Crew space on Volvo 70 – Green Dragon for St Maarten Heineken Regatta 2025

Cost

€3,250

Event dates

6th Mar 2025 - 9th Mar 2025

What's included

The price includes two training days, 3 professional crew and all boat and race costs. Additional costs include flights, transfers, meals and accommodation ashore.

What to expect

The St Maarten Heineken Regatta has been a Caribbean sailing icon for over 40 years, blending intense racing with an atmosphere of “serious fun,” as it’s famously known. This four-day regatta brings together some of the world’s best sailors from over 35 counties and promises crystal clear turquoise waters and the steady, cooling trade winds of the Northeast Caribbean making this regatta a sailor’s paradise.

Itinerary

Monday – Crew arrive
Tuesday – Training Day
Wednesday – Training Day and Registration in the Race village
Thursday – Race Day 1
Friday – Race Day 2
Saturday – Race Day 3
Sunday – Race Day 4 & Prizegiving

Crew information

Coming Soon!

Prerequisite experience

This opportunity is open to sailors with a range of sailing experience. The professional crew have experience in bringing together a crew of mixed experience to make sure everyone is actively involved in racing the yacht.

Where

The Heineken Regatta takes place in Sint Maarten which is the smallest inhabited island in the world divided between two nations, the French and the Dutch and this lends the island a unique air. Fantastic sailing conditions, a dedicated race village, great marinas and anchorages and vibrant shore life top off the picture.

Accommodation

Crew will need to find accommodation ashore for this event.

Crew space on Volvo 70 – Green Dragon for St Maarten Heineken Regatta 2025

Volvo 70 – Green Dragon

Green Dragon competed in the 2008 – 2009 Volvo Ocean Race with Ian Walker, British Olympic silver medallist, making his debut as skipper. Green Dragon finished 5th. Ian Walker later won the 2015 race with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. At the launch the Volvo Open 70 was not a singular yacht design but a set of design rules to which...