1718 results returned for search: "" category ("Sailing" AND "Sport")
Sailing a three-masted schooner across the Atlantic requires guts but most of all, teamwork. For many of the young people on board the Spirit of Bermuda, the Atlantic Ocean has proved a testing ground, not only of physical skills but also their menta...
DATE: Jun 10, 2009
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Starting tomorrow and for the duration of the Tall Ships' visit to Bermuda, there will be significant changes to traffic flow and parking arrangements in Hamilton.
The Corporation of Hamilton announced that there will be no parking on Front Street, a...
DATE: Jun 09, 2009
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Sailing
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In the early morning light she appeared on the horizon, a grey silhouette against a pale blue sky.
After a two-month voyage across the whims of the Atlantic Ocean, the Spirit of Bermuda was home.
Taking advantage of a 15-18 knot southerly wind the th...
DATE: Jun 08, 2009
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The Spirit of Bermuda returned home at the weekend, amid jubilant scenes.
The three-masted schooner sailed into Hamilton Harbour and on to Dockyard accompanied by a colourful flotilla of yachts and small craft.
It was the end of an epic voyage of mor...
DATE: Jun 08, 2009
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Sailing
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A father and son learned valuable lessons in life while sailing aboard the Spirit of Bermuda.
Gerald and Denzel Smith took part in the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge to improve their seamanship but also to spend some time together bonding as a family....
DATE: Jun 08, 2009
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Sailing
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With the tall ships now berthing in Bermuda at the end of the latest leg of the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge, Clare O'Connor spoke with John Wadson, who has worked tirelessly to help bring the fleet to the Island as part of its 400th anniversary cel...
DATE: Jun 08, 2009
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Sailing
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One of the less glorious, but most important, jobs aboard the Spirit of Bermuda is the engineer.
Required to spend many hours in the sweaty engine room, to unclog toilets in the middle of the ocean and to change the oil, it also requires a lot of pat...
DATE: Jun 06, 2009
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Sailing
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As the only female trainee on board and one of the only foreign trainees Annika Zayac filled a unique niche on the Spirit of Bermuda.
The 17-year-old was originally supposed to sail on another ship which pulled out of the race. When she heard the new...
DATE: Jun 06, 2009
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Sailing
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It was early in the morning when I left my house more than a month ago, scooping up all of my necessary documentation off of the kitchen table. I made it through Bermuda's airport, a New York airport and Dublin's airport with absolutely no troubles o...
DATE: Jun 06, 2009
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Sailing
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We are nearing the end of the longest voyage ever sailed aboard Spirit of Bermuda. She has covered more than 7,000 miles of blue water in the last two months, more than a third of that during this last leg from Tenerife. We established records for th...
DATE: Jun 06, 2009
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Sailing
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