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AC Endeavour Officially Opens Dockyard Base
America’s Cup Endeavour – the youth education and community sailing initiative – held a ceremony to officially open its new Dockyard location on Wednesday evening. Now hundreds of nine to 12-year-old students can learn to sail in both the west end and the east end. The St. George’s location opened in October during the Louis Vuitton America’s... Read more of this article
Meet The Design Director For ACEA: Lyn Winford
Lyn Winford is Design Director for America’s Cup Event Authority [ACEA], and is a major part of the design team that creates all the artwork for the America’s Cup including decals on the boats, banners in the event villages around the world, the America’s Cup Endeavour Program logo and sails and much more. Her role includes layout/design, art... Read more of this article
AC Endeavour Program To Begin In Chicago
The America’s Cup is bringing its Endeavour program – which introduces students to sailing as a way to learn about science, technology, engineering, arts, and math [STEAM] – to Chicago beginning this summer when Chicago hosts the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series race at Navy Pier. A gala in support of the program was hosted on Wednesday,... Read more of this article
Endeavour Youth Initiative Extended To USA
The America’s Cup youth education and sailing program, called America’s Cup Endeavour, is branching out to New York and Chicago over the coming months. AC Endeavour has been operating in Bermuda, the host venue for the 2017 America’s Cup, since last year. In that time, hundreds of school children have had an opportunity to get on the water and... Read more of this article
Final 15 Selected For Bermuda’s Youth AC Team
After a grueling last training session that pushed them to their physical limits the final 15 members of Team BDA have been selected to compete against some of the best young sailors in the world in the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup. The last trial to select Team BDA members was held over the weekend at the Oracle Team USA base and at AC Endeavour... Read more of this article
AC Donate Optimist Dinghies To Local Sailors
[Updated with video] The America’s Cup Endeavour community sailing initiative, along with its partners, has today gifted the use of five of 15 Optimist dinghies, to local sailors. The boats were donated several months ago in significant disrepair but have been brought back to ‘as new’ condition through the efforts of the Oracle Team USA shore... Read more of this article
Spithill Gives Keynote Speech At Convergence
Keynote speaker Jimmy Spithill, skipper and helmsman for Oracle Team USA, regaled the Bermuda Convergence 2015 audience with tales from the world of America’s Cup sailing. Proceeds from the sponsorship of Keynote speaker, Jimmy Spithill are being donated to the America’s Cup Endeavour Programme which will enable students across Bermuda to learn... Read more of this article
Bean Bags To Benefit Endeavour Fundraising
Tourism-branded pink bean bags, which were featured during the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series, will be up for grabs in an Endeavour fundraising effort organised by the Bermuda Tourism Authority [BTA]. “After being inundated with requests to buy the sailing spectator seats which lined the America’s Cup event village, the BTA decided... Read more of this article
Photos: America’s Cup Endeavour Day Held
Endeavour Day was held today [Oct 15] with the official opening of the east end facility of the America’s Cup Endeavor Community Sailing Program, with a number of activities taking place throughout the event. Students from local schools were invited to help celebrate the event, which featured an opening ceremony, an Endeavour race, a Bermuda Pilot... Read more of this article
Hamilton Sponsors AC Endeavour Programme
Hamilton Insurance Group – the Bermuda-based holding company for insurance and reinsurance operations in Bermuda, the US and at Lloyd’s — today [Oct 14] announced its participation as an Official Partner of Endeavour, the America’s Cup youth sailing programme. Funds donated by Hamilton will be used by the America’s Cup Event Authority... Read more of this article
Endeavour Day To Mark Sailing Facility Opening
Endeavour Day will be marked on Thursday, October 15 with the official opening of the east end facility of the America’s Cup Endeavor Community Sailing Program, with the event getting underway at 12.45pm. Nearly 550 students between the ages of 9 and 12 have been invited from local schools to celebrate the event, which will feature an opening... Read more of this article
AC Sailing “St. George’s Day” On October 15th
The America’s Cup has invited more than 500 students to officially open the east end location of the America’s Cup Endeavour Community Sailing Program. Endeavour, a community sailing program, aimed at youth who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to sail, will officially launch on Thursday, October 15 in St. George’s. Dubbed “St. George’s... Read more of this article
