St Thomas Yacht Club - Cowpet Bay

InterClub 24 One-Design

SAILORS KICK OFF WATER SPORTS DAY
Sunday, April 27, 2003
by W. I. Bostwick
Preprinted from "The St Thomas Source"

IC-24s rounding the Waterfront mark at Sunday's sailboat races.

Nine IC-24 class boats sailed from the St. Thomas Yacht Club to the Charlotte Amalie Harbor Sunday to kick off the Carnival Water Sports Day. Starting at 10 a.m. the nine wind-only powered vessels ran four closely contested races. More .....

IC-24 leading "Rob Roy" during the St John Yacht Club Round St John Race, 24 February 2002.

Ready to round the windward buoy for the last time, in the last race of the IC24 Invitational Regatta hosted at the St. Thomas Yacht Club (STYC) in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Doyle Sherman and his Team Barefoot crew from the Rush Creek Yacht Club (RCYC) in Dallas, TX, battled 20 knots-plus of breeze, three- to five-foot swells and keen competition as they tried to make a tight mark rounding.
Click here to read the Southwinds article by Carol Bareuther.

Roller coaster seas and a stiff breeze packing blustery gusts created conditions in Cowpet Bay that made the all-alike sailboats look like bucking broncos at the starting line. But the excitement at the IC24 Invitational Regatta Saturday and Sunday wasn't just at the start; it went right down to the last race. Click here for coverage.

The easy-to-sail nature of the IC-24 proved itself this weekend when Tortola's Robbie Hirst stepped aboard one of the unique-design vessels for the first time Saturday and ultimately skippered it to a first-place finish in the first-ever IC-24 Invitational Regatta at the St. Thomas Yacht Club. Read on ........