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Emily Nagel and Team AkzoNobel achieved their first podium in the Volvo Ocean Race in Cape Town South Africa yesterday. The Dutch racing syndicate placed third in the seven-boat fleet in the third heat of the Volvo Ocean Race in port race series on T...

Rockal Evans’s hopes of reaching the Olympic Games in Toyko 2020 received a psychological boost at the Sail Melbourne Olympic class regatta at the weekend. The Bermuda sailor produced an encouraging ninth-place finish among the 18 entries in the Finn...

The America’s Cup was a “silver bullet” that hit the target in time to save Bermuda’s economy, the Shadow Minister of Economic Development told Parliament last night. Grant Gibbons said the island’s economy would have continued to struggle if it had...

A routine trip to the Caribbean island of St Thomas turned into a nightmare journey to Bermuda after the yacht Stormy Weather was hit by a series of problems. The yacht, which had already lost its propeller, was heading to Bermuda to drop off a sick ...

Bermuda’s hopes to host a leg of the 2019-20 Volvo Ocean Race have been dashed after organisers cancelled the event. Pat Phillip-Fairn, chief product and experiences development officer for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, confirmed that the organisati...

Rockal Evans is training alongside world-renowned sailor Tom Slingsby as he continues his bid to qualify for the Olympic Games in Toyko in 2020. Evans, who is based in Sydney, Australia, is relishing the chance to pick the brains of Slingsby, an Amer...

AUCKLAND (AP) — The next America’s Cup will be contested in radical, single-hull boats that will rise up on hydrofoils and speed across the tops of the waves. Emirates Team New Zealand, who won AC35 in Bermuda last summer and are always bold in pushi...

Emily Nagel’s Team AkzoNobel maintained the lead of the Volvo Ocean Race 12 days after setting sail on the second leg of the around-the-world race from Lisbon to Cape Town. The Dutch team were more than 40 nautical miles ahead of Dongfeng Race Team, ...

Plans to move Artemis Racing’s America’s Cup guest pavilion into Hamilton and turn it into a visitor’s information centre have been given the green light. The Bermuda Tourism Authority’s proposal to move the building to a site on Front Street near th...

Education minister Diallo Rabain yesterday hit back at the idea that Bermuda’s America’s Cup group had “gifted” nearly $150,000 of wi-fi equipment to the island’s public schools. A legacy report from ACBDA last week said that it and the America’s Cup...

Senators divided along party lines yesterday when debating the impact of the America’s Cup. One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe said government spending should be viewed as “an investment versus an expense”, and highlighted a report by profession...

Emily Nagel and Team AkzoNobel surged into the lead of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet yesterday, as they closed in on the finish line of the second leg from Lisbon to Cape Town. The Dutch racing syndicate appears to be reaping the rewards of its gamble t...