The Caribbean Sailing Association (CSA) is proud to announce the launch of a brand-new dinghy racing calendar designed to enhance sailing development across the region. This initiative aligns with one of the CSA’s key objectives: to support yacht clubs and sailing programs as they realize their potential.
Saskia Revelman, CSA Board Member and Chair of the Sailing Development Committee, emphasizes the importance of this calendar in fostering inter-regional competition. “As a region, we often focus on getting our best dinghy sailors to international regattas, but we are still not maximizing the opportunity to have them racing at regional events,” she stated. While travel costs between islands can pose challenges, the increasing number of regional flights is expected to ease this barrier.
The newly established calendar specifically identifies dinghy regattas on member islands that have the local fleets and capacity to host visiting sailors, thereby encouraging collaboration and competition among neighboring islands.
The CSA Annual Caribbean Dinghy Championship (CDC), hosted in Antigua, is the first event featured on this exciting calendar. This multi-class dinghy regatta includes a diverse range of age groups and genders and will for the first time in 2025 incorporate an inclusive class using the RS Venture. Sailors from seven nations, including the Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guadeloupe, Grenada, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Maarten, and defending champions and host nation Antigua, will be competing.
Bastien Pouthier, President of the CSA, remarked on the significance of the CDC and the dinghy calendar. “It is critical that we do everything we can to support the programs across the region as they are the young, talented sailors who will be taking over the reins of the regatta programs in the years to come.”
The CSA looks forward to tracking the progress of sailors and events over the next 12 months and eagerly anticipates seeing the dinghy calendar expand, inspiring more sailors to participate and take their skills to new levels.
