Just before his Alinghi appointment Peter Gilmour showed he had some definite ideas of who's got it right and who might have it wrong as the 32nd America's Cup approaches.

"When you examine the psychology of the teams, it seems to me that probably Alinghi is doing the best job at the moment of insulating the skippers away from that role of management", he said.

"The other campaign I look at is Oracle, where Chris Dickson is doing it all from what I can see", he added. "It's going to be very difficult if he can’t pull himself out of that role somehow or hand over the responsibilities".

While Gilmour acknowledges there are pros and cons for both ways, he said that at the end winning is the only thing. Really. The only thing.

"From where I'm sitting, there are probably at least six teams that seem to be wasting their time and money", he said. "They're clearly not going to have done enough, developed enough, don't have the right people and will probably have spent from 50 to 100 million dollars".

"They manage to justify that somehow there's a greater good being served there but I'm surprised some of them don’t retire gracefully to come back and fight another day".