Virgin Islands ready to host VX One Caribbean Cup 2025

The VX One Caribbean Cup is all set to take place for its 2nd edition during the spring season of 2025 in the Virgin Islands. The tournament will be hosted for the individuals, who are involved in boat racing and will be competing in two famous regattas.

VX One Caribbean Cup 2025 will be hosted by the organizers of the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival of the St Thomas International Regatta. It is disclosed that around 12 boats are already committed to taking part in the race.

The confirmed boat participations are from the VX One North American class association. The event is announced in partnership with VX One. The Caribbean Cup 2025 will allow the participants to present challenges in two of the top regattas of the Caribbean.

The races will be competing in a VX One one-design class boat in the regattas that are scheduled to take place in 2025. The St Thomas International Regatta will take place from 28 March to 30 March. Meanwhile, the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival will occur between 4 to 6 April.

Pat Bailey, the Co-director with Greer Scholes of STIR 2025 from St Thomas Yacht Club, said, “We are happy to welcome the VX One class to race in our fun-filled St Thomas International Regatta. We are inviting all VX One sailors to come, race, play, and see why we say that We love it here.“

The Chairman of the BVISR, Chris Haycraft, said, “We are thrilled to invite the VX One Class racers back to the BVI Spring Regatta, where the tight and fun racing is perfect for this high-performance group of sailors.”

He added, “We are looking forward to welcoming new and old friends back to the BVISR and enjoying this fun and fierce racing by day and camaraderie in the village every evening.”

The VX One’s one-design keelboats was built in 2012 and are in use since then. Around four hundred 19-foot-long keelboats sailed with an optimum weight range of 380 to 550 pounds.

Rodrigo Favela, a VX One Chignon racer from Dallas, said, “Regret is a scary thing, that is why you should do this event if you can. I have sailed the one-design IC24s at STIR, helped coach at NorthU Clinics in St Thomas, and the Virgin Islands are one of the best places in the world to sail.”

The first edition of the VX One Caribbean Cup was introduced around eight years ago, in 2016. In the competition, boat racer teams from nations like the US, Canada, and Australia participated. In 2025, each regatta in the VX One Caribbean Cup will be separately scored like in 2016.