Big winds, big waves and a big milestone is a great way to describe this year’s BVI Dinghy Championships. Held May 19 and 20 out of the Youth Sailing base at Nanny Cay Marina, Tortola and organized by the Royal BVI Yacht Club (RBVIYC), nearly two dozen sailors from the U.S. the British Virgin Islands…
Spot-on starts, sights on the puffs and staying in the front of the pack were the strategies that Optimist, Laser and 420 sailors employed to win their respective classes at the BVI Dinghy Championships. Fifty-two sailors from the British and all three U.S. Virgin Islands competed in this May 16 to 17 regatta hosted out…
Hearty competition and whole-hearted cooperation proved the big news at this year’s BVI Dinghy Championships. The regatta, which took place May 17th to 18th out of Tortola’s Nanny Cay Marina, was the last of three events to decide the overall winner of the VI Triple Crown in the Optimist. The Championships also hosted four other…
How can you assure good participation when three regattas on three different islands take place on three weekends in a row? Santiago ‘Tino’ Galan, resident coach for the Virgin Islands Optimist Dinghy Association’s (VIODA) Advanced Optimist Sailing Program and Team ISV, had the answer: The new VI Triple Crown series. The inaugural Series started with…
The seas off Nanny Cay Marina were awash with sails the first weekend in May as the British Virgin Islands welcomed its biggest small boat regatta of the year, the BVI Dinghy Championships. Nearly 60 IC-24s, Lasers and Optimists collectively sailed 28 races on windward-leeward courses. Winds uncharacteristically blew out of the southwest, sometimes dropping…