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Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup – BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival

• Posted At 30 March, 2023

Cape 31 Flying Jenny Takes First in Class and Wins the Nanny Cay Cup

Cape 31 Flying Jenny won class and the Nanny Cay Cup in today’s race around Tortola © Ingrid Abery/https://www.ingridabery.com

Tortola, BVI – March 28, 2023.  Under BVI blue skies and warm trade winds, the Cape 31 Flying Jenny won class in today’s race around Tortola, also taking home the Nanny Cay Cup for fastest corrected time (4:19:17) – the first time that the race has been sailed in the BVI Spring Regatta since 2019.

“We have an amazing team around Sandy,” Josie Giddon, navigator for the Cape 31 owned and skippered by Sandy Askew, commented. “Sandy has pulled together a cool race team. She is using the Caribbean as our winter training and then we will go back to the UK with the boat where there is a fleet of about twenty Cape 31s, and then we will do a full season in the UK.”

Commenting on the race today, Giddon, from the UK, continued, “Today was amazing, we’re sailing in paradise! It was long and a lot of concentration was needed; a long upwind then around the back of the island. The typology of the island was really interesting as was the weather – the clouds which played into the game – and we just kept on pushing. We were over at the start, well we thought we were over, and cleared, the other Cape Adrenalin was in front of us at the beginning, but we kept on eating away using the land and the typology.”

Sandra Askew’s Cape 31 Flying Jenny collect the Nanny Cay Cup for fastest on corrected time © Ingrid Abery/https://www.ingridabery.com

Nemo, the HH66 owned and skippered by Todd Slyngstad (Calif., USA), was first across the line with the fastest elapsed time of 2:58:05, corrected to 4:28:53. The standing Round Tortola record is owned by Slyngstad’s brother Greg, owner and skipper of Fujin, a Bieker 53 catamaran, with a fastest elapsed time of 1:57:16 won in 2019.

“We had fun, it was a great day, although we did break the mainsheet just before the finish,” Todd Slyngstad commented. “It exploded and it’s not an easy fix, we’ll be on it all day. Our container with spares is in St Marten but lucky we have a very nice neighbour – Mach Schnell’s container is here and they have helped us out which is really great. I’m going to owe them a really nice bottle of wine!”

Line Honours for HH66 Nemo owned and skippered by Todd Slyngstad © Ingrid Abery/https://www.ingridabery.com

Miles Sutherland-Pilch, General Manager of Nanny Cay, host sponsor of the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival, said, “I’d like to welcome all those coming to Nanny Cay for the first time, and those who are returning, welcome back – it’s great to see everyone! We really love hosting this event so thank you for coming. Conditions looked ideal today and the racing looked great, so I hope you all had a wonderful time out there racing!”

The outlook for Wednesday’s 11 NM race to Scrub Island Marina, Resort and Spa is more of the fabulous same: 15 knot easterlies and a perfectly warm, sunny BVI day! Competitors: get your fun game on for a barbeque party at Scrub Island, with great food, poolside bars and stunning views.

Full Results  HERE

Chris Haycraft and team on his Corsair F31R Ting a Ling 2 collect 1st place in Performance Multihull class © Ingrid Abery /https://www.ingridabery.com/

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Nanny Cay Round Tortola Race set for Nov 12, 2022

The course for those attempting the Nanny Cay Challenge for the Round Tortola Record takes the fleet anti-clockwise around Tortola, leaving Beef Island, Scrub Island, Great Camanoe and Guana Island to port. 

According to the Royal BVI Yacht Club, a slightly shorter alternative course offers competitors more tactical choices with the option to choose their route around Scrub, Great Camanoe and Guana after leaving Beef Island to port.

The final stretch will see all competitors pass Steele Point, wiggle through Soper’s Hole, before returning to finish at Nanny Cay.

Registration will be held at Peg Legs between 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm on Friday, November 11, 2022.  The prize giving will take place at approximately 5:00 pm on Saturday at Peg Legs.

The 2021 edition was won by Chris Haycraft with his Corsair trimaran  Ting a Ling .

Aaron Gardner skippered IC24  RIP  to the racing class win.

Nanny Cay Challenge

The Nanny Cay Challenge was launched in 2010 when yachts visiting the VI were invited to make an attempt to beat the latest Round Tortola Records. The NCC can be attempted any time, any-day, but must start and finish off Nanny Cay, circumnavigate in an anti-clockwise direction and leave Beef Island, Scrub Island, Great Camanoe and Guana Island to port.

During the 2019 BVI Spring Regatta the monohull and multihull records were both smashed. Bieker 53 Catamaran,  Fujin  posted an elapsed time of 1:57:16 whilst  E1  the Volvo 70 skippered by Rafal Sawicki set a new monohull record of 2:53:08.

Record breakers will receive a free dinner for up to 15 crewmembers and champagne at the beach side Peg Legs compliments of Nanny Cay. They will also have their names added to the perpetual trophy.

Challengers must pay an entry fee of $250 which is donated to a VI charity of the challenger’s choice.

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Published on March 27th, 2023 | by Assoc Editor

50th Anniversary for BVI Spring Regatta

Published on March 27th, 2023 by Assoc Editor -->

Registration is open and familiar faces along with new have started to appear on the docks at Nanny Cay as boats, their crews, friends, and families start rolling in for the 2023 BVI Spring Regatta special edition, the 50th Anniversary. One of the many cool things about the BVI Spring Regatta is its global vibe, drawing people from all over the world to share its stunning islands and turquoise waters.

Guy Chester, from Cairns, Australia is getting through his bucket list of Caribbean races this season on Oceans Tribute, his 46’ Crowther designed trimaran which he purchased in New Zealand in 2020 and completely refit there in 2021. He’s owned at least four cruising monohulls, but it was during his time in the Caribbean while he was circumnavigating in the first multihull he owned that he decided he wanted to race.

He sailed a full season with Spring Regatta regulars Bernie Evan-Wong, owner of the RP37 Taz (competing this week) and Pamela Baldwin on her J/122 Liquid. Chester mostly single-handed Oceans Tribute from New Zealand to get to Antigua earlier this year to get his fill of the best sailboat racing in the world.

“Since January we have done the Round Barbados Sailing Week, the RORC Caribbean 600, the Caribbean Multihull Challenge, the Heineken Regatta, then after BVI Spring Regatta we’ll do Le Voile then finish up with Antigua Sailing Week,” Chester enthused. He and his crew spent Monday preparing Oceans Tribute for tomorrow’s distance race around Tortola.”

David Hanks, skipper of Spirit of Juno, a Farr 65 owned by Ondeck Sailing based in Antigua has a full crew on board this week, albeit a bit of a mixed bag, he noted good humouredly.

“We seem to have a lot of Canadians on board, and mostly an all-women crew – we have fourteen in total on board and just three guys. I prefer sailing with women so we should have a good week!” Hanks smiled. “We have a lot of experience on board and are hoping to do well, we have our eyes set on the podium.”

Crewing on Spirit of Juno is a group of six Canadian ladies – the Sail Sisters – from the West Vancouver Yacht Club. Kelly Wharton said her group of gals probably has a couple of centuries of sailing experience between them. They each sail their own boats at home and in 2017 decided to mix it up and charter a bareboat in the Caribbean to race the 2017 Heineken Regatta. That was the beginning of a love for Caribbean racing, and they have since competed in Antigua Sailing Week, the Heineken for a second time, and St Barts.

“We decided to up our game this year by doing the BVI Spring Regatta 50th Anniversary on the Spirit of Juno,” Wharton said. “We wanted to race on a bigger, technical and competitive boat as in the bareboat division you can’t fly spinnakers. We want to be able to learn more about racing which you can always do!”

Another BVI Spring Regatta cool factor is that the trades almost always blow consistently across the multiple BVI racecourses. Racers in eleven classes can look forward to excellent conditions for the start tomorrow of the Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup, the first event of the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival: the trades are expected to blow in the low teens throughout the week, building toward the weekend.

While most of the 58-strong fleet heading out around Tortola on Tuesday will be aiming for a podium position, the crew on Moementum, the Gunboat 60 owned by Fredrik Moe from Montego Bay, Jamaica, have a different game plan. Under the care of Lucky Mike, the happiest boat captain in the Caribbean, the boat is just returning to racing after some time off.

“The world has opened up again and this is our first race since Covid and we will race with friends and crew from Montego Bay – we could be as many as fourteen; it’s hard to tell with the Jamaicans until they arrive,” Lucky Mike laughed. “We very much cruise the boat rather than race it so for us we pick the regattas we really enjoy – this year we are doing the BVI and Antigua Sailing Week.

“We leave the ice maker onboard, bring on beer and now we’re in race mode! We do not take racing seriously at all, our position is last and nobody better mess with us in our position as we claim that every time! We just love going out and doing it for the fun of it.”

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