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Entry Open For 2026 BVI Spring Regatta
Registration has opened for the 2026 BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival, one of the Caribbean’s top regattas. The event has moved forward a week from previously published dates and will take place March 23-29. This move away from the Easter period should make it easier to attend in terms of flight, accommodation, and boat availability.

Date Change For 2026
For 2026, the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival has moved the event forward a week from previously published dates to March 23-29. Additionally, Scrub Island will now kick off the Sailing Festival , and the Nanny Cay Cup Round Tortola Race has moved to Wednesday (March 25, 2026). Chris Haycraft, BVI Spring Regatta chairman…

BVI’s Best Ever Spring Regatta
Wrapping up day 3 of the 52nd BVI Spring Regatta, following several days of relentless high winds, competitors will importantly remember the final day of racing: a picture-perfect Caribbean racing day with temperatures in the mid 80s and warm trades blowing 15-18 knots, and a great party in the Regatta Village to end a fantastic week of racing.

Life is Good, a Dutch Perspective
In my experience, the Dutch never fail to be able to show a sense of humour even when the chips are down, so it was no surprise that after their galley caught fire during racing on day 1 of the BVI Spring Regatta, the team on Glad 2 B Here, a beautiful Moorings 52 organised…

Enright Takes on the VX One
Getting back to his childhood dinghy roots has been a seamless transition for Charlie Enright who has switched gears these past few weeks from big and offshore, to small and inshore. On day 2 of racing in the VX One fleet, sailing with David Askew and Patrick Farrell on Wizard, after seven races his team…