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Whether 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…
BVI Spring Regatta Joins 2025 Windies Multihull Trophy Series
The BVI Spring Regatta will be part of the inaugural Windies Multihull Trophy, a new season championship designed to encourage offshore multihulls to participate in more Caribbean regattas and offshore passage events for the 2025 sailing season.
Get your game on for the 52nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival where Warm Water and Hot Racing prevails!
Registration is now open for one of the Caribbean’s favourite racing events. The week-long event runs March 31-April 6, so get those dates on your calendar now.
International VX One Fleet Returns To BVI For 2025
The BVI Spring Regatta will be the second, and final, leg of the 2025 VX One Caribbean Cup as one of the hottest one-design sport boat classes returns to race in the Caribbean. The VX One Caribbean Cup allows racers to compete in two of the Caribbean’s top regattas that are held back-to-back – St Thomas International Regatta (March 28-30, 2025) and the BVI Spring Regatta (April 4-6, 2025).
Allegra claims inauguralIMA Caribbean Maxi Multihull Series by a point
The Nigel Irens-designed 84ft catamaran Allegra of Switzerland’s Adrian Keller won the inaugural IMA Caribbean Maxi Multihull Series by a single point over Todd Slyngstad’s HH66 catamaran Nemo.
BVI 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.
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…
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…
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…
