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Visitors will enjoy Bermuda’s waters this month as the island hosts a series of sailing and fishing events starting today. The inaugural three-day Spirit of Bermuda Rally and Festival of Sail is scheduled to begin with the arrival of four US yachts t...

The Covid-19 crisis made this year a difficult one for the Bermuda Sloop Foundation. The charity still had cause to cheer at its awards ceremony last night in Dockyard for students who excelled on its training vessel Spirit of Bermuda. Mechanical iss...

An awards ceremony will take place tomorrow to honour young people who stepped out of their comfort zones for the challenge of a life on the ocean wave. The Bermuda Sloop Foundation, which runs the Spirit of Bermuda sail training sloop, will highligh...

A sailing race is being organised to raise funds for the Spirit of Bermuda while celebrating maritime heritage and encouraging nautical tourism. The Spirit of Bermuda Rally expects to attract vessels from Annapolis and Newport to the island next mon...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly enjoyed a day of sun and sea in a Bermuda Day celebration on board sail training ship Spirit of Bermuda yesterday. Dennis Lister is used to steering the course of parliamentary debate, but instead took the helm of...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly will celebrate Bermuda Day on board the sail training ship Spirit of Bermuda. Dennis Lister will set sail from Dockyard tomorrow morning with the help of a five-man crew. They will voyage around the Great Sound in...

Young sailors from Bermuda and abroad swapped ships in the East End yesterday. David Goodwin, the chairman of the Bermuda Sloop Foundation, said that 46 high school pupils from Germany and youngsters from the Spirit of Bermuda had taken four-hour sa...

The Bermuda Sloop Foundation has appointed Robin Hamill as CEO with immediate effect. Commenting on the appointment Chairman David Goodwin says, “We are thrilled to welcome Robin to the Sloop Foundation. Robin’s knowledge of experiential education ...

A sail training programme designed to help build character in schoolchildren is even more relevant today than when it first launched more than a decade ago, the outgoing executive director of the programme said. Branwen Smith-King, who has just left ...

A US boatyard has dropped its legal action against the charity that runs the sail training ship Spirit of Bermuda. The Bermuda Sloop Foundation said it paid almost $45,000 to Rockport Marine “under duress” days after the lawsuit was launched last Oct...

I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary. His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Juniors football squad remember how Clint would be i...

A group of middle schoolgirls who spent five days on board sail training ship the Spirit of Bermuda set foot on dry land again on Friday. The Dellwood Middle School girls docked at Albouy’s Point in Hamilton after they sailed along North Shore with o...