Team Bermuda will be training and racing in the Great Sound before a hometown crowd as they face other youth teams from around the world in June 2017. The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup in Bermuda will take place on one-design foiling AC45 catamarans – the same boats the professionals will use in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series events in 2015 and 2016.
Learn why Bermuda is the best destination for sailors from Travel Planners International.Bermudians have deep sailing roots ever since the island’s founding four centuries ago. In fact, it’s where the Bermuda sloop and rig was invented. The latter is still used today on 95 percent of sailing yachts. Bermuda’s coral reefs, various marine life, blue water, wildlife, and …
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Learn why Bermuda is the best destination for sailors from Travel Planners International.Bermudians have deep sailing roots ever since the island’s founding four centuries ago. In fact, it’s where the Bermuda sloop and rig was invented. The latter is still used today on 95 percent of sailing yachts. Bermuda’s coral reefs, various marine life, blue water, wildlife, and …
read more: What Makes Bermuda the Best Destination for Sailors? | Travel Planners International
Several shots from inside a VC 10 aeroplane; the pilots in the cockpit; a woman leans back in her seat as she and her man friend are served cocktails by a steward. Aerial shots of Bermuda – sandy beaches, turquoise sea! At a Bermuda hotel we see a young couple eating breakfast on their balcony; below them a man dives into a swimming pool, people sunbathe and play quoits.
Various shots of a glorious sandy beach; people sunbathe (women in colourful swimsuits and bikinis), frolic in the surf, play with a ball and water-ski. In the capital city of Hamilton we see several shots of the New England-style architecture; a very English-looking couple (she in headscarf, he in cravat) look at the sights from an open-top taxi with a striped awning. Other tourists drive along coastal roads on scooters or mopeds; a couple drive past Gibbs Hill lighthouse; inside we see a man polishing the reflectors.
Aerial view of the lighthouse and then golf courses; various shots (on ground level) of a couple playing golf; he laughs when she misses a putting shot. Panning shot over a harbour; several shots of two men deep sea fishing on a boat; one gets a pull on his line and starts reeling in a huge fish (a Marlin?). The fish is heaved aboard with a spear. At the aquarium / natural sea-made grotto of Devil’s Hole we see people feeding turtles with fish on bits of string dangled over a bridge and into the water.
L/Ss of the Longtail birds, the national seabird, flying over the sea. More beautiful scenic shots of the ‘just-pink’ sandy beaches. Several shots of people in sailing on the sea in yachts. More shots inside and outside of a VC 10 aircraft landing; an air traffic ground crew man waves the BOAC plane into position; nice M/S of people coming down the steps from the plane. In a club holidaymakers sit sipping drinks while a band plays; a man with a drum is seen limbo-dancing under a pole; the tourists applaud. Lovely sunsets seen through the palm trees and showing the sun reflected on the sea.
Sailing from the Caribbean or USA to Europe with the World Cruising Club
ARC Europe is the west-to-east Atlantic rally, sailing from the Caribbean or North America to Europe. Starting from Nanny Cay Marina on Tortola British Virgin Islands or Ocean Marine Yacht Centre in Portsmouth Virginia, the two fleets rendezvous in St George’s, Bermuda before crossing the Atlantic to the Azores. After cruising the Azorean archipelago, boats sail to Marina de Lagos in southern Portugal, or sail independently to northern Europe.
Date Detail Miles
3 May – Nanny Cay, Tortola BVI to Bermuda 845 NM
3 May – Portsmouth VA to Bermuda 540 NM
14 May – Bermuda to Horta, Faial Azores 1,800 NM
Azores Cruise
Faial, Terceira, Sao Miguel, Santa Maria
8 June – Santa Maria, Azores to Lagos, Portugal 820 NM
15 June – Final Prize giving in Lagos, Portugal
In every port there will be social activities, plus tours ashore in the Azores.
World Cruising Club worldcruising.com
Bermuda Aerial Media bermudaaerial.com
Bermuda Aerial Media is Bermuda’s first licensed and insured Aerial Photography, Video and Photogrammetry company. We use GPS controlled multi-rotor UAVs.
Sailing from the Caribbean or USA to Europe with the World Cruising Club
ARC Europe is the west-to-east Atlantic rally, sailing from the Caribbean or North America to Europe. Starting from Nanny Cay Marina on Tortola British Virgin Islands or Ocean Marine Yacht Centre in Portsmouth Virginia, the two fleets rendezvous in St George’s, Bermuda before crossing the Atlantic to the Azores. After cruising the Azorean archipelago, boats sail to Marina de Lagos in southern Portugal, or sail independently to northern Europe.
Date Detail Miles
3 May – Nanny Cay, Tortola BVI to Bermuda 845 NM
3 May – Portsmouth VA to Bermuda 540 NM
14 May – Bermuda to Horta, Faial Azores 1,800 NM
Azores Cruise
Faial, Terceira, Sao Miguel, Santa Maria
8 June – Santa Maria, Azores to Lagos, Portugal 820 NM
15 June – Final Prize giving in Lagos, Portugal
In every port there will be social activities, plus tours ashore in the Azores.
World Cruising Club worldcruising.com
Bermuda Aerial Media bermudaaerial.com
Bermuda Aerial Media is Bermuda’s first licensed and insured Aerial Photography, Video and Photogrammetry company. We use GPS controlled multi-rotor UAVs.
US One Sailing Team highlight video from the 2013 Argo Group Gold Cup in Hamilton, Bermuda. Stage 5 of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour.
Finished 3rd at the @ArgoGoldCup which has put us in the lead of the @worldmrt by 10 point! Looking forward to @MonsoonCup. #awmrt
— USoneSailing (@USoneSailing) October 13, 2013
Music: “Raw Man” by Jupiter 18
US One Sailing Team
Argo Group Gold Cup
@Roy_Burch Roy Burch
@TyButterfield Tyler Butterfield
@floraduffy Flora Duffy
@JayWadeFray Jenaya Wade-Fray (Basketball Team GB)
@iFlyNoWings Tyrone Smith
@NOCBERMUDA Bermuda Olympic Association (BOA
london2012.com – schedule and results
During the 2012 race, Seahorse Magazine Editor Dobbs Davis is providing a twice-daily video commentary of the action.
The Bermuda Race, or Newport Bermuda Race, is a biennial yacht race from Newport, Rhode Island to the island of Bermuda (in odd years, the Marion-Bermuda Yacht Race occurs), a distance of 635 nautical miles (1175 km) across open ocean … read more @ wikipedia
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Among the features of the 635nm Newport to Bermuda Race is the changeability of the race track. Between the Gulf Stream and the weather systems, what the 90-foot Rambler saw in route to crushing the elapsed time record was much different to what was seen later in the race.
Matthew Gregory was onboard Bretwalda 3, a Rogers 46 owned by Bob Pethick, which finished just over 19 hours after Rambler (39:39:18 versus 58:59:41).
Here was their race…
The highlight is the paradox of risk management from a routing perspective. Sail fast – really fast and furious – straight to the finish or sail an extra 30-40 mile to the west to go find (or maybe not find) a 40-60 mile long sliver of Gulf Stream that’s only 5-10 miles wide but would give your already 15 knots of boat speed a bonus 2-4 knot push towards Bermuda.
Sounds like a simple choice. However, all of the 160+ boats were told about the Gulf Stream gains to the west in the pre-start briefing. Hence many will go to the west of the rhumbline, and maybe, maybe stumble upon that sliver of Gulf Stream core.
So hence the paradox. Low risk is to point at the finish line right out of the blocks and focus on max VMC sailing based upon the boats sail inventory and performance characteristics. But since you’d be bucking the advice of the Gulf Stream experts, you’re probably going to lever up on the fleet by being one of the few rhumb liners. Hence the low risk move becomes the highly levered one.
Ultimately this Bermuda race came down to the low pressure system in the last 80 miles of the course (at least for our Class 8). That’s the position we played out of the blocks. For me, this race was about setting up for the wind condition (the low over Bermuda) at the end of the race, rather than it was to roll dice in the Gulf Stream.
Nearly all the boats are now finished, and by matching the elapsed time to the corrected time, the 2012 edition proved that the faster boats in each division tended to be the winners. This was certainly the case in Class 3, where Rives Potts’ McCurdy and Rhodes 48-foot ‘Carina’ won both their division and the St. David’s Lighthouse Trophy as the corrected time winner of the entire amateur division
Newport Bermuda Race bermudarace.com
Benn Smith (#1324), one of Bermuda’s top junior sailors and son of veteran sailor Malcolm Smith (2003 World Sunfish Champion) takes us on a late afternoon, front seat ride around the optimist course in Hamilton Harbour (Granaway Deep)
“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?” – Eminem
Artist: Eminem “Lose Yourself Soundtrack Version” on: iTunes
Ben Smith optimist sailing with gopro in Bermuda Jan 2012
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Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association
Bermuda Radio