Day one is down at the BVI spring regatta. Racing started with a solid 25+ knots of wind and two to four foot waves. A ton of fun when you are sailing modified J24s called IC24s. These 24 foot boats have the hull of a J24 matched with a deck of a Melges 24 making the boat more comfortable to sail. No spinnakers were used on Friday as the winds stayed up and with the very short courses there wasn’t enough time to even get them set. Often we were planing downwind the whole way from the windward mark to the leeward mark. FUN but also very wet! We sit in 6th place out of about 12 boats and only 7 points out of 2nd. We are sailing for the Rob Swain Sailing School and our boat is name that as well. They may post results online if you want to check them out go here: results on line.

We had one really bad race, which they noted as our first race but it really was our second race. We were fouled at the windward mark by a port tacker and the umpires said it was our fault. By the time we got straightened away with doing our circles and sailing the course we realized we loss our only winch handle. Fortunately on the next windward leg we found the handle and decided to ditch the race and recover it which took a bunch of effort and a few faces of water to retrieve.

We ended the day with a third our best finish and hope to continue to place top threes to move up in the standings.

More details about the racing and the regatta to come. Cheers from Nanny Cay marina and resort in Tortola, BVI.