Do the crew of Team New Zealand really want to be known as New Zealand's highest paid beneficiaries?

Team New Zealand's plea for poverty is wearing thin with the Government.

The clock is ticking for Team New Zealand. Without an immediate cash injection the syndicate are, in the words of boss Grant Dalton, "gone by the end of the month".

The America's Cup will not be returning to San Francisco - with Oracle's Team USA boss Russell Coutts confirming it's been ruled out. So where is still in the running?

Less than a week after the protocol for the 35th America's Cup was announced, the sniping between syndicates has already descended into childish bickering, writes Dana Johannsen.

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce has not ruled out putting extra government money into a new America's Cup challenge - if other sponsors step up.

Let's start a replacement America's Cup, a proper one, with one set of rules for everyone and genuine competition, says Paul Lewis.

Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton believes America's Cup authorities have eliminated any possibility of a commercially funded team from entering the next event.

Editorial: The history of the America's Cup is replete with holders loading the rules to markedly enhance their own chances. But Oracle's gone further.

Months on from Oracle's strong defence of the America's Cup, the US syndicate has finally released the Protocol for the 2017 racing. Dana Johannsen looks at the key changes.

New Zealand's Laser sailors made it a double podium finish at the Delta Lloyd regatta in the Netherlands yesterday, including gold to young Kiwi Sam Meech.

Superyacht firms say their multi-millionaire customers will sail off to Australian shipyards for lucrative refit and service contracts if Auckland does not develop more deep-water facilities.

Team NZ and Oracle are set for an America's Cup rematch - in the debating hall.

ETNZ Skipper Peter Burling sums up the penultimate day of racing. With up to 90 points available on the fourth day and a weather forecast predicting 28-knot gusts, everything could come down to the last race which scores double points.

The New Zealand sailing team have wrapped up the ISAF Sailing World Cup season with a impressive four-medal haul at the final regatta in Hyeres, France.

A new partnership between tourism agencies and the marine industry aims to double spending by wealthy superyacht owners and their crew to $190 million a year.

It was as tense as the real America's Cup: there were equipment malfunctions, claims of sabotage and bickering over the crew.

To the victor go the spoils. In the case of Oracle Team USA and the America's Cup, that includes holding the whip hand in the drawing up of the rules.

If the whispers are to be believed, the America's Cup waiting game should soon be over.

Team NZ have announced the formation of a new five-member board to govern the Kiwi syndicate as they consider whether to challenge for the America's Cup in 2017.

Team New Zealand sponsor and Waiwera Resort owner Mikhail Khimich has put his superyacht Thalia up for sale.