Click on the picture to read more!! This year's Best of the Best Bahamian wooden racing sloop regatta was sailed on Sunday Dec 4th in windy, challenging conditions. The regatta is the year-end culmination of many local regattas sailed throughout the island nation of the Bahamas during the year.
Click on the picture to read more!! Winning the 2022 Bahamian Triple Crown. The 2022 Best of the Best Bahamian wooden racing sloop regatta was sailed on December 4 in windy, challenging conditions. Sailing these hugely overpowered boats so close to the edge is like balancing on a tight rope – one mistake and the game is over.
Click on the picture to read more!! Sailing Photojournalist Jan Pehrson was caught unexpectedly on the 36-foot sailboat “Slowpoke” directly in the path of Hurricane Nicole, a rare November hurricane that made landfall on the Florida East Coast with 70-75 mph winds. This is her first person account.
Click on the picture to read more!! Sailing Photojournalist Jan Pehrson was caught unexpectedly on the 36-foot sailboat "Slowpoke" directly in the path of Hurricane Nicole, a rare November hurricane making landfall on the Florida East Coast with 70-75 mph winds.
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Click on the picture to read more!! Sailor’s Choice Restaurant & Bar Opens in Nassau - .... Stop by to hang out and eat and drink with Bahamian Wooden Sloop Sailors and Owners.
In the Bahamas, families have traditionally been large, so most Bahamians enjoy networks of first family, extended family, cousins, and friends. When Deno Albury reopened his family-owned waterfront restaurant at 307 East Bay St, Nassau, he chose a theme of community. He hung my Bahamian wooden sloop photos on the walls, and brough in trophies from home won by Deno’s family sloop “Good News.” Deno created Sailor’s Choice -- a hangout for sailors and an informal yacht club.
Click on the picture to read more!! 53rd Long Island Bahamas Regatta…
After a three-year government imposed pause to protect Bahamians from the spread of Covid-19, it is Regatta Time again in Long Island, Bahamas. Long Island, Bahamas is not to be confused with Long Island, New York, as this island in the Bahamas has less than 2000 inhabitants, is 57 miles long, and is nowhere wider than four miles. It is legendary for its wooden boat builders and powerful racing sailors.
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Splashes: A prince and his duchess race Bahamian sloops in a heated competition. The 17-foot Class-C Bahamian sloops get set to round the mark. Read about a royal visit to the most popular racing in Bahamas.
Click on the picture to read more!! UK Royals William and Kate try Bahamian Sloop Racing!
The UK Royals sampled the Crown Jewel of Bahamian sports when they had a chance to go sloop racing during their week-long tour to the region in March, as part of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubalee Year. Interestingly, it was the sailors that got the best pictures of their royal crew members up close and personal.
This 4-foot by 6-foot oil painting is derived from my photo of racing C-Class Bahamian Wooden Sloops. Click on the picture to see artist Daniel Caldwell’s website. I love how he was faithful to my image but, working in oils, made it abstract and rich and powerful. I look forward to Daniel painting more of my images of the sloops.
Click on the picture to read more!! Young British royals, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, race against each other in Bahamian Wooden Sloops in Nassau. Taking a break from their tour of the Carribean, the likely future King and Queen of England have some fun sailboat racing with local Bahamian crews.
Click on the picture to read more!! Young British royals, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, race against each other in Bahamian Wooden Sloops in Nassau. Taking a break from their tour of the Carribean, the likely future King and Queen of England have some fun sailboat racing with local Bahamian crews.
Click on the picture to read more!! This book is a publication of the Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs of the Bahamas. Authored and designed by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas and Neko Meicholas, Masters of the Sea tells the story of regattas and sailing in The Bahamas.
