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Jimmy Spithill, the skipper of 35th America’s Cup Defender Oracle Team USA, has placed plans to undergo elbow surgery on the back burner. The 2014 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year was due to have an operation this month to rectify an elbow injury ...

A late proposal that would have seen a Bermuda team compete in the 35th America’s Cup has fallen by the wayside. A spokesman for a group behind the ambitious plan confirmed yesterday that they had considered entering a team, but have since had a chan...

Six new job opportunities have been advertised by the America’s Cup Event Authority in the build-up to the 2017 sporting spectacle. The positions, which include graphic designer, event manager, community outreach manager, receptionist, client service...

The 35th America’s Cup has all the makings to become one the most fiercely contested in the event’s 163-year history. That is the prediction of Jack Griffin, the sailing expert and author, who served as brand manager for Swiss defender Alinghi in the...

Oracle Team USA could potentially set up shop in Bermuda in the not-too-distant future. It is expected that the America’s Cup holders will relocate into their new Bermuda headquarters in Dockyard by early spring to step up preparations for the title ...

Iain Murray, regatta director for the 35th America’s Cup, savoured the sweet taste of success in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2014. The former America’s Cup skipper, Etchells and 18-foot Skiff world champion was among the crew of Wild Oats XI t...

The Great Sound, venue for the 35th America’s Cup, hosted the opening race day of the Laser Standard Rig National Championships at the weekend. After five races of the eight-race series, Bermuda Race Week champion Cameron Pimentel leads the nine-boat...

Royal Bermuda Yacht Club has been given planning permission to improve its Hamilton headquarters. According to the planning application, which was first submitted in August, the RBYC is seeking to extend an existing hardstand on the Albouy’s Point pr...

It’s the end of the line for solo around-the-world sailor Stanley Paris, whose yacht Kiwi Spirit was yesterday headed for port in Cape Town, South Africa, after suffering damage to his boat on Christmas Eve. Dr Paris, 77, the father of local sailor A...

Warren Brown was just as keen to share his vast knowledge of the sea as he was to sail throughout the world on his many yachts that shared a name now synonymous with local sailing. This is the legacy the late sailor leaves behind, a legacy that went...

Mikey Wollmann made a flying start to the Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta in Miami yesterday. The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club sailor is joint leader in the Laser 4.7 fleet after two races, according to provisional results. Wollmann pos...

A new firm has been set up by Government to help run the America’s Cup yacht races. The new limited liability company — to be called ACBDA Ltd — will work closely with the event’s ruling body, the America’s Cup Event Authority (ACEA), in the run-up t...