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Brian Hillier is on the verge of making local Newport Bermuda Race history. When Hillier’s J-125, Crossfire, sails across the starting line at the mouth of Narragansett Bay tomorrow afternoon, it will mark the first time that a yacht from St George’s...

James Doughty is a classic example of the proverbial ‘chip off the old block’. The Les-Roches University graduate is a third generation sailor, following in the wake of his late grandfather Alan and father Paul, whose name is synonymous with youth sa...

The sound of an alarm rang out below deck of the Spirit of Bermuda at 4.25am, disrupting what up until that point had been a peaceful night’s rest. The 100-mile journey from New York to Newport, Rhode Island had officially begun. Some of the sloop’s ...

The presence of a new crop of talented young sailors did not go unnoticed by those watching the popular Edward Cross Long Distance Comet Race on Monday, but Gladwin Lambert, the region president of the Comet Class of Bermuda, said that can only be go...

By Colin Thompson in Newport, Rhode Island Dr Stephen Sherwin will not be making any house calls any time soon. Instead, the general practitioner will be putting his ocean racing skills to the test in Nasty Medicine, his Corby 41, which is among the ...

The cliché is much tried yet all too true when applied to Stevie Dickinson and the Long Distance Comet Race in the manner “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. So much so is the case of Dickinson winning the annual spectacle that one...

Butterfield & Vallis co-owner Jim Butterfield and ten of his staff members arrived in New York City earlier this week aboard the sail training ship Spirit of Bermuda. The triple-masted sloop left Bermuda last Saturday evening and arrived in the Big A...

Stevie Dickinson will rest his Edward Cross Cup title on the line in Monday’s Annual Long Distance Comet Race. The East End Mini Yacht Club sailor won the race a record sixteenth time in Kitty Hawk last year with crew Gerrick Farquharson and is optim...

A delegation from cup holders Oracle Team USA is presently in Bermuda to scrutinise the Island’s bid to host the 2017 America’s Cup, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Team Oracle USA officials travelled to Bermuda this week to meet with a team, headed up...

Nearly 200 yachts are set to sail in the 49th Newport Bermuda Race, among them three that will be from the Island. Among the trio of local entries are Crossfire, Nasty Medicine and Spirit of Bermuda. Crossfire, a J-125, is helmed by Brian Hillier, an...

Bermuda will learn by the end of this month if it has made the final round of bidding for the 2017 America’s Cup. Confirmation was made yesterday by Russell Coutts, the chief executive of Oracle Team USA, as he revealed that one bid had been eliminat...

Bermuda’s time zone could play a major factor in deciding which country gets the green light to host the 37th America’s Cup in 2017. Bermuda remains thick in contention to host the match racing sailing spectacle along with Chicago, San Francisco and ...