News - Nanny Cay Challenge

Champagne start for Aiyana

2013-03-26T21:34:55Z

A jubilant Aiyana crew back on the dock at Nanny CayIn today’s Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup, Peter Corr’s Alia 82, Aiyana smashed the monohull record by nearly half an hour. Setting a new record of 3 hours, 29 minutes and 44 seconds for the 37-mile run around Tortola.

Aiyana is the largest yacht competing at the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival and the crew let out a big ‘cheer’ dockside as the news came through they had broken the course monohull record. However, at the start of the race it didn’t go according to plan as Aiyana’s owner, Peter Corr explains:

“At the start, we only had about 8 knots of wind and we had to do a restart, so we didn’t think the record was on, but the breeze built to about 12 knots and with the wind just south of east, it was a great direction for the race. As we went up the east side of Tortola, the breeze built and we were getting lifted all the time and managed to hoist an A-sail just around Beef Island. Things were really looking up as we peeled to our symmetrical kite at Scrub Island.”

Triple Jack Snatches Back Round Tortola Record

2012-10-29T13:26:46Z

Triple Jack finished Round Tortola attempt off Nanny CayTrimaran Triple Jack snatched back her Round Tortola Record on Thursday October 25, flying around the island in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 18 seconds, taking 10 minutes off Formula 40 Soma’s record time set in April 2010 (2 hours, 50 minutes and 15 seconds). The vintage 34-year old Kelsall One-Off shattered her benchmark time of 3 hours and 33 minutes set in the 2009 Round Tortola Race. She covered 39.0 miles with an average speed of 12.68 knots and a top speed of 20.6 knots. When Formula 40 Soma broke the record, she sailed 45 miles, averaged 15 knots and reached a top speed of 25.4 knots.

With Miles Sutherland-Pilch, general manager of Nanny Cay, onshore calling the start, Triple Jack crossed the transit of the corner of PegLegs Restaurant and the western tip of Peter Island at 12.10pm. With an almost perfect southeasterly blowing, she started close to Peter Island and flew up the south side of Tortola on starboard tack before bearing off for the spinnaker hoist off Scrub Island.

Formula 40 , Soma, breaks Round Tortola Record in Nanny Cay Challenge

2010-04-16T20:10:55Z

Soma heads off to Cooper Island on first beat - click to enlargeSoma, a St John-based Formula 40 catamaran and frequent BVI visitor, smashed the Round Tortola Record yesterday in the first attempt on the Nanny Cay Challenge announced in February. Soma circumnavigated Tortola and outer islands in 2 hours, 50 minutes and 15 seconds smashing Triple Jack’s record of 3 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds set in the PegLegs Round Tortola Race November last year.

Soma’s owners and crew Nils Erickson and Meredith Pridgen sailed with a crew of 6 friends including Nanny Cay general manager Miles Sutherland-Pilch.

“I’ve been wanting to do this record attempt since it was announced,” said Nils. “I looked at the forecast and when you dream up a forecast, today was the perfect forecast for doing the race. A lot of north in the breeze and yesterday there was no breeze, so it was totally glassed over with no swell left.”

Nanny Cay Challenge for Round Tortola Record

2010-02-09T15:59:41Z

Triple Jack - the multihull and overall record holder

Nanny Cay has launched the Nanny Cay Challenge for the round Tortola record. Yachts visiting the British Virgin Islands are invited to make an attempt to beat the latest round Tortola records which have been established by the monohull and multihull times set in the 2009 PegLegs Round Tortola Race.

The current multihull and overall record is held by Triple Jack, a Kelsal 47 trimaran with a time of 3 hours, 33 minutes, 27 seconds. The monohull time to beat of 4 hours, 15 minutes and 5 seconds, was set by Dave West’s Jurakan, a Melges 32. It’s an all-comer, any-day event, starting and finishing off Nanny Cay. The start transit will be in line with PegLeg Restaurant’s upper deck at the entrance to Nanny Cay Marina. Competitors must attempt the record anti-clockwise and round Beef, Scrub Island, Great Camanoe and Guana Island to port. An entry fee of a $250 donation to a BVI charity of the challenger’s choice will include two night’s dockage (before and after attempt) at Nanny Cay.