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Multiple World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) champion Peter Gilmour has joined the chorus of those calling for local sailing to be granted national sports status.
As one of the Island’s oldest sports, sailing, according to locals, is just as deserving of ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Current World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) points leader and top ranked ISAF Open sailor Ian Williams made a winning start to his bid for a second Argo Group Gold Cup in Hamilton Harbour yesterday.
The Englishman went unbeaten in his opening four Group T...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
For Team Bermuda the primary objective of the RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup is not all about winning but more importantly on development.
The international regatta, now in its ninth year, affords the island’s Optimist sailors with an ideal opportunit...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Local skipper Lance Fraser pulled off the biggest upset of his still blossoming career during day two of the $100,000 Argo Group Gold Cup in Hamilton Harbor yesterday.
The 18-year-old Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) sailor upstaged world n...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Bermuda’s Argo Group Cup hopeful Blythe Walker is optimistic he can bounce back from yesterday’s loss to Denmark’s Jesper Radich in his opening Group One flight.
The veteran sailor was penalised for going over the start line early and in truth was ne...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
It is often said a picture is worth a thousand words. And nothing better encapsulates yesterday’s painfully light and shifty conditions that plagued the opening day of the $100,000 Argo Group Gold Cup than the sight of one of Ian Williams’ crew using...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Bermuda’s motocross riders have “everything to gain” from a new partnership between Bermuda Motocross Club (BMC) and US-based Maley Motorsports.
The three-year deal is designed to aid development at the grassroots levels with a broader mandate of get...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Motorsport
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Ian Williams and his GAC Pindar team-mates will be the proverbial rabbits everyone will be gunning for when the $100,000 Argo Group Gold Cup officially gets underway today.
The two-time world champion and past Gold Cup winner is the current leader on...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Local trio Blythe Walker, Lance Fraser and Peter Miller are facing a potential baptism of fire during today’s start of the $100,000 Argo Group Gold Cup.
Walker will take on Denmark’s Jesper Radich in the opening flight of this year’s World Match Raci...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Argo Group Gold Cup rookie Peter Miller refuses to be intimidated by the big name sailors he will come up against in Hamilton Harbour this week.
Despite his lack of match racing experience, particularly at this level, the Connecticut College senior r...
DATE: Oct 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
