Why would New Zealand mount another challenge to the America's Cup? The history of the event is loaded with American cheating, rule-changing, litigious events and wealthy, powerplaying men willing to go to any lengths to hold the mug.
If the rest of the world want an opportunity to participate in a large global yachting event we need to have a no country club or yachting club ‘challenge' for Ye Auld Mug. It is no longer an event that countries can afford to be involved in.
If America has no challenger the cup becomes nothing more than a tainted historical event.
All countries wishing to participate in a new event could create a trophy energised by fair rules and a global yachting committee, with a priority to create a level playing field for all participants.
The Louis Vuitton elimination series could give a strong message to America by becoming a part of a new event.
The boat should be required to be built in the country that mounts a challenge.
The crew must hold citizenship of that country; and the most important rule should be that the boat is measured at the beginning of the racing event with no further modifications made during the races. If something should break then a replacement be made but only to the standard of the element that broke.
The existing ability to modify, copy, and buy off personnel should be dispatched to the dismal, disgraceful annals of history.
It is arrant nonsense that Oracle was built in New Zealand, crewed with a majority of New Zealanders using New Zealand technology; and only became the winning boat with the addition of an English tactician and Boeing aeronautical technology, financed by a testosterone-fuelled squillionaire.

Maureen J Anderson, Pyes Pa.