BVI Olympic Sailing Team – Car Raffle

May 3, 2016 by
CarRaffle

Photo courtesy of Anderson/Brockbank Sailing

By RBVIYC

If you haven’t already heard, the BVI Olympic Sailing Team is holding a car raffle for a brand new 2016 Suzuki Vitara! In addition, about a dozen other great prizes have been included in the raffle such as a two night stay at Peter Island Resort, dinner at the Dove and a one hour massage at Imagine Spa.

If you would like to support the BVI Olympic Sailing Team and enter your chance to WIN a new car and some great prizes, buy a ticket before time runs out. Our Olympic hopefuls will be in and around Road Town this week to sell you your lucky ticket!

If you would like us to drop by and deliver your ticket please call 540 1780 or 343 0106 and we can bring one to you.

Also, if you think your company might be interested in supporting a great cause and potentially winning a new company car, please feel free to call the numbers provided above or email the team at bvi49er@gmail.com.

If you don’t see the team soon, the raffle draw will take place at the Fish N Lime (West End) on May 7 so come join us for a great day. We will have food and drink specials from 12pm until the draw at 4pm and will be offering free rides on the Olympic 49er boats (weather permitting)!

Please be aware that YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE AT THE DRAW TO WIN. We will call you to give you the good news, but we would love to see you down at Fish N Lime on Saturday if you can make it.


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Anderson/Brockbank competing in 49er World Championship to qualify for Rio 2016

November 18, 2015 by

By The BVI Beacon

Alec Anderson and Chris Brockbank re currently competing in the 49er World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina in hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Olympics. Photo: Matías Capizzano

Alec Anderson and Chris Brockbank re currently competing in the 49er World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina in hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Olympics. Photo: Matías Capizzano

Alec Anderson and Chris Brockbank are currently competing in the 49er World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina in hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Olympics.

The regatta is the second of three chances for the Virgin Islands sailors to qualify for the games. The regatta started on Monday and will wrap up on Saturday.

“Today was very much a learning day,” the sailors posted on Facebook after the first day of the regatta. “Three races, no keepers. Looking to get back on the horse tomorrow! Stay tuned!”

As of Monday, the top three teams are Croatia, Spain and Poland. Messrs. Anderson and Brockbank have been in Buenos Aires for the past three weeks preparing for the event.  They recently competed in the “warm up” event, the 2015 49er South Americans, where they missed qualifying for the Gold Fleet by just two points.

They sat in first in the Silver fleet after two days of racing.  Some of their best performances in the fleet included a fourth-place finish in the fourth race and several top 10 finishes.

“We have done a great job securing some top five races throughout the days leading up to Worlds, we need to limit our bad races to ones that we can keep the score, this will help us in achieving our best result yet at the 2015 Worlds,” Mr. Anderson said.

According to the sailors, the venue has been a difficult place to sail, with shallow brown water, very shifty conditions and steep choppy waves.

The World Championships feature 30 countries competing for just three Olympic qualifying spots. The sailors are some of the best competitors from around the world, including recently crowned International Sailing World Male Sailors of the Year: Blaire Tuke and Peter Burling from New Zealand. The duo took silver at the 2012 London Olympics.

After the World Championships, Messrs. Anderson and Brockbank will be back in the VI for three weeks to train before they head to Miami for the World Cup. This event will be the last chance for the sailors to qualify for the Olympics.

To follow the sailors’ progress, go to www.49er.org or visit Anderson/Brockbank Sailing on Facebook.

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BVIOC presents Virgin Island 49er sailors, Anderson & Brockbank with Olympic Scholarship

October 16, 2013 by
(l-r) Mark Chapman, treasurer, BVIOC, presents Olympic Solidarity funding to Rio 2016 hopefuls, Christopher Brockbank, 49er crew, and Alec Anderson, 49er skipper.

(l-r) Mark Chapman, treasurer, BVIOC, presents Olympic Solidarity funding to Rio 2016 hopefuls, Christopher Brockbank, 49er crew, and Alec Anderson, 49er skipper.

Virgin Island 49er sailors, Alec Anderson and Christopher Brockbank have been awarded an Olympic Scholarship by the BVI Olympic Committee (BVIOC). The combined, fixed $2000 monthly subsidy will assist them in their preparation and qualification for the Summer Games of the XXXI Olympiad, Rio 2016.

The funding comes from the Olympic Solidarity programme that aims to promote universal representation at the Olympic Games. The programme offers National Olympic Committees (NOCs) the possibility to obtain financial and technical assistance for a limited number of elite athletes who are training, and attempting to qualify, for the Rio Olympic Games.
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