Share the Pure Joy of Sailing  with Someone Special

Sailing in circles (AKA: Racing) not your thing?   Need a low-pressure way to give someone (Grandchild, friend, etc) a Fishing Bay/Piankatank experience?

The Club Boat and Adult Sailing Festival is your answer!  Bring your own boat & crew (Melges or any small boat, preferably beachable) will do. A limited number of Club Boats are available to subscribers.    

All of our in-boat instructors are booked (so the training option is closed)-- but our awesome sailing waters have lots of room for …

You never know what old pics you may find cleaning house. Larry Pardey presenting the 2000 Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta 1st Place Overall trophy (120 boats) to Wayland Rennie/Trilogy at Yankee Point Yacht Club. Pardey was inducted into the Cruising World Hall of Fame that year, and was inducted into the US National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2022, two years after passing from Parkinson's. 

Pardey: "We did okay today, but a San Juan beat the hell out of us. How'd you do?"

Wayland: "We beat the hell …

A handful of M15s hit the water yesterday for some free-styling in the "sporty" conditions - needless to say a good time was had by all!   A few more cameos available on the flickr site.... M15 Fun.

This weekend PRO 's, Social Chairs and club leadership are closely monitoring the coastal storm forecast to hit the area over the weekend. We do plan to hold landside social events as scheduled on Sunday rain or shine!

The PRO's for the Family Regatta on Saturday and the Open House regatta are closely monitoring the weather (with the support of David Lee) and will likely make decisions about each event the day of the event.The safety of RC members and capability of club equipment will drive race decisions.

The …

FBYC has made two changes for this season to our Portsmouth Handicap racing for small boats to improve the racing and make it easier to register for and (score these) events.

First, FBYC is adopting the DPN-2 handicap numbers for Portsmouth racing this season in place of the base DPN numbers we’ve traditionally used. The reason for this is that the base number is calculated for a very low wind range, and it’s very rare that we see that wind for the whole of our race days. Some …

Please join us for the 2023 Mid-year Membership Update on Monday, May 29^th (Memorial Day) from 10-11 am upstairs in the main Club House.  At this informal meeting we will provide updates on Membership and Club Operation with time reserved for questions. 

The agenda will include:

• Finance Update
• Membership Status
• Club Management/Facilities/Sailing Events
• Annual Awards Alignment Project
• Summary and Questions

If you have specific questions you would like addressed, please send to commodore@fbyc.net

Thanks to Rick Klein's amazing RC team (and his apparent ability to control the weather) and Rick Peterson's culinary expertise, OD Spring 3 was a fantastic day of fun on and off the water -  with 6 Flying Scots, 7 M15s, and a San Juan 21 "showing and going" under ideal temps and winds.   Thanks to ALL who volunteered and participated!

If you are not smiling in the picture below - you should be.  OD - Spring 4 is 6/11 so register early and often!

Spring offshore racing finale promises Great Sailing,
Food, Fun and Friends!

The Offshore Spring Open Race is two days of back-to-back races open to everyone from A-fleet to Cruising class!
This includes all FBYC club member and non-member boats, interested in racing their sailboat and developing their sailing skills. The races are Saturday and Sunday with awards for each day of racing. Dinner Saturday includes Paul Wash’s traditional smoked pork butts and fixings. Don't miss this chance to test your mettle sailing in a fantastic venue with great food …

Join us for a fun-filled day of racing, raft up, dinner and DJ music.

**EVENT UPDATE: RACE and Sailing Events are canceled due to Weather**
Landside party and activities are still ON!

The winds may blow but the rain looks pretty light. This will still be a great party.

As Scheduled:

• 1630- Meet and Greet with Sailing Division representatives 
• 1800- Fried Chicken dinner and DJ

Everyone is encouraged to invite friends as this event will serve as a showcase for all that FBYC has to offer. 

This is a chance …

After a rained out attempt at Spring Series 1 last weekend, the One Design season officially got underway with Spring Series #2 and 20 boats in 3 fleets enjoying 5-10 knots of breeze out of the south and mostly cloudy skies.  PRO David Clark and his team got in 4 races for the fleets.

The 5-boat Flying Scot fleet was led by Len & Barb Guenther who took home bullets in 3 of the races. Hal Stark/Rick Peters and Phil Webb tied for 2^nd with the tiebreaker going …