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Next week’s National Heroes Day celebrations will also coincide with the 75th annual Long Distance Comet Race, hosted by the West End Sailboat Club.
Although the first Long Distance Race took place on May 20 1944, the race was subsequently moved to w...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Sport Staff
Contest III claimed bragging rights during the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy season opener held in St George’s Harbour last weekend.
The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club team, led by skipper Joshua Greenslade, produced a 1-2-3 record to finish as the day’s overall w...
DATE: May 31, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Bermuda’s Rockal Evans had to settle for a 63rd finish overall at the Finn Open European Championship in Athens, Greece.
Evans endured mixed fortunes throughout the six-day event, to finish with an overall total of 471 net points.
The 30-year-old kic...
DATE: May 20, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Sam Murley
The prize giving for the 2019 Antigua Bermuda Race was held at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club on Thursday.
Past commodore and Antigua Bermuda Race chairman, Les Crane was assisted by Margaret Crane. Handmade customised plaques, fired by John Faulkner ...
DATE: May 18, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Sport Staff
With all yachts accounted for in the Antigua Bermuda Race, Giles Redpath’s Lombard 46 Pata Negra, of Britain, skippered by Andy Liss, has posted the best corrected time under IRC, winning the Warrior Trophy.
In a dramatic finish for second place, Pe...
DATE: May 15, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Sport Staff
George Lee Rush, of Takapuna, New Zealand, put forth a commanding performance to win the RenRe Junior Gold Cup, leading the regatta from start to finish at the weekend.
Rush, 14, from the Wakatere Boating Club, previously competed in 2017 and placed ...
DATE: May 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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Six yachts were expected to finish the Antigua Bermuda Race yesterday.
Afansay Isaev’s Grand Mistral 80 Maxi Weddell, of Russia, was expected to finish around midday taking second place in Line Honours, but Weddell will be outside the International ...
DATE: May 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Sport Staff
Supermaxi SHK Scallywag, of Hong Kong, skippered by David Witt, crossed the finish line outside St David’s Lighthouse just before 10pm yesterday, taking line honours in the Antigua Bermuda Race in an elapsed time of three days 8 hours 54 minutes and ...
DATE: May 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Sport Staff
Just when it looked like Sweden’s Johnie Berntsson was going to even the score in the final of the Argo Group Gold Cup and send the match to a fifth and deciding race, Ian Williams, of Britain, sailed across his bow and snatched away the victory.
In ...
DATE: May 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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Gladwin Lambert, the long-time organiser of the Edward Cross Long Distance Comet Race, praised former race competitors, Cecilia Wollmann and Malcolm Benn Smith for reaching the qualifying standard for this summer’s Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. ...
DATE: May 11, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Sailing
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott