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After waiting several excruciating hours for the wind to stabilise to allow the race committee to set up the racecourse and then losing ground on the leaderboard, Mark Watson probably figured his day could not get any worse. Boy, was he wrong. A blow...

The trio of Bermuda boats competing in the 49th Newport Bermuda Race are all moored back in local waters. Dr Stephen Sherwin’s Corby 41.5, Nasty Medicine, and Brian Hillier’s J-125, Crossfire, arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday. And joining them yester...

The crew of local yacht Nasty Medicine had plenty to be proud of after completing the Newport Bermuda Race late under the cover of darkness on Tuesday night. Dr Stephen Sherwin’s Corby 41.5 finished the 635-mile ocean race at 10.15pm in an elapsed ti...

Mark Watson and the crew of Tiberon made further inroads at the Etchells World Championship in Newport, Rhode Island, yesterday. Provisional results showed the local sailor climbing nine places up the leaderboard from 28th to 19th after four of the s...

Mark Watson leads the local contingent at the Etchells World Championships that got underway under sunny skies in Newport, Rhode Island, yesterday. After two of the scheduled nine races taking place in Rhode Island Sound this week, provisional result...

Nasty Medicine, helmed by Dr Stephen Sherwin, had all but clinched local bragging rights in the 49th Newport Bermuda Race at press time last night. Online tracking showed Sherwin’s Corby 41.5 within six miles of the finish line off St David’s Lightho...

Sipping champagne and Dark ‘n’ Stormy’s at the crack of dawn is the last thing that you would expect Greek sailor George Sakellaris to be doing. But yesterday proved to be an exception to the rule, and for good reason, as the 68-year-old captain of S...

Bermuda will be represented by two teams at the 2014 Etchells World Championship in Newport, Rhode Island. Flying the Island’s flag are Tim Patton and Mark Watson, who are both former national Etchells champions. Another local sailor, Jesse Kirkland,...

Shockwave led the Newport Bermuda Race fleet across the finish line this morning, edging Bella Mente in a thrilling two-horse match race for line honors. Silhouetted by the sunrise in the backdrop, George Sakellaris’ 72-foot Mini Maxi crossed the li...

The 49th Newport Bermuda Race got off to a colourful yet inauspicious downwind start yesterday as subtle breezes reduced the racing fleet’s sail out of Narragansett Bay to a trickle at best. The sight of spinnakers collapsing as yachts gybed to starb...