A solid third day on San Francisco Bay for the team today. The guys are learning more and more about sailing here everyday, but perhaps the best lesson of the day was learning a new high speed which the AC72 can fly at.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emirates Team New Zealand has not just left the building – they’ve taken it with them. The team’s Wynyard Quarter base, home for the past three years, has been packed into more than 70 40-foot containers and is on the way to San Francisco, courtesy of team sponsor Maersk Line

The Emirates Team New Zealand yard now resembles the port of Auckland with containers coming and going and endlessly being filled. The work is non stop right now in the rush to get the base packed and on a ship to San Francisco.

Team New Zealand have damaged their wingsail - a hi-tech and expensive piece of machinery - in a dramatic launch incident in the Viaduct this afternoon. The incident occurred as the team were preparing to fit their wingsail to the platform of AC72 catamaran in gusty conditions. The 40m wing-sail needs to lifted into place by a crane - an extremely fraught process particularly when the wind picks up. It is believed the team lost control of the sail in the hoisting process, and the wing clipped the side of the main building of Emirates Team New Zealand's base. A spokesperson for Team New Zealand was not immediately available, but at this stage it is understood the damage is relatively minor.

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.

Team NZ will boycott most of next year's America's Cup pre-regattas. Grant Dalton believes they are an unnecessary distraction when they should be focusing on sailing their AC72 - the boat the Louis Vuitton Cup and America's Cup will be contested in.

Just hours after wrapping up their World Series regatta in San Francisco, Team NZ was on a plane home last night hoping to be back out on the water tomorrow.