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Morgan’s Point has a new tenant. The Southampton layout will become Artemis Racing’s full operational base in the lead up to the 35th America’s Cup by early next year. The Swedish challenger confirmed yesterday that it will move its present team base...

Ben Ainslie Racing return to Bermuda this week for a third training camp in six months. The British challenger for the 35th America’s Cup were the first team to scout the Great Sound, the venue for the next “Auld Mug”, back in January. BAR returned t...

Artemis Racing are looking to move their entire operation to Bermuda this year, America’s Cup organisers have confirmed. The home base of the Swedish challenger for the 35th America’s Cup — to be hosted by Bermuda in 2017 — is in San Francisco. But t...

Prospects for entrepreneurs during the 2017 America’s Cup are being explored with a “roadshow” of public forums around the Island. The Senate heard yesterday from Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, that about 45 people attended an initial in...

Bermuda’s young sailors got a sneak preview of the America’s Cup Community Sailing Programme yesterday. With the programme’s first eight Hobie Wave catamarans arriving on the Island this week, the opportunity to test the boats with 14 youth sailors w...

Jimmy Spithill, the Oracle Team USA skipper, has broken his silence on Dean Barker’s split from Emirates Team New Zealand. Barker severed ties earlier this Spring after rejecting an offer to take on the position of Performance Manager/Coach and Execu...

Dean Barker marked his appointment as CEO and skipper of late America’s Cup entry Softbank Team Japan by flying around the Great Sound yesterday with the team whose title he will be gunning for in 2017. Barker had the rare opportunity to sail with ri...

Morgan’s Point could become the temporary headquarters for Artemis Racing in the lead up to the 35th America’s Cup. The Swedish challenger is presently based alongside Oracle Team USA at the Royal Naval Dockyard but have not ruled out moving their op...

Seasoned America’s Cup campaigner Francesco Bruni is in Bermuda sailing with Swedish challenger Artemis Racing, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Bruni was among Artemis’s crew that sparred with Oracle Team USA, defender of the “Auld Mug”, in the team’s ...

Glenn Ashby could barely keep his competitive instincts in check as he observed Oracle Team USA and Artemis Racing flying around the Great Sound in their AC45s yesterday. The Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman spent several hours running the rule ove...

A delegation from Emirates Team New Zealand are in Bermuda on a scouting mission. Sailing team trio Glenn Ashby, Jeremy Lomas and Richard Meacham spent yesterday checking out the Great Sound, the sailing venue for all America’s Cup racing to be conte...

Andrew “Bart” Simpson would have embraced revisions to the America’s Cup class rule and Bermuda hosting the next instalment of the “Auld Mug” with open arms, according to the late sailor’s close friend and crewmate Iain Percy. Simpson lost his life i...