Supplying the 34th America’s Cup as well as the 2011/2012 Volvo Ocean Race, the well known oceanography specialist Tidetech has also prepared new regional oceanographic data for this year’s Newport Bermuda Race.
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Luxury Yacht & Superyacht News Brief for Newport Bermuda Race
Newport Bermuda Race 2012 with trackers by Yellowbrick to start on June 15
June 12, 2012
With Yellowbrick supplying trackers to all 180 competing yachts, the Newport Bermuda Race 2012 kicks off this Friday from the legendary port of Newport in Rhode Island.
Third Caribbean regatta won by Sailing Yacht DORADE
April 27, 2012
Sailing Yacht Dorade wins its Vintage Class in the 2012 Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, after winning two other Caribbean regattas.
1930 sailing yacht Dorade wins class at St Maarten Heineken Regatta
March 06, 2012
1930 sailing yacht Dorade, designed by Stephens & Sparkman wins class at the St Maarten Heineken Regatta in fresh conditions.
1930 Sailing yacht Dorade refitted and ready for the 2012 Caribbean regatta season
February 18, 2012
The famous Sparkman & Stephens 1930 yawl, sailing yact Dorade, has proudly entered the 2012 Caribbean regatta season after a major restoration in the USA. She will then returns to ocean racing – with yacht and crew in tune. Dorade has emerged from a major restoration in the USA. Expense was not spared as the…
CARINA Wins the St. David’s Lighthouse Division Trophy at the Newport Bermuda Race 2010
June 23, 2010
Carina a 48-foot sloop designed by McCurdy & Rhodes, she won on corrected time under the Offshore Racing Rule by the very large margin of 3 hours, 35 minutes over Gregory B. Manning’s Sarah (Warwick, RI). In third place, seven minutes behind Sarah, was Belle Aurore, a Cal 40 owned by R. Douglas Jurrius (Easton, MD).
Newport Bermuda Race: Speedboat leads Fleet
June 21, 2010
As expected because of her 100-feet length overall, Speedboat continues to lead the 183-boat fleet in the Newport Bermuda Race. At 14:35 EDT she was 125 nautical miles from Bermuda sailing at 13 knots.
184 Yachts to Sail in Newport to Bermuda Race
June 18, 2010
It was a sight that can be found only in Newport. Sailors of every vintage – the tall, tanned, Fabio-looking crews of the carbon maxis, and the Topsider-wearing men and women with the requisite polo shirts – lined the street in front of the marquee at the Jane Pickens Theater for the Bermuda Race skippers meeting. Old friends were shaking hands, not having seen each other since the 2008 race. Wide-eyed newcomers were eagerly poking their heads inside the historic building in the heart of Washington Square.
West Marine now official supplier of Newport Bermuda Race
May 23, 2010
On May 28, West Marine opens its new Newport Flagship West Marine store at 379 West Main Road in Middletown, RI. Almost three times larger than West Marine’s former store on Connell Highway, the new store has a significantly larger inventory and a full-service rigging shop. The store is also home to two other West Marine operations, Port Supply and Professional Captain’s Services.
