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Bermuda is to host an international tall ships festival next year, according to the group Tall Ships Bermuda. It has been hailed as a historic event, given that the Island will be hosting the America’s Cup at the same time. The organisation issued a ...

Dear Sir, Bermudians set great store by Mark Twain, and rightly so. It occurs to me that they may be interested to know the great man’s thoughts on the America’s Cup boat race: “The race for the America’s Cup is in some small sense an international m...

The next generation of America’s Cup class foiling catamarans are going to “blow people’s minds”, according to Jimmy Spithill, the Oracle Team USA skipper. The six teams competing in the 35th America’s Cup to be held in the Great Sound next year are ...

Artemis Racing ticked another box after the Swedish challenger launched their second AC45S test boat in California last month. The wing-sail foiling catamaran, nicknamed “T2”, passed its first test on the waters of San Francisco Bay with flying colou...

Sir Russell Coutts, the America’s Cup Event Authority chief executive, has given the developers of the America’s Cup Village in Dockyard a huge vote of confidence. Work on the nine-acre infill in the South Basin site is way ahead of schedule, with th...

A proposal has been submitted for a $3 million renovation at Horseshoe Bay that could create as many as 50 hospitality jobs for Bermudians in the run-up to the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup. Beach Boys Ltd, which runs the “beach experience” out of Tob...

It is often said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That certainly proved to be the case yesterday for five graduates of the America’s Cup Endeavour community sailing programme, who have been granted use of five refurbished Optimist ding...

Cabinet minister Grant Gibbons has given a positive review of the America’s Cup public meetings that took place this week. The draft version of the AC master plan was introduced to the public as part of an environmental assessment, at meetings in Ham...

SoftBank Team Japan cranked up their preparations for the 35th America’s Cup after the challenger launched its AC45S test platform last week. The launch of the wing-sail foiling catamaran the team took delivery of from Oracle Team USA, the defender, ...

“Significant opportunities” lie in store for a nine-acre island created at Dockyard for the America’s Cup village after its six weeks of use are concluded. The first of two public meetings soliciting feedback for its environmental impact assessment, ...

Bermuda’s warmer climate will be a far cry from the frigid conditions in the Solent this time of year for Land Rover BAR, who are scheduled to arrive on the Island this week for a training exercise. A 40-foot container housing four of the British Cha...

A master plan for the America’s Cup remains a work in progress, with the community’s input solicited. Consultation started in December for the environmental impact assessment, and will include two public meetings this month. One will be held in Hami...