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Emirates Team New Zealand finally sailed their America’s Cup Class yacht on the Great Sound for the first time today.
Skipper Glenn Ashby has been like “a cat on a hot tin roof” waiting to get back out on the boat named New Zealand Aotearoa.
“When yo...
DATE: Apr 22, 2017
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Team BDA are offering the public a chance to get to know them next week.
Bermuda’s representatives at the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup are the subject of two short films that will debut in a free public screening on Monday. The team started almost tw...
DATE: Apr 05, 2017
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Double Olympic champions Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher sailed the first Red Bull Youth America’s Cup-branded AC45F catamaran to arrive in Bermuda — an exciting milestone in the countdown to the second edition of the event, upcoming in June. ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2017
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Oracle Team USA member Graeme Spence had a scare this week when he was thrown overboard during practice aboard its new America’s Cup Class boat 17 on the Great Sound.
Jimmy Spithill, the Oracle Team skipper, has often spoken about the risks associ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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SoftBank Team Japan unveiled their brand new America’s Cup Class race yacht, Hikari, at Dockyard today.
Hikari, meaning “flash of light”, was selected from over 430 names submitted by fans in Japan through a nationwide contest held by SoftBank Corp....
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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Artemis Racing’s new race yacht “Magic Blue” was christened by team’s owner and founder Torbjorn Tornqvist’s wife, Natalia, at a special celebration in Bermuda yesterday.
The launch was the culmination of more than three years of intense design and d...
DATE: Feb 23, 2017
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Oracle Team USA took to the Great Sound yesterday, sailing their new America’s Cup Class boat, 17, for the first time.
“We had a successful day,” skipper Jimmy Spithill said. “First impressions were great. The boat went really well, so everyone is ha...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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Land Rover BAR, the British challenge headed by Olympic legend Sir Ben Ainslie, have won the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series with a first-place finish at the ultimate event in Japan this weekend.
Ainslie’s team sailed extremely well to secur...
DATE: Nov 20, 2016
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The full event schedule for the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda in 2017 has been confirmed, outlining the calendar of almost five weeks of world-class sailing action, starting on May 26 and finishing on or about June 27.
The opening race will be race o...
DATE: Oct 18, 2016
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SoftBank Team Japan announced today that they cracked the foiling tack this year while training with their AC45 Sport test boat in Bermuda.
Long regarded as the holy grail of the America’s Cup, the manoeuvre has been the last significant barrier prev...
DATE: Aug 25, 2016
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