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An offshore racing trimaran will make an attempt to break the 15-year-old outright and class speed record for the 635-nautical mile journey from Newport to Bermuda. The 105ft maxi trimaran Lending Club 2, steer driven by co-skippers Renaud Laplanche ...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent Oracle Team USA sailing team members have quickly adjusted to their new surroundings in Bermuda. Tom Slingsby, the Oracle tactician/helmsman and sailing team manager, has assembled the crew on Island this week ...

Plans for the South Basin Marina that will form “a key part” of the America’s Cup Event Village at the Royal Naval Dockyard have been approved by planning authorities, Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development, has confirmed. The applicatio...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent Ceci Wollmann stood out among the local fleet at last weekend’s inaugural Digicel Bermuda Dinghy Regatta. The promising female sailor topped the single handed Laser Radial and Laser Radial Youth leaderboards an...

A town hall meeting to discuss the America’s Cup will be held on April 21. Minister of Economic Development Dr Grant Gibbons, CEO of the America’s Cup Event Authority, Sir Russell Coutts, ACBDA Chairman, Peter Durhager; and Oracle Team USA skipper J...

Bermudian contractors and service providers are combining forces to complete Oracle Team USA’s new home in Dockyard. The base will be the centre of Oracle’s racing operations in Bermuda and represents phase one, of the multiphase project of what will...

The America’s Cup World Series curtain raiser scheduled to be held from June 4 to 7 in Cagliari, Italy has been cancelled, organisers have confirmed. The cancellation is the latest fallout from Luna Rossa’s withdrawal from the 35th America’s Cup in p...

The revised class rule for the 35th America’s Cup has presented team designers with another obstacle to overcome in their quest to build the fastest boat capable of winning or defending the “Auld Mug”. The majority of America’s Cup teams agreed to c...

The Island’s dockworkers have welcomed the chance to be a part of the America’s Cup experience and to unload the first batch of cargo in Bermuda. Workers from Stevedoring Services were on hand in Dockyard on Monday and the week before to discharge th...

By Colin Thompson Sailing Correspondent This year is turning out to be an extremely fruitful one for Bermuda sailors Hasso Plattner and Glenn Astwood. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club sailing pair have enjoyed multiple success racing in the Caribbean abo...

The first America’s Cup class catamaran has arrived in Bermuda. The wing sail, foiling AC45 owned by Oracle Team USA, defender of the “Auld Mug”, arrived on a container ship this week. “The AC45 training and testing boat for Oracle Team USA arrived ...

Away from the fuss over who is in the 35th America’s Cup and who is not, Royal Gazette photographer Akil Simmons ventured to Dockyard to catch the men behind the scenes of Oracle Team USA — the builders who are laying the table for the defender’s bas...