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In preparation for the 60th National Family Island Regatta, a local sailing icon christened a new sloop before it sets sails in Georgetown, Exuma, next weekend.<\/p>\nIn preparation for the 60th National Family Island Regatta, a local sailing icon christened a new sloop before it sets sails in Georgetown, Exuma, next weekend.<\/p>\n
King Eric Gibson unveiled the \u201crepaired, re-painted and re-sponsored\u201d Palm Cay Princess during a special ceremony at Arawak Cay.<\/p>\n
The \u201cA\u201d Class sloop will set sale in the fleet that will battle for bragging rights in Exuma, and Gibson assured that his ship is ready.<\/p>\n
\u201cSailing in the Palm Cay Princess, I can tell you one thing for sure, they will all see me coming. We have a \u2018take no prisoners\u2019 attitude in this boat and second place is not an option for us, especially coming up at this regatta,\u201d he said. \u201cI promised my sponsors a winner and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to deliver, first place for the Palm Cay Princess. We tested her out a few times in the other events, but now we are ready to go and you will not want to miss this one. I aim to win, I will win – the \u2018Palm Cay Princess\u2019 can take on all comers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Serena Williams, who Gibson called the godmother of the Palm Cay Princess, called it an honour to assist Gibson in his regatta preparation.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s National Family Island Regatta will coincide with the country\u2019s 40th anniversary of Independence, and the 120th anniversary of the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band, which traditionally performs at the regatta site.<\/p>\n
[Editor’s note: King Eric<\/a> was recently photographed for The Bahamian Project<\/a>. The Bahamian Project exhibition will open July 11, 2013 at The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas at which time 40 photos of Bahamians will be unveiled for the first time.]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King Eric Gibson unveiled the \u201crepaired, re-painted and re-sponsored\u201d Palm Cay Princess during a special ceremony at Arawak Cay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1514,366,131],"class_list":["post-34659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-competition","tag-regatta","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}