An air of anticipation as this afternoon's America's Cup racing edges closer

Team New Zealand has won five races for the Auld Mug, against Luna Rossa's three - in the first to seven series.

Coastguard on-water coordinator John Cowan says he's picking up to fifteen hundred spectator craft will take to the water.

He says the spectators to date have been terrific - once the course perimeter has been set up they've anchored behind it, often five or six deep - and he's expecting the same thing again today.