Friday, February 1, 2013
Planning Decisions, Inc. and Charles Colgan, Ph.D., University of Southern Maine, deliver positive and constructive report on America’s Cup event to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation.
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Friday, February 1
The following was released by RIEDC: Rhode Island – and specifically, Fort Adams State Park – is well-positioned to host large marine events after seamlessly executing the America’s Cup World Series (ACWS) last summer, according to the Large Marine Events Benefits Assessment Modeling Report by Planning Decisions, Inc. and Charles Colgan, Ph.D., University of Southern Maine. The report had a two-fold purpose: first, to analyze the fiscal impact of the ACWS, and second, to act as a learning tool for the state to better host comparable large marine events in the future. The feedback came from a random survey of visitors on all nine practice and racing days in the public areas of Fort Adams, resulting in a test field of 1,260 valid responses…
Monday, July 9, 2012
All AC World Series cargo officially left the Ocean State after more than a week of racing at Fort Adams.
The America’s Cup World Series has officially left Rhode Island as of Monday morning. The San Francisco bound America’s Cup Express train will be hauling all AC World Series cargo from Newport to the West coast, according to the America’s Cup blog. Newport was the last stop for the World Series races. The cargo spent just under a month in the Ocean State. Boats were unloaded at Port Davisville in North Kingston on June 11. The 2012-2013 AC World series begins in the San Francisco Bay from Aug. 21-26. Read the full post here. For a full look back at all AC World Series coverage, go here.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Discover Newport CEO and President Evan Smith said he was "ecstatic" about the success of the AC World Series at Fort Adams.
“I'm still so high, I've yet to come down,” Discover Newport CEO Evan Smith said on Monday about the success of the America's Cup World Series held at Fort Adams over the past week. “I was ecstatic about the whole event. I'm grateful for so many things.” Smith gushed about the almost perfect weather, the partnership with the community, and collaboration with hundreds of organizations throughout the city and state, which he said lead to about 60,000 visitors throughout the world series. “We did get up to the 10,000 mark on Saturday. It was a moral victory.” The saturation point at the fort was around 10,000, he said. “Going into this, we have said that we wanted people to leave Newport saying the world tour was very interesting, but that …
Monday, July 2, 2012
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The sailing action may be over, but we want to re-live every exciting moment through your photos and videos! Thousands of people from around the world came to watch the America's Cup World Series races over the past week at Fort Adams. Visitors cheered on both Oracle USA teams, as well as the international contenders, all week long before Oracle Team USA Spithill took home the championship. Were you one of them? Give us a shout out in the comments section below and upload your photos and videos to our gallery.
Coutts and Luna Rossa split the Newport Championships.
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Newport proved to be a statement event for the US defender of the America’s Cup as ORACLE TEAM USA was prominent in all areas of the leaderboard. Jimmy Spithill’s team earned the overall 2011-12 AC World Series Championship with a strong second place finishes in both the match racing and fleet racing in Newport. Spithill also claimed the overall season Fleet Racing Championship while Sweden’s Artemis Racing won the inaugural season’s Match Racing Championship. “Consistency had been the key,” Spithill said moments before he was handed the newly commissioned AC World Series trophy. “We were the last team to arrive here, but we came out and performed under pressure. For us it was very satisfying to see us step up and the other guys fall back…
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Emirates Team New Zealand win race four to break US winning streak.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Jimmy Spithill’s ORACLE TEAM USA continues to impress in Newport, but were denied a fourth consecutive fleet race win by a hard-charging Emirates Team New Zealand. “We had a good solid day,” Barker said. “It’s nice to win one and we have some good momentum going into tomorrow. The ORACLE TEAM USA guys are sailing well, but we’ll do what we can do and if we can win the race we’ll be happy.” Newport delivered another perfect afternoon of racing conditions, with a sea breeze near 15 knots under sunny skies. Thousands took advantage of the warm afternoon to enjoy the sight from Fort Adams as well as in the hundreds of spectator boats crowding the Narragansett Bay course boundaries. In fleet race three, Spithill threaded the needle at the …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Spithill wins fleet race; Coutts victory sets up all-American Match Race Final.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Jimmy Spithill’s ORACLE TEAM USA crew couldn’t have had a better afternoon of racing at the AC World Series on Friday. First, they won their match race to advance to the Final on Sunday. Then, Spithill’s team stole a win in the fleet race with an impressive, last minute passing move, to deny the Kiwi team a storybook victory. “We got off the starting line well and the boys just dug in the whole way around and never gave up,” Spithill said. “We thought we had a shot at it (making the late pass), it was just a fantastic race track. There were a lot of passing opportunities out there; it was never over. But full credit to Team New Zealand, they did a lot of work last night and they got out there and were straight up to pace.” Emirates Team …
Kiwis capsize, sinking match racing hopes.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
It was a frenetic opening day of racing at the AC World Series in Newport, the sixth and final stop on the global international circuit. In glorious conditions on Thursday afternoon, the overall series leader, ORACLE TEAM USA’s Jimmy Spithill, extended his lead, while his nearest rival, Dean Barker, saw his season championship hopes sink with a dramatic and unexpected capsize. Spithill had roaring start in the opening fleet race, powering off the starting line in light breezes to lead from start to finish, giving the American team top seeding in the match racing quarterfinals, which started immediately afterward. Pushed to the limit in the match racing, the team responded to advance to the semi finals. “We went one-nil down, match …
A look at what's happening in and around Newport this weekend.
1. The America's Cup World Series continues through the weekend, with races beginning at 2:30pm on Friday, 1:45pm on Saturday, and the finals happening at 2:30pm on Sunday. 2. Newport's Secret Garden Tour begins on Friday through Sunday in the historic Point section with five new gardens this year. 3. Style Night Newport, a one-night celebration of fashion, design and commerce is happening on Bellevue Avenue Friday evening. 4. newportFILM is presenting a free screening on Saturday of Marley plus live music from The Ravers. 5.The Newport Gulls take on the Sanford Mariners and Newport Polo plays against Philadelphia.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Racing begins today at 12 p.m. at Fort Adams.
Today begins the first day of official racing at Fort Adams for the America's Cup World Series after several days of practice runs. The America's Cup World Series held its opening ceremony on Wednesday in anticipation of the next few days of racing, including a welcoming by Gov. Lincoln Chafee. Sailing crews will race state-of-the-art AC45 wing-sailed catamarans around Narragansett Bay from 12 to 4 p.m. The America's Cup Village will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. View the full schedule here. For ticket information, click here. Sunday's Finals races, beginning at 2 p.m. will be broadcast live on NBC.
Joe Sousa.
10:48 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
As Newport works to build the economy the legislature works to destroy it. What are we going to do about the Governors whacky plan to give two more bridges to the RITBA ? It's time for action before the wiz kid kills the East Bays economy . How can they expect Newport and Bristol Counties to accomplish all of the transportation improvements needed using revenue from the bridge tolls? It's also … more ›