Newport Bermuda Race

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Newport Bermuda RaceAmericasSometimes All Finish Lines Can’t Be Crossed This originally appeared in Windcheck’s October 2026 edition. By Aurora “Rory” Meunier Mott There is a certain kind of disappointment that you feel when you retire from a race, and I think most…

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Newport Bermuda RaceAmericasYellow Brick Road to BDA This post originally appeared in WindCheck Magazine. By Kate Ammatuna , mother of Maddie and Elle who have shared their stories of the Newport Bermuda Race.

10.21

Newport Bermuda Race

Newport Bermuda RaceAmericasWhen Another Yacht Calls Mayday: Groundbreaking CCA Report Examines 28 Crew Rescues Practical lessons for sailors who may be the nearest—or only—boat able to help. When a yacht is in distress far offshore, another sailing crew may be its best chance of rescue.

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Newport Bermuda RaceAmericasChasing Five Knots, A First Bermuda Race Story This post originally appeared in WindCheck Magazine. By Maddie “Tuna” Ammatuna , her sister Elle shared her story last week.

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Newport Bermuda RaceAmericasMy First Bermuda Return Delivery This was published in WindCheck Magazine October 2026 edition By Elle Ammatuna My first offshore sailing experience was the 2025 Ida Lewis Distance Race aboard Digger with my sister.

10.07

A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay