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A model sailboat that washed up on the rocks in Devondale last week travelled more than 1,000 miles from Maine, United States, where schoolchildren had released it into the ocean with an exciting message. Michael and Anne Sousa found the little fibr...

Andy Cox is the new chairman of the Argo Group Gold Cup. Cox was appointed to the post by former Royal Bermuda Yacht Club commodore and ISAF umpire/judge Peter Shrubb, who is now in charge of international events in Bermuda, such as the World Match R...

Prospects for entrepreneurs during the 2017 America’s Cup are being explored with a “roadshow” of public forums around the Island. The Senate heard yesterday from Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, that about 45 people attended an initial in...

Contest III made a clean sweep of honours during the traditional Heritage Day Bermuda Fitted Dinghy season opener in St George’s Harbour on Sunday. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club boat retained the Heritage Trophy, Anniversary Cup and Leon D Fox Cup wit...

Bermuda’s young sailors got a sneak preview of the America’s Cup Community Sailing Programme yesterday. With the programme’s first eight Hobie Wave catamarans arriving on the Island this week, the opportunity to test the boats with 14 youth sailors w...

Jimmy Spithill, the Oracle Team USA skipper, has broken his silence on Dean Barker’s split from Emirates Team New Zealand. Barker severed ties earlier this Spring after rejecting an offer to take on the position of Performance Manager/Coach and Execu...

Dean Barker marked his appointment as CEO and skipper of late America’s Cup entry Softbank Team Japan by flying around the Great Sound yesterday with the team whose title he will be gunning for in 2017. Barker had the rare opportunity to sail with ri...

Morgan’s Point could become the temporary headquarters for Artemis Racing in the lead up to the 35th America’s Cup. The Swedish challenger is presently based alongside Oracle Team USA at the Royal Naval Dockyard but have not ruled out moving their op...

Seasoned America’s Cup campaigner Francesco Bruni is in Bermuda sailing with Swedish challenger Artemis Racing, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Bruni was among Artemis’s crew that sparred with Oracle Team USA, defender of the “Auld Mug”, in the team’s ...

Glenn Ashby could barely keep his competitive instincts in check as he observed Oracle Team USA and Artemis Racing flying around the Great Sound in their AC45s yesterday. The Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman spent several hours running the rule ove...

A delegation from Emirates Team New Zealand are in Bermuda on a scouting mission. Sailing team trio Glenn Ashby, Jeremy Lomas and Richard Meacham spent yesterday checking out the Great Sound, the sailing venue for all America’s Cup racing to be conte...

Alec Cutler and crew of Hedgehog have secured a second straight top ten showing in the 2015 Audi-Tron Sailing Series. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club skipper and past J-22 world champion placed sixth among the formidable 18-boat Melges 32 fleet at the A...