BVI Spring Regatta - Facing the starters gun

4:34 AM Sat 2 Apr 2011 GMT

'La Forza Del Destino - BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival' BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival

Despite the calendar date, there were precious few pranks occurring today at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011), where 122 boats assembled on four different racecourses, eagerly anticipating their starting guns. Fifteen to twenty knots and small seas greeted sailors racing in the protected waters, and classic Caribbean ocean rollers fueled surfing sessions outside of the lee of the islands. The race committees made sure to entertain, sending boats on a variety of courses, ranging from windward-leewards to scenic excursions around the numerous islands that pepper the Sir Francis Drake Channel near Nanny ...

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by Linda Phillips