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On the third day of the race, Merlin's crew is settling into the rhythm of the race, sailing well despite light winds, and getting to know each other. By Chris […]

Leaving most of the fleet far behind in light winds, George David’s Rambler 88 crossed the finish line off St. David’s Lighthouse at 5:51:51 Eastern daylight time on Sunday evening. Earning […]

Bloggers report from Shearwater (Mason 43), Dreamcatcher, and Inisharon. Updated as of 2330, Sunday. Shearwater Reports June 17 - 1115 Good morning everyone and Happy Fathers Day - the fathers […]

The Saturday evening update from the Newport Bermuda Race media team. After a day of relatively light winds in the 51st Newport Bermuda Race, the competitors had made moderate progress […]

The euphoria of pacing with the Grand Prix fleet floated away as the wind backed north overnight and we tore our A2 kite from leech to leech. By Chris Museler. […]

Updates from the fleet came in overnight in a variety of media formats, including a steady feed of tweets (see @bdarace and search at twitter.com on #bermudarace). Below are more […]

Onboard report several hours into what has been a light-air Newport Bermuda Race so far. By Chris Museler “It’s nice being famous.” Crewmate Chris Watt’s comment this afternoon pretty much […]

The racing fleet is underway from Newport to Bermuda for the 51st time since sailors first raced to Bermuda in 1906. The combination of a light southeast wind and more […]

Fans of the Newport Bermuda Race can keep up with the action in several ways. First, our Pantaenius Tracker system will show the courses and progress of the 170 boats […]

In the final days before the start, the view of the Gulf Stream's structure and flow is somewhat clouded. By W. Frank Bohlen Due to persistent cloud cover, satellite views […]