New dates for Sailing Regatta announced!
The new programme includes a race around the island of Tortola for the Nanny Cay Cup, a race to neighbouring Norman Island for some beach-time fun at Pirates Bar in The Bight and then a chance to discover Tortola from a different perspective on the final day of the Festival.
As Bob Phillips, Chairman of the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival explained “we felt it was time for something new. After 10 successful years of racing to the Bitter End Yacht Club it is time to make it different."
Hosted by Nanny Cay Resort and Marina on the island of Tortola, the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival has moved the date of the 2013 event to March 25-31, to allow sailors to compete in several different regattas in a packed Caribbean racing calendar.
Nanny Cay's General Manager, Miles Sutherland-Pilch is also looking forward to hosting competitors from all over the world during the course of the week “The new Nanny Cay Cup, which will now race around Tortola, will give all competitors a different view of the island. Adding in our Nanny Cay Challenge for the fastest record around the island is really exciting. "
The new format for the BVI Sailing Festival at Nanny Cay will run from March 25-28, 2013, Monday through to Thursday, when registration for the main BVI Spring Regatta will take place with the traditional Mount Gay Rum Welcome Party. Starting on Friday 29, the three-day BVI Spring Regatta includes the International Yacht Club Challenge and culminates in the awards ceremony for the overall prize winners on Sunday, March 31, 2013.
The Festival starts with a challenging 31-nautical mile race around Tortola for the Nanny Cay Cup and seven class awards. The following day competitors will race across to Pirates Beach Bar on the uninhabited Norman Island.
The Thursday, which will be the final day of the BVI Sailing Festival, is also known as ‘Island Day’. An opportunity for visitors to really see what Tortola has to offer when not sailing: Snorkelling, diving and dolphin discovery trips, island tours and back at Nanny Cay Resort, Island Sloop racing for a maritime heritage display as well as the young sailors in the RBVIYC Youth Programme out racing Lasers and Optimist dinghies.
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13 Responses to “New dates for Sailing Regatta announced!”
This event has been going for many, many decades. Because it is popular among a certain style of person - white, with money, mostly, but not all - are you saying is a bad thing? Should white people with money who like sailing not be allowed to do their thing here in the BVI?
Or are you saying they should do what the old navy used to do and run around the community and press gang some local people to be in it? Because I never see anything saying local people not welcome - or only welcome to spend money in the nights. What a load of cow cr*p you talking?
So ...support for the horse race should be ban because people only spend money in the race ground? What about we ban govt. support for about Music Fest, too, because too much being spent in CGB and not enough in Long Look?
Dis a free country - anyone, local or not, is free to go to an event like this, night or day, spend money or not.
Lord have mercy. Some of you folks just bitter and pure racist. If all you want to join in the Spring Regatta, do like the man say - take your boat round there and sign up, or walk the dock and find a boat to join. The only special treatment you'll get is people being glad to see you because you a local and those outsiders always want more local people to join in this kind of thing.
If all you don't want to do it, don't talk talk it down using your confused and weak little argument that don't do nothing but show you up as fools with easy to spot prejudice.