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Out of Body Experiences |
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6/23/2012 11:21 AM
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“We made tracks for the yacht club, and now, at last, with one foot on the rail of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club bar, we might truly be said to have reached our goal.” - Bermuda Race Competitor
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Seeing Something in Nothing through the Bermuda Race |
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6/23/2012 6:00 AM
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The sign read: “For Sale – 85,000 miles under her keel, no rust, toughest boat on earth, come see at Pier 39.” That was 1985 and Eric Best was looking for something in the vast ocean beyond San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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Yale Undergrads: Networking their way to Bermuda |
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6/22/2012 5:07 AM
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The most you hear from your alma mater is usually a phone call asking for a donation. For sailors, maybe you get to race in the alumni regatta. But for a lucky group of Yale University alums and undergraduates, an ocean race was the perfect way to make a stronger connection between students and alums.
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The new Classics join the Party |
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6/22/2012 2:12 AM
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There are some wonderful National Geographic images framed of Bermuda Race starts of the past in the Newport Room of the RBYC. This is our press office and not only is it inspiring to overlook the massive field of code flags fluttering in the warm breeze outside, there are illustrated histories of this race all over the walls to help us make some important connections.
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A Traditional Bermuda Race Welcome |
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6/20/2012 1:54 PM
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Any 106-year-old event is bound to have its honored traditions. The Bermuda Race has a few – including a warm welcome after a wet crossing of the Gulf Stream.
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Gulf Stream Turns Teacher into Student |
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6/20/2012 11:03 AM
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Until sometime early Sunday morning, Blue Wheeler, a seventh grade earth science teacher, thought he knew a lot about the Gulf Stream and it’s meandering warm flows. After using up nearly 70 miles of race track aboard the Swan 53 Skye to find it and learning it wasn’t helping them, he realized he had a lot to learn.
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Experience Tested to the End |
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6/20/2012 9:20 AM
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After more than 50 combined Bermuda Races of experience, the crew aboard Kodiak were celebrating the end of a cracking run from Newport when they faced an unexpected challenge as they made their way to Hamilton on Sunday afternoon.
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Dorade Log: Finished! Just after midnight |
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6/19/2012 11:35 AM
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We finished last night as the breeze eased way off, crossing the finish line at about 1.5 knots of boat speed. Provisional results are already on the website. At this point, Dorade is listed as finishing fourth in our class—not as well as we’d hoped, but respectable for a 1929 design.
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The Yawl Black Watch: A Classic Sensation |
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6/19/2012 11:30 AM
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The phrase “reach through life” conjures up visions of an effortless flow from one great fortuitous experience to the next. That certainly has the case for the first half of the Bermuda Race fleet this year.
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Record Assault on Bermuda Continues |
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6/16/2012 12:00 AM
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The assault on the official, 10-year-old Newport Bermuda race record continued into Saturday night as the big boats in the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Division— ‘Rambler’, ‘Bella Mente’, ‘Shockwave’ and ‘Team Tiburon’— continue to blast down the course toward Bermuda.
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Video Commentary with Dobbs Davis - Fri PM |
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6/15/2012 11:00 PM
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During the 2012 race, Seahorse Magazine Editor Dobbs Davis will provide twice-daily video commentary of the action. In his first installment, meet the boats to watch and see the publicly available weather and Gulfstream data.
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Pre-start post from Chris Museler aboard Dragon |
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6/15/2012 12:00 AM
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You'd be hard pressed to find a better launching point for this years race. Co skipper Michael Hennessy and I awoke to Dragon sitting peacefully alone in Mackerel Cove as our starting boat, The USCG cutter, pulled into view behind.
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Will Records Fall? |
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6/13/2012 11:00 PM
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On the eve on the 48th Bermuda Race skippers, navigator and crews are talking about breaking records.
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Foul Weather Gear Refurbishment: Step by Step |
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6/11/2012 11:00 PM
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It always seemed to me that all it took was one long distance race of sitting in puddles of water between a stack of sails and the rail to have new foul weather gear become the same damp experience the old ones were.
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The Dorade Log: Bermuda Race Inspection |
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6/10/2012 12:00 AM
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Things get busy in the weeks leading up to a major offshore race, no matter who you are in the crew. In the case of boat captain Ben Galloway and sailing master Jamie Hilton, aboard Dorade, it’s a full-court press.
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Crunch Time for Newport Bermuda Owners and Crew |
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6/6/2012 11:00 PM
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The 48th Newport Bermuda Race is less than two-weeks away. This is crunch time for last minute preparations by owners and crew for this 635-mile classic challenge of sailor against the wind and sea.
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The Dorade Log: Lessons in Light Air |
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4/25/2012 11:00 PM
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Winds of 6 to 12 knots are a sweet spot for the 82-year-old Sparkman & Stephens yawl, as Boats.com’s editor discovered while aboard Dorade for Les Voiles de St. Barth.
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Chris Museler's Race Prep Diary: #3 Doublehanding 101 |
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4/23/2012 11:00 PM
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Rob Windsor was my skipper in the Class 40 Dragon on the 800-mile non-stop delivery from Mystic, Ct., to Charleston, S.C., that I described in the first and second installments. He has a punch list of doublehanded basics.
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Newport Bermuda 1972— The Roughest Race |
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3/16/2012 11:00 PM
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On the 40th anniversary of the toughest Bermuda Race in history, in 1972, when the tail of a hurricane lashed the big fleet, let’s remember that rough weather and the Newport Bermuda Race are hardly strangers.
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The Dorade Log: Like Dating Marilyn Monroe |
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3/11/2012 11:00 PM
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You learn about a boat quickly when the wind blows above 15 knots, and that’s what happened in St. Maarten over four days when several of us had our first sail aboard Dorade. But even before absorbing the dozens of sailing lessons the 82-year-old yawl had to teach us, we quickly discovered that we’d first have to get used to sharing this classic Sparkman & Stephens design every step of the way with the paparazzi.
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The Dorade Log: A Classic Returns to the Thrash |
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2/26/2012 12:00 AM
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“Are you on a diet yet?” asked the voice on the phone. “Dorade is a very small 52-footer, and she only has a 10-foot beam.” I shrugged off the comment, but it was the first of many that began to paint a new picture for me of one of the most famous ocean racers of all time.
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Inches and Seconds Tell All in Newport Bermuda Racing |
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2/22/2012 12:00 AM
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Entries for the 2012 Newport Bermuda Race that starts in Newport RI on June 15th are running slightly ahead of 2010. To date 147 boats have entered the registration portal on the race website. Of these, 132 have submitted their Application for Entry (AFE) and 108 have been approved.
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Racing to Bermuda |
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1/23/2012 12:00 AM
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After several days of banging into it, youre feeling a little weary and a trifle sore. Then Gibbs Hill Lighthouse rises above the blue-green sea.
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A Wall of Bermuda Race History |
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6/26/2010 5:17 AM
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Sailors interested in the history of successful Bermuda Race yachts need look no farther than Royal Bermuda Yacht Club's model room.
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Bermuda Race Wrap-Up |
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6/25/2010 3:13 PM
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John Rousmaniere looks at the race’s conditions, lists tactics that worked, introduces some valuable people, and discusses editorial policy.
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Lora Ann Seeks another Double-Handed Victory |
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6/17/2010 6:34 PM
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With a record 26 boats in the Double-Handed Division, Richard du Moulin, Christopher Reyling, and Lora Ann are going after their fifth straight victory. The most demanding part is the Gulf Stream. “That’s when we need two pair of eyes,” said du Moulin.
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Winding Down to Wind Up |
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6/16/2010 11:00 PM
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As the start nears, crews being to focus on the smaller but still important things, like how many bottles of deodorant will be aboard?
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Gone With The Wind |
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6/16/2010 11:00 PM
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Three classic Cal 40s are racing to Bermuda this year, one from the West Coast. “We’ve invested a lot in this race,” says Bill LeRoy after bringing Gone with the Wind east from San Francisco. “We want to push Sinn Fein hard.”
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No Cotton! Gear to Pack for Bermuda |
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6/15/2010 11:00 PM
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Dressing for the 635-mile Thrash to the Patch can be a challenge. Experienced sailors know to bring clothes that will dry quickly, are versatile, and most of all - stow easily.
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Pre-Race Tensions Build in Newport |
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6/15/2010 11:00 PM
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Everybody’s a little nervous before the start of any race, but here the race is to Bermuda. Crews are stowing gear, buying food, testing sails, and second-guessing the weather. One boat even has to get to Newport from Bermuda.
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Around the Boatyards - Down to the Wire |
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6/15/2010 11:00 PM
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As of Monday morning, June 14, 22 Bermuda Race certificates had not been filed with race headquarters at the New York Yacht Club’s Sailing Center.
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Track the Bermuda Racers on iBoatTrack |
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6/13/2010 11:00 PM
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Just because you aren't aboard a yacht doesn't mean you can't follow the racing action. iBoatTrack lets friends, family and enthusiasts know what's happening on the racecourse.
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Around the Boatyards - Weighing Belle Mente |
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6/13/2010 11:00 PM
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Weighing a 69-foot racing yacht calls for extreme care and a lot of anxiety. Recently Belle Mente was put on the scale at New England Boatyard the start of the 2010 Newport Bermuda Race.
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Thirty Years of Gulf Stream Studies |
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6/13/2010 11:00 PM
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Thirty years ago, Bermuda Race entrant Rich Wilson changed the way the race is sailed with high-tech navigation equipment and a new approach to navigating the Gulf Stream.
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