Wow… Have not had a beating like that in a while… Winds to 25 knots and rain squalls that kept us wet from dock out until long after the first meal ashore at 5. The Sir Francis Drake channel was churned with bouncy chop and strong breeze for 3 races in racing class 3. Kai…
Island Water World to co-sponsor Open Caribbean Laser Championships The Open Caribbean Heineken Light Laser Championships (June 13-15), has a new format and co-sponsor. With Island Water World back on board after a break of many years, organizer Frits Bus says the championships, one of the oldest and largest one-design regattas in the Caribbean, will offer…
Art competitions, beach clean-ups and behind-the-scene tours are a few of the ways Caribbean regatta organizers are reaching out and teaching island school children about the sport of competitive sailing. The benefit? A better understanding by the students of how international sailing events affect their community as well as an opportunity for the students to…
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. A desire to grow up and achieve great things on the world stage and actually doing it isn’t an impossible dream. This was the story told by three members of America’s Cup winning Oracle Team USA who spoke at the St. Thomas Yacht Club Sunday night about their beginnings in…
Green is the new blue when it comes to marine conservation in the Caribbean. Marina operators, regatta officials and charter yacht organizations are all doing their part to preserve and protect the region’s seas and its surroundings. Why? Firstly, visitor demand. Martin Oliver, general manager of St. Croix’s Tamarind Reef Resort’s Green Cay Marina, the…
Worldwide trends are now seeing major boating and sailboat racing events increasingly organized by professional, profit-driven organizations rather than volunteer nonprofits. In the Caribbean of the 1980s, everything was run by volunteers: Antigua Sailing Week, Nicholson’s Boat Show, BVI Spring Regatta, Tobago Race Week, Bonaire Regatta, and the St Thomas Rolex Regatta, to name a…
It is not easy to get sailors to come and compete in any regatta that you might want to organize. Ask Larry Ellison, the Americas Cup organizer who has thrown millions at this year’s Americas cup and he has hardly attracted participation that is proportional to the amount of money spent. Many of us in…
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The near century-old, 22-foot, native Tortola sloop Intrepid, enjoyed a ceremonial homecoming in March in advance of the 42nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. The well preserved wooden boat, which joins historic sibling sloops Moonbeam and Youth Instructor in the Virgin Islands Maritime Museum fleet, boasts an incredible history in which each of her…
With spectacular race courses and a great party atmosphere ashore the 42nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival was an absolute classic. Sailing Festival The racing programme kicked off with the Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup. Peter Corr’s Alia 82, Aiyana, smashed the monohull record by nearly half an hour, setting a…
BVI Spring Regatta – 25 – 31 March, 2013 Racing takes place on the spectacular waters of the British Virgin Islands on three sailing playgrounds: the Atlantic Ocean, Sir Francis Drake’s Channel and the Caribbean Sea. Many sailors who return each year will enjoy the new changes for racing the Sailing Festival and the traditional,…
New airline service between Bimini and Fort Lauderdale Yachts cruising as far north as Bimini in the Bahamas can now hop across the Gulf Stream to Fort Lauderdale by air thanks to Tropic Ocean Airways. Florida’s only seaplane airline now offers twice-weekly flights from the island to Fort Lauderdale International Airport. The service could prove…
Round-the-buoy and round-the-islands, long races and short, the 41st BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival offered something for everyone and solidified its reputation as one of the Caribbean regattas with the best racing. That’s no mean feat considering that this year’s three-day main event BVI Spring Regatta (BVISR) boasted 90 yachts in 12 classes. Yachts…
Mother Nature Calls the Shots! There was no racing today, the first day of the BVI Sailing Festival. Principal Race Officer, Dave Brennan postponed the start of the race to Bitter End and indicated to the 48 competing yachts in the starting area to motor up towards Virgin Gorda, to see if the situation would…
3 days to go: The British Virgin Islands are renowned for crystal blue waters and heavenly weather and the stunning archipelago of islands offers one of the most picturesque settings anywhere in the Caribbean. With only a few days to go to the start of the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival, the event organizers…
This year at BVI Spring Regatta, Sir Richard Branson’s 105-foot luxury cruising catamaran Necker Belle, earned the distinction of being the largest multihull to ever pierce a Spring Regatta start line.
A single day of racing remains at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011), and the tussle for podium places is getting serious.
April Fools’ Day, 122 boats and four racecourses: the fortieth BVI Spring Regatta got fifteen to twenty knots and rollers outside the lee.
Intensity levels punched up several levels today at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011) when racing commenced at the inaugural Gill BVI International Match Racing Championship
If sailing is your game, you’ve seen Mount Gay’s iconic, red regatta hats. Since 1987, these distinctive baseball caps have come to represent far more than just a stylish sunshade-they’ve become an internationally recognized symbol