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:

• Strong communications and social media skills focused on writing and photography
• Ability to support numerous FBYC events, programs and initiatives using the FBYC website (FBYC.net), social media accounts, and other sailing and local media—both print and digital
• Ability to attend/participate in major FBYC events in Deltaville, VA as needed …

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 …

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 …

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:

1. James Jacob
2. Jon Deutsch
3. Michael Colbert
4. Britt Drake
5. Holly Sears

The complete scores can be found here.

We only had a separate …

Mark your calendar, 2022 Opening Day is Saturday April 23^rd.

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 …

We will be having an open house to watch the parade! The parade is from 10-12 December 4th. We will be watching on the corner of Lombardy and Broad. Come join us for the parade and than come by afterward for food, drinks and fun! Our address is 1522 Grove Ave. Looking forward to seeing you.

What a great way to cap off FBYC's year.

More than 140 members celebrated the close of the "regular" sailing season at the Annual Meeting and Commodore's Ball in Richmond last week.  We announced our new Flag officers and board members, acknowledged our numerous award winners, danced and dined, and simply basked in each other's company.

All the details will be shared in the Log and future emails.  But first, check out your fellow FBYC members enjoying the evening:

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Materials begin to arrive on the 15th of November and will be primarily stored in the lot to the west of Fannies with the big red crane.  The two lots between Fannies and the Bath House will be closed to members as of the 11/24/2021 and given to the contractor for his use. If you need to access the East or West Piers please park across the street or in the lot by the dumpsters. All boats need to be off the West Pier by the 11/28 …

The wind blew stink all week but that didn't stop our offshore boats from racing or our oysters from tasting sweet.

Well over 175 members slurped and shucked till they were stuffed during our Closing Day Race and Oyster Roast.  Our stellar social chairs, Karen and Gary Akens, and their volunteer crew, served up three types of chili and hotdogs while resident musician Mike Dale entertained us all.  

Folks were spread all over the campus, inside and out, so it felt comfortable being with each other after a two-year "pause …

Don't miss out on the social event of the season!!  The Commodores Ball is just around the corner on November 13th and we want to make sure everyone who wants to attend gets a ticket.  We have a registration deadline of Wednesday, November 3rd and we don't have flexibility on this deadline - click here to sign up!