ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK

Picture by Edwin Gifford

Racing at Antigua Sailing Week goes past the halfway mark on Day 3 (Tuesday 30 April). The warm trade winds continued to build, with a south easterly gradient breeze piping up to 15 knots. Squall activity early in the day caused some big shifts, mixing it up for the 88 boat international fleet.

Watch the Highlights video here:  showing on-the-water action, shoreside interviews and footage from the @calvinairheli by Roddy Grimes-Graeme @acquafilms and images by Paul Wyeth/pwpictures.com at Antigua Sailing Week - Citizenship By Investment Unit Race Day.

Interviews: Juerg Schneider - Saida (SUI) - Talks of the great battle between the two Swan 65s. Matthias Maus’ Alpha Centauri of London (GER) and Juerg Schneider’s Saida (SUI) are both from the design board of Sparkman & Stephens and launched in 1973. Saida is Hull #5 and Alpha Centauri #7. Saida leads the CSA Club Class Max by two points from Alpha Centauri of London.

Ashley Rhodes - Melges 24 Whiplash (ANT) racing in the pocket-rocket CSA 6 Class on getting young sailors involved in keelboat racing, All of Ashley’s crew are past or present Youth 2 Keel (Y2K) sailors heralding from the AYC Youth Programme. Sixteen-year-olds on board are Luca Deleau, Emily Gaillard, Patrick Greensmith and Alistair Knoblauch. Tactician Rhone Kirby came up through Y2K and is now an instructor at the Antigua Yacht Club.