Many Hands Make Light Work - Don't miss your opportunity to help!

Saturday, March 25th from 8:30AM - 12 Noon.
We will be sprucing up the Club! Bring work gloves, rakes, comfortable shoes, and come hang out with friends and make the Club gorgeous and ready for a new year! Please review the available slots on SignUp Genius below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

Please bring work gloves and any yard tools (well-labeled) that you have, such as rakes, shovels, trimmers, etc.

SignUp Genius Link

We welcome all racers, cruisers, their families, and guests to this family-friendly event to kick-start
a new season of sailing.  A great tradition at Fishing Bay Yacht Club, Opening Day begins with an
Offshore Regatta followed by dinner and social events.

For more info on volunteering and event registration Click Here

Are you as grateful as I am that our annual dues stay so low, thanks to the hard work of all of our volunteers pitching in throughout the year?  Staffing events, sprucing up the club, running race committees. . . so many great ways that our members contribute.  As a reminder, we do ask our members to volunteer three times a year, but so many of them do even more! The signups for many of this year's events are starting to go up.  We  encourage you to check the  Volunteering page on …

Many Hands Make Light Work - Don't miss your opportunity to help!

Saturday, March 25th from 8:30AM - 12 Noon.
We will be sprucing up the Club! Bring work gloves, rakes, comfortable shoes, and come hang out with friends and make the Club gorgeous and ready for a new year! Please review the available slots on SignUp Genius below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

Please bring work gloves and any yard tools (well-labeled) that you have, such as rakes, shovels, trimmers, etc.

SignUp Genius Link

Some of you will remember Toots, who worked on Albemarle Pippin at FBYC from 1983-1994, and was beloved by many of us.
David John Dunigan III, 74, Annapolis yacht captain, photographer, film maker and noted yachtsman, died Jan 31 aboard his yacht "Kingfish" at Annapolis of natural causes.

Eldest son in a renowned Annapolis sailing family. (His father David J. Dunigan Jr was Star class champion at the Gibson Island Yacht Squadron.) David Dunigan is best known for his photography work with several magazines, including the local "Spin Sheet" and …

The FBYC Junior Programs Committee has been hard at work making preparations for an
exciting summer of Junior Sailing. Registration is now open and many programs are filling up fast!
Registration will be managed by CampDocs, our camp registration and health forms application.
This simple, easy-to-use site allows for registering for camps and teams, collecting health forms,
and ordering t-shirts. Member registration opened on February 1st and non-member registration
opens on March 1st.  Register Here.  Programs are filling up fast! Don't wait!

All registrations must be completed by a parent …

Join FBYC club members David and Alison Lennarz as they recount their story of building a Balance 526

catamaran in St. Francis, on the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and sailing it across the South Atlantic last

summer. The journey of over 6,500 nautical miles took them to Cape Town; the British island, St.

Helena; and the Brazilian island, Fernando de Noronha, and ending in the Caribbean at Grenada.

Saturday Feb 25, 2023 from 4:30-7:00PM

Westwood Club 6200 West Club Lane, Richmond, VA

$20 per person both member …

Take advantage of this great opportunity for Race Committee training by attending the US Sailing Basic Race Management Training at Hampton Yacht Club Sat, Feb 4, 2023 (Only 6 slots remaining)

Make your plans now to come down to Hampton Yacht Club on Sat, Feb 4, 2023 and take advantage of a great opportunity to take the US Sailing Basic Race Management course.  Fishing Bay is excited to support this opportunity to expand its group of trained Race Committee volunteers, and for those that are willing to sign up, we …

We have completed decommissioning the Bathhouse and most of the outdoor water sources.  We will shut down water for the Docks on Wednesday, December 14.

In addition, we have begun work on the West Dock electrical system and expect intermittent power outages through the project.  The Jackson Creek Crane has been locked for safety.  It is available for use but please contact Brian in advance if you need to use it.

Our 5 day season-long ILCA Series concluded in October with the Frostbite Regatta.  18 races were sailed over 4 days (1 canceled due to weather).  7 sailors sailed in 50% of the races to qualify for the series out of 16 total sailors who participated in at least 1 race. Holly Sears was the only sailor to compete in every race. The best high point scoring went to Reed McAllister. He was followed by Scot Adam and Jon Deutsch.