Last Saturday, I took Julian over to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands where the BVI Yacht Club was hosting a Back to School Optimist Regatta for boys and girls. We went over with about six other boys and parents from St Thomas in a couple of boats. It was a lovely day, smooth crossing that took us about an hour from Red Hook in St Thomas to Nanny Cay on Tortola.
Julian who has sailed two other regattas in the beginner (or green) fleet has been fairly quickly introduced to race starts, making his way around a race course, and (possibly most importantly) how to avoid running into other boats while sailing as fast as you can.
And sailing fast he managed (well, most of the time at least) with some good starts and even better finishes. The end of the regatta produced a first place for our little Julian who was possibly more excited about the t-shirt and awards than his standing. What a fun day - we met some other great boys his age who live in Tortola and had a fun trip there and back.
Unfortunately, Mark and Max had to hold the fort and keep people with generators happy. Max actually had a sailing lesson that day at STYC which Mark watched. Max will be the next little racer.
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