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Day 1 - 2013 BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival
Day 1 - 2013 BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. Photos by Leighton O'Connor. © 2013 All rights reserved. See more photos at: http://www.leightonphoto.com/Sailing-Regattas/2013-BVI-Spring-Regatta
BVI Spring Regatta Island Invitational Race to Norman Island
Published in Scuttlebutt March 28, 2013 Scuttlebutt correspondent Leighton O'Connor has been on the Caribbean race circuit, leaving home base in Massachusetts for the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, International Rolex Regatta (USVI), and this week he is at the BVI Spring Regatta &; Sailing Festival. Today was a layday between the 'festival' and 'regatta', which we suspect means nothing with regard to sun, fun, and beverages. Here is Leighton's latest report and video... proceed with caution: I called it right again. On Wednesday morning I got aboard the 80 year classic yacht The Blue Peter for the final event of the Festival, the Caribbean Insurer Island Invitational to Norman Island from Nanny Cay. I know, all work and no play. Designed by Alfred Mylne and built by W. King & Sons of Burnham-on-Crouch in 1930, she was named The Blue Peter for luck, after the 'P' flag. It worked as The Blue Peter won over 50 races in and around the south coa