With the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series wrapping up next weekend, we take a look at Bermuda, the home of the 35th America’s Cup in 2017.

Bermuda was the host of round three of the series, the first time the America’s Cup teams would go head to head on the waters they would be fighting on less than two years later for the America’s Cup itself.

Three races were planned for Saturday but the light winds put paid to that, so attention turned to Sunday, and the action that unfolded more than made up for the lack of racing on day one.

Artemis Racing was the team who really made the headlines, writing a new chapter in America’s Cup history with some incredible pre-race action that helped them write a comeback story that will live long in the memory.

The Swedish team arrived in Bermuda in fifth place in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series, but then confounded the critics with a strong second place in race one.

However, in the pre-start ahead of race two they were involved in a collision with an umpire boat, incurring serious damage to their AC45F that required emergency repairs to give them a chance of starting that race.

Here is how it unfolded.

In the pre-start, before the starting gun fired, Nathan Outteridge, the Artemis skipper, moved his boat behind SoftBank Team Japan and as they turned up towards the line, they were confronted with an umpire boat heading directly towards them at a closing speed in excess of 25 knots.

“At that point we couldn’t go anywhere,” Outteridge said. “He went straight between our bows but thankfully nobody was hurt.

“There was a serious amount of damage to our boat though.”

The collision did not deter the crew and they immediately set about making repairs on the water, with the clock ticking down to the race start.

They stripped off their broken bow sprit and the now useless Code Zero sail and after a quick reliability check, and with less than two minutes to spare, the team was lining up for the next race start.

Incredibly, they were off out of the blocks faster than any other team, winning not only the start but also race two.

After so much drama, the Swedes needed a fourth-place finish to win the regatta, and they duly put that result on the board.

That win was the team’s first regatta victory and a popular result among the tens of thousands of people watching, on shore and on the water.

Emirates Team New Zealand also enjoyed themselves in Bermuda, winning race three and extending their lead in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series leaderboard, but it wasn’t only the Kiwis who were celebrating, it was the whole island.

It was a precursor to the main event in 2017 and the action couldn’t have been better.