By Lynn FitzpatrickWhen the pleasant waiter served me a grilled tuna salad and a Pain Killer, it struck me. I was in the next best thing to Paradise. Planes, trains, automobile and ferry rides were finally behind me. Steel drums played in the background and a marina chock full of sparkling clean Sunsail and Moorings charter boats twinkled as the sun set over... MORE

By Lynn Fitzpatrick(December 17, 2009) - I was driving down the Long Beach Freeway when I heard the news that one of the greatest benefactors to sailing in the United States, Roy E. Disney, had passed away. Before I knew it I was in front of Gladstone’s, practically a shrine to Disney’s Pyewackets and their string of yachting victories. Numerous Pyewacke... MORE

By Lynn FitzpatrickDecember 5, 2009 (Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, ISV) - Colin Rathbun (IVB) and his team had a spectacular completion of the last three flights of Round Robin 2 at the 2nd Annual Carlos Aguilar Match Race and moved onto the Semi-Finals.Taylor Canfield (ISV), defending champion, and Peter Holmberg (ISV) put an equal number of wins on the sco... MORE

By Lynn Fitzpatrick of World RegattasDecember 5, 2009 (Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, ISV) - Katy Pilley-Lovell (USA) and her team executed a perfect final jibe and stayed powered up in their own breeze to pass Liz Baylis (USA) and cross the finish line with yet another win. Pilley-Lovell’s team punched their ticket into the semi-finals and made it mathemat... MORE

By Lynn FitzpatrickDecember 5, 2009 (Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, ISV) - Maria Ramires (POR) competed in the 2nd Annual Carlos Aguilar Regatta with a very international crew. Maria is the only Portuguese sailor on the boat and the rest of her team is from the US and the Caribbean. Ramires became interested in match racing when she was 14 years old, but ru... MORE

December 5, 2009 (Charlotte Amaile, St. Thomas, IVS) - Juan Carlos Escobar, Humberto Zepeda, Benjamin Diaz and Jorge Guevara are representing El Salvador at the 2nd Annual Carlos Aguilar Match Race.Carlos Aguilar grew up in El Salvador and was a passionate sailor and surfer. Eventually, Aguilar moved to St. Thomas and established his architectural practice. ... MORE