Wednesday, May 14 2008 @ 10:40 am AST
Contributed by: Moderator
Exactly 21 years after he won the British Virgin Islands first World Championships medal at any level, Robbie Hirst—a two time Olympian—climbed back into the Laser for the first time in 10 years.
The 1987 World Jr. Championships silver medalist fought off the challenges of Olympic Games aspirant Alec Anderson and a group of USVI and BVI challengers to win the weekend BVI Dinghy Championships with seven bullets.
“It was a low key fun regatta and I haven’t been in a laser in 10 years,” reflected Hirst who has been sailing IC-24s lately. “It took about half a day to get used to it, but I also remembered how painful it is to sail as well. The Laser is physically demanding. You need to have good conditioning or else you won’t be going very fast.”
Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 12:09 pm AST
Contributed by: Moderator
Dave West's gleaming white racing sloop Jurakan overcame the difficulty of starting last in Saturday's annual Pizza Pursuit Race sponsored by the Virgin Queen Bar & Restaurant, beating out a field of eight boats to win the Spinnaker Division. In the Non-Spinnaker Division, Andrew "Tubes" Thompson saw off all challenges.
The Royal
BVI Yacht Club maintains an active calendar of racing, cruising, angling
and social events, as well as sailing training programmes for young
and old alike.
The Club
is also the primary sponsor of the annual BVI
Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival held in early April each year
featuring five days of racing in the Sir Francis Drake Channel for Racing
classes, non-spinnaker classes, multihulls, and bareboats.
