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 […]

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: [email protected]. Some things are too […]

2012 Race, a Retrospective

Here’s how a Bermuda Race veteran of long ago described his first steps when he staggered ashore after a Thrash to the Onion Patch: “We made tracks for the yacht […]

Information on Past Bermuda Race Winners

Newport Bermuda Race cooperates with Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea for archival services of all past race documentation.  To schedule a visit to the library's rare […]

How to Win the Bermuda Race – Words from Past Winners

Everybody knows there are plenty of ways to lose a Bermuda Race, but only a very few people actually know how to win one. Listen to what the winners have […]

The Nyes Swing for the Fences

  Only one other Bermuda Race boat has done as well as three-time winner Carina (1980, 2010, 2012) and that’s the famous Finisterre of Carleton Mitchell, winner of three straight […]

The Fastest Race

Out of Body Experiences - Reflections on the 2012 Race When the boats in the 2012 Newport Bermuda Race poured into Hamilton Harbour a day earlier than usual after their […]