The Commodore’s Race is the last race on the Royal BVI Yacht Club’s calendar, and by tradition the Commodore’s Party and the club’s annual awards follow it. The 2026 race is Saturday, December 19, starting at 10 a.m. from the club at Road Reef Marina in Road Town, with the Christmas party after.
The club’s roll of honour for the race runs back to the early 1980s and reads like a short history of BVI sailing. Pipe Dream is on it in four different decades. The 1983 entry is two words, “No wind.” The 2017 line, three months after Hurricane Irma, says “Irmaria – Laser fun day!” The title sponsor has changed twice along the way: Island Shipping and Trading first, O’Neal & Mundy from 2004 to 2021, and Golden Hind Chandlery since 2022.
