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If Chase Cooper’s success at last week’s Mar del Plata regatta in Argentina is anything to go by, then perhaps it’s safe to say the future of local sailing is in good hands. The Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association’s (BODA) 2012 Sailor of the Year und...

Local organisers of the 2013 North American Championships (Optinam) have begun laying the groundwork to ensure that July’s international regatta is a huge success. Bermuda is hosting the regatta featuring 180 elite Optimist sailors from various count...

Chase Cooper warmed up for next month’s IODA South American Championships in the best possible way at last week’s Mar del Plata regatta in Argentina. The teenaged Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC) Optimist sailor won the five-day regatta by a commandin...

Promising sailor Chase Cooper won the 2012 Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association (BODA) Sailor of the Year award at Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) at the weekend. The Warwick Academy student received the award in recognition of a series of...

Entries for the 2013 Marion to Bermuda Race are now open to those interested in participating in the 645- mile ocean crossing. All entries must be made online prior to the June 1 deadline with the entry fee to be hiked up another $150 dollars on Apri...

Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC) flag officer Leatrice Roman is Bermuda Sailing Association’s (BSA) new president. The veteran female sailor was appointed to the top post during the association’s annual general meeting late last year. She was unanimou...

Almost 100 visitors from across Europe arrived in St George’s yesterday aboard a historic tall ship from Norway. The Christian Radich is a three-masted vessel built in 1937, named after a Norwegian shipowner. It was originally used for training sailo...

A new bursary has been made available for young people interested in spending time as a trainee on a Tall Ship. A spokesman for Sail Training Association Bermuda said they are able to nominate two candidates to take part in the 2013 Tall Ships Race, ...

Bermudian Owen Siese of the Sandys Boat Club had an impressive second place finish out of 121 boats in the Laser Radial Class at the Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta in Miami, Florida recently. Siese was one of 19 local sailors who participat...

Digicel Bermuda has reached a partnership agreement to sponsor the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s Sailing Academy for three years. The Sailing Academy provides young Bermudians with the opportunity to develop essential skills in the sport and has seen h...

Optimist sailor Campbell Patton clinched victory in the Gold Fleet in the second part of the Amlin Autumn Series that concluded in breezy conditions in the Great Sound at the weekend. The son of veteran Etchells sailor and Bermuda Sailing Association...

Bermuda is to be the launching point for a round-the-world sailing record, as one man sets out to beat the fastest time set from the Island 37 years ago. Dr Stanley Paris, father of Bermuda’s own round-the-world yachtsman Alan Paris, arrived on the I...