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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...

Ben Ainslie Racing, one of the challengers for the 35th America’s Cup, have returned to Bermuda with their full team for a second training camp in two months. The British racing syndicate, led by team principal and helmsman Sir Ben Ainslie, are back ...

Ben Ainslie Racing, British challenger for the 35th America’s Cup, have joined forces with former Formula One boss Martin Whitmarsh. The former CEO of The McLaren Group and Team Principal of the McLaren F1 team will serve as the America’s Cup racing ...

Oracle Team USA’s AC45 catamaran is expected to arrive on schedule in Bermuda this Spring — despite the multihull yacht’s seizure by US Marshals in San Francisco yesterday. Marshals were authorised to seize Oracle’s AC45 in response to a lien filed ...

The Development Applications Board has approved the proposed base of operations for Team Oracle in advance of the America’s Cup. According to the planning application, submitted by ACBDA, the base will take up about 7.2 acres on the northern side of ...

ACBDA have submitted new planning applications for Dockyard in advance of the 2017 America’s Cup. A pair of applications were received by the Planning Department last week proposing a new service road to Moresby Plain Field, and alterations to a buil...

The decision to award the 35th America’s Cup to Bermuda was not good for everybody. It has reportedly cost Emirates Team New Zealand some $20 million, and in a team shake-up helmsman Dean Barker has also lost his job. Barker had been at the helm for ...

Joining forces with one of the greatest sailors of all time in a bid to return the America’s Cup to British soil was an opportunity Christopher Sharples, Commodore of The Royal Yacht Squadron in the United Kingdom, could not pass up. Sir Ben Ainslie,...

Mike Winfield, CEO of the America’s Cup Bermuda Ltd (ACBDA) is encouraged by the progress the fledgling company has made since coming into existence just over a month ago. The company was created to deliver on Bermuda’s commitments to the America’s C...

A US court has denied a sailor’s request to confiscate Oracle Team USA’s hydrofoiling AC45-Class racing catamaran as a seaman’s lien against unpaid wages. Joe Spooner, who served as a grinder with Oracle at the 33rd and 34th America’s Cups, filed sui...