They didn't flip the boat, but the 34th America's Cup match went through another somersault yesterday as Team NZ teetered on the edge of disaster.

Half a degree is how close Barker's team's $120 million America's Cup campaign came to ending in tatters.

Framing the TV set is a makeshift banner where someone has scrawled "Go Dean-Go Ray" with a marker pen on pieces of paper.

More than 1000 America's Cup fans packed Auckland's waterfront yesterday to watch Emirates Team New Zealand take on Oracle.

Get your hearts out of your mouths and back in your chest, New Zealand.

The grinders would say they are always the heroes but, in a stirring display of composure and discipline, they helped prevent a capsize.

A friend of mine recounted a story to me a few years ago - he was hosting an American company executive for a few days and had decided to take him to a one-day cricket international at Eden Park.

Winning the America's Cup might be the most valuable option for growth New Zealand ever buys.

Tourist groups would target luxury travellers overseas if New Zealand wins the America's Cup.

Herald yachting experts Dana Johannsen and Paul Lewis answer the burning questions from a day of near-disaster for Team New Zealand in the America's Cup

Race nine of the America's Cup has been abandoned due to high winds, while Oracle has scored its second point after a near disaster for Team NZ.

Oracle has won race eight after Team NZ's entire campaign almost ended in disaster, and race nine has just been abandoned due to high winds. Join us for live coverage.

Red sock hysteria swept the nation as a symbol of support for the 1995 America's Cup Kiwi team - and politicians of varying hues happily jumped on board.

Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison will not have much change left from US$1 billion from his quest for the America's Cup - yet he has still to win sport's oldest trophy, as some would say, "properly".

It now seems more than likely that Russell Coutts may be absent from the next America's Cup.

The infamous San Francisco Bay winds will challenge Emirates Team NZ today as they begin their final push for America's Cup glory.

One of the fears stemming from the America's Cup international jury's penalty of docking two points from Oracle Team USA was that it could provoke legal action after the Cup.

The infamous San Francisco Bay winds could foil Team New Zealand's hopes of wrapping up the America's Cup swiftly as they begin their final push for glory tomorrow.

The Kiwis aren't taking anything for granted, but are being driven by the desire to bring the America's Cup back to New Zealand.

It was said repeatedly in the lead-up to the finals the upwind leg would be vital.

If the sales figures for red socks are any gauge of the nation's enthusiasm for the America's Cup, interest is picking up.

If confirmation is needed of the disarray in which Oracle Team USA find themselves, look no further than the John Kostecki-Ben Ainslie debacle.

Smiling faces at the America's Cup in San Francisco.