Regatta Round-Up – Winners take it All! – The 2007 BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival drew to a close on Sunday 1st April with great cheers after a week of blood, sweat and tears from the crews of 149 competing boats. First time BVI Regatta visitor ABN Amro One blitzed the opposition in the Spinnaker Racing A with a string of flawless first finishes. But the BVI stood proud as Peter Haycraft brought Pipe Dream home ahead of the field in the Racer-Cruiser class. Peter hasn’t missed a BVI Spring Regatta since its inception – that’s a lot of racing.
The winners of the 2007 BVI Spring Regatta, presented by Nanny Cay Marina and Resort, governed by the Royal BVI Yacht Club and BVICCHA, and proudly sponsored by the BVI Tourist Board, Heineken, the Moorings, FirstCaribbean International Bank, Mount Gay Rum, Shell, the Bitter End Yacht Club, and CCT Global Communications were:
Racing A Ocean Volvo 70, ABN Amro One skippered by Brad Jackson
Racing B Melges 24, Devil 3 skippered by Chris Stanton
Racing C Olson 30, J-Bird III skippered by Doug Baker
Racing D J/27, J-Walker skippered by Chris Thompson
Racing E Racer-Cruiser Sirena 38, Pipedream skippered by Peter Haycraft
Performance Cruising A Affinity
Performance Cruising B Three Harkoms skippered by Peter Lloyd
Jib and Main Mary Jane skippered by David Heuter and Andy Kaiser
Bareboat A Joyce Smith skippered by Tony Mack
Bareboat B Chess skippered by Jan Soderberg
Multihull Triple Jack skippered by Richard Wooldridge
IC24 MIO Broadband skippered by Robbie and Michael Hirst
Beach Cat Caribbean Auto Mart, Tom Ainger
Laser and Radial Ryan Rocke
Congratulations to the BVI Spring Regatta organisers for spectacularly pulling it off for the 36th time!
