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Nanny Cay Nations Cup 2008 - The Video

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2007 Nanny Cay Nations Cup On Caribbean Digest

The 2007 Nanny Cay Nations Cup was featured on CBN's first edition of Caribbean Digest.  Click on to view the segment featuring interviews, sailing action and shoreside fun...

Bitter End ProAm 2007 - Video Highlights

Video from the 2007 Bitter End ProAm.  The IC24s were a big hit for the second year.  Ken Read, multiple J24 world champion, was at home in the ICs, winning by seven points over second placer, Peter Holmberg.  Ed Baird, the recent recipient of the ISAF Rolex World Sailor Award was third, three points adrift of Holmberg.

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The "Holmbergs" - A Few Words

We grab a few words on video with the "Holmbergs" - Peter & John - at the Bitter End Yacht Club's Pro-Am. John is Bitter End's watersports director while Peter is freshly back to the Caribbean after his America's Cup duties with Alinghi.  They will be racing together at the Nanny Cay Nations Cup on November 17/18.

Sailing Stars Give IC/24 Racing "Two Thumbs Up"!

Racing In Paradise's Richard Wooldridge  hi-jacks interviews Russell Coutts, Paul Cayard, Ken Read, Dave Perry, Butch Ullmer and Rod Johnstone at the Bitter End  Yacht Club's  annual ProAm about their views  on the IC24.

The Bitter End Pro Am is the only event of its kind in the world offering amateurs and first-time sailors the rare opportunity to learn from and race with the rock stars and legends of sailing. Activities will also include a lively social schedule with fellow sailors off the water too.

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An Interview With Rod Johnstone - Video

Richard Wooldridge, Racing In Paradise's chief slicer and dicer, speaks to Rod Johnstone, designer of the J/24, about his views on the IC/24 - the sliced and diced version of his brainchild.  Rod was taking a break from The Bitter End Yacht Club's ProAm in November 2006 where he was competing with the likes of Russell Coutts and Paul Cayard.  Racing In Paradise's fleet of IC/24s had been chartered for the event.

Nanny Cay Nations Cup 2005 - the video

Fourteen teams representing seven countries and comprising 70 sailors competed in the inaugural Nanny Cay Nations Cup held in the British Virgin Islands this weekend (November 12/13). Crews rotated through seven one-design IC24s in 10 flights giving a total of 18 races for the weekend with each team competing in nine races.

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