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Oracle Team USA, the defender of the America’s Cup, will launch a second foiling, wing-sail 45ft prototype catamaran in local waters this summer.
Grant Simmer, Oracle’s general manager, said the new prototype boat will be more advanced than the team’...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015
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A video, produced by America’s Cup Bermuda Ltd, featuring professional rugby players visiting the Island taking on America’s Cup sailors in a competition of endurance and strength, has been viewed nearly 20,000 times in its first 24 hours on the inte...
DATE: Jun 19, 2015
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Rose-Anna Hoey will finally make her NatWest Island Games debut in Jersey after missing the previous competition in Bermuda because she was pregnant.
Hoey, from Ireland, was eligible for the Island Games two years ago, held in Bermuda for the first t...
DATE: Jun 10, 2015
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Tom Herbert-Evans has been appointed as the America’s Cup Event Authority’s Community Sailing Manager.
The avid sailor resigned as the director of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s sailing academy last month to take on his new job overseeing the America...
DATE: Jun 09, 2015
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Chris Draper, an Olympic medalist, multiple European and World champion, and America’s Cup helmsman, is joining SoftBank Team Japan.
In addition to his sailing duties, Draper will take up the role of Sailing Director and will race with SoftBank Team ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2015
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Ben Ainslie Racing return to Bermuda this week for a third training camp in six months.
The British challenger for the 35th America’s Cup were the first team to scout the Great Sound, the venue for the next “Auld Mug”, back in January.
BAR returned t...
DATE: Jun 02, 2015
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Bermuda’s young sailors got a sneak preview of the America’s Cup Community Sailing Programme yesterday.
With the programme’s first eight Hobie Wave catamarans arriving on the Island this week, the opportunity to test the boats with 14 youth sailors w...
DATE: May 23, 2015
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Jimmy Spithill, the Oracle Team USA skipper, has broken his silence on Dean Barker’s split from Emirates Team New Zealand.
Barker severed ties earlier this Spring after rejecting an offer to take on the position of Performance Manager/Coach and Execu...
DATE: May 23, 2015
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Dean Barker marked his appointment as CEO and skipper of late America’s Cup entry Softbank Team Japan by flying around the Great Sound yesterday with the team whose title he will be gunning for in 2017.
Barker had the rare opportunity to sail with ri...
DATE: May 22, 2015
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Morgan’s Point could become the temporary headquarters for Artemis Racing in the lead up to the 35th America’s Cup.
The Swedish challenger is presently based alongside Oracle Team USA at the Royal Naval Dockyard but have not ruled out moving their op...
DATE: May 22, 2015
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