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The annual fantasy camp for sailors has commenced this week - the Vineyard Vines Pro Am Regatta at the Bitter End YC. The BEYC is a premiere luxury water sports resort in the Caribbean, and the Pro Am event schedule combines the skills of professional skipper with the desire of hotel guests in a series of racing events. Here is an update so far:
* (Nov. 1, 2009) - Twenty three amateur teams raced in four separate classes - all hoping to qualify for the finals of the Musto Scuttlebutt Sailing Club Championship Regatta on Thursday. And the conditions on the North Sound of the British Virgin Islands could not have been much better. Eight to 12 knots of wind on virtually flat water under a bright sun provided perfect conditions that saw Jim Durden (Hunter 216s), Jonathan Powel (Laser), Larry and Melisa Rowland (Hobie Wave), and George Huntington (Rhodes 19) advance to the finals.
* (Nov. 2, 2009) - The word around the docks was that the Scuttlebutt Offshore Championship was going to be a multihull America’s Cup preview. There were two former AC skippers, Ken Read and Paul Cayard, on matched multihulls. Not much carbon-fiber involved here, or exotic sails for these programs - but there was air-conditioning in the splendid saloons of the Moorings 4000s used for the event. And to spice up the spectacle, a third multihull was added - a somewhat bigger and certainly heavier 45-footer under the command of the original curmudgeon, Tom Leweck, who has no AC history.
The course was from the BVI North Sound, in front of BEYC, down to The Baths and return. But for a gentlemanly event like this, the return leg was delayed until after lunch, and a bit of snorkeling - and in Leweck’s case, a nap. The final score - all three cats wound up with four points, with Leweck being declared the winner based on elapsed time. Go figure.
In the IC24 Class, 1972 Olympic Silver medalist, Keith Musto proved there is no substitute for age and experience. He bested both 2008 Gold medalist Anna Tunnicliffe and 2008 Silver medalist Zack Railey, with second place finishes in both directions.
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