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including a Swan 80, GP42, Marc Lombard 46 and JPK1180; and a Grand Soleil 50 racer-cruiser for several Caribbean regattas. Similarly, Canadian-headquartered Ocean Racers charters its Pogo 12.50 racer- cruiser, and Antigua-based OnDeck offers a Beneteau 40.7, Dehler 39 and Farr 65 for race charter. These are just three of the companies that base their race charter yachts in the Caribbean for the winter and spring regatta season. There are several other companies, headquartered both in and out of the Caribbean, that do the same. New this year, the CSA will have all race charter boats available for the Caribbean regatta season listed in one central place on the organisation's website (caribbean-sailing.com/yachtcharter). Beyond this, some events have their own race charter fleets. For example, the St Thomas International Regatta offers its club-owned fleet of IC24s for one-design racing. Combined with entries from Puerto Rico and the BVI, this class often sees over 20 boats on the start line. Similarly, Antigua’s National Sailing Academy charters its 24ft Cork 1720s.


Bareboat fleets are especially popular and competitive in the St Maarten Heineken, BVI Spring Regatta and Antigua Sailing Week. For example, more than 40 bareboats raced in four classes this year in St Maarten. Major charter operators include Sunsail/Moorings and Dream Yacht Charters, with bases throughout the Caribbean and several makes and models from


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which to choose. In general, bareboats tend to be 40ft to 50ft in length and include brands such as Beneteau, Jeanneau, Dufour and Hanse. At some events such as the BVI Spring Regatta and Antigua Sailing Week there are often one- design classes withing the bareboat fleet making the racing even more competitive.


New Normal Racing


One race format that may feature even more prominently in 2021 is distance courses, using pre-set marks such as government buoys and rocks, isles and cays. Distance racecourses have grown in popularity in the last several years in Caribbean regattas. For example, the star of Barbados Sailing Week is a 60-mile round the island race. For 2021, the Caribbean Multihull Challenge introduces a 60-mile sprint that winds its way from St Maarten to St Barths and Anguilla and back. The St Thomas International Regatta prefaces its traditional three- day event with the Round the Rocks Race, a circumnavigation of the 19- square mile US Virgin of St John. In 2021, in celebration of the 50th anniversary BVI Spring Regattas, organisers will run the 165-mile Full Moon race that circumnavigates the entire BVI. Les Voiles de St Barths is notable for its Richard Mille Record Trophy race, a 34-mile course to St Martin and back that’s perfect for this event’s featured entries like 100ft Maxi yachts. Antigua Sailing Week too runs its 52-mile Peters & May Round


Top: large cruiser-racer multihulls have become a central part of the racing scene during Antigua


Sailing Week, competing with each other while also regularly challenging the largest monohull racers. The Caribbean regatta circuit attracts many stripped-out, purpose-built racers like this Carkeek 47 (above) as well as racer cruisers and cruiser-racers of all shapes and sizes


Antigua Race to kick off its event. Caribbean venues are perfect for these types of courses, where skill and tactics in reading sea currents and wind shadows in the lee of islands are as important as boat handing around the buoys.


Another enhanced dimension may be the addition of single or double- handed racing. For example, Antigua Sailing Week added a new double- handed class in 2019, where the entries included an Open 40, Swan 44 and Oyster 49.


There will also be a continuation of Sport Boat Class, offered at the St Maarten Heineken Regatta and Antigua. This class is for small planing boats like the Melges 24, J/70 and Mini 650.


In the face of what will be a new normal going forward, it’s the Caribbean’s long-standing and time- honoured tradition of delivering fantastic racing that will be the mantra for 2021


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ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK / PAUL WYETH


WHITE RHINO 2/ARTHUR DANIEL


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