Read a recap of nzherald.co.nz's blog of race five of the America's Cup series between Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA.

There will be no race 6 in the America's Cup today. Oracle Team USA have played their postponement card after that disastrous loss in race 5.

It's the time of educated guesswork, when all that technology and science combine with good old-fashioned intuition.

More than half a million Kiwis tuned in to watch Team New Zealand beat Oracle in the first races of the America's Cup on Sunday.

It's worthy of an office sweep. Place your bets on when the first collision between Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA will come.

Property prices spiralling upwards; not enough on the market for buyers to buy; families leaving for more open spaces.

New Zealand Herald reporters Dana Johannsen and Paul Lewis are in San Francisco covering the America's Cup finals series and give their expert opinion and analysis on the first four races.

Defending the Cup, the main event looms and we check in with the two combatants - Emirates Team New Zealand and ORACLE TEAM USA - to see how they are coming together. One team has a massive desire to bring the cup back to New Zealand. The other wants nothing more than to defend the cup and keep it in San Francisco Bay.

Sailors are traditionally a superstitious bunch - but Emirates Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton takes it to the extreme.

Those two old dears TV One had shouting the changes through yesterday's America's Cup races should quietly chain themselves to something.

This was the day human error reasserted itself in the 34th America's Cup.

Weird weather and on-the-edge boats mean even three straight wins and some masterful upwind sailing are no guarantee of success.

'We sailed a pretty average race and still got pretty close at the end."

In the new era of America's Cup racing where the demands on the crew are greater than ever before.

A lawyer seeking reinstatement of banned Oracle Team USA sailor Dirk de Ridder says the America's Cup international jury gave Team New Zealand "a grossly unfair advantage".

Labour MP Trevor Mallard is one of the politicians on a taxpayer-funded visit to San Francisco.

Oracle Team USA bounced back from a demoralising loss in this morning's opening race to claim their first win of the America's Cup.

Live updates of races 3 and 4 of the America's Cup series between Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA.

They might be at the helm of "$10 million carbon fibre missiles", but it's no surprise that neither Dean Barker nor Jimmy Spithill backed down when they came to close quarters.

Oracle Team USA will have had a long night watching where they went wrong yesterday, and their main worry will be their upwind speed.

If you were a student of body language, you'd have loved the first after-race press conference at the 34th America's Cup.

Americans look for answers as Team New Zealand crew outwits, out-manoeuvres and outclasses US boat.

The America's Cup is tantalisingly close - but you won't get Dean Barker doing back flips. Not now. Probably not ever.

It was 25 years ago to the day that the first catamaran in the America's Cup - Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes - ambushed Sir Michael Fay's big monohull KZ1 in 1988.