1103 results returned for search: "" category ("Event" AND "Sport")
Oracle Team USA, the defender of the America’s Cup, tested the waters in the Great Sound for the first time yesterday.
Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton and Andrew Campbell were the first to get a feel for the local conditions, sailing in tw...
DATE: Apr 23, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
Sir Russell Coutts has no doubt that Emirates Team New Zealand will follow through with plans to compete at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda in 2017.
Team New Zealand’s involvement in the next edition of the “Auld Mug” remains in doubt after organis...
DATE: Apr 21, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
Henry Talbot’s ascent to the top of the Bermuda Power Boat Association pecking order has been nothing shy of meteoric.
The 30-year-old business manager began racing powerboats in 2011 but it soon became apparent that he had much more to offer.
In 201...
DATE: Apr 17, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
By Colin Thompson
Sailing Correspondent
Oracle Team USA sailing team members have quickly adjusted to their new surroundings in Bermuda.
Tom Slingsby, the Oracle tactician/helmsman and sailing team manager, has assembled the crew on Island this week ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
The revised class rule for the 35th America’s Cup has presented team designers with another obstacle to overcome in their quest to build the fastest boat capable of winning or defending the “Auld Mug”.
The majority of America’s Cup teams agreed to c...
DATE: Apr 11, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
The first America’s Cup class catamaran has arrived in Bermuda.
The wing sail, foiling AC45 owned by Oracle Team USA, defender of the “Auld Mug”, arrived on a container ship this week.
“The AC45 training and testing boat for Oracle Team USA arrived ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
The new America’s Cup wing sail foiling catamaran will be “more manoeuvrable” and “better suited” to Bermuda’s racecourse.
That’s the opinion of Sir Ben Ainslie, team principal and skipper of British challenger Ben Ainslie Racing, who firmly backs th...
DATE: Apr 07, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
By Colin Thompson
Sailing Correspondent
Being a member of a British America’s Cup challenge spearheaded by the most decorated sailor in Olympic history was an offer Giles Scott simply could not refuse.
The multiple world champion was the eighth sailo...
DATE: Mar 20, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
A legal battle between sacked sailor Joe Spooner and Oracle Racing took another twist this week after a federal judge ordered US marshals to release the team’s foiling AC45 catamaran from custody.
This is the second time a judge has denied an arrest...
DATE: Mar 20, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Jimmy Spithill, the skipper of Oracle Team USA, is extremely encouraged by the outcome of tests conducted on the team’s wing sail AC45 catamaran in San Francisco Bay last month.
During the two-week foiling, flying exercise, Oracle’s modified AC45, a...
DATE: Mar 19, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Event
|
