Caribbean Tour

I am getting plenty of sun being down for now over two weeks.  It started when I arrived in St Thomas with Joc just over two weeks ago to sail on the Farr 400 Blade in the 39th International Rolex Regatta.  We had a great time sailed ok to finish fourth.  I will be making a full report on this regatta in a Seahorse article.  I have never done this regatta, but it is now on my top 10 list and I plan to get back as many times as possible.

Then we cruised the whole 15 miles to Tortola for BVI Regattas.  There was no breeze the first day so we motored to the Bitter End on Virgin Gorda.  What a great place this is.  Again, I can’t believe we have not been there….

The first series were two races, one around VG and the other back to Nanny Cay, Tortola.  We were third in the race around and won the blast sail back averaging around 15 knots, our sister was second.  So much fun to sail the 400 in a breeze….  Speeds to 20, it was hard to see the other boats behind..  With the first place we won the top prize for the 2 race regatta. 

Then it was more of a battle in the 3 race series of 9 races with really good 5 boat fleet.  The races were very close, too much to tell right now, will report on the race side later.  But we sailed well, tied for 1st the first day, tied for 2nd the second day but ended up a close third.  Very competitive class

Now, in St Barths, sailing on Decision.  This is a new Carkeek 40 owned by Steve Murray.  They asked if I can help get the new boat up to speed.  It was an easy question to answer.  We start sailing today through Saturday. 

I will report more soon, I hope,,,,,