Beer and Boats: Heineken Regatta time!
The 38th edition of Heineken Regatta Sint Martin is going to start tomorrow! That means lots of sailing, lots of boats and lots of beers! This annual 4 day event is a highlight in festivities on our island, and I am really looking forward to it.
Imagesource: St. Martin Heineken Regatta facebook page
Sailing
There will be 4 days of sailing racing in all kinds of categories and sizes of boats. BF is in luck he is on a racing boat called no1sxm tomorrow which is a tri-maran. Those things are fast!!
The wind is predicted to be a bit slow in the next couple of days, but that can also be a big challenge for sailing. Windguru is my favorite site for watersport predictions in wind. Normally the wind here is ALWAYS but I mean always from the east, but it might change a bit these days.
Party Hardy
Heineken Regattas festivities are notorious, they always seem to get big names to come and join the party! UB40, LMFAO, Kool and the Gang are big names I've seen there in previous editions. And even this year after the hurricane they still managed to get good names. On Saturday we have Destra visting, and on Sunday Shaggy will hit the stage.
In case you don't know Destra
Everybody knows Shaggy, right???
My regatta
Most likely I will not be on any boat this year, but who knows what will pop up all of a sudden. So what I am doing?? I'm bartending in the weekend next to the stage! That means having all the music, and getting paid for it as well ;)
A picture from when I was on a boat during Regatta
Beersaturday
So my #beersaturday this week will be one of Heineken beers. Nothing special, but just a convenient island drink . Don't let them go warm, and find my bar in time to get some new ones :D
I present you the Sint Martin Regatta edition of Heineken. Cheers!
The light winds will be a big change from what the Caribbean 600 fleet just race through with over half the fleet retiring.
Then west winds on Saturday and Sunday!
I am in Antigua now and thinking of sailing east for the free lift ;)
Strange right?? Last couple weeks the wind was never underneith 26 knots and just now boom dead. Also the west wind...like 3 days a year maybe at max!
You are not dropping by here? Antigua is only a day sail! Put you on follow. We need more Caribbean Steemians!
I'll be back round St. Maarten sometime I'm sure, but most likely not this season.
Wishing everyone the best though.
Been informing most everyone I meet about steem/steemit.
@knot has been great on connecting sailors.
Okay super cool! Yeah next season is a new season and hopefully a better one. Antigua everything a bit back to normal all ready? And Barbuda?
The storm was a non event for Antigua.
Barbuda got direct hit just like St. Maarten so everything has to rebuilt there (although there wasn't alot there to begin with)
Sounds like one hell of a partyyyy haha enjoy!!
Gisteren een klein voorproefje gehad maar het gaat mooi worden de rest van het weekend!
haha the sailing looks very cool. Awesome even. Do they pay you for the product mentions? :)
Hahaha I wish!! Here in the region you have a lot more regattas actually, so everybody refers to the Sint Martin one as the heineken regatta :)
They've been the main sponsor for years now.
The sailing is super awesome! Still hoping to catch a ride in the weekend somewhere!
Bedoelde je nu "lots of beer" of "loads of beer"? Zal wel op hetzelfde neerkomen zeker... hahaha.
De soca-dame kende ik nog niet, wel kei-goed ('k hou niet van Shaggy)
Dus als ik het goed begrijp gaan er op deze blog nog veel foto's van top boten verschijnen, met en zonder crew... En wat sfeerbeelden van de party(s) lijkt me ook wel leuk...
Ik bedoel inderdaad loads of beers en lots of beer eigenlijk allebei! :D
Destra is echt een fantastische artieste! Zeldzaam goed, heb er zin in om die te zien vanaf achter mn barretje. Ik denk inderdaad dat hier nog niet het laatste woord over geschreven is :)
Laat maar komen...
bartender is the best position . :)
I really like bartending to be honest! Last year when we had a pop up restaurant/bar proved again it is just cool to do
come on now , be honest. you're doing it for the free beer. :)
Shit....you got me!
When I saw the title "beer and boats" ... it seems like such an unhealthy mix.
I am use to seeing "beer and brats" ...but that is also an unhealthy mix.
Come to think of it, even if I like beer. I don't think it's healthy... but who cares.. It's one of the finer pleasures in life. :)
Maybe it should be 'beer after boats' or...'bartending beers to boatpeople'
On our island they call Heineken 'Dutch coffee' :D
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