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Somers Kempe will not be short on morale when the Viper 640 Class commence competition at the Bacardi Miami Sail Week today in Biscayne Bay, Miami. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club commodore warmed up for the event in the best possible way earlier this w...

Somers Kempe came from behind on the final day to win the 2015 EFG Winter Cup in the Viper 640 Class in Biscayne Bay, Miami yesterday. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Commodore kept his cool when it mattered most in breezy conditions and did just enough...

ACBDA have submitted new planning applications for Dockyard in advance of the 2017 America’s Cup. A pair of applications were received by the Planning Department last week proposing a new service road to Moresby Plain Field, and alterations to a buil...

The decision to award the 35th America’s Cup to Bermuda was not good for everybody. It has reportedly cost Emirates Team New Zealand some $20 million, and in a team shake-up helmsman Dean Barker has also lost his job. Barker had been at the helm for ...

Bermuda is quickly earning a reputation for successfully bidding for the right to host major international sailing regattas. In December of last year Bermuda won its bid to host the 35th America’s Cup and lightning has struck again little more than t...

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...

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’...

An intrepid kayaker crowned “People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year” by National Geographic has praised the Island’s people for coming to his rescue. Aleksander Doba thanked Jim Butterfield and the Bermuda Sloop Foundation as he was presented with th...

Giving back to a sport that gave so much to him during an extraordinary career has become a passion of sailing legend Dennis Conner. So when the opportunity presented itself to help raise funds to send a Bermuda team to this summer’s ISAF Team Racing...

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...