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There was a separate VHF Channel for commentary during The St Barths Bucket. Michael Nethersole, the "Voice of the Bucket", provided his unique and insightful on water observations. VHF Channel 77 was exclusively for this purpose.

1 April 2014

As the Winch Turns: au revoir

A brand-new outdoor venue for Sunday's traditional Bucket awards celebration proved to be a super-sized crowd pleaser, with 1000 or more bucketeers enjoying plenty of elbow room and stage-show fun—both planned and unplanned— at the Hôtel de la Collectivité, located on the western bank of Gustavia Harbor. With a cool breeze blowing and cold drinks flowing, a giant screen showed on-water action from the long weekend of racing, and a podium platform built specially for the occasion became — for a few hours, anyway — the center of the superyacht sailing universe. Read more here.