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     26 Races For Day One Of BVI Spring Regatta
     
     Perfect, if unusual, conditions kicked off the first day of racing at the 2002 BVI Spring Regatta. Wind from the East-South-East saw the windward mark to leeward of Salt Island but the 10-15 knot winds enabled the race committee give all the classes on the spinnaker course at least two races while the IC/24s had three.
     
     2002 BVI Spring Regatta Biggest Ever
     
     
     With winds forecast for 10-15 knots, the record-breaking 114 yachts entered at the 2002 BVI Spring Regatta are on tenterhooks for the 10 o'clock start gun tomorrow morning. Fifteen classes will start racing - in the largest event since its inception in 1972 - in the multi-course, multi-race format successfully introduced by the regatta last year.
     
     
     Big Boats, Big Parties, Big Bands At BVI Spring Regatta
     
     Big boats, daily awards, dockside regatta village at Nanny Cay Marina, international bands and a repeat of last year's successfully introduced multi-race format are a few of the attractions for this year's BVI Spring Regatta for April 4 to 7.
     
     Light Winds But Interesting Racing - BVI Spring Regatta, Day Two
     
     After perfect 10-15 knot conditions kicked off the first day of racing at the 30th annual BVI Spring Regatta winds de-generated to light to nothing for the second day with one class unable to complete its race of the day.
     
     As the wind swung to the south placing the windward mark for the spinnaker course between Salt and Peter islands, the race committee still managed to get off three races for many of the classes while all had at least t
     
     No Racing On Last Day But Places Change
     
     The last day of the 2002 BVI Spring Regatta dawned breathless and by 10am - without even having left the dock - racing was cancelled and a ‘Beach Day' was announced.'It's obviously disappointing,' said principal race officer and race committee chairman Bob Phillips, ‘but we'd rather bite the bullet now and let everyone go off and have some fun for the rest of the day rather than swelter in the sun for three hours and then cancel the racing. We managed to get off 59 races in two days with some of the classes doing five and six races so it was still a respectable number of races.