The crew of Jurakan, winners of the 2011 PegLegs Round Tortola RaceThe 43rd annual Peg Legs Round Tortola Race organised by the Royal BVI Yacht Club and sponsored by Nanny Cay, will take place on Saturday, November 17th. Two classes – racing and cruising – will compete in the 36-mile race.
Classes will start in the Sir Francis Drake Channel off Nanny Cay and then head anti-clockwise around Tortola. After the beat up the Sir Francis Drake Channel, the fleet will turn the corner at Great Camanoe and head on a downward run to West End where, after a quick wiggle through Soper’s Hole, it will be a beat back to the finish line off Nanny Cay.
Last year, only two weeks after Dave West, owner/skipper of Jurakan, passed away, his crew in a fitting tribute, sailed his Melges 32 to an epic victory.
Jurakan, skippered by Andrew Waters, won Racing Class in a corrected time of 4 hours, 39 minutes and 58 seconds. The monohull record set by Dave West sailing Jurakan in 2009 still stands at 4 hours, 15 minutes and 5 seconds.
Trimaran Triple Jack holds the outright and mulithull Round Tortola Record of 2 hours, 40 minutes and 18 seconds. She snatched her record back on Thursday October 25, taking 10 minutes off Formula 40 Soma’s record time set in April 2010 (2 hours, 50 minutes and 15 seconds). The vintage 34-year old Kelsall One-Off shattered her benchmark time of 3 hours and 33 minutes set in the 2009 Round Tortola Race.
Registration will be held at the Royal BVI Yacht Club on Friday, November 16 between 6 and 8pm. Entry fee for RBVIYC members is $30, non-members, $40. The after-race party will be at Nanny Cay’s beach bar and starts as sons as the racing finishes. For further information, contact Captain of Sailing at the Royal BVI Yacht Club at [email protected] or (284) 494 3286.
In support of men’s health and BVI Movember, Owen Waters, Mark Cochrane and Craig Chomiak will be paddleboarding from the top of Beef Island to Soper’s Hole on the same day and are expecting a three and a half to four hour paddle. The community is encouraged to donate to Owen, or any Mo Bro – as these moustache-growing fundraisers are called – during the month of Movember, formerly November.
