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Site updates: Can you pronounce Popombi? - 1:10pm, March 29 | Photos added to Mount Gay Race Day | A J24 Conversion Brings a New IC24 to Local Fleet - 12:03pm, March 28 | 2026 Results - March 27 | Mount Gay Race Day Showcases Best of BVI Racing - March 27 | 2026 Mount Gay Race Day photos - March 27
Can You Pronouce Popombi?
The Beneteau First 40.7 Popombi goes into day 2 at the BVI Spring Regatta in second place in CSA Performance Cruising, just two points behind the exceptionally well-sailed Panacea X, a Salona 45. Owned and helmed by Christian Cabral, Popombi is a boat new to Cabral. This is the fourth time he’s competed at BVI…
A J24 Conversion Brings a New IC24 to Local Fleet
When Mike Feierabend bought his boat Bravissimo some 10 years ago it was a J24. He bought it in Tortola and campaigned it for a long time as a J24. About a year ago Feierabend, who resides in St John in the US Virgin Islands, sent the boat to Puerto Rico and had it converted…
Mount Gay Race Day Showcases Best of BVI Racing
Tight Racing Across All Classes on Day 1 BVI Spring Regatta A sea of red hats honouring Mount Gay Race Day and a good breeze made a great start to day 1 in the 53rd edition of the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. Racing got underway around 10am in 15+ knots and favourable sea…
Gunboat DreadKnot Fulfils New Owner’s Dream
According to Rick Cunningham, there was some rum involved in the purchase of his new-to-him Gunboat 62 DreadKnot. He and a good friend had been talking about doing the Transpac race forever, they kept looking at boats, Cunningham was looking beyond a monohull and decided he wanted a multihull. “I wanted to do that race…
Ondeck’s Blueprint for fun in the BVI
We caught the team racing this week on the Beneteau 36.7 Blueprint huddled around a tabletop at the ever-popular Island Roots café at Nanny Cay just minutes before day 1 of racing in the53rd BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival. “We’re having a little team huddle at the moment,” skipper and instructor Rory Johnson smiles.…
Love Affair with the Volvo 70: Monster Project debuts at BVI Spring Regatta
Johannes Schwarz grew up sailing on Lake Neusiedl near his hometown near Vienna, Austria and close to the Hungarian border. “It’s actually the best lake for dinghy sailing in Austria!” Schwarz says. He’s come a long way from his lake sailing youth, today spending his days travelling all over the world running his four Volvo…
