Question: How do you cram all the different racing scenarios that you might encounter over a season into one day on the water? Answer: Go 2K Team Racing at the Royal Southern…and they did! ‘2K’ is defined as two boat team racing in keel boats, with mixed gender crews and no spinnakers. Team racing provides…
Day 2 of the BVI Spring Regatta offered up just what the people came for: plenty of sunshine, turquoise water, breeze up to 17 and awesome sailing, with races today taking most classes to the north side of Tortola and around Sandy Cay, a BVI National Park and one of the most spectacular islands in…
Ever since its inception in 1826 Cowes Week has been a highlight in the annual calendar for large, well-funded race boats. With the new Fast 40+ class choosing the regatta as one of its five core events for its first season, this year’s event promises intense and exciting competition at this level. The class encompasses…
It may have been a rainy day in the BVI but not enough to take the heat out of today’s racing, which saw 12 classes on three courses enjoy a consistent easterly breeze of 13-15 knots. Some competitors continued their winning streak of earlier in the week: SPOOKIE, the TP52 owned and skippered by Steve…
Storm Katie rampaged through the UK over the Easter weekend creating havoc. None the less, 9 RS Aeros made it out at Keyhaven with 3 on Friday being joined by a further 6 on Monday. Ahead of the storm and under clear blue skies Andrew Snell had built up a good lead in Friday’s 16…
Today was all about switching gears and changing pace, with the 3rd Annual VP Bank Tortola Sloop Spring Challenge being raced off Nanny Cay as part of the BVI Spring Regatta’s Maritime Heritage Day. The Challenge brings to life the significance that the beautiful old Tortola Sloops played in island life more than a hundred…
Tuesday March, 29, 2016, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – The BVI Sailing Festival Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup and Nanny Cay Challenge started promptly at 09:30 on Tuesday morning in seas a little rougher than normal due to last week’s high winds, and an easterly breeze of 18+ knots. The trimaran Triple…
Over the weekend of 19/20th March, the travelling RS Aero fleet ventured to Grafham Water with 20 Aeros contesting the Magic Marine Spring Champs, our ninth and final event of the 2015/16 Winter Traveller Series. It had been a mainly windy series to date, with the Tiger Trophy, Steve Nicholson, Bloody Mary and Roadford Rocket to…
If traditionally the RORC Easter Challenge is the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s coaching regatta, today’s lesson centred upon heavy weather sailing technique. As the fleet returned to yesterday’s start area around Peel Bank, conditions were sunny and relatively benign, but with giant grey clouds looming. During today’s one race, a squall stuck down the fleet…
With gale force gusts forecast for the afternoon of Easter Saturday, one long race on a round the cans course in the central/eastern Solent was held today at the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Easter Challenge. Despite this, there were leader changes in two of the four classes. In the FAST40+ class, Peter Morton on his…
