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The new America’s Cup Class boats are power hungry machines.
Every function on board is powered by the sailors – no batteries or engines are permitted to turn winches or move daggerboards or wings.
Instead, the boats have a hydraulic system that ge...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Two America’s Cup Endeavour graduates flew to Florida last weekend to participate in the O’Pen Bic North Americans in Sarasota. And one of the sailors finished the regatta as the top female under 13.
Jade Smith, 12, of Sandys Secondary Middle School ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Many people associated with the America’s Cup will have Carmen Tucker to thank when they go to The Royal Naval Dockyard and find everything is in perfect order.
The West End will play host to dozens of people associated with the America’s Cup in buil...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Dimitri Stevens was first introduced to sailing at 11 years old through the Waterwise Programme at Dellwood Middle School.
He’s presently a Bermuda College student studying to enter the Information Technology field; before that he attended The Berk...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Oracle Team USA survived a scare during another exciting day of America’s Cup practice racing on the Great Sound.
The American defender snared a marker while racing against Swedish challenger Artemis Racing in chilly 13-15 knot northeast breezes.
Ora...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Land Rover BAR skipper and principal Sir Ben Ainslie put a positive spin on lopsided losses against Oracle Team USA on the Great Sound on Wednesday amid growing concerns regarding his team’s performances of late.
“It was great to be out sailing on th...
DATE: Mar 24, 2017
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Stress levels for the absentee America’s Cup Challenger Emirates Team New Zealand clicked up another notch this week.
On Wednesday their fellow challengers and defender Oracle Team USA took to the Great Sound for the first of five days of match racin...
DATE: Mar 24, 2017
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The build up to the 35th America’s Cup reached another significant milestone yesterday with two teams lining up for the first time in the new 50-foot foiling catamarans in the Great Sound.
Oracle Team USA, defenders of the “Auld Mug”, and British cha...
DATE: Mar 23, 2017
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The five America’s Cup teams based in Bermuda will size each other up in their AC Class yachts for the first time on the Great Sound today.
Today’s practice races mark the first time that the teams will effectively compete against each other in their...
DATE: Mar 22, 2017
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SoftBank Team Japan and Groupama Team France took their AC Class catamarans out for their first flights on the Great Sound late last week.
Reports from those teams were positive. They had great days to put their 15-metres flyers through initial trai...
DATE: Mar 21, 2017
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