row. Team NZ were leading the last three races to be called off. Oracle's downwind and reaching speed became starkly clear. They have a faster boat downwind and, as there are two downwind legs, their advantage by a couple of knots is significant.

At the post race press conference, it was an audible murmur of disapproval that accompanied the NZ journalist question comparing past All Black failures at World Cups to a possible Team NZ loss at the America's Cup.

Fans & supporters are not losing the faith after Team NZ were defeated in two races in a row to take Oracle 5-8 as we move to race 16 & 17 on the 17th day of the 34 America's Cup, the longest in the history for a team to claim the auld mug.

My daughters sang this when they were small and "it just goes on and on, my friends", just like the 34th America's Cup.

Eden Park provokes both reactions - a traditional love of the place and dislike sparked by the belief that it is out-moded and poorly located.

The 34th America's Cup is a made-for-TV event. And boy, do TV networks hate it when a not-so-high-rating sport botches the schedule.

Variations on the "Are they racing?" inquiry infested my household at the weekend.

Team NZ fans & supporters were once again disappointed after racing was postponed due to weather conditions. The faithful stay strong and amidst the disappointment and frustration, most feel it only delays the inevitable and tomorrow could bring a promising result.

Kiwis have been close but not quite won the America's cup and kiwis and supporters of New Zealand decided to camp out at the Moa Bar at the finish line and make themselves at home, get a few clothes clean, play some back yard cricket, have a kip on the beds. courtesy 90secendsTV.

New Zealand's cruel residence on the precipice of America's Cup ownership continued today with yet another weather intervention ushering in a big loss to Oracle Team USA.

Relive all the drama from race 13 of the America's Cup in San Francisco.

More than a million New Zealanders have been watching the America's Cup live online, adding to the hundreds of thousands viewing the racing on television.

An excited roar ripples through Shed 10 like a stiff breeze sweeping across San Francisco Bay. The impossible has happened. The wind has dropped and race two - against all expectations - is actually going to happen.

They've shouted, bellowed and sighed their way upwind and downwind with us on TV and radio. We rate how they've performed.

Thanks to America's Cup fever, the whole nation has now heard of "port entry advantage". But some may be wondering why it never seems to go our way.

The New Zealand company which pioneered cutting-edge television graphics for the America's Cup was shut down after an executive stole almost $600,000 from its accounts.

It's a sad thing when rivalry in sport spills over so much that teams can't sit in the same room together.

Emirates Team New Zealand are the favourites by 99 per cent, or $1.01, to win the America's Cup, according to TAB odds.

The perfect plate for a Team New Zealand fan is up for auction again - at a discounted price.

This video, "Kia Kaha San Francisco", is presented as a gift from a Nation Born of Sailors to the Best Sailors in the World; all four crews that have taken part in the Louis Vuitton Challengers Series and the current America's Cup Challenge... and to the people of San Francisco. courtesy YouTube/virtualeyepresenter and Ian Taylor. An unbroken line of design, engineering, technology, seamanship and navigation from our Maori ancestors who sailed the Pacific to Aotearoa to this hi tech flying machine called Aotearoa, representing us so superbly on the waters off San Francisco Bay.

So it won't be today. So we have the pleasure and the pain of one race to go. ETNZ skipper Dean Barker and Jimmy Spithill from Oracle Team USA react after race eleven of the America's Cup won by Team NZ, and look forward to perhaps the final day of racing Friday.

The premature end of today's second America's Cup race due to high winds confused hundreds of fans watching on the big screen at Shed 10 on Auckland's Queens Wharf.

So it won't be today. America's Cup race 12 is called off due to high winds, leaving Team NZ tantalisingly close to lifting the Auld Mug.

Just one more race to go and already the Kiwis on site in San Francisco are talking about where to hold the next defence in NZ and whether the NZ government should stump up funding to help our Team NZ again. courtesy 90secondsTV.

High winds and a an outgoing tide saw this morning's racing cancelled. Relive all the 'action' from our live coverage.

It went down to the wire - but in the end the high winds won, forcing the postponement of races 11 and 12 of the America's Cup.

Oracle Team USA's stunning improvement has prompted the TAB to reopen the book on who will win the America's Cup, and add new odds for the day it will be won.

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.