Wally has a busy 2011 calendar attending a total of 8 Superyacht Regattas and Boat Shows during the 2011 yachting season. The regattas include Palmavela, The Nespresso Cup, The Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, The Giraglia Rolex Cup, The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Les Voiles de Saint Tropez and the two boat shows include the Cannes Boat Show, and the Monaco Yacht Show.
The BVI Spring Regatta is celebrating several important milestones at this year’s event (March 28 – April 3, 2011), including the regatta’s 40th anniversary and many wonderful years of support from its oldest sponsors, Mount Gay Rum, Heineken and their distributor Road Town Wholesale (RTW), a Tortola-based food and spirit distributor.
The inaugural Neptune Regatta is the World’s only sailing regatta and motor yacht rally, that centers around a race to the equator and back. Using various social networks and creating a web site quickly raised a lot of interest in the Singapore boating community, which sees 9 sailing yachts in two classes and 4 power boats of various sizes entering the inaugural event.
A full fleet of sailing craft from the graceful Jessie Logan, built in 1878, to the grunty Ports of Auckland tugboats and nippy P class yachts skippered by the next generation of racing sailors will bring the Waitemata Harbour alive in a maritime spectacle to celebrate the Oceanbridge Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta, on Monday, 31 January 2011.
With just over five months until Antigua Sailing Week, entries are coming in thick and fast, from all over the world. Compared to this time last year, there are over twice the number of entries received for the most prestigious and longest running regatta in the Caribbean calendar.
Bodrum Cup International Wooden Yacht Regatta, one of the biggest naval organizations of Turkey, sponsored by Ant Yapi and MM Proje had 51 yachts, including 10 bearing foreign flags attending the regatta.
The 2010 China Coast Regatta, running from 15-17 October 2010, organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club have confirmed 45 boats in eight Divisions. Yachts range in size from the 75’ Reichel Pugh, Jelik III to a brand new fleet of J/80’s who will contest China Coast Regatta in the waters to the south east of Hong Kong Island.
At 1126 hours BST on Sunday, the sailing yacht Groupama 70 took victory in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland off the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. By sailing the 1,802 miles in 5 days 21 hours and 26 minutes at an average speed of 12.74 knots, the French crew broke the previous record. Sailing yacht Telefonica Azul took 2nd place.
Franck Cammas’ Volvo Open 70, Groupama, was the first yacht to round Muckle Flugga at 1400 BST. They are now heading southwest at a speed of over 17 knots with their 19-mile lead rapidly increasing over their rivals Telefonica Azul, who are still beating up to Muckle Flugga.
The Super maxi sailing yacht ICAP Leopard retired from the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race due to a boom failure. View a video showing the amazing conditions prior to their exit from the race.
After the first 24 hours of the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race, The Volvo Open 70 sailing yacht Telefonica Azul, is scorching along at a blistering speed having covered 440 miles of the 1,800 mile course. Hurtling along behind them is Groupama and they are pushing hard.