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Yacht club aims to give people amusement

St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club in the Panama City, in the United States of America, is famous for the varied water activities it has for adult as well as the youth. However as a part of their recent initiative, they are aiming to provide complete leisure to people so that they may relax on a spring afternoon and enjoy the beautiful boats pass by.

The coach of Yacht Club mentions that this initiative is to bring on more people downtown. He even states that the boats are amusing and people would certainly gain interest in watching them. In this regard the club has also planned to host the Class A catamaran championships to entertain people. Continue reading Yacht club aims to give people amusement

Jaguar Lead Boat

Jaguar, which represents the Trinidad & Tobago Sail Association, has come up as the lead boat at Grenada Sail Week 2014. The boat contested off Spice Isle starting from January 30 till February 4 this year.

Peter Morris was the skipper of the winner Jaguar boat. Much to the pleasure of skipper Morris and his squad, the boat topped at the high on competition CSA Cruising I class, getting better of Boxxer and Chao Lay. The boat had to race in winds 15 knots averaging over 4 days of contending.

Jaguar also earned the much coveted honor of Best Performer Boat at this annual regatta that considers a great host factors for the award- competitiveness of class, loyalty to event and turn-out of boat 7 crew.

“Grenada Sail Week is undoubtedly an amazing regatta”, remarked the winner skipper Morris while asked to speak a few words about his recent feat. “It’s the initial event for this season to us & from this championship we are heading towards north to contend in more. Our Jaguar squad looks truly solid with all fantastic sailors- but interestingly we do not have any pros in between us. We are great buddies who are passionate about sailing & the Grenada event offers strong racing & fabulous ambience ashore.”

According to the skipper, it is the close bond between the Jaguar sailors than binds them and enables them to come up with excellent achievements together.

“Close racing & bonhomie with everybody involved here makes an ideal event – winning this very coveted best performer yacht recognition was a grand moment for everybody here”, the elated skipper added in.

Among other T and T yachts that contended in the event, Dingo (Mark Chapman) took away the win of CSA Racing- Done Talking came 7th in Cruising II.

2013 Championship of Champions

Brian Keane has reportedly come up as the winner of 2013 Championship of Champions on October 27, 2013. It was a dramatic finish to the prestigious race organized by the prestigious Columbia Sailing Club and as many as 16 races were needed to choose the winner of Jack Brown Trophy.

Brian Keane & crew members Steve Hunt & Victor De Leon bagged in a 3 point lead place over B. Alison & Laura and will Jeffers. Skip Dieball and crew members Tom Starck & Abby Freeman were 7 points back that got them in the 3rd position.

The Race 15 on the last day started out amidst winds at five to eight knots. The club Race Committee reduced the racing course foe upward finish. This 15th race had Lee Sackett as the winner who was followed by Tampa’s Greiner Hobbs in the second position, Alison in the 3rd & Keane in the 4th place. Dieball came to the 13th position. However, in the last race, Keane came up with a 4-point lead over Betsy Alison & Dieball was eleven points behind.

Prior to the 16th race, there was this 1800 wind shift blowing from the eastern side at about five knots. The Easterly Breeze was never usual in Lake Murray & the very wind direction resulted in shifty weather-legs. Skip Dieball was able to maintain lead in 1st leeward mark & was followed by Brian Keane & Gillum. The teams adjusted themselves to a light oscillation to northeast with the winds at five to eight knots. Dieball came up as the winner for the 16th Race, followed by Brian and Starck.

Keane won over the Columbian regatta by ten points over Skip & Alison. Skip won on tie-breaker and came to the 2nd place. Albeit Keane could not win on any of the races in the recent week yet he finished in top 3 on 7 occasions all through the 16 races.