• 05/26/98:  Team Caribbean Establishes Puerto Rico Headquarters
  The office is located at Club Nautico de San Juan. more...
• 05/15/98:  Team Caribbean Sponsored by San Juan Star Group
  San Juan Star group of newspapers and magazines in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as the "Official Corporate Media Sponsor" of the campaign more...
• 05/26/98:  Team Caribbean Establishes Puerto Rican Headquarters
  The office is located at Club Nautico de San Juan, an official "allied yacht club" of Team Caribbean, on San Juan Harbor. more...
• 05/21/98:  Team Caribbean and John Cutler Part Ways
  John and his wife moved off the island last December and returned to his home in New Zealand more...
• 05/17/98:  Team Caribbean Victorious
  Peter Holmberg of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands led his Team Caribbean America's Cup challenge match racing team to victory today in the Golden Gate Invitational hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club. more...
• 05/16/98:  Team Caribbean Takes the Lead
  Following the completion of Saturday's Round Robin II, sailed in 15-20 knot winds and stiff currents on San Francisco Bay, the Team Caribbean America's Cup Challenge match racing team took the lead in the Golden Gate Invitational Match Race more...
• 05/13/98:  Team Caribbean's  Match Racing Team Enters San Francisco Event
  Team Caribbean's match racing team, led by St. Thomas native Peter Holmberg, is making another competitive stop at San Francisco's Golden Gate Invitational Match Race more...
• 05/12/98:  Stars & Stripes Sails to St. Croix for Regatta
  The Team Caribbean America's Cup 2000 training boat, the former Stars & Stripes 92, sets sail from St. Thomas' Crown Bay Marina on Saturday, May 23 to rendezvous with an armada off the St. Thomas Yacht Club more...
• 05/05/98:  Peter Holmberg ranked 4th
  In new World Match Race Rankings released last night  by the International Sailing Federation in England, St. Thomas native Peter Holmberg is currently ranked fourth out of more than 1,200 international sailors more...
• 04/14/98:  GANT U.S.A. Selects Team Caribbean for   Reemergence into America's Cup
  GANT U.S.A. and Team Caribbean announced today a major sponsorship agreement more...
• 03/15/98: Holmberg Leads Team Caribbean
  to Congressional Cup Victory
  Team Caribbean was too busy taking the lead against Pillot to focus attention on the race ahead of them, and when they crossed the line 37 seconds ahead of the Frenchman, they crossed as champions... more...
• 03/13/98: Team Caribbean
  Takes Sole Possession Of Lead
  Team Caribbean, led by skipper Peter Holmberg of St. Thomas, won all three races today... more...
• 03/12/98: Pillot Ties Holmberg
  Peter Holmberg of the U.S. Virgin Islands remained atop the leader board... more...
• 03/11/98: Congressional Cup
  Peter Holmberg of the U.S. Virgin Islands sailed into the lead of the 34^th Congressional Cup... more...
• 03/09/98:  Puerto Rico Tour Release
  Tour to introduce Team Caribbean to the press and people of Puerto Rico... more...
• 03/02/98:  Team Caribbean Marine Outreach Program
  Intensifying the community outreach program... more...
• 02/23/98:  Team Caribbean to Race in New Zeland
  Preparations are currently being made by the Team Caribbean America's Cup Challenge to travel to Auckland, New Zealand...  more...
• 01/31/98:  Performance Bonds Posted
  Record Number Of America's Cup Challengers Post Performance Bond...  more...
• 01/31/98:  Record Number Post Performance Bond
  16 Yacht Clubs from ten countries have forwarded documents relating to the $250,000US Performance Bond to the America's Cup  Challenge Association.  more...
• 01/26/98:  Performance Bond Posted
  Team Caribbean America's Cup Challenge Meets $250,000 Performance Bond Obligation..  more...
   
• 12/10/97:  Aggressive Fundraising Goal Set
  Board of Directors has announced its most aggressive
  fundraising campaign to date. .  more...
                      
• 12/07/97:  Chris Law wins in Virgin Islands
  Chris Law of Great Britain won the inaugural Marriott Frenchman's Reef International Match Race.  more...
   
• 12/02/97:  VIACC Establishes Team Caribbean
  VIACC officials reported that Puerto Rico's Club Náutico de San Juan has signed on as the inaugural member of its Caribbean Island Alliance. more...
   
• 10/21/97:  Holmberg is now Omega 4th
  Peter Holmberg Rises to Number Four in the World Match Race Rankings List
  Talent and Hard Work Pays Off for Virgin Islands Natives
  more...
   
• 11/28/97: VIACC Considers Expansion
  The Challenge's accomplishments have brought a number of Caribbean neighbors to their door and it may be prudent for VIACC to now open that door. more...
   
• 11/11/97:  Marriott Frenchman's Reef Match Race
  With fewer than 24 months to go before racing in the America's Cup begins again, The Marriott Frenchman's Reef
  International Match Race will provide an intriguing glimpse at a number of the teams which will race in Auckland, New Zealand. more...
   
• 11/07/97:  BEYC Pro-Am Final
  Holmberg Wins BEYC Pro-Am Regatta
  Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands -- Peter Holmberg, designated skipper for the Virgin Islands America's Cup Challenge sailed away in light-to-moderate winds in Gorda Sound to a first place finish in Friday's afternoon finale more..
   
• 10/14/97: Marriott's Frenchman's Reef
  International Match Race - Dec 3-7
  has been designated by the International Sailing Federation in England, the governing body of the sport, as a Grade One event. This is the highest accreditation a match race can receive. more...
   
• 10/5/97: Rush Takes Third
  in Corel 45 Atlantic Coast Championship
  Peter Holmberg and VIACC tactician, John Cutler, raced Tom Stark's Corel 45 Rush to a third place finish overall in the Atlantic Coast Championship that concluded this weekend on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. more...
   
• 10/3/97: Light Air Wreaks Havoc with Atlantic Coast Championship Fleet
  Heading into day two only a point out of first in the standings, Holmberg was driving for the finish of the three-lap windward-leeward course off Rhode Island before the wind wreaked havoc on the five-boat Corel 45 fleet. more...
   
• 10/2/97: Holmberg Takes on Top Talent
  in Atlantic Coast Championship
  With VIACC teammate, John Cutler, calling tactics and owner Tom Stark as skipper, Holmberg sailed to a 3-4-2 record that carried Rush to within a point of Tom Hill's Puerto Rican entry, Titan (2-2-4), after a wild day of racing. more...
   
• 9/14/97:  Holmberg Places Second in Knickerbocker Cup
  Terry Hutchinson of Annapolis beat Peter Holmberg of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the best-of-three finals of the CIGNA Knickerbocker Cup, a Grade One professional match the concluded today in New York Harbor. more...
   
• 9/13/97: Holmberg Set to Race World Champion;
  America's Cup Skipper Face-Off
  Peter Holmberg steered Team Virgin Islands to a 2-1 win-loss record against New Zealander Murray Jones in the quarter-final round of the Knickerbocker Cup currently underway in New York Harbor. Designated skipper for the Virgin Islands America's Cup Challenge and No. 6-ranked Omega match racer in the world, Holmberg is slated to face No. 2-ranked racer, Australian Peter Gilmour, in Sunday's semi-final. The current World Match Racing Champion, having won that title at the Championship in Sweden last July, Gilmour is expected to helm Japan's Nippon Challenge for the America's Cup 2000.  more...
   
• 9/11/97: Holmberg Advances to Knickerbocker Quarter-Final:
  President Clinton's Visit Disrupts Regatta
  Sailing in 20-knot winds accompanied by chilling rain at the CIGNA Knickerbocker Cup, Peter Holmberg captured three straight match races Thursday morning to complete the seven-flight Group B qualifying round-robin with a 5.5-1 record and advance to Friday's quarter-finals of this Grade One regatta underway on New York Harbor. more..
   
• 9/10/97: Holmberg Tough in Knickerbocker Cup Opener
  Peter Holmberg, and tactician teammate, John Cutler, finished 3-1 in today's round-robin opener of the CIGNA Knickerbocker Cup hosted by the Knickerbocker Yacht Club on a cold and cloud-covered New York Harbor.  more...
   
• 9/9/97: 25th Annual International Rolex Cup Regatta
  The St. Thomas Yacht Club in the U.S.Virgin Islands announces that the 25th Annual International Rolex Cup Regatta will be held on April 10, 11 and 12, 1998, over the Easter holiday weekend. more...
   
• 9/8/97: Holmberg Prepares for Knickerbocker Cup
  Peter Holmberg, and teammate, John Cutler, crewed with New York celebrities and media guests in today's CIGNA Celebrity Pro-Am Regatta held on New York Harbor to benefit United Cerebral Palsy. more...

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