Sly-Adams: Interest remains high for Antigua Sailing Week despite ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases
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By Neto Baptiste
Interest in Antigua’s Sailing Week 2021 remains high despite a continued rise in coronavirus cases here and across the globe.
This is according to President of the Caribbean Sailing Association (CSA) and Commercial Director for the Antigua Sailing Week,
Alison Sly-Adams, who said that over 60 boats already have entries for the April 24 to April 30 event.
“We have 68 entries at this point, and obviously at any point they could pull their entries, but we have significant entries from Germany who want to be able to get here. There are 20 entries from Germany, Austria and then, we have a lot of local boats and also a lot of the charter boats which are always part of the fleet; we have and most of them are in the Caribbean already, so that’s the interesting thing. The boats, or most of them, are actually here so there will be very few boats that wi
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Show Transcript ANTHONY: SAILING AND BOATING HAVE LONG BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH ANTIGUA, BUT NOT NECESSARILY THE PEOPLE. AT THAT IS CHANGING WITH A NEW GENERATION LEARNING TO SAIL. IT HAS NOW BECOME CHANGING ROOMS. ANTHONY: SHE FIRST SAILED INTO ANTIGUA 20 YEARS AGO. IT IS THE PLACE TO BE IF YOU ARE A SAILOR, WITHOUT QUESTION. JORDAN REALIZED IN THIS SAILING MECCA, LOCALS REPRESENTED LESS THAN 5% OF THE YACHT CLUB MEMBERS AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN COULDN’T EVEN SWIM. WE DON’T CONCENTRATE ON THE SMALL FEW. WE WANT HUNDREDS TO SAIL. ANTH