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Bareboat Racing in the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival – Familiar faces return for the best week ever, part II
Team Miami, a name that stuck for a group of guys who got to know each other sailing in Miami, is back for its eighth BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival event chartering a Dufour 41. Brian McCarthy, who lives in North Carolina, is typically the registered skipper and notes they are a group of…
Bareboat Racing in the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival – Familiar faces return for the best week ever, part I
Kelly Wharton and her sailing friends know just where to go when the weather in Vancouver, BC, Canada gets just too cold to bear and warm racing beckons; they head for the Caribbean. Wharton’s chartered various boats in the BVI on some ten different occasions over the years, both for cruising and more recently racing.…
Switching Gears: Jumping off a J109 onto a Chartered Moorings 45 Club
Brooke Mastrorio, from Newport, RI, has spent time on boats literally since she was in the womb; when her mom was pregnant with Brooke she sailed in a Sunfish until the boom wouldn’t clear her belly anymore. Her family had a Bristol 27 when she was a kid and while…
Bernie Evan-Wong: Racing must always be FUN!
Don’t be mistaken by Bernie Evan-Wong’s soft spoken and unassuming manner; this sailboat racer from Antigua has had many racing adventures in his lifetime on a lively range of boats, more so than most. Growing up sailing as a young kid in British Guyana (now Guyana) as the youngest of six, Evan-Wong learned to sail…
Life is Good, a Dutch Perspective
In my experience, the Dutch never fail to be able to show a sense of humour even when the chips are down, so it was no surprise that after their galley caught fire during racing on day 1 of the BVI Spring Regatta, the team on Glad 2 B Here, a beautiful Moorings 52 organised…
Enright Takes on the VX One
Getting back to his childhood dinghy roots has been a seamless transition for Charlie Enright who has switched gears these past few weeks from big and offshore, to small and inshore. On day 2 of racing in the VX One fleet, sailing with David Askew and Patrick Farrell on Wizard,…
Nothing Like a Swedish Beauty
9,000 miles and some four oceans later, gracing the docks at Nanny Cay Resort & Marina this week is Ohana, a new Arcona 435 Mk II, owned and skippered by Ken Wisdom (Wilton, CT). A carbon machine through and through with beautiful lines, she was built in Sweden at the Arcona factory in Uddevalla, Sweden.
On the Docks at Nanny Cay
The cool thing about BVI Spring Regatta is the number of teams who come back year after year, as well as the new faces competing for the first time; it’s a blast for the organisers to welcome back old faces and welcome newcomers. One thing we love to do each morning is walk the docks…
No Chickens on THIS Boat! Poulet Peeps Takes a First
Ben Sampson, from Pittsburgh, PA, has been visiting the BVI for thirty years. Learning to sail at age 16 at a YMCA sailing camp in Pennsylvania ultimately led him to Monique and Julian Putley, long-time Tortola residents who became the reason Sampson makes the annual pilgrimage to the BVI to cruise or race. “We took…
Haspa Hamburg Sails Again – Local Rigger Saves the Day
Kudos to Isaac Fonseca of Wickham’s Cay Rigging who saved the day for the German team Haspa Hamburg racing on their JV52, replacing a broken forestay within 24 hours of the crew knocking on his door asking if he could replace it. 48 hours later they were sitting on the beach at Marina Cay after…
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