The $350 million megayacht docked in Auckland's Westhaven Marina is embroiled in a $100 million-plus legal stoush over a botched paint job.

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom plans to approach Team New Zealand next week to discuss funding an America's Cup challenge.

There was no visible Plan B; only a Plan A predicated on a win, writes Murray Stott. This, one can understand. However, any good business model would have had a Plan B.

Thousands of loyal Emirates Team New Zealand fans are expected to turn out for the crew's official welcome home event tomorrow.

If Team NZ decide to mount a challenge for the next America's Cup, it's "probably inevitably'' the Government will provide them with more funding, John Key said today.

Team New Zealand manager Grant Dalton says the "what ifs" will go through his head for the rest of his life.

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.

From a young man in the limelight to a tested leader, Suzanne McFadden assesses a career in sailing.

Under-pinning Oracle's gripping come-from-behind defence of the America's Cup is an irrefutable truth.

Talk about famine to feast; until a few weeks ago New Zealand's Olympic class sailors hadn't won a world title since 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Government funding for another America's Cup bid could depend on what sort of regatta is held and where it takes place, Steven Joyce says.

Barker did all that he could.