The popular Caribbean yacht charter destination – St. Maarten – hosted the Annual General Meeting and Caribbean Regatta Organizers Conference last week. During the event, Peter Holmberg was elected as the new President of the Caribbean Sailing Association (CSA) for 2012/13.
The Palapa Marina is a beautiful superyacht marina, located in Simpson bay Lagoon, in the west of the island of St Martin in the Caribbean. It comfortably accommodates 22 superyachts measuring up to 250ft in LOA. Another Caribbean island, Curacao, will boast the new Palapa Beach Resort, featuring a five-star hotel, an exclusive mega yacht marina as well as casino.
IGY’s Yacht Haven Grande in St. Thomas, the Rodney Bay Marina in St. Lucia, as well as the Yacht Club Isle de Sol in St. Maarten have been all awarded with 5 Gold Anchors each. Received by Yacht Harbour Association (TYHA), all of these superyacht marinas make part of the IGY Yacht Haven Grande Collection.
Nautor’s Swan 100 charter yacht VIRAGO is the winner of the 2012 St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. On the third and final day of competition, the wind gods truly unleashed their power. And the result was one of the more stirring, sensational days of racing in the grand and storied legacy of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta.
The 32nd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta´s entry list is rapidly growing as the yacht race´s start, held in March 1 is drawing closer.
The IGY Caribbean Anchor Pass program encourages mega yachts´ cruising in the Caribbean in an increasingly popular and convenient way. It is the method of choice for a large number of mega yachts looking to save on dockage, while keeping the freedom and flexibility to travel to several islands under one package.
The 32nd edition of the St.Maarten Heineken Regatta is only four months away and organizers are in full preparation for what is expected to be another […]
The final day of the 31st St. Maarten Heineken Regatta was one to remember, starting early on Sunday morning with a full slate of racing and ending very early Monday morning after a Prize-Giving ceremony on Kim Sha Beach and an epic line-up of musical entertainment headlined by Wyclef Jean, the ex-Fugees front man whose 4-hour performance was simply one for the ages.
On a strange, squally day where it rained early and often—and in many divisions, both skill and luck, sometimes in heavy doses, played a major role in the final results—the 31st running of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta came to a close this afternoon following a single, extremely taxing point-to-point race from Marigot to Simpson Bay.
Racing sailors know it as Moving Day, the midpoint in a regatta when the time has come to make a move, either to solidify your place in the standings or, for boats that have not yet sailed to their potential, to elevate your position in the fleet. And on Day 2 in the 31st running of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, with a pair of contests conducted for the CSA racing classes 1-6, the opportunity to move up—or down—was at hand.