BER SSL GOLD CUP – By Sailors for Sailors

THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP... IN SAILING

QUALIFYING SERIES | MAY-JULY 2022 | Switzerland

FINAL SERIES | NOV-DEC 2023 | Spain

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QS ROUND 1

G1 - Race 1

11:00

19 May 2022

SWITZERLAND

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G1 - Race 2

12:00

19 May 2022

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G1 - Race 3

11:00

20 May 2022

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QS ROUND 1

G1 - Race 4

11:00

21 May 2022

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QS ROUND 1

G1 - Race 5

12:00

21 May 2022

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QS ROUND 1

G1 - Race 6

11:00

22 May 2022

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1/32 FINALS

G3 - Race 1

13:30

10 November 2023

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1/32 FINALS

G3 - Race 2

15:00

11 November 2023

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THE PRIVATEERS

NATURAL BORN SAILORS

Masters at reading the winds of opportunity

Bermuda’s formidable crew of experienced, energetic sailors embrace competition on the world stage. Many sailing from as young as six years old, following the legacy of their Olympian ancestors and others self-taught, their combined experience includes America’s Cup, Volvo Ocean Racing, and many national championships.
Bermuda’s long-standing maritime heritage and its culture have been built on survival, from the first shipwreck on an uninhabited island to a world-class business hub; Bermudians find the opportunity at every turn.

Like Privateers we apply innovation, grit, and tenacity, we seek and interpret opportunity as if reading the shifting winds, to be faster and stronger. We inspire new innovations the world relies on; we build from nothing to achieve greatness.
Team Bermuda SSL may come from a small mid-Atlantic island, yet they continue the tradition of world-class sailing, determination, and competition.

Statistics

THE COUNTRY

Bermuda sailors invented the Bermuda rig, still used in 95% of all yachts
Home of the 35th America’s Cup
2019 youngest female Volvo Ocean Race sailor
65,000 residents
21 square miles
10 sailing clubs

ACHIEVEMENTS

Ssl ranking

Year's best ranked woman:
Year's best ranked man:
Year Nation's best ranking

MAIN EVENTS

Newport Bermuda Race since 1906, the oldest regularly scheduled ocean race
Argo Group Gold Cup, oldest match-racing trophy in the world for competition of one-design yachts.
Annapolis to Bermuda Race, at 753 miles it’s the longest and most challenging ocean race on the US East Coast

1609

Bermuda’s founding year and the team’s lucky number. Family generations campaigned for the 1976 Olympics under International Finn sail numbers 16 and 09.

The captain

Rockal Evans

Rockal Evans, a natural-born sailor with drive, passion, and commitment for competition on the world stage; inspired by his Olympian grandfather. A former Olympic campaigner and past National Champion in Laser Radial, Laser Full Rig, Comet, and Viper 640, he is a past National Champion crewing on J-24, J-105, Etchells, and Bermuda Fitty Dinghy classes. Training in Australia, he’s the team motivator, often urging teammates to “never give up”.

THE LEADERS

Emily Nagel

Among the youngest sailors in the history of the Volvo Ocean Race, Emily Nagel is also an accomplished naval architect. She was on Bermuda’s Youth America’s Cup team and worked for Softbank Team Japan in 2017 America’s Cup before fulfilling her dream to sail around the world in The Ocean Race. She works with SailGP when not racing her moth or on the big boat circuit.

Kelsey Durham

Kelsey Durham is ranked 295 in match racing and is Bermuda’s 2019 champion and won the 2019 Bacardi Keelboat Regatta. He represented Bermuda in the 2020 IOD Match Racing World Championship and campaigned for Redbull Youth America’s Cup Team BDA.
Kelsey has worked on Manhattan Yacht Club’s flagship Arabella, as a rigger and on the racing team.

Benn Smith

Having started sailing at the tender age of 6; by 10 years old Benn Smith was competing in regattas. The 2018 Junior Moth World Champion is inspired by his Olympian father and is campaigning for 2024 Olympics. He represented Bermuda in the 2019 Pan Am Games and is a former Bermuda National Optimist Champion and was the youngest sailor in the Bacardi Bermuda Moth National Championship.

THE YOUTH FACTOR

Bermuda’s young sailors are encouraged through sailing club programs and Endeavour, an island wide STEAM sailing program in all schools, a legacy of 35th America’s Cup hosted in Bermuda. Within the Optimists Class, Bermuda’s under 16’s are a competitive force.
Another Youth Tallship Sail Training program aboard the Spirit of Bermuda introduces young Bermudians to teamwork and offshore sailing.

Confirmed Athletes

Captain | 10

TBC | TBC

TBC | TBC

Bow | 1

Helm | 8

Mid Bow | 2

Trimmer | 5

Pit | 3

TBC | TBC

Trimmer | 4

Floater | 11

Grinder | 6

TBC | TBC

TBC | TBC

Tactician | 9

TBC | TBC

TBC | TBC

TBC | TBC

Potential Team Position

1 BOW Peter Dill	2 MID-BOW Adriana Penruddocke
3 PIT Emily Nagel	4 GRINDER Will Lorimer-Turner
5 TRIMMER Joshua Greenslade	6 TRIMMER Julia Lines
7 MAIN TRIMMER	8 HELMS Somers Kempe
9 TACTICIAN Jesse Kirkland	10 CAPTAIN Rockal Evans
11 FLOATER Thomas Penruddocke

BOW

Peter Dill

MID-BOW

Adriana Penruddocke

PIT

Emily Nagel

GRINDER

Will Lorimer-Turner

TRIMMER

Joshua Greenslade

TRIMMER

Julia Lines

MAIN TRIMMER

HELMS

Somers Kempe

TACTICIAN

Jesse Kirkland

CAPTAIN

Rockal Evans

FLOATER

Thomas Penruddocke

SQUAD

Rockal Evans	Tre Maxwell
Mike Wollman	Dale Brangman
Campbell Patton	Kailin Hillier
Benn Smith	Aran McKittrick
Jordan Saints	Penny Clark
Peter Dill	Adriana Penruddocke
Emily Nagel	Will Lorimer-Turner
Joshua Greenslade	Julia Lines
Somers Kempe	Jesse Kirkland
Thomas Penruddocke