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Stress levels for the absentee America’s Cup Challenger Emirates Team New Zealand clicked up another notch this week. On Wednesday their fellow challengers and defender Oracle Team USA took to the Great Sound for the first of five days of match racin...

Organisers of this year’s tall ships regatta are still on the lookout for volunteers. Nineteen tall ships carrying around 1,100 crew are signed up to take part in the Rendez-Vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta, which features stops in six countries and mark...

The build up to the 35th America’s Cup reached another significant milestone yesterday with two teams lining up for the first time in the new 50-foot foiling catamarans in the Great Sound. Oracle Team USA, defenders of the “Auld Mug”, and British cha...

The Bermuda Economic Development Corporation has announced it is allocating $300,000 in funds for small and medium sized businesses looking to capitalise on the 35th America’s Cup. Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development, this morning la...

The five America’s Cup teams based in Bermuda will size each other up in their AC Class yachts for the first time on the Great Sound today. Today’s practice races mark the first time that the teams will effectively compete against each other in their...

SoftBank Team Japan and Groupama Team France took their AC Class catamarans out for their first flights on the Great Sound late last week. Reports from those teams were positive. They had great days to put their 15-metres flyers through initial trai...

American luxury super yacht Arabella is to be in Bermuda during the 35th America’s Cup to charter daytime and evening cruises. The Arabella, which traditionally serves the east coast in the summer and the Caribbean in the winter, aims to deliver “au...

Land Rover BAR suffered a setback after a routine docking proved anything but. Following a practice sail in the Great Sound, the British challenger’s America’s Cup Class foiling catamaran collided with a mobile dock at their Royal Naval Dockyard base...

Gone are the days of bellying up to the bar after a day on the rail. These guys sailing the America’s Cup class yachts are professionals with a job to do. One and all, these Cup sailors are serious, finely conditioned athletes. The race is theirs to ...

The opportunity to put her engineering skills to use with SoftBank Team Japan’s design team was one that Emily Nagel just could not refuse. The 22-year-old sailor gave up her place on Team BDA, Bermuda’s Red Bull Youth America’s Cup squad to pursue a...

It is time. Five of the six America’s Cup Class boats are now on the water in Bermuda. And the intensity of training has notched up exponentially. Jimmy Spithill, Oracle Team USA’s Skipper says, “The clock is ticking.” Now turn to Emirates Team New...

Team BDA may have to reach into its reserves for a new sailor after Emily Nagel accepted a full-time position with SoftBank Team Japan, The Royal Gazette can confirm. The America’s Cup challenger offered the 22-year-old star a full-time position with...