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Sipping champagne and Dark ‘n’ Stormy’s at the crack of dawn is the last thing that you would expect Greek sailor George Sakellaris to be doing. But yesterday proved to be an exception to the rule, and for good reason, as the 68-year-old captain of S...

Bermuda will be represented by two teams at the 2014 Etchells World Championship in Newport, Rhode Island. Flying the Island’s flag are Tim Patton and Mark Watson, who are both former national Etchells champions. Another local sailor, Jesse Kirkland,...

Shockwave led the Newport Bermuda Race fleet across the finish line this morning, edging Bella Mente in a thrilling two-horse match race for line honors. Silhouetted by the sunrise in the backdrop, George Sakellaris’ 72-foot Mini Maxi crossed the li...

The 49th Newport Bermuda Race got off to a colourful yet inauspicious downwind start yesterday as subtle breezes reduced the racing fleet’s sail out of Narragansett Bay to a trickle at best. The sight of spinnakers collapsing as yachts gybed to starb...

The 49th Newport Bermuda Race will be a family affair for Jim Butterfield. The former Olympic rower, who has made two previous appearances in the 635-mile race, is sailing with his son Spencer aboard the triple masted sloop Spirit of Bermuda, which h...

The Newport Bermuda Race puts the skills of blue water sailors to the test navigating through a patch of the Atlantic Ocean known for challenging weather. The racecourse stretching from Castle Hill, Newport to St David’s, Bermuda is 635 miles long an...

Brian Hillier is on the verge of making local Newport Bermuda Race history. When Hillier’s J-125, Crossfire, sails across the starting line at the mouth of Narragansett Bay tomorrow afternoon, it will mark the first time that a yacht from St George’s...

The presence of a new crop of talented young sailors did not go unnoticed by those watching the popular Edward Cross Long Distance Comet Race on Monday, but Gladwin Lambert, the region president of the Comet Class of Bermuda, said that can only be go...

The cliché is much tried yet all too true when applied to Stevie Dickinson and the Long Distance Comet Race in the manner “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. So much so is the case of Dickinson winning the annual spectacle that one...

Stevie Dickinson will rest his Edward Cross Cup title on the line in Monday’s Annual Long Distance Comet Race. The East End Mini Yacht Club sailor won the race a record sixteenth time in Kitty Hawk last year with crew Gerrick Farquharson and is optim...