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A New Event Added to the Caribbean Race Season
The local council in Saint Barthelemy, the Tourist board and the Saint Barth Yacht Club are setting up a new sailing event following the BVI Spring Regatta. Planned for 6th to 11th April 2010, this regatta will be open to Classic and modern yachts, Super Yachts, Racing-Cruisers, as well as Racing Multihulls.
Nov 26, 2009, 08:17 PST
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Caribbean Kids Sail Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship 2009, BVI'S Alec Anderson finishes an Impressive Seventh Overall
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| Boys' Laser start on Day One of the Volvo Youth sailing ISAF World Championship. | The world's top young sailing talent was gathered in Buzios, Brazil for racing at the 39th Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship. Close to 300 of the world's top sailors representing 59 nations were sailing in 7 different classes. Ard en Philipine van Aanholt (AHO) represented the Netherlands Antilles. Other Caribbean sailors present were: Alec Anderson from the British Virgin Island, Mayumi Roller, Max Nickbarg, Tyler Rice and William Gibson from the US Virgin Islands, Raul Rios, Patrick Carolus Fernandez and Antonio Sifre Torren from Puerto Rico.
Jul 18, 2009, 10:40 PST
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Holmberg Pulls One Out of the Hat at the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series
Competition in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series took on a new sense of urgency as dusk fell over the Hauraki Gulf this evening and South Africa]s Shosholoza and Italy's Luna Rossa scrapped like tigers throughout a four-lap race. Think dinghy moves in 80-footers!
The victory honors went to Peter Holmberg skippering Luna Rossa but only after multiple lead changes and two penalties imposed on the South African boat. It was by far the closest race in the first four days of competition in the two-week long international match race for big boats sailed in Auckland's harbour.
Feb 3, 2009, 07:10 PST
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ISAF Publishes Notice of Race For 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship
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| Laser fleet from the 2008 edition of the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship | The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has published the Notice of Race for the 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship being held in Buzios, Brazil from 9-18 July 2009. The Caribbean was well represented last year in Arhus, Denmark with young sailors participating from the US and British Virgin Islands. With the 2009 event happening in our back yard (relatively speaking), the youth of the Caribbean may be even better represented. Young sailors have the chance to join the ranks of past notable winners include American’s Cup skippers, Chris Dickson (NZL), Russell Coutts (NZL), Dean Barker (NZL); Olympic medallists, Robert Scheidt (BRA), Amelie Lux (GER), Ben Ainslie (GBR), Nick Rogers (GBR) and Siren Sundby (NOR); Volvo Ocean Race sailors like Stuart Bannatyne (NZL) and Richard Clarke (CAN). The most successful ISAF Youth World Champions are Great Britain’s Sally Cuthbert and Poland’s Zofia Klepacka having won four successive titles in the Laser II and Mistral respectively.
Dec 11, 2008, 17:13 PST
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Classic Yacht Regattas Abound in the Caribbean
The schedule has now been finalized by the West Indies Events and the St.Maarten-St.Martin Classic Yacht Regatta Foundation for the upcoming January regatta. The Invitational St.Maarten-St.Martin Classic Yacht Regatta 2009, January 22 - 25, is the first classic regatta of the Caribbean season, with the Grenada Classic Yacht Regatta the second one (February 19 - 22), followed by Antigua Classics, April 16 - 21. West Indies Events is also in the process of establishing a classic regatta in Curacao and in Cuba.
Nov 10, 2008, 16:00 PST
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