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Oracle Team USA, the defender of the America’s Cup, tested the waters in the Great Sound for the first time yesterday. Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton and Andrew Campbell were the first to get a feel for the local conditions, sailing in tw...

Hamilton Harbour could potentially provide the backdrop for America’s Cup World Series racing. During a packed town hall meeting at the Heritage Worship Centre in Hamilton on Tuesday, Sir Russell Coutts, director of the America’s Cup Event Authority ...

Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill wants to “keep the America’s Cup in Bermuda” in the years to come because he believes this event will be the best in its history. He spoke to The Royal Gazette after a town hall meeting last night, where a host of annou...

Sir Russell Coutts has no doubt that Emirates Team New Zealand will follow through with plans to compete at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda in 2017. Team New Zealand’s involvement in the next edition of the “Auld Mug” remains in doubt after organis...

Bermuda meet Iain Murray, the regatta director for the 35th America’s Cup to be contested for on these shores in June 2017. Mr Murray is serving a second successive stint in the key role and has been tasked with collaborating with all of the teams as...

Sir Russell Coutts rolled back the years in Hamilton Harbour yesterday. The legendary Kiwi sailor was among the crew that captured line honours in two fun-filled races at the same venue where he won a record seven King Edward VII Gold Cup titles in t...

Emirates Team New Zealand’s involvement in the next instalment of the America’s Cup remains in doubt after it was confirmed yesterday that all racing in 2017 will be held in Bermuda. This means the America’s Cup Qualifiers, Challenger Play-offs and ...

Henry Talbot’s ascent to the top of the Bermuda Power Boat Association pecking order has been nothing shy of meteoric. The 30-year-old business manager began racing powerboats in 2011 but it soon became apparent that he had much more to offer. In 201...

Planners have given the green light to major reclamation work from the seabed to create the America’s Cup Village. The work will involve dredging to both the North and South Channels to provide the 11 acres of land. At the start of the month, the Dev...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent Oracle Team USA sailing team members have quickly adjusted to their new surroundings in Bermuda. Tom Slingsby, the Oracle tactician/helmsman and sailing team manager, has assembled the crew on Island this week ...

Plans for the South Basin Marina that will form “a key part” of the America’s Cup Event Village at the Royal Naval Dockyard have been approved by planning authorities, Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development, has confirmed. The applicatio...

Bermudian contractors and service providers are combining forces to complete Oracle Team USA’s new home in Dockyard. The base will be the centre of Oracle’s racing operations in Bermuda and represents phase one, of the multiphase project of what will...