Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 05:09 pm BST
Contributed by: Moderator
Dave West's gleaming white racing sloop Jurakan overcame the difficulty of starting last in Saturday's annual Pizza Pursuit Race sponsored by the Virgin Queen Bar & Restaurant, beating out a field of eight boats to win the Spinnaker Division. In the Non-Spinnaker Division, Andrew "Tubes" Thompson saw off all challenges.
British Virgin Islands Dinghy Championships 2008 Notice of Race
Thursday, April 17 2008 @ 09:42 pm BST
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British Virgin Islands Dinghy Championships 2008 Notice of Race
Royal BVI Yacht Club, Road Town Tortola, British Virgin Islands
May 10th -11th 2008.
Organizing Authority: The organizing authority is the Royal BVI Yacht Club
Rules: The Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008, the prescriptions of the RBVIYC, the I.O.D.A., Laser Class rules, will govern the Regatta, except where any of these are altered by the Notice of Race and the Sailing Instructions.
The Royal
BVI Yacht Club maintains an active calendar of racing, cruising, angling
and social events, as well as sailing training programmes for young
and old alike.
The Club
is also the primary sponsor of the annual BVI
Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival held in early April each year
featuring five days of racing in the Sir Francis Drake Channel for Racing
classes, non-spinnaker classes, multihulls, and bareboats.