Nanny Cay – Sailing Summer Camp for adults
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Willem Wester’s Antilope wins the Nanny Cay CupThe atmosphere is crackling with excitement on the eve of racing at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011). The race village is open, boats and sailors are here, and everyone is psyched for what promises to be three brilliant days of racing on the Sir Francis Drake Channel. Just poll anyone walking around Nanny Cay—the regatta’s base—and their comments are the same: It’s like summer camp for adults, sans chaperones.
Inaugural Gill BVI International Match Racing Championship today
Intensity levels punched up several levels today at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011) when racing commenced at the inaugural Gill BVI International Match Racing Championship (March 30 and 31). Eight teams rifled through ten flights of one-on-one match races on evenly tuned IC 24s, with each skipper gunning for the big prize: an invitation to a Grade-Two match-racing event at the Chicago Match Racing Center this August.
40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta – Sensational Sailing Festival Send Off
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Forty boats congregated on the Sir Francis Drake Channel this morning, just off of Tortola’s Nanny Cay Resort, for the start of the Bitter End Cup. This 21-mile Corinthian-spirited race to Virgin Gorda’s Bitter End Yacht Club (BEYC) marks the official kick-off for the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011). Lucky sailors in four classes enjoyed 10-15 knots, flat seas, and clean starts as the fleet of cats, cruisers, bareboats and serious raceboats pointed towards their fairy-tale destination. Once there, sailors can enjoy the club’s well-populated dinghy and beach-cat fleet and unwind before Thursday’s reverse-course Nanny Cay Cup.
Bitter End Cup kicks off 40th anniversary BVI Spring Regatta
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The 40th anniversary BVI Spring Regatta kicked off today at 1000 hours, local time, with the start of the Sailing Festival’s annual Bitter End Cup. This 21-mile upwind course starts off of Tortola’s Nanny Cay Resort—the event’s home base—and takes the fleet of 40 boats northwest through the Sir Francis Drake Channel to the finishing line off of the Bitter End Yacht Club (BEYC), situated on nearby Virgin Gorda. Once there, sailors can relax, socialize and sail the BEYC’s dinghy and beach-cat fleet on Wednesday’s lay day. During Thursday’s Nanny Cay Cup the fleet will ease their sheets and retrace their wake, sailing a glorious downhill run back to Nanny Cay and the start of the annual Mount Gay Welcome Party.
40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta Fleet Features Firsts and Favorites
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Necker Belle on A dock at Nanny CayThe final countdown has begun and racing will commence next week at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011), giving attending sailors reason to celebrate. Historically, the BVI Spring Regatta has attracted some of the world’s fastest yachts and sailors, and this year’s exceptional entry list is proof that this tradition continues.
BVI Spring Regatta Auctions 10 Years of Mount Gay Hats to Benefit Youth Sailing
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If sailing is your game, you’ve seen Mount Gay’s iconic, red regatta hats. Since 1987, these distinctive baseball caps have come to represent far more than just a stylish sunshade-they’ve become an internationally recognized symbol of competitive sailing, each custom embroidered with the name and year of a particular Mount Gay-sponsored event. But unlike mainstream fashion trends, Mount Gay hats are earned, not purchased. “The brand has never sold a red cap and it never will!” said Mount Gay’s Raphaël Grisoni. “There is no other way to get one than to sail in the regatta. They have become a sign of recognition among real sailors.”
BVI Spring Regatta 40th anniversary stamps unveiled by Government
At a ceremony held at Peg Legs Restaurant on Tuesday, Government, with the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival Committee, kicked-off the 40th anniversary celebrations of the internationally renowned BVI Spring Regatta with an unveiling of a new set of stamps commemorating the four decades of the event.
Governor Boyd McCleary, who is also the Principal of the Royal BVI Yacht Club, congratulated the organisers of the regatta on their anniversary, adding that: “The BVI Spring Regatta and Festival is a major opportunity for the Virgin Islands to sell itself to the wider yachting world and to demonstrate that the Territory remains the sailing capital of the world.”
Eddie Jordan of F1 fame performs at Nanny Cay
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Eddie Jordan & Luca perform at the Beach Bar Sunday nightEddie Jordan of Formula 1 Racing fame and now Primary Analyst for the BBC’s F1 coverage recently spent a couple of nights on the docks at Nanny Cay.
Eddie Jordan has always been a huge music fan and currently plays in a four piece band, irreverently named Eddie & the Robbers, as well as an acoustic 3 piece band called FTB. He, along with band member Luca, joined CP4 on stage during Nanny Cay’s 10th Anniversary Beach Bash on Saturday night and performed again at the Beach Bar on Sunday night too.
Necker Belle to enter the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival for the first time!
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Necker Belle, Virgin Limited Edition’s 105-foot luxury catamaran, will be racing in the 2011 BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival and docking at Nanny Cay each night. Nanny Cay is host and presenting sponsor of the the regatta which takes place between the 28th March and 3rd April. 2011 is the 40th Anniversary of the BVI Spring Regatta.