Sweet Competition in St. Lucia’s Mango Bowl Regatta
St. Lucia’s Frederic ‘Freddy’ Sweeney and his team certainly had the right attitude as they set sail in the 2018 Mango Bowl Regatta, hosted by the St. Lucia Yacht Club
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2016 Saint Lucia Digicel Mango Bowl Regatta
Preparation, practice and positioning paid off for class winners at the 2016 Saint Lucia Digicel Mango Bowl Regatta, hosted by the St. Lucia Yacht Club. Over 150 sailors from St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Martinique competed in five classes: Racing, two cruising, one-design J/24 and Surprise. “Five races on triangular courses set…
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St. Lucia’s Mango Bowl Regatta: Sailors Enjoy Sweet Success
The four-year-old Mango Bowl Regatta is still in its infancy compared to many Caribbean sailing competitions. Yet this St. Lucia Yacht Club-hosted event, raced November 27th to 29th, is finding sweet success as the number of entries and classes continue to grow each year. “We ran the Mango Bowl with four classes last year and…
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Saint Lucia Sailors Dominate Mango Bowl 2013
Cheers from the spectator boat must have been heard in Martinique as Sugar Beach Attitude raced across the finish line of the final race in the 2013 Saint Lucia Mango Bowl Regatta. The local team, skippered by St Lucia Yacht Club Sailing Captain Fredric Sweeney, fought against stiff competition from veteran crews from Saint Lucia,…
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Mango Bowl Regatta Has the Sweet Smell of Success
From the skippers’ briefing on November 30th to the prize giving on December 2nd it was obvious that the Mango Bowl Regatta (MBR) will become an established event. After all hadn’t it attracted yachts from as far away as Barbados and the massed hordes of the Surprise Class from Martinique to Fair Helena’s shores? Unbelievably,…
