Looking Back: Newbies sail their first race to Bermuda

There’s a first time for everything: first steps, first unassisted bike ride, first kiss. And if you’re lucky enough, you will have a first Newport Bermuda Race. Here are first-time […]

A.J. Evans: The thrash is special

The Newport Bermuda Race Chairman announces a new prize, and praises the race experience -- the "indescribable blue" water, the camaraderie of shipmates, and the race's historic focus on the […]

Looking Back: Navigating the wildest thrash

Clip on your safety harness and check out this on-deck account (by Andy Macdonald) of a West Coast crew in the roughest-ever Newport Bermuda Race, in 1972. A response to […]

Lessons of a Bermuda Race skipper

The Newport Bermuda Race entry process may seem daunting. But as this report by a former first-timer shows, it's not all that difficult when done with care. Philip Dickey, the […]

Next Offshore Preparedness Seminar, Nov. 7, Westbrook, CT

Addressing the safety, inspection, and other concerns of sailors heading offshore, the next Offshore Preparedness Seminar will be held Saturday Nov. 7 at Pilots Point Marina, Westbrook, CT. Topics include offshore […]

Offshore Preparedness Seminars at Newport & Annapolis hosted by Brewer Yacht Yards

Owners and crews of more than a dozen racing, cruising, and voyaging boats took part in the Offshore Preparedness Seminar hosted by Brewer Yacht Yards on Aug. 22 at the […]

Looking Back: The academy fleet

A highlight of the Newport Bermuda Race has long been the very enthusiastic, and sometimes very successful, participation of  young crews from service academies. When it was first suggested that […]

Looking Back: reaching the goal in hospitable Bermuda

For nearly 110 years, Bermuda Races have started at several American ports. But they all finish at the friendly archipelago that nature and God located 635 miles off the U.S. […]

Looking Back: A navigator’s race

Here's a challenge: Sail 635 miles mostly out of sight of land. Cross a chaotic current and then make your landfall on a low island behind a reef. (Oh. . […]

Looking Back: one, twice, even three times a winner

Winning one Bermuda Race is hard enough, but how do you repeat? Four very different boats have done it over seven decades with a variety of strategies, tactics, and weather, […]

Bermuda Race FAQs: The ORR — what it is, why we use it

The Newport Bermuda Race is dedicated to safe sailing and fair racing: Make sure the competitors are as safe as they can be. That’s why the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee […]

Looking Back: Grand and Glorious Sensations of the First Finishers

The Bermuda Race has seen many duels for first to finish. Hap Fauth’s Bella Mente and George Sakellaris’ Shockwave finished just two minutes and then seven minutes apart in 2012 and 2014. Over […]

Looking Back: A Long Partnership and the Heroic Jolie Brise

Here is another chapter in our series about Bermuda Race history as we celebrate the 50th “Thrash to the Onion Patch.”  Interest in ocean racing lagged until after World War […]

Looking Back: The Bermuda Race’s Schooner Era (1907-1932)

The Bermuda Race has been attracting great sailors and fascinating yachts since its earliest days. These tales of the schooner era are part of a series of historical segments honoring […]

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 […]