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Antigua Bermuda Race in Antigua to Bermuda
At roughly 935 nautical miles, the Antigua Bermuda Race is the longest of Bermuda's offshore ocean races, carrying boats from English Harbour, Antigua, north through the Atlantic trade winds and across the Gulf Stream to a finish welcomed by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. Run periodically rather than every year, it links Caribbean sailing culture with Bermuda's established role as a finish port for long-distance ocean races.
Nearly a thousand nautical miles of open Atlantic separate English Harbour, Antigua, from Bermuda, and covering that distance under sail, trade winds astern for the first half and the Gulf Stream to negotiate near the finish, is the challenge behind the Antigua Bermuda Race.