FBYC History....

Jere Dennison

While reflecting on some of the club's major sailing events over the past few years, I thought it might be instructive to look back in history to try and enumerate all the regional, national, and international racing events hosted by FBYC since its inception in 1939. Accordingly I descended into the dank catacombs in which our archives are preserved and, brushing aside a menacing lacework of cobwebs, entered the darkened storage chamber to the protest of rodents scurrying beneath my feet.  In the dim flickering candlelight, I was able to retrieve decaying bundles of moldy club documents that bore an uncanny resemblance to the Dead Sea Scrolls. These I carefully perused for many an hour before compiling the following list. However, I cannot claim this list to be complete because some years of the Log have gone missing and my memory is fast fading. Therefore I invite those possessing superior knowledge to send me corrections and/or additions that will help further embellish the club's proud rumliquestsumiumliquest????.

• Penguin Class Chesapeake (Region 3) Championship (1947, 49)
• Hampton One-Design National Championship (1948,2010,2017)
• Adams Cup Quarterfinals of the Women's National Championship (1964)
• Cougar Catamaran National Championship (1968)
• Windmill International Championship (1969)
• Albacore National Championship (1970)
• Jollyboat National Championship (1970)
• Jollyboat World Championship (1971, 73)
• Laser District 11 Championship (1980-88, 2002, 2006, 2011)
• Albacore World Championship (1981)
• Chesapeake ILCA Masters Championship (Annually since 1981)
• Mobjack National Championship (Multiple years,1997,2007)
• MORC East Coast Championship (1987, 90)
• Laser Atlantic Coast Championship (1987,2015)
• Laser Pan-Am Trials (1987)
• MORC International Championship (1991, 97)
• Atlantic Coast Laser Masters Championship (1997, 1999, 2003, 2008, 2014, 2018)
• US Laser Masters Championship (2000)
• Lightning North American Championship (2000)
• Lightning Mid-Atlantic Championship
• Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta (1999-2019)
• Lightning Dixie Districts (2002)
• Optimist Atlantic Coast Championship (2004)
• USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival-Chesapeake Bay Open (2005, 2015)
• Chesapeake Bay Midget Championship (2005)
• Flying Scot Capital District Championship (2004, 2014,  2020, 2022)
• Flying Scot Atlantic Coast Championship (2005, 2014, 2017, 2022)
• Virginia State Junior Championship (2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021)
• Flying Scot North American Championship (2007)
• US Optimist National Championship (2010)
• Windmill National Championship (2013, 2019)
• J/70 East Coast Championship (2017)