Name change for Antigua Sailing Week

From their web site http://www.sailingweek.com/v2/index.php

23-02-2009 11:06:30
Stanford no longer sponsor of Antigua Sailing Week

With Stanford International Bank title sponsors of Antigua Sailing Week for the last two years now in receivership, the bank will no longer be a sponsor of this year’s event. As such the event will be dropping the Stanford name with immediate effect and will revert to simply Antigua Sailing Week.

Once more we would like to reassure everyone that the event will be going ahead as planned. The racing will not be compromised in any way and we will ensure that the 2009 edition of this great event will be as enjoyable and as memorable as the years gone by.


It's amazing how this one man has affected so many...

Salute to s/v PERSEUS in St Maarten

This morning's Dutch bridge opening in St. Maarten was quite moving... As the sailing yacht PERSEUS entered the lagoon everyone saluted the yacht with their horns. It lasted about 5 minutes.

Here's a photo of the 163-foot, Perini Navi charter yacht Perseus from the 2008 St. Barths Bucket Race from the Monaco Eye website.


(Monacoeye.com kindly granted us permission to use this photo. Please do not copy.)

As most of you probably already know, the Australian 38-year-old yacht skipper Drew Gollan was fatally shot in Antigua last week. You can read about this tragic incident in Latitude 38's online magazine... CLICK HERE

Our sincere condolences to all...