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Follow Newport Bermuda Race Online Tracking
[Written by Talbot Wilson] The June 17th start of the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race is right around the corner. Home-based spectators can watch the start and also track their favorite yachts, skippers, or crewmembers in the 635-mile ocean classic from Newport, RI to “the Onion Patch.” All boats in the 2016 fleet will be tracked by YB satellite trackers... Read more of this article
Chinese Team Enters Newport Bermuda Race
[Written by Genie Xu with Talbot Wilson] For the first time ever an all-Chinese team will race in the Newport Bermuda Race. Started in 1906 as one of the three most famous off-shore sailing racing competitions, the 2016 ‘Thrash to the Onion Patch’ is going to share its 50th anniversary with the first Chinese entry in its history— Team Noahs.... Read more of this article
192 Boats Set For 2016 Newport Bermuda Race
[Written by Talbot Wilson] In what promises to be the third largest race in its 110 year history, the 50th Bermuda Race now expects to see 192 boats on the starting line in Newport on June 17. This 50th edition of “the Thrash of the Onion Patch” has one of the largest and most diverse fleets of monohull oceangoing boats since the race was founded... Read more of this article
Newport Bermuda Seeking On Board Reporters
[Written by Talbot Wilson] With the single aim of encouraging sailors to capture and share their “real” ocean racing experience during the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race, organizers have announced the first ever Onboard Reporter Initiative for video reports or blog posts filed during this year’s race. Interesting stories will be shared through social... Read more of this article
Sailing: Take The Onion Patch Challenge
[Written by Talbot Wilson] If you are entering the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race, think about entering the New York Yacht Club 162nd Annual Regatta presented by Rolex in Newport and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Anniversary Regatta capping off Bermuda Offshore Sailing Week for the visiting yachts and local Bermuda boats alike. Take the Onion Patch Challenge.... Read more of this article
195 Boats Qualified For Newport Race So Far
[Written by Talbot Wilson] As of April 5th, 195 boats have been sanctioned by the Newport Bermuda Race Organizing committee as qualified entries in the 50th Bermuda Race. Since another 14 boats are expected to be sanctioned soon, this race has every chance of being the second largest “Thrash to the Onion Patch” in the 110-year history of... Read more of this article
Sailing: 2016 Newport Bermuda Deadline Looms
[Written by Talbot Wilson] The June 17, 2016 Newport Bermuda Race, the 50th Thrash to the Onion Patch, is shaping up to be the largest since the 2006 Centennial celebration. The call for Applications for Entry [AFE’s] in the ocean classic went out January 12 and just over two months later the race is almost fully subscribed. As of March 18, organizers... Read more of this article
Over 100 Yachts Enter Newport Bermuda Race
[Written by Talbot Wilson] By mid-morning Tuesday, only one week after the entry system opened for the 50th running of the Bermuda Race, 107 yachts have started the entry process online to qualify for a place on the starting line at Newport on June 17, 2016. “We didn’t get 100 entries in 2014 until the fourth week into the process,” exclaimed... Read more of this article
2016 Newport To Bermuda Race Entry To Open
[Written by Talbot Wilson] Registration for the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race opens on January 12, 2016 through the race website, BermudaRace.com. “We are certainly excited to open entries for the 50th Bermuda Race,” said race chairman A.J. Evans. The fleet, which is limited to 200 entries, will include a wide range of boats from Super Maxi yachts,... Read more of this article
Warren Brown Named To Race “Roll of Honour”
[Written by Talbot Wilson] The late Warren A. H. Brown [pictured], one of Bermuda’s world class sailors, has been named to the prestigious Bermuda Race Roll of Honour, in memoriam. The Bermuda Race Roll of Honour recognizes and honours extraordinary achievement in or concerning the Newport Bermuda Race and its predecessor races [the 12 previous ocean... Read more of this article
‘TI’ Wins Big In Marion Bermuda Yacht Race
[Written by Talbot Wilson] ‘TI’ skippered by Greg Marston was overall winner of the 2015 Marion Bermuda Race Founders Division and was awarded the Goslings Rum Founders Trophy at the prizegiving held Saturday evening [June 27] at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club. ‘TI’, an Alden Mistral 36 sailed under Celestial Navigation by a family crew... Read more of this article
Last Marion Race Finishers Arrive In Bermuda
[Written by Talbot Wilson] By late afternoon Atlantic Daylight time all of the yachts that had continued racing had finished in Bermuda. ‘Bacchanal’ a Hunter 380 Skippered by Mike Crawford won the final Cook’s Trophy for being the last Class C boat to physically finish the race and the last boat to finish overall. Other Cook’s Trophy winners... Read more of this article
‘TI’ Takes Founder’s Trophy And Overall Win
[Written by Talbot Wilson] ‘TI’ skippered by Greg Marston can now be confirmed as the overall winner of the 2015 Marion Bermuda Race Founders Division. As expected yesterday, the leader for the overall corrected time trophy— The Founders Trophy— moved from Class C to Class D when ‘TI’, an Alden Mistral 36 sailed under Celestial Navigation... Read more of this article
‘Mischievous’ Wins Marion Bermuda Line Honors
[Written by Talbot Wilson] ‘ Mischievous’ grabbed the line honors in the 2015 Marion Bermuda Race with a splendid performance. She crossed the finish line at St. David’s Lighthouse Bermuda during the twilight Lighthouse committee cocktail party at the finish tower on Monday evening at 6:42 EDT. ‘Mischievous’ is a Meriten 65 sailed by cadets... Read more of this article
‘Mischievous’ Sets Sights On Line Honours
[Updated - Written by Talbot Wilson] As of 1300hrs EDT on Monday June 22 ‘Mischievous’, the scratch [fastest] boat in the fleet was still leading the Marion to Bermuda race fleet. As she rockets down the rhumb line to Bermuda at 10-11kts, she keeps clicking minutes off of her ETA in Bermuda. Her estimated arrival time is just after 1900 ADT in Bermuda. The... Read more of this article
43 Boats Continue In Marion To Bermuda Race
[Written by Talbot Wilson] Happy Fathers Day to the Fathers in the race and Sweet Solstice Sailing to all. Marion Bermuda 2015… what could be better, as John Masefield wrote, than “a tall ship and a star to sail her by And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn... Read more of this article
