Newport Bermuda Race

"The song of the wind-satisfied sail." Tamerlane in the Gulf Stream, by crewmember Warren Sheppard

March 5, 2015

Looking Back: The 1st Thrash (1906)

With the 50th Bermuda Race coming up in 2016, we’re gathering stories of past “Thrashes to the Onion Patch.” Here we go back to the first race, when the idea of amateur sailors going to sea in normal boats was widely...

Selkie sprints out of Narragansett Bay (Photo, Ross Santy)

February 11, 2015

Looking Back: 46th Thrash (2008), Runnerup Again

With the 50th Bermuda Race coming up in 2016,we’re gathering stories of past races. Here, JOHN ROUSMANIERE remembers 2008 in Selkie. Submit your memories to: Media@BermudaRace.com. Some things are too special to do all the time, which I suppose is...

The goal: St. David's Lighthouse. (Talbot Wilson/PPL)

January 15, 2015

50th “Thrash to the Onion Patch” to race under one rule

When the Newport Bermuda Race is next sailed in 2016, it will be scored by one handicapping system, the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR). The ORR calculates each boat’s speed potential based entirely on its measurements, using a Velocity Prediction Program...

Sailing with Warren: Pictured, from left, are (back row) Chummie White, Jay Kempe, John Wadson, Reid Kempe; and (front row) Malcolm Kirkland, Warren Brown, Paul Doughty. The crew are sailing in September 2003 on War Baby on her last major quest, the Classic Boat Series which he won.

December 30, 2014

Eight Bells: Sail On Warren Brown… Sailor, Entrepreneur, Explorer and Friend

by Paul Doughty, friend and crew The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and the entire Bermuda sailing community and indeed sailors around the world were saddened to learn of the death of Warren Brown. One of Bermuda’s greatest sailing icons, Warren...

Crew of Sleijride, halfway to Bermuda.
Photo by Adam Cort

December 4, 2014

Bermuda Race Competitor Sleijride Featured in Sail Magazine

This past June, as I was getting ready for my own first go at the race, I couldn’t help wondering if I really belonged there. My ride to Bermuda was a fairly ordinary one—a vintage J/37 performance cruiser named Sleijride...

August 23, 2014

Simpatico awarded Mitchell Trophy for Bermuda Race Cruiser Division

Aug. 23, 2014. The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee has reported a change in the results of the 2014 Newport Bermuda Race. After correction of a scoring error in the previously announced results, Simpatico, Captain William F. Riley (Chatham, MA), has...

The USNA 44 Swift starts the 2014 Newport Bermuda Race with her crew of midshipmen. (Talbot Wilson/PPL)

July 10, 2014

Navy Prepares Swiftly for Bermuda Race; Chessy Boats Win Silver

By Bill Wagner, CapitalGazette.com, July 10, 2014 It was no small feat for members of the Naval Academy Varsity Offshore Sailing Team to get Swift ready for the Newport-to-Bermuda Race. Swift is one of Navy’s old McCurdy & Rhodes 44-foot...

July 4, 2014