Tag: Bermuda sailing

Dickinson Wins Weekend Comet Sailing Race

Stephen Dickinson won the 2013 Flag Pole to Flag Pole comet race on Sunday [May 19] when ten boats took to the water in Hamilton Harbour. Dickinson and his crew Pat Young battled hard from the start which was in line with the Hamilton Flag Pole eventually pulling away from the Fleet to finish and win in St. George’s Harbour.At the start, Heath Foggo... Read more of this article

Falcor Leading Charleston To Bermuda Race

The Charleston to Bermuda Yacht Race — with its very small fleet of 3 yachts this year — is approaching Bermuda after leaving Charleston Wednesday and Friday of last week. Providing the wind holds, this could be a fairly fast race with the first vessel only 60 miles off Bermuda as of this writing. That yacht, Falcor, is a trimaran hull... Read more of this article

Weeklong Summer Sailstice Party To Be Held

[Written by Talbot Wilson] Where will you be a short month from now to celebrate Summer Sailstice? Smart, adventurous, fun-loving sailors along with their friends and families will be at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club in the sunny isles of Bermuda. Crescendo finished just before dawn in 2009 under storm Trysail and a blade.:The Marion Bermuda... Read more of this article

All Tour Card Holders Coming For Argo Gold Cup

[Written by Talbot Wilson] As the Alpari World Match Race Tour kicks off this week with Match Race Germany, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club— organizers of the Argo Group Gold Cup— can certainly say that the regular schedule of tour events will conclude with a top slate of skippers. All eight of the Tour Card Holders have accepted their invitations... Read more of this article

Newport To Bermuda Race: $11.7M In Spending

The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee [BROC] released the results of an economic impact study which shows that the 2012 Newport Bermuda Race generated an estimated $11.7 million worth of spending in Bermuda. The BROC commissioned the market research firm Bonnier Custom Insights to conduct an online survey among 2012 race participants to determine the... Read more of this article

Dkembe’s Voyage Through The South Pacific

Bermudian Dkembe-Outerbridge Dill, 18, is nearing the end of a Tall Ships adventure as a trainee deck hand on the three-masted sail training ship, the Picton Castle. He joined the ship at its home port of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in November 2012. A bursary from Sail Training Bermuda helped to cover some of the cost of his voyage.Dkembe is a former... Read more of this article

Cooper Competes At Dutch Youth Regatta

Up and coming sailor, Chase Cooper carried the Bermuda flag all the way to Workum, Netherlands last week to compete in the Dutch Youth Regatta. Cooper finished 57th out of 465 Optimist sailors from twenty countries on the chilly waters of the IJsselmeer, a large man-made lake in central Holland. The Dutch Youth Regatta is the largest multi class youth... Read more of this article

Photos: Rally Yachts Stopover In St George’s

The Town of St. George’s is busy with approximately 30 visiting yachts taking part in the Arc Europe and Atlantic Cup rallies joining other yachts that stopover in the island while in transit across the Atlantic.The yachts are moored throughout the harbour with the St. George’s Dinghy & Sports Club and Ordnance Island area providing... Read more of this article

Charleston Bermuda Race Set To Get Underway

The ninth running of the Charleston to Bermuda Race is set to get underway with the Warning Signal for Rally Fleet Start scheduled for Wednesday [May 15] and the Warning signal for First Class Start on Friday [May 17]. This 777-mile biennial contest, which began in 1997, was born of humble origins — the dream of two South Carolina sailors bent on... Read more of this article

Photos/Video: Swedish Tall Ship Visits Bermuda

The Swedish tall ship TS Gunilla arrived in Bermuda yesterday [May 6], docking at Penno’s Wharf in St. George’s with 43 young students aboard. The students — aged 17-18 — gave us a mini-tour of the ship, and were more than happy to chat as it gave them a chance to practice their English. 17-year-old Swedish student Jakob Rene... Read more of this article