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Sailing: Price Leads After First Day Of Gold Cup
An active first day of racing at the 69th Argo Group Gold Cup saw 36 matches completed across nine flights of racing and led to a first-timer holding the Day 1 lead. Harry Price of Australia, the 23-year-old debutante who was the 2017 Youth match racing world champion, leads the regatta with 5 points from six races. He stands tied with grizzled veteran... Read more of this article
RenaissanceRe Jr Gold Cup To Get Underway
The RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup returns for the 17th year of forging friendships and testing seamanship for youth sailors around the world. The goal of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club organizers and sponsor RenaissanceRe was to create a world class youth regatta in Bermuda to give local sailors the opportunity to race against some of the best in the... Read more of this article
Argo Gold Cup To Get Underway On Tuesday
Racing for the 69th Argo Group Gold Cup is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning, May 7, at 1000 hours on Hamilton Harbour, just off the docks of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. The first match on the schedule pits grizzled veteran Johnie Berntsson of Sweden, a two-time winner of the King Edward VII Gold Cup, against first-time participant Kelsey Durham,... Read more of this article
Dale Brangman Wins Albert Symonds Regatta
The West End Sailboat Club recently hosted the Comet Class Albert Symond Regatta, with six boats going to the start line. After a four race series, Dale Brangman and his crew Giorgio Swan won the Regatta with 5 net points, with the duo finishing 4th in the first race, winning race two and race three, and closing out the Regatta with a third place finish. Gladwin... Read more of this article
Invitational Race Week Day Four Summary
After three days of racing, the International One Design [IOD] Fleet have now completed eight of their scheduled ten race series for the Vrengen Gold Cup at this year’s Bermuda International Invitational Race Week. Race Officer Tom Clarke has loaded the front end of the regatta with a maximum number of races due to the light wind forecast of Thursday.... Read more of this article
Durham Completes Argo Group Gold Cup Lineup
What’s the recipe for an unpredictable, Grade 1 match racing regatta? Start with two women’s crews, add a dash of youngsters and throw in a handful of veterans and you get the 2019 Argo Group Gold Cup. The 69th competition for the revered King Edward VII Gold Cup trophy, scheduled May 6-11 and hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, features just... Read more of this article
International Invitational Race Week Day Three
The Bermuda International Invitational Race Week 2019 continued in the Great Sound, with the IOD Fleet taking to the course. Three more races were sailed taking the total to six for the Regatta with the defending champion Peter Wickwire taking the lead with 7 Net Points, Wickwire finished 4th in the first race of the day, and then won the second and... Read more of this article
International Invitational Race Week Day Two
The Bermuda International Invitational Race Week 2019 continued in the Great Sound. Three boats took to the course on Day Two in the Etchells Fleet. John Hele continues to lead the Fleet after five races after two races were completed on a day, Hele won one race and finished second in the other, to come off the water with a total of 4 Net Points. Timothy... Read more of this article
BIIRW Sailing To Get Underway On Saturday
The Bermuda International Invitational Race Week [BIIRW] is set to begin this Saturday [April 27]. A spokesperson said, “The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club [RBYC] is ready run some first class racing for the 2019 edition of BIIRW is set to begin this Saturday [April 27, 2019]. The event will see three sailing classes competing over the course of the week:... Read more of this article
2020 Race to Open Downtown Newport HQ
The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee announced that the headquarters for the next running of the 635-mile Newport Bermuda Race will be centrally located on Newport’s storied harbor. “The Bowen’s Wharf Company and the Seamen’s Church Institute, adjacent to each other, will anchor the race headquarters, providing easier access to... Read more of this article
Bermuda Comet Class Mid-Winter Regatta
The 2019 Bermuda Comet Class Race Season got underway off the West End Sailboat Club. The duo of Maxwell Curtis and Wesley Tucker won the Mid-Winter Regatta with 3 wins in the three races on the day. Gladwin Lambert and his crew Ross Smith finished second with 7 points, while Quinton Simons and Greg Proctor finished third with 8 points. Dale Brrangman... Read more of this article
Sailors Conclude In South American Regatta
The Optimist South American Championship competition came to an end with 169 sailors from 17 countries including Bermuda in the Nautical Association of the Pacific of Chile failing to complete a race for a second straight day due to a lack of wind. Christian Ebbin led the Bermuda Fleet, in 17th with 31 Net Point, Rachel Betschart was in 45th place with... Read more of this article
