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Newport yachts get easy passage home
Saint George :: Bermuda | 11 months ago
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Three Newport Bermuda Race yachts were carefully lifted onto the Saimaagracht at the end of last week. The Saimaagracht is a multi purpose vessel that carries big yachts from one port to the next. She is fitted with onboard cranes but also carries
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Marion Bermuda is not an easy race says Williams
Newport News :: VA :: USA | 11 months ago
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The Marion Bermuda Race preparations are already in full swing as Bermuda's docks are filled with Newport racers. The Marion Bermuda Race is scheduled for June 14, 2013, the 37th year of the race. In mid-June every other year, sailors in 32-80 foot
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It's Enchantment to the rescue
Boston :: MA :: USA | 11 months ago
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The cruise ship, Enchantment of the Seas, came to the aid of a sick sailor taking part in the Newport Bermuda Race. The liner had been in Dockyard for the weekend and was on her way back to Boston when she was called into action to evacuate owner,
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Newport Bermuda sailor rescued
Norwell :: MA :: USA | 11 months ago
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A sailor in the Newport Bermuda Race had to be evacuated to a cruise ship because of dehydration. John Osmond, chairman of the 2012 Newport Bermuda Race, said around 3am on Monday Nathan C. Owen from Norwell, Massachusetts, was reported to be
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Medical emergency causes Epic to stop in Bermuda
Saint George :: FL :: USA | 1 year ago
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It's a packed schedule on the seas this week with car carriers, motor yachts and gravel ships all coming into Bermuda. At the weekend we had a heavy-lift vessel, a cruise liner, and the Oleander arrive on island. The Panagia came into Hamilton on
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Harsh race ushered in the electronic navigation era
Newport :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Nothing could compare with the 1972 race, when 178 boats pounded through a southeast gale spun off from an early-season hurricane. It was like driving a truck into a stone wall three times a minute for two days, a sailor said afterwards. On board Bob
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The year a hurricane lashed the big fleet
Saint George :: Bermuda | 1 year ago
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There's a good reason why the Bermuda Race's nickname is The Thrash to the Onion Patch. Many good reasons, in fact. On the 40th anniversary of the toughest Bermuda Race in history, in 1972, when the tail of a hurricane lashed the big fleet, let's
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The Onion Patch is one tough series to win
Saint George :: Bermuda | 1 year ago
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Nearly 50 years ago three Bermuda sailors were in Cowes, England sailing in the Fastnet Race, the finale of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Admiral's Cup Series...The Admiral's Cup was a hard fought series of races that included racing in the powerful
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There's nothing like racing to Bermuda
Saint George :: Bermuda | over 1 year ago
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After several days of banging into it, you're feeling a little weary and a trifle sore. Then Gibbs Hill Lighthouse rises above the blue-green sea, and, almost tasting the rum punch, you sail a little harder...I've raced to Bermuda nine times and
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Entry process opens for 48th Bermuda Race
Saint George :: Bermuda | over 1 year ago
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The entry process for the 2012 Newport Bermuda Race opens on January 16, when applications for entry will first be accepted on the race website, www.BermudaRace.com , on the Official Materials menu tab. Entry forms may be found there along with the
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