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Ladies, the 2-day women's sailing clinic is returning again! As always, there will be a beginning sailing class and a racing fundamentals class. Please save the date for the last weekend in July for this great event, filled with camaraderie, sailing, and of course the apres-sailing socials. To learn more, go to the event webpage. Registration up soon! Contact Caroline Patrick if you have questions. See you there!
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Thanks to Arn Manella (US Sailing Instructor Trainer) and Bob Fleck for leading a fun and informative weekend with classroom and on the water training for RC mark boat and safety boat operators. Thanks to Ruthanna & Ron Jenkins for organizing such an important event (and feeding the troops)!
Attendees sporting the latest in life saver gear.....
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We've got lots happening at FBYC this spring! Spring clean-up, sock burning, weather courses and now--CREW TRAINING SEMINAR.
Invite your friends and give it a go yourself to become valuable crew for our offshore racing boats. This program has long been a successful way to introduce people to the club and gain new members. So check out the program for 2022 and join us online by visiting: https://www.fbyc.net/sailing/crew-training/
See you online and on the water.
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Steve Montgomery led a large and energetic group of FBYC members including new members and juniors to ready the club for another great season. Special shout out to Carl and Diane Simon for coordinating a well earned lunch for all.
Thanks to all who participated and can’t wait to see you all on the water soon!
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FBYC is proudly helping to sponsor Deltaville’s Oyster Roast and Sock Burn at Evolution Loft this Saturday, beginning at 3:30 PM. There will be oysters, beer and music….and socks to burn! It’s free to all who sign-up at: at: Deltaville Sock Burn and Oyster Roast (constantcontact.com).
But before you’ve tossed your socks into the fire, sign-up for our webinar/classroom sessions: Weather for Sailors. The online sessions are on Tuesday, March 29 and April 5, followed by our on-site classroom session on Saturday, April 16. SPACE IS LIMITED AND IS GOING FAST SO REGISTER NOW. Learn all about it at: https://www.fbyc.net/events/2022/220329-training-weather-for-sailors-1st-zoom-session/
Then register and pay ($25/person …
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We will be sprucing up the Club on March 26th 8:30-12:30! Bring work gloves, rakes, clippers, comfortable shoes, and work with friends to make the Club gorgeous and ready for a new year. Please sign up through SignUpGenius at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c4fa5aa2ba4ff2-spring . Lunch will be provided after cleanup! The Bermuda High/Sock Burning Party follows later in the afternoon!
Questions to Steve Montgomery 757-561-7289.
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FBYC has two great offerings starting this month:
Race Committee Training sessions begin Saturday, March 19 in Richmond and are followed up with on-the-water exercises. Learn more and sign-up here: https://www.fbyc.net/events/2022/220319-training-race-committee-training/
Weather for Sailors is a 3-part course beginning Tuesday, March 29 at 7 PM online. Following another Zoom session the next week, the course wraps up on Saturday, April 16 with a 4-hour classroom instruction at the club. It is taught by ASA instructor Captain Steve Runals. Learn more at: https://www.fbyc.net/events/2022/220329-training-weather-for-sailors-1st-zoom-session/
Hope to see you all soon!
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We’ve got a fantastic line-up of activities for FBYC members this month. We hope you’ll take advantage of all your club is offering, including opportunities to volunteer and make FBYC ship shape and Bristol fashion. Coming up first is:
Come with your power tools, work gloves and spirit to help install the new electrical/water pedestals on our new middle dock. This helps save money and is a critical step for getting the dock ready for Opening Day. We also need helpers and those who can serve lunch. Sign-up at: https://www.signupgenius.com …
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Our fleet has a new name! At the last Board Meeting - the club agreed to begin formally recognizing the Laser Fleet as the ILCA Fleet. The old name will still be used informally and will still appear in some places. Starting this year, all of our events on the event page will be listed as ILCA events. Otherwise it’s the same boat and the same racing we’ve been doing.
Why the new name? Well, the class we sail has changed it's name and this keeps us in line with that change and should prevent any confusion over the equipment and rules we are using to race with. Some more details on that can be found here.
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A cleanup of the Opti rack by the Main Clubhouse has begun. We ask all members who currently have an Opti on the rack to place their name on the exposed end prior to April 1st and remove any vessels they do NOT want to pay to store. In April, Optis with identifying information will be updated in the Club database for billing and official assignment to the spot. Questions should be directed to Steve Montgomery 757-561-7289 or monty1221@icloud.com.
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WANTED: Volunteers needed to work on plumbing and electrical work on the new Middle Pier. March 5, rain date March 12. 10-1 with lunch served. Work will be focused on prepping the new electrical/water pedestals for the electrician and installing plumbing pipes. Skills needed are basic including drilling holes, screwing and unscrewing bolts, screws and the like, cutting and gluing PVC pipe. The Docks Committee budgeted volunteer labor to complete this task in lieu of paying contractors. Two people to set up lunch are also needed! Finishing the work by the 5th (12th if bad weather) is critical to opening the pier on time. Please email Steve Montgomery (monty1221@icloud.com) AND sign up at Sign Up Genius- Middle …
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If you have not updated the FBYC iOS app to version 1.6.7 please do so! This update includes performance and security updates. The latest version of the app requires iOS 15 or later.
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Junior Program 2022
We have experienced high interest in the Junior Program, which is wonderful. A reminder to all club members wishing to have their kids participate in Junior Week or Junior Teams, the FBYC member-only priority period ends at the end of February. On March 1, all classes will be open enrollment. Some classes are already showing they will be full once open enrollment begins, so if a member wants to be assured to have their kid involved, it is important to register by Feb 28. When you enroll, if you end up on a waitlist and you are a member, please email juniors@fbyc.net., as we have purposefully left room in all the classes for members who …
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The days are getting longer and the junior programs committee has been hard at work preparing for an exciting summer of junior sailing. Here's the skinny:
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Fishing Bay Yacht Club is offering a Communications Internship for Summer 2022. This is a three-month, part-time, paid position that offers flexible, remote work with the opportunity to work with a wide range of industry professionals. Qualifications include:
FBYC will provide direction and support for this …
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On Wednesday Dec 15 at 6:00pm there will be a ZOOM "Happy Hour' call to discuss the current state, plans and future of FBYC offshore racing. It is open to all concerned. I'll be sending out the meeting link to offshore skippers. They can share it with their crew or anyone they think would want to participate. Contact Bob Fleck if you are not an offshore skipper, and would like to participate.
We'll be talking about where we are today, plans for next year and how we want to change the game to attract new boats and crew.
Join us for a light ( and hopefully productive) get together.
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It was a wonderful fall series at FBYC. The results have been calculated for quite some time but it's been brought to our attention that they were never posted. So without further ado, here are the results from the Fall Series... What the heck, its almost Christmas. Here is the Distance and Spring series also.
If you want to know more about scoring. Stay tuned we'll be doing race scoring training in the spring.
Stay Warm. Dream of warm waters, cold drinks and fast boats. And have a Merry Christmas!
| Place | Fleet | Boat Name | Skipper | Qualified? | Score |
| 1 | A | Sting | Mark Wensel | Y | 0.8667 |
| 2 | A | Xcitation | Mayo Tabb | Y | 0.7917 |
| 3 | A | Corryvreckan | David Clark … |
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The results for the 2021 FBYC ILCA series have been posted. The season-long series consists of 5 days of racing with Spring, Summer 1 & 2, Fall and Frostbite Regattas. With one day (Frostbite) canceled due to weather the standard fleet sailed 19 races with 21 boats taking part in a race. 5 boats qualified for the series by sailing at least 50% of the races.
Final standings:
The complete scores can be found here.
We only had a separate fleet of Radials in one event so no series award for Radials this year.
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Mark your calendar, 2022 Opening Day is Saturday April 23rd.
Over the last several months the Sailing Event Committee has finalized the 2022 Sailing Events Calendar for the Offshore, One Design and Junior events,2022 OS, OD and JR Sailing Events Dates will be posted on the website calendar in the coming days. Over the next several months, Event Notices and dates for the Cruising, YAM, Instruction, Social and other sailing events will be added to the Events Calendar.
Looking forward to 2022, it is going to be a great year!