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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...

Bermuda can only prosper from the 35th America’s Cup, according to sailing legend Dennis Conner. The Island will host the prestigious regatta for the oldest trophy in international sport in June 2017, having beaten out several rival bids for the priv...

Sailing legend Dennis Conner said that it would have been an “honour” to manage a Bermuda team in the 2017 America’s Cup. The four-times America’s Cup winner had been offered the job of managing a Bermuda team but ultimately declined the offer, admi...

An ongoing dispute between sacked Oracle Team USA grinder Joe Spooner and his former bosses has spilled over into a US federal court with the New Zealander filing a suit seeking to have the American syndicate’s AC45 catamaran confiscated as a seaman’...

The British yacht club that Sir Ben Ainslie has teamed up with in an attempt to bring the America’s Cup back to Britain is led by a man whose family has close ties with Bermuda. Christopher Sharples, the son of Sir Richard Sharples, is the serving co...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent Ian Williams, a former King Edward VII Gold Cup winner, etched his name into the World Match Racing Tour history books at this month’s Monsoon Cup in Malaysia. The English skipper and his GAC Pindar crew won th...

Oracle Team USA, holders of the prestigious “Auld Mug”, the oldest trophy in international sport, christened their new wing sail foiling AC45 catamaran in San Francisco Bay this week. The team staff described the first trial, in which the modified A...

Team selection is never an exact science and Sir Russell Coutts, the Oracle Team USA CEO, is the first to admit that the task of choosing the best group to defend the “Auld Mug” at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda is indeed a daunting one. “The ama...

Legislation offering America’s Cup-related concessions was approved by the House of Assembly last night, with both parties promising unequivocal support. Minister of Economic Development Grant Gibbons explained that the legislation represented the Go...

The 34th America’s Cup was arguably the most exciting in the event’s history. Sir Russell Coutts, CEO of Oracle Team USA, predicts that the next one — to be held in Bermuda in 2017 — will raise the bar even higher. At the previous event in San Franci...

The first J Class sloop ever built for Sir Thomas Lipton’s fifth and final America’s Cup challenge could potentially grace Bermuda’s waters when the Island hosts a J Class regatta in 2017. Shamrock V, the only remaining wooden J Class sloop, lost ag...