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The 49th Newport Bermuda Race will be a family affair for Jim Butterfield. The former Olympic rower, who has made two previous appearances in the 635-mile race, is sailing with his son Spencer aboard the triple masted sloop Spirit of Bermuda, which h...

The Newport Bermuda Race puts the skills of blue water sailors to the test navigating through a patch of the Atlantic Ocean known for challenging weather. The racecourse stretching from Castle Hill, Newport to St David’s, Bermuda is 635 miles long an...

Brian Hillier is on the verge of making local Newport Bermuda Race history. When Hillier’s J-125, Crossfire, sails across the starting line at the mouth of Narragansett Bay tomorrow afternoon, it will mark the first time that a yacht from St George’s...

The presence of a new crop of talented young sailors did not go unnoticed by those watching the popular Edward Cross Long Distance Comet Race on Monday, but Gladwin Lambert, the region president of the Comet Class of Bermuda, said that can only be go...

The cliché is much tried yet all too true when applied to Stevie Dickinson and the Long Distance Comet Race in the manner “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. So much so is the case of Dickinson winning the annual spectacle that one...

Stevie Dickinson will rest his Edward Cross Cup title on the line in Monday’s Annual Long Distance Comet Race. The East End Mini Yacht Club sailor won the race a record sixteenth time in Kitty Hawk last year with crew Gerrick Farquharson and is optim...

Nearly 200 yachts are set to sail in the 49th Newport Bermuda Race, among them three that will be from the Island. Among the trio of local entries are Crossfire, Nasty Medicine and Spirit of Bermuda. Crossfire, a J-125, is helmed by Brian Hillier, an...

Bermuda will learn by the end of this month if it has made the final round of bidding for the 2017 America’s Cup. Confirmation was made yesterday by Russell Coutts, the chief executive of Oracle Team USA, as he revealed that one bid had been eliminat...

Bermuda’s time zone could play a major factor in deciding which country gets the green light to host the 37th America’s Cup in 2017. Bermuda remains thick in contention to host the match racing sailing spectacle along with Chicago, San Francisco and ...

Lance Fraser and his Team Digicel Business Match Racing crew-mates earned a place on the podium at last weekend’s June Invitational Clinegatta in Oakcliff, New York. Fraser finished second with an overall 5-2 record in the Swedish Match 40, which is ...