The Beehive will already be planning the ticker tape parade and this time it'll be closer to the election with Bill English praying the feel good factor will follow the voter into the ballot box.
Will our pride, for we all rightly felt with the Blake victory that we had a stake in it, feel the same?
The last regatta saw the kiwi team getting $36 million but this time around The Beehive wasn't prepared to put their hands in our pockets to the same extent, essentially because things were happening a world away in Bermuda.
Emirates Team New Zealand did have its hand out though and were initially given five million bucks, no strings attached, to tide the team over and keep it together after that regatta we'd prefer to forget.
And then last year they also got an unknown amount of money for research and development which is handed out as a Callaghan Innovation Growth Grant, available to organisations who spend a minimum of three hundred thousand a year on R and D.
It was that sort of spend that brought us the kiwi innovation of foils, turning the yachts into grand prix racers.
Ironically Oracle Team USA was also a recipient of the grant from the same fund in the lead up to this year's contest.
If only the recipe politics was that simple, although considerably more is spent trying to stay in power.
