Celebrate Spring at the Deltaville Sock Burn and Oyster Roast
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Posts for February 2024
Save the Date & Sign Up--Stingray Regatta 30th Anniversary - Best Offshore Racing and Party on the Bay!
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Calling all Offshore and Cruising sailors!
Don’t miss the 30th Annual Stingray Point Regatta and the 2024 Southern Bay PHRF Championship, Friday, August 30 – Sunday, September 1, 2024, at Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville, Virginia.
The regatta consists of three days of sailing for both offshore and cruising boats. Friday will be a distance race (medium distance) for all boats, with awards for PHRF-A, PHRF-B, PHRF-C, and Cruising. Saturday and Sunday will feature two days of windward-leeward racing for PHRF classes, and a triangle course for the Cruising class.
Off the water, there will be plenty of entertainment, too, with Another Level providing the music for the Saturday night social. Complimentary continental breakfast will be provided at the …
Join the Adult Sailing Crew at the Spring Cleanup Day, March 23
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Help to get our club Flying Scot boats ready to go for the 2024 season at our Spring Cleanup Day, Saturday from 9am-1pm, March 23.
Do you have expertise in working on trailers, rigging ‘scots or just want to learn the basics and tricks of boat maintenance? Sign up to help at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080C4FA5AA2BA4FF2-47414903-2024#/ and in the comments section mention that you would like to help with the club flying scots. And yes! there will be lunch….
After lunch, follow your friends to the Deltaville Sock Burn and Oyster Roast in the afternoon from 3:30-7:00pm at Evolution Sails in downtown Deltaville.
Questions? Contact us at adultsailing@fbyc.net
Would you like to be included …
Don't Miss FBYC Amazing Winter Program---Your Friends Miss You! Large Group Already Signed Up!
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FBYC Presents a Winter Program
Peter Gibbons-Neff of PGN Ocean Racing
March 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm – Presentation starts at 7PM
Join us as Peter Gibbons-Neff from Annapolis recounts his 4050-nautical-mile race solo handed in a 21 foot Classe Mini 6.50. Peter was the only American racer to finish the La Boulangere Mini Transat Race on November 15th.
Hardywood Park Brewing Company --- Barrel Room
2410 Ownby Lane
Richmond, VA 23220
$20 per person
Light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
Register Here----
https://www.fbyc.net/events/2024/240306-social-winter-program-peter-gibbons-neff/
Last Chance-Time to Register-Crew Training 2024--Sessions start next week!
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Recall all of those friends who think what we do at FBYC is pretty amazing? Now is your chance!
Send them to sign up for Crew Training 2024!
https://www.fbyc.net/events/2024/240305-training-crew-training-class-1/
FBYC is again offering our popular annual crew training sailing course for anyone interested in a team sport that will challenge the most competitive and give a lifetime of enjoyment to anyone who loves outdoor sports and good fun. Sailing is a lifelong sport and racing only makes it even more enjoyable!
The course consists of three classroom sessions and two on-the-water practice sessions in Deltaville (about 70 minutes east of Richmond) aboard racing sailboats. Classroom instruction is provided by FBYC racing …
A few more spaces available - Winter Program - Peter Gibbons-Neff and his 4,050 mile solo race
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Join us as Peter Gibbons-Neff from Annapolis recounts his 4050-nautical-mile race solo handed in a 21 foot Class Mini 6.50. Peter was the only American racer to finish the La Boulangere Mini Transat Race on November 15th.
March 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm – Presentation starts at 7PM
Hardywood Park Brewing Company --- Barrel Room
2410 Ownby Lane
Richmond, VA 23220
$20 per person
Light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
For more details please contact the event chair.
Registration is open for Junior Sailing----make plans for 2024
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Registration has just opened for Junior Sailing 2024
Make sure to get your Junior sailors signed up for Junior Week, Development, Race Teams and more!
FBYC Member priority: members get priority for access to all classes before March 1 if the class were to fill.
Member discount: use coupon code FBYC when it asks during the registration process. This saves members from $50 up to $850 (The $850 is for summer race teams).
2024 Spring Clean Up
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Saturday March 23rd, 9am - 1pm
We will be sprucing up the Club!
Bring work gloves, any yard tools (such as wheelbarrows, pitchforks, rakes, shovels, cordless drills and trimmers, etc and please label well), comfortable shoes, and come hang out with friends and make the Club gorgeous and ready for a new year! Yes, you can operate your own items and keep track of them. Please sign up on this Sign Up Genius page.
We will meet at the main clubhouse at 9:00 am for direction and tasks.
Lunch and drinks will be provided this year!
When we break for lunch, we can look back and see the beautiful progress made from the morning's work.
After lunch, follow your friends …