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.

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.

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

Dean Barker describes what went wrong in race eight. That flipping horrible near-flip would have been the end of Team NZ's America's Cup dream. But the boat mercifully came back down. Oracle went on to easily win the race, before Team NZ caught their collective breath and made the start line for Race 9. The challengers were leading and the two boats were neck and neck up the vital third, upwind leg when the wind proved too much and the organisers abandoned the race.

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.

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.

Dean Barker and Jimmy Spithill review races 6 and 7. Team New Zealand lead Oracle 6-0 in the first-to-nine series, with the Cup holders, winners in race four, still needing to win another race before they can start scoring points as part of penalties imposed by the international jury. Courtesy America's Cup.

Kiwis from all walks of life and all over the country are in San Francisco, celebrating team New Zealand winning race after race at the Americas Cup. Courtesy 90secondsTV.

People around San Francisco are supporting Team NZ and cheering them from NZ's second home at Moa Bar on pier 29 in the Cup village,where the place is just pumping with locals and kiwis alike cheering on the America's Cup racing. Courtesy 90secondsTV.

Watch the two skippers reaction after the dramatic Race five victory for Emirates Team New Zealand over Oracle Team USA, Dean Barker and Jimmy Spithill explain why race six was postponed and what happens next. courtesy America's Cup.

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 was another remarkable day of racing on San Francisco Bay today. The only thing different today was the points were split one apiece. With Emirates Team New Zealand earning its 3rd point. www.facebook.com/EmiratesTeamNewZealand

Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill insists his team will now enter the America's Cup match against Team New Zealand as firm underdogs.

Team NZ wing trimmer Glenn Ashby spoke to Herald on Sunday Sports editor Paul Lewis about his role, and also the effect of the America's Cup jury docking Oracle Team USA two points and banning a leading Oracle sailor.

Dana Johannsen looks at how Oracle will fare, now it's lost two precious race points down the gurgler and has had its team decimated by race bans.

The Emirates Team New Zealand AC72 was pushed back out of the shed after 4 days of intense improvements revealing some large speed modifications to the package. The Louis Vuitton Cup is well behind us and focus is now entirely on the America's Cup. Our good friends Luna Rossa joined us on the Bay to push hard in racing drills with the purpose of making Dean Barker and his crew as ready as can be to take on Oracle in 8 days time.

Is that the Louis Vuitton Cup? Or a rugby ball? Team NZ boss Grant Dalton apparently let a six-year-old cat out of the bag at a dinner this week.

Oracle Team USA yesterday damaged a wing sail but are not expected to be seriously affected in preparations for the America's Cup match against Team New Zealand.

The man who kicked it all off for Team New Zealand believes for the America's Cup to draw the competitors back in a nationality clause needs to be reinstated.

Oracle Team USA wanted him, but Team NZ landed the man who was tutoring Jimmy Spithill.

Who is the Swiss-Italian billionaire who has his hand partially on the tiller of a Kiwi victory and who Grant Dalton credits as saving Team New Zealand?

After a drawn out Louis Vuitton finals series, finally today Dean Barker and his men sailed the AC72 across the finish line to claim the Louis Vuitton Cup itself. A milestone in the campaign and job well done in the overall quest to win back the America's Cup.