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There is growing speculation that Bermuda could submit a bid to host the Volvo Ocean Race. The tender process for host cities for the 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2023-24 editions is now open and it is believed that Bermuda has shown an interest in hosting a...

An ambitious proposal to have a Bermuda team compete in the prestigious Volvo Ocean Race appears to have fallen through, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Kevin Dallas, the Bermuda Tourism Authority chief executive, has confirmed that there were discussi...

Roger Beach, the skipper of Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club’s fitted dinghy Elizabeth II, has hailed his team-mates after another dominant display of sailing at Granaway Deep at the weekend. Flying their No 3 rig in Sunday’s eight to 12-knot south...

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club announces that the second edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race will start on the May 9. The 935-mile offshore race is organised in association with Antigua Sailing Week and is supported by the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Y...

Stevie Dickinson landed a fifth straight Long Distance Comet Race title and 20th overall yesterday before revealing he may take a break as skipper next year. Sailing with crew Pat Young aboard Kitty Hawk, Dickinson used his experience to hold off a ...

My New Mary will have a new skipper and crew on board on Monday when Rudy Bailey sails with his 13-year-old grandson, Corey Bean, for the first time in the Long Distance Comet Race from Dockyard to St George’s. Bailey managed to secure Howard Simmons...

Selkie, Chip Bradish’s 1988 Morris Ocean 32.5 footer from Jamaica Plain near Boston, was the overall corrected time winner of Class D and the entire 40th Anniversary Marion Bermuda Race. She was the smallest boat in the race and was sailed using only...

Rudy Bailey is battling against time to secure a boat and prevent Stevie Dickinson from running away with a 20th — and fifth straight — victory in the Monday’s Edward Cross Long Distance Comet Race from Dockyard to St George’s. Bailey, an eleven-time...

Jambi, a new Hinckley Bermuda 50 skippered by John Levinson crossed the finish line off St David’s Lighthouse at 12.47pm to take line honours in the 40th Anniversary Marion Bermuda Race. Jambi had an unofficial elapsed time of four days, 23 hours, ...

The Marion Bermuda Race fleet got smaller by three more boats yesterday. Ray Cullum in Frolic, a McMullen & Wing Dixon 44, was becalmed; Robert Purcell’s Swell, a Beneteau 40, had no wind; and Kenneth Olsen’s Skellum, an Oyster 47 in persistent light...