International Rolex Regatta - Three days of sun-drenched racing



1:43 AM Mon 28 Mar 2011 GMT
'Fleet start, class IC 24 - Rolex International Regatta Day 3' Rolex/ St Thomas Yacht Club/ Ingrid Abery
International Rolex Regatta, St. Thomas Yacht Club - Final day. Topping off three days of sun-drenched racing in the International Rolex Regatta, over 700 sailors on 77 teams mixed it up today on Pillsbury Sound, completing distance courses that explored the cays and islands off St. Thomas, where the event has been hosted for 38 years by St. Thomas Yacht Club. Big guns, such as Boewe Bekking, Gavin Brady, Ed Baird, Steve Benjamin, Richard Clarke and Chris Larson were in abundance aboard the keelboats that competed, but it by no means took the calling cards of professional sailors to guarantee ...


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by Barby MacGowan





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