You may have heard some of the junior sailors expressing their excitement about the new Open Bic sailing dinghies that have arrived at the St Croix Yacht Club through the generosity of the Virgin Island Sailing Association (VISA) The Bic is designed specifically for juniors, our little dinghy has blown Read more…
A near-record 114 8 to 15-year-old sailors from five continents will race 8-foot long single-sail Optimist dinghies in the TOTE Maritime Clinic, today through July 12, the TOTE Maritime Team Race, June 13, and International Optimist Regatta (IOR), presented by Electronic Merchant System (EMS) Virgin Islands, June 14-16. This trio Read more…
On behalf of the International 470 Class, I would like to thank you for your support in selecting the 470 as the equipment for the new mixed two-person dinghy event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and for your continued recognition of the key role the 470 plays in the Read more…
The Antilles High School sailing team traveled last weekend to the Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Florida, where it won the South Atlantic Interscholastic Sailing Association District Team Race Qualifier, securing a spot at Baker team race nationals next month in Portland, Maine. The team sent eight sailors to Read more…
Registration is open! The International Optimist Regatta (IOR), presented by EMS (Electronic Merchant Systems) Virgin Islands, and the TOTE Maritime Clinic and Team Race, will take place June 10-16, 2019. More specifically, the Clinic takes place June 10-12, followed by the Team Race, June 13 along with a Parade of Read more…
Applications for entry for the following World Championships will be accepted beginning Thursday, 31 January 2019: 2019 ILCA Laser Radial Youth World Championships2019 ILCA Laser 4.7 Youth World Championships For both of the above events, the deadline for receiving PAID applications for initial allocation of places is 20 March 2019 Read more…
The only U.S. Virgin Islander to earn a medal at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, St. Croix’s Peter Stanton, has been awarded the coveted title of ‘Virgin Islands Sailor of the Year’ for 2018 by the Virgin Islands Sailing Association (VISA). “Peter has represented the territory at Read more…
We currently have five active USVI Laser sailors, three in Laser Radial and two in Laser 4.7 representing ISV in National and International events. Mateo DiBlasi, Mathieu Dale, Julian Van den Driessche(radial and 4.7) and Atlee Kohl. Summer 2018 Laser Radial Mateo Di Blasi represented ISV at ISAF Worlds, Corpus Read more…
Peter Stanton, 34, won a bronze medal for the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Open Sunfish class for Sailing on Wednesday, the first medal for the USVI in the 2018 CAC Games. Stanton, who hails from the island of St. Croix, competed against 12 other sailors in his class over the course of Read more…
The 2017 College Sailor of the Year, former Youth Olympic Gold Medalist and current 2020 Summer Olympic medal-aspirant in the 49er, Ian Barrows, has been awarded the coveted title of ‘Virgin Islands Sailor of the Year’ for 2017 by the Virgin Islands Sailing Association (VISA). “Ian is probably the best Read more…