Posts by Michelle Slade
Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup Goes to Airgasm and Warthog
Epic day of racing on Day1, 52nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival Today was a fast one for those racing in the Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup event as breeze in the low 20s, hitting the high 20s during several big squalls that blasted through the course, kept sailors on their…
Read MoreRound Tortola for the Nanny Cay Cup on the New Spike!
Sam Talbot, skippering Spike, a new Rapido 40, expects that he and his crew will be back to Nanny Cay in time for lunch after what should be a wild ride on Tuesday in big breeze for the Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup, a 36 nautical mile taking in some of the…
Read MoreA Little Professional Help Never Goes Astray; Dee Caffari Sails BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival with WaveWalker
Three years ago, Woody Cullen and his wife Carolyn, from Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, were pretty green around the gills when it came to racing their new-to-them Swan 58 WaveWalker at BVI Spring Regatta. With a serious commitment to improving their game the Cullen’s have hired the right people who…
Read MoreBest Place to Sail This Winter is at the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival!
In the next few weeks, JAX, a custom 43’ performance wood and carbon sailboat owned by Oivind Lorentzen will ship from West Palm Beach, FL, to the Virgin Islands in time for the 2025 BVI Spring Regatta.
Read MoreWhether casual or competitive racing, the charter options are numerous!
Registration is open for BVI Spring Regatta 2025 (BVISR), and competitors from around the world are already signing up to compete in one of the Caribbean’s top-rated regattas. While some sailors compete on their own boats, a sizeable number of the annual BVISR fleet compete on charter boats, and there are a plenty of charter…
Read MoreBVI Spring Regatta Finishes on a Light, But High, Note
Competitors racing in the 51st edition of the BVI Spring Regatta experienced a week of mixed conditions which put the best to the test; light for Spring Regatta and typical windy trades for the Sailing Festival, so those who competed in the full week can attest to just how exhilarating the breeze can be in the beautiful BVI.
Read MoreTaking the Family Home Around the Racecourse!
Ronald Prins (NED) is the owner of Stardust, a 2023 Windelo54 catamaran, which he and his family – his wife Elsine and kids Julian (10) and Robin (8) – picked up newly built from the Windelo shipyard in the south of France in the summer of 2023. This week they’ve been in the BVI shifting…
Read MoreBVI Spring Regatta: 51 Years Later the Kids are Still Racing
Doug Stewart and Susan Harney hold the distinction of being the offspring of Albie Stewart and Peter Haycraft, co-organizers of the first BVI Spring Regatta some 51 years ago. This week the two childhood friends are racing in Jib and Main class on Libertas, a Beneteau 40 owned by Walter Keenan and currently in first…
Read MoreDad and Daughter Rock the Melges 24
Frits Bus and his crew, including his daughter Berit, are racing the Melges 24 Team Island Water World, sitting in second place in class after day one of racing BVI Spring Regatta. Bus has been competing at the regatta since 1982 and for many years he would sail the 24-foot boat the 100 miles, give…
Read MorePay to Play Perfect Option for Sailors Looking for Sailing Fun
Germaine Williams was supposed to go sailing one day when he was about 12 years old but it was too windy, so he didn’t go on that particular day. It was some ten years later when he was in his early 20s that a challenge to achieve something he’d always wanted to do came along.…
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