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By Colin Thompson
Sailing Correspondent
Jimmy Spithill, helmsman of America’s Cup defender Oracle Team USA, is in a race against the clock to regain fitness in time for the start of the America’s Cup World Series in June.
The multiple America’s Cup w...
DATE: Mar 17, 2015
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Ben Ainslie Racing, one of the challengers for the 35th America’s Cup, have returned to Bermuda with their full team for a second training camp in two months.
The British racing syndicate, led by team principal and helmsman Sir Ben Ainslie, are back ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2015
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Ben Ainslie Racing, British challenger for the 35th America’s Cup, have joined forces with former Formula One boss Martin Whitmarsh.
The former CEO of The McLaren Group and Team Principal of the McLaren F1 team will serve as the America’s Cup racing ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2015
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Oracle Team USA officials remained tight-lipped yesterday over the “arrest” of the racing syndicate’s AC45 catamaran.
However, the America’s Cup holders are reportedly optimistic that their multihull yacht will be allowed to begin its delayed journey...
DATE: Mar 12, 2015
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Oracle Team USA’s AC45 catamaran is expected to arrive on schedule in Bermuda this Spring — despite the multihull yacht’s seizure by US Marshals in San Francisco yesterday.
Marshals were authorised to seize Oracle’s AC45 in response to a lien filed ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015
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The decision to award the 35th America’s Cup to Bermuda was not good for everybody.
It has reportedly cost Emirates Team New Zealand some $20 million, and in a team shake-up helmsman Dean Barker has also lost his job.
Barker had been at the helm for ...
DATE: Feb 28, 2015
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A US court has denied a sailor’s request to confiscate Oracle Team USA’s hydrofoiling AC45-Class racing catamaran as a seaman’s lien against unpaid wages.
Joe Spooner, who served as a grinder with Oracle at the 33rd and 34th America’s Cups, filed sui...
DATE: Feb 26, 2015
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Sailing legend Dennis Conner said that it would have been an “honour” to manage a Bermuda team in the 2017 America’s Cup.
The four-times America’s Cup winner had been offered the job of managing a Bermuda team but ultimately declined the offer, admi...
DATE: Feb 24, 2015
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An ongoing dispute between sacked Oracle Team USA grinder Joe Spooner and his former bosses has spilled over into a US federal court with the New Zealander filing a suit seeking to have the American syndicate’s AC45 catamaran confiscated as a seaman’...
DATE: Feb 21, 2015
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By Colin Thompson
Sailing Correspondent
Ian Williams, a former King Edward VII Gold Cup winner, etched his name into the World Match Racing Tour history books at this month’s Monsoon Cup in Malaysia.
The English skipper and his GAC Pindar crew won th...
DATE: Feb 20, 2015
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