Trashy Paradise – Update from Aiden, the S4S Onboard Reporter!
Aiden Ford is Sailors for the Sea's Onboard Reporter for the spring 2016 semester while she is studying aboard Sea Education Association's tall ship Corwith Cramer. An eye opening start While in Puerto Rico, some shipmates and I decided to do a
Impressive Performance By Youth Team Black Pearl IC24 at BVI Spring Regatta
Looking out for the next generation of BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival competitors is an important task, one that Royal BVI Yacht Club sailing coach Taylor Penwell obviously enjoys. Catching up with Penwell and the BVI youth team sailing
Light Breeze Teases Fleet on Final Day of Racing BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival
On Sunday evening, under a setting sun on the beautiful beach at Nanny Cay, the 45th BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival drew to a close with the ritual awards ceremony and fabulous fireworks. The entire fleet was treated to
Spring Regatta Enjoys Classic BVI Conditions Class Leaders Maintain Positions
Day 2 of Spring Regatta offered up just what the people came for: plenty of sunshine, turquoise water, breeze up to 17 and awesome sailing, with races today taking most classes to the north side of Tortola and around Sandy
Spirits Lively On Day 1 Racing BVI Spring Regatta
It may have been a rainy day in the BVI but not enough to take the heat out of today's racing, which saw 12 classes on three courses enjoy a consistent easterly breeze of 13-15 knots. Some competitors continued their
International Optimist Regatta, Clinic & Team Race Set For June
Exceptional coaching, competition and camaraderie are the qualities that make the International Optimist Regatta (IOR), presented by EMS (Electronic Merchant Systems) Virgin Islands, and the TOTE Maritime Clinic and Team Race a ‘must-do’ event for Optimist sailors and their families.
Intrepid Wins 3rd Annual VP Bank Tortola Sloop Spring Challenge
Today was all about switching gears and changing pace, with the 3rd Annual VP Bank Tortola Sloop Spring Challenge being raced off Nanny Cay as part of the BVI Spring Regatta's Maritime Heritage Day. The Challenge brings to life the
BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival Features Scrub Island Invitational
With one day of racing behind them, competitors in the 45th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival rolled right into today's race, the Scrub Island Invitational, a 12NM upwind ride for the CSA Cruising, Bareboat and Multihull fleets, and a
St. Maarten Yacht Club Regatta Foundation raises 1804 dollars for Sea Rescue
The St. Maarten Yacht Club Regatta Foundation (SMYCRF) has raised 1804 dollars for the St. Maarten Sea Rescue Foundation (SSRF) during the 36th St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. The SSRF offers assistance to sailors and mariners in need of help. With
Sailors help scientists identify the possibility of two distinct species of humpback whales in the Caribbean
Caribbean sailors have helped make a recent scientific discovery! Thanks to the CARIB Tails project, where sailors and other citizen scientists contribute photographs of whale tails, we now know that the humpback whales that mate and calve in the southeastern
