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‘Buzzing’ is the word retailers and restaurateurs all used to describe the atmosphere in the City of Hamilton last week while yachtsmen and their families were visiting in the aftermath of the Newport to Bermuda race that brought about 170 yachts and...

Tim Patton moved to within striking distance of his ultimate objective on the penultimate day of the Etchells World Championship in Newport, Rhode Island. Going into the nine-race series the experienced sailor set his sights on finishing in the top h...

After waiting several excruciating hours for the wind to stabilise to allow the race committee to set up the racecourse and then losing ground on the leaderboard, Mark Watson probably figured his day could not get any worse. Boy, was he wrong. A blow...

The trio of Bermuda boats competing in the 49th Newport Bermuda Race are all moored back in local waters. Dr Stephen Sherwin’s Corby 41.5, Nasty Medicine, and Brian Hillier’s J-125, Crossfire, arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday. And joining them yester...

Two Olympic sailors who arrived yesterday as part of the Newport Bermuda Race have offered their support for Bermuda’s bid to host the America’s Cup. Brother and sister Laurie and Silja Lehtinen had only been on the Island a short while, but were sup...

The crew of local yacht Nasty Medicine had plenty to be proud of after completing the Newport Bermuda Race late under the cover of darkness on Tuesday night. Dr Stephen Sherwin’s Corby 41.5 finished the 635-mile ocean race at 10.15pm in an elapsed ti...

Mark Watson and the crew of Tiberon made further inroads at the Etchells World Championship in Newport, Rhode Island, yesterday. Provisional results showed the local sailor climbing nine places up the leaderboard from 28th to 19th after four of the s...

This year’s Newport Bermuda Race marks the end of an era. Since 2003, Eugene Rayner, 73, has served as chairman of the race’s finish line committee with great pride. But, after serving in the role for just over a decade, the former ZFB programme dire...

Under normal circumstances keen sailor Somers Kempe would be sailing in the Newport Bermuda Race. But that has not been the case this year. As Commodore of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, co-hosts of the biennial race, Mr Kempe has been assisting with ...

Mark Watson leads the local contingent at the Etchells World Championships that got underway under sunny skies in Newport, Rhode Island, yesterday. After two of the scheduled nine races taking place in Rhode Island Sound this week, provisional result...

Nasty Medicine, helmed by Dr Stephen Sherwin, had all but clinched local bragging rights in the 49th Newport Bermuda Race at press time last night. Online tracking showed Sherwin’s Corby 41.5 within six miles of the finish line off St David’s Lightho...