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March 31- April 6

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50th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival Starts Friday – blissfully perfect conditions for 71 boats registered!

Registration for the 50th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival is underway and outstanding conditions are forecasted for three days of racing in the Spring Regatta March 31 through April 2. “Conditions for Friday and through the weekend are going to be perfect,” Bob Phillips, Regatta Chairman said. “We are expecting winds in the mid…

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On Board with Pro Sailors Alec Anderson & Tony Rey

At BVI Spring Regatta, it’s always a pleasure to host fast and well-crewed boats and the event certainly appreciates the commitment it takes to get boats and crews to the BVI. Fortunately, sailors of all experience levels love sailing and racing in the BVI, so when pro sailor and Tortola-raised…

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Taking 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…

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BVI 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…

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Dad 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…

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Pay 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.…