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Presented by Nanny Cay, the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing dancing in the streets is an expanded seven-day data format that takes avid and apprentice participants on an lifting multi-class, multi-course episode through the attractive British Virgin Islands.

This twelvemonth the boats were split into xv classes and ranged in bulkiness from the 75' Reichel Pugh, Titan XII, encouraging a social unit of twenty, to the one man Lasers and windsurfers.

Since its origin in 1973, the BVIs Spring Regatta has witnessed large growth in both bulkiness and gala with continued help from sport enthusiasts in a circle the planet. This past time period 154 boats helped mark the 35th anniversary of the BVI Spring Regatta as the event's greatest twelvemonth ever!

The 2006 Sailing Festival - which serves as a three-day reheat up for the sports meeting - kicked off on Monday, March 27 with a welcomed group at Nanny Cay. Afterwards participants were able to suffer three years of goal cruising, racing, diving event and Lay day fun plus the Nation's Challenge Cup, all which led up to the crucial three-day Spring Regatta that started on Friday, March 31. The four racecourses of the BVI Spring Regatta were held on the southmost haunch of Tortola - the at sea fort of the Caribbean - and the keystone of the cosy Sir Frances Drake Channel.

This twelvemonth the boats were divergence into xv classes and ranged in sized from the 75' Reichel Pugh, Titan XII, following a unit of twenty, to the one man Lasers and windsurfers.

The Racing and Racer/Cruiser classes sailed in the Copper Island curriculum specialism next to back-to-back sport on windward-leeward courses. The multi-start, multi-race format basic introduced by the BVI Spring Regatta ensures that juncture on the marine is washed-out athletics.

Performance/Cruiser, Multihull, Bareboat, Jib & Main classes sailed on the Norman Island instruction occupation. Such is the earth science/topographical spirit of the BVI, that many another of the businessman from the past regattas have been replaced by islands. On this competition interest - in earlier times particular as the non-spinnaker path - spinnakers were permitted and let those sailors that didn't want to competition subsidise to back, windward-leeward courses, the casual to fly a spinnaker, mayhap with a less skilful or short-staffed social unit.

Each day of the meet the windward requisites restored and ultimately on Sunday, sailors (and photographers) were able to delight in a watercolour undefiled day near remarkable light and 10-12 knots of wind.

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