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balin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:17:01 +0000

Dominica photo travel

balin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:56:40 +0000

BVI gets ready for Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival

balin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:06:43 +0000

ROAD TOWN, BVI: With less than two weeks left before the big event, there has been an increase in the registering process for the British Virgin Islands Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival.

Organisers say early registration is stronger than before.

Chairman of the event for the past eleven years, Bob Phillips, says they currently have nearly ninety boats registered and many of them are coming from strong performances in other events and they expect to have some great competition.

This year’s event takes place March 31 – April 6 and more than 160 boats are expected.

Fleet racers. PHOTO: Broadsword Communications
Phillips says there are a number of big boats returning to race in Drake Channel including Stuart Robinson’s Stay Calm, a Swan 70. Stuart won his class in the 2006 BVI Spring Regatta and will be racing in Performance Cruising this season. In the racing fleet, Bill Alcott’s 68’ Equation will be quite the horizon filler.

Gracing the BVI waters will be such notables as Oystercatcher XXVI, Richard Matthews’ new 42 footer designed by Tom Humphreys. Just launched last August, this carbon fiber hull won Spinnaker Division B in the St Maarten Heineken in March.

Boats are also expected from the US Virgin Islands.

Organisers say although ninety boats are already registered, many more are expected in the next two weeks with the competitive IC fleet forecast to be the biggest fleet ever.

Held annually on the first weekend of April, the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival is celebrating its 37th anniversary. It is now a seven-day event with two events back-to-back attracting an average of 150 yachts per year with eighty percent of the competitors from overseas.

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Paradise!!!

balin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:02:21 +0000

I know that Dominica is the sweetest little island.

So almost for that reason alone and the fact that on November third 2008 Dominica and Dominicans around the world will be coming home to celebrate a Reunion and the island’s independence. Everyone will be in D/c for the celebration of course so be there ppl!!!

C U Guys down there in our paradise.

Where I stayed: Sea Cliff Cottages
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Dominica investments - island of the future

balin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:27:46 +0000

In dominica-oil.com conception have been able to combine the requirements of different groups of Dominica people and demands, which seems to be contradictory and competing each other. They offer:

* To fighters for ecology (for the Waitukubuli Ecological Foundation): pristine purity of the nature.
* To the tourist business: the island, where the past goes by hand with the future.
* To the lovers of progress: own automobile factory.
* To the poor: make a reality of the dream to have personal car.

They offer an energy program to be the basis of progress and sustainable development of Dominica. Dominica, following its image of the pristine island, can provide a power, which completely expelling the oil products from the island. Dominica people must implement these ideas, the government should only be an arbiter in the construction of new ideas and should not bear the monetary costs to realize this project, which must to become folk.

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