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Italy has pulled out of the 2017 America’s Cup, criticising decisions by organisers as unprecedented and illegitimate. Luna Rossa and Team New Zealand voted today on Tuesday against reducing the size of the catamarans for the second time in less than...

The defending America’s Cup champions today started arriving in Bermuda, with cargo for Team Oracle being unloaded in Dockyard. Multiple custom containers, each more than twice the size of a normal 20ft container, as well as high-speed support boats...

Team Oracle USA members are to move into the Grand Atlantic condos temporarily as they transition to Bermuda for the upcoming America’s Cup. The Bermuda Housing Corporation, in conjunction with the Bermudiana Beach development team, have agreed to he...

The 35th America’s Cup was diced with more controversy yesterday when Italian team Luna Rossa threatened to withdraw from the sailing extravaganza over a proposed late change to the regulations. With Oracle Team USA, the defender, having only just re...

An alliance of talented Bermudians teamed up to secure the position of communications partner to the ACBDA for the 35th America’s Cup. The ACBDA Communications Committee selected the COMM Group from among 11 expressions of interest and eight formal r...

The first phase of construction of Oracle Team USA’s base at Royal Naval Dockyard has been completed. Construction workers have poured the concrete slab that will support the boat shed where Oracle’s 62ft and 45ft catamarans will be housed when they ...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent Being a member of a British America’s Cup challenge spearheaded by the most decorated sailor in Olympic history was an offer Giles Scott simply could not refuse. The multiple world champion was the eighth sailo...

A legal battle between sacked sailor Joe Spooner and Oracle Racing took another twist this week after a federal judge ordered US marshals to release the team’s foiling AC45 catamaran from custody. This is the second time a judge has denied an arrest...

Jimmy Spithill, the skipper of Oracle Team USA, is extremely encouraged by the outcome of tests conducted on the team’s wing sail AC45 catamaran in San Francisco Bay last month. During the two-week foiling, flying exercise, Oracle’s modified AC45, a...

A raft of innovative proposals outlining how St George’s can contribute to the America’s Cup has been presented to the ACBDA. A St George’s working group met with ACBDA CEO, Mike Winfield, last month to discuss how the East End can play a part in the...

Bermuda Government and America’s Cup officials have visited the Dockyard site that will form the hub of the 2017 sailing spectacle. Premier Michael Dunkley was joined by Minister of Public Works Craig Cannonier and Minister of Economic Development Gr...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent Jimmy Spithill, helmsman of America’s Cup defender Oracle Team USA, is in a race against the clock to regain fitness in time for the start of the America’s Cup World Series in June. The multiple America’s Cup w...