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The three-day 2012 Sailing Festival, the first part of the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival presented by Nanny Cay, starts on Monday. Registration will take place from noon until 6pm when the Welcome Party kicks off at Peg Legs Restaurant.
The Bitter End Cup, racing from Nanny Cay to Bitter End Yacht Club in the North Sound in Virgin Gorda, starts at 10 am on Tuesday. To date, fifty-one yachts are registered for this kick-off event – 21 in the racing class, 8 in cruising, 20 in bareboat and 2 in multihull.
After a little R&R by the pool, the evening festivities will see an awards party and limbo jump-up at the Almond Walk and adjacent beach.
Wednesday is LayDay and the Nations’ Challenge Cup at Bitter End. Represent your country competing on Hobie Wave and Getaways, using a round robin format, team members have some light fun, but serious competition!
There is plenty of entertainment dockside at the Bitter End’s Pub where sailing videos and peer stories accompany copious quantities of food and drink. Or to “Laze the Lay day”, the pool and the spa can beckon you to relax. Additional watersports activities include snorkel trips, a windsurfing rally, and an excursion to Anegada.
Awards for the dinghy regattas and Nations’ Challenge Cup will be presented in the evening with a cookout and party at the Quarterdeck Club & Pub.
Meanwhile back at Nanny Cay, the GILL BVI National Match Racing Championships will be underway. Taking place Wednesday and Thursday, eight teams will race on matched IC24s in this event added to the racing program last year. The race committee has applied to ISAF for Grade 3 status for challengers from around the world to earn points towards the ISAF World Match Race ranking list.
While the GILL BVI National Match Racing Championships reaches its finale on Thursday, competitors in the Sailing Festival will race back down the Sir Francis Drake Channel to Nanny Cay vying for the Nanny Cay Cup.
Awards from the day’s racing will complete the Sailing Festival.
