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General Manager: Miles Sutherland Pilch - High season at Nanny Cay’s already busy resort and Marina is when one of the biggest sporting events in the Caribbean comes to town to sail, party and h...
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| Edge presents |
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BVI SPRING REGATTA PREVIEW - Welcome to the 2008 BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival. For 37 years the BVI Spring Regatta has been bringing sailors together to race on the pristine waters of...
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| Country Customs |
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Clearing Up the Clearing in Question Consider this scenario: a yacht arrives in the BVI at 2000 hours, too late to check in at one of the usual Customs and Immigration offices. The crew hoists a...
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| To Pee or not to Pee? |
 | That is the Question - A few years back I remember watching a TV sitcom in which a few friends administered a rumoured medication to another friend who had been stung by a sea creature. This magical antidote was—you guessed it—urine. Yuck. I can think of many other remedies that are more effective. In the show, the miraculous treatment worked to ease the pain. U...
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| Reef Remedies |
 | The International Year of the Reef 2008 is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, and to motivate people to take action to protect them. To this end, over the next year, articles about coral reefs will be become a regular feature in this magazine. Oceans contain the greatest biodiversity in th...
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| Leapard's new spots |
 | Robertson and Caine Strike China Deal - Variety and novelty are the spices that flavour the leisure yachting market. Whilst many sailors return year after year to their favourite waters in the BVI or the Grenadines, others are eager to try out new cruising grounds. Cuba has been a popular stop for those whose governments allow such risky practices, and Croatia is almost overrun with sa...
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| Crusing for a Brusing |
 | Aussies sock it to yachtie - What a fantasy it is to sail the oceans blue, master of one's fate, answering to no man. Well, things have changed, Cappy. Recent protests in the Caribbean may have stopped the reporting requirements being instituted by Caricom countries from being applied to cruising yachts. Not all nations are so inclined. With all this terrorist nonsense even f...
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| Informative Broker |
 | You have your boat! It’s great and just what you wanted. You are trying to be independent, but before you have that parting beer, you might want to ask your broker where the best place for the boat is and what you are really going to do with it. Yep, that’s right—the boat’s not just for Christmas! Your broker will advise you to the best of his or her knowledge; ...
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| Skippers Tips 22 |
 | Aye, Aye Captain - A recent post on one of the Internet discussion boards concerned with the BVI talked about “...the impact of sustained winds of greater than 22 knots, daily squalls and following seas of 6 to 12 feet. We had not prepared for the best way to free the prop from the dinghy painter in a channel with 8 foot seas and had not instructed the crew in how to secure the poly ro...
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| IC24 Rules |
6. OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT
6.1
The following are permitted when racing:
6.1.1
Barber haulers for the jib and spinnaker restricted as follows:
a) Fittings fixed to the deck shall not exceed one pad eye with or without attached block, mounted as per Plan A deck layout.
b) Tackle shall be limited to a single part of rope, which may be attached to the headsail sheet by a block, hook or cringle between th...
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