Kerre McIvor writes: Do the crew of Team NZ really want to be known as New Zealand's highest paid beneficiaries?

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.

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.

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.

Russell Coutts' supreme nautical skills were again on display this week when he shipped a homestead by barge off his sprawling seaside section.

A Beijing developer has won the right to build a $200 million five-star hotel on the Auckland waterfront site currently occupied by the Team NZ headquarters.

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.

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 spent $153 million in New Zealand over the last America's Cup campaign and injected a net $117 million into the Auckland economy, creating the equivalent of 1234 jobs, a report says.

While $36 million of taxpayers' money may not have secured the America's Cup for New Zealand, a greenstone replica can be yours for a cut-price $70,000.

Barker answered Henry's probing questions with hesitancy, looking as if secret information was being prised out of him, writes Paul Lewis.

Team New Zealand have lost a key designer to Artemis as syndicates firm up their design teams ahead of the release of the new class rules.

Success will often be the product of the recognition of past errors.

For such an allegedly big sporting contest, the silence has been deafening since TNZ's America's Cup collapse in San Francisco, writes Chris Rattue.

Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton will take a step back in the day-to-day running of the syndicate as part of plans to overhaul the management structure.

While the signs are looking good that Team New Zealand will be involved in the next America's Cup.

Team NZ boss Grant Dalton says he is "cautiously optimistic" about America's Cup sponsors staying aboard - but a New Zealand Volvo Ocean Race campaign looks less likely.

Jimmy Spithill has laughed off the claim a high-tech automated foiling system was instrumental in Oracle's miraculous comeback, saying the system was copied from Team NZ.

Emirates Team NZ will join Santa when he takes a break from his busy Christmas preparations to spread festive joy in central Auckland tomorrow.