August 9, while various club members were parking cars for Annual One Design, five boats ventured out for the race to Cape Charles. (Ishky Baha, Nanuq, Nereid, Orion, and Trilogy). With winds forecasted to be light, we agreed to start from G3 off Milford Haven. We all anchored with our mains up. At 930 hours, we raised anchors and sailed off to Cape Chuck. We all jockeyed for position trying different sail configurations: wing and wing port side, jibe and try the other. After an hour of top notch sailing, we had moved north about ½ mile. Nye a breath yet there was a current. Things turned around when the iron lungs came out and our minds shifted from sailing to …
The Trophy Committee will receive nominations until October 8th for the following perpetual trophies to be awarded at the Annual Awards Party in November.
PIANKATANK TROPHY – Recognizes the FBYC skipper who most exemplifies the principle that “all is not lost until the boat sinks.”
MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY BOWL – Recognizes a member of FBYC for an outstanding contribution to sailing at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.
COMPETITION TROPHY – Recognizes a member of FBYC who is the skipper of an enrolled offshore or one-design boat and who most successfully represented FBYC in sailboat racing events conducted by other yacht clubs or associations during the past year. Nominations should consider the character (local, regional, national) of events entered and …
Team Nostalgia and FBYC's Invitational Cup team will be hosting a J70 clinic at Fishing Bay on Sunday, August 24th. We are also pleased to announce that Chris Larson, 1997 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, will be our head coach.
This will be a tremendous opportunity to gain knowledge, hone your team's skills, and elevate your program for rest of the year...What better way to get tuned up before Stingray Point Regatta, Worlds and/or the J70 Chesapeake Champs!
The weather wasn't the best for sailing on Saturday, but more than made up for it on Sunday. Thanks to the competitors, volunteers, race officials, parents and every one else for making our 75th Annual Regatta a great weekend!
Well if you weren’t there you missed a great (and challenging) regatta.
Unfortunately, the travelers did not turn out the way they have in recent years. Do not worry they will be here for ACC’s! The good news is that we had a ton of club scots out on the water. It was great to see so many club boats out on the water. This was a great turn up for ACC’s in September as we will be racing in the same area.
Day 1:
After a fairly long wait, we got in one tricky light air (I mean light!!!) race. On our boat we tried to focus on finding the pressure, minimizing maneuvers and staying out of traffic. We …
FBYC's 2014 Special Membership Opportunities will end on October 31st. The essence of these membership opportunities is a significant reduction in the initiation fee for a new or returning member (our normal initiation feeis $2800). There is still time to submit applications to the Membership Chair and partake of our 2014 75th Anniversary celebrations. However applications and sponsor's letters received after Oct. 31 will be processed in 2015.
For membership info, go to our web site (fbyc.net) and at the very top of our Home page, in the red banner you will see "How to Join FBYC." Click on that and the drop down menu will guide you through the process …
FBYC is 75 years old and we're hosting our 75th Annual Regatta THIS WEEKEND on August 8-10 for the Hampton One Designs and August 9-10 for all other fleets. This is a very special year for us and we really hope you will come join us for what will be a great event.
This year we're expecting to have starts for Flying Scots, Hampton One Designs, Lasers, Laser Radials, Optimists, Front Runners, San Juan 21 and any other fleets with 7 or more boats. If your class doesn't have 7 boats -don't worry we'll still have racing for you in a combined Portsmouth fleet. If you don't see your class friends …
This past week end someone removed an Opti from the Junior Yard that did not belong to them. It is believed they unknowingly removed the wrong Opti. The Opti removed from the Junior Yard has red trim and is named "QE II". Various items of gear were included. The boat was left on the grass near the pool, and was taken sometime between Thursday, July 31 and August 2. We ask that anyone who removed an Opti from the Junior Yard during this time period immediately contact Mark Hayes at mhayeslaw@triad.rr.com.
Photo by Laser Race Team Coach Gabriel Moran, taken today of members of the Laser Race Team training off Marion, Massachusetts, for the 2014 Buzzards Bay Regatta. Racing will take place this Friday through Sunday.
Since our last update on July 7th (covering our first six summer regattas), the Race Teams have raced non-stop, with no let up in winning regattas from Hampton, Virginia to Hyannis, Massachusetts, while having FUN along the way!
First up, on July 9th, the Opti Race Team raced at the Hampton Yacht Club Annual Junior Regatta. Eighteen FBYC sailors attended, and we swept all divisions five deep, including Overall, with Benton Amthor finishing first, followed by Boyd Bragg, Gannon Troutman, Trent Levy and Guthrie Braun. On the same day the Laser Race Team raced at Cape May, New Jersey, at the Regional Qualifiers for theSinglehanded Chubb Championships. We placed five sailors in the top fifteen …
Last weekend 6 Fishing Bay Boats were among the 75 boats competing at the Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge and half of the boats came home with podium finishes. The 3 day regatta feature one light-air race on Friday, a distance race on Saturday ending at the Pier and 2 more buoy races on Sunday.
The Laser Fleet at Fishing Bay welcomes you to come join us this Sunday, July 27th, for our club one-day Summer race. The weather looks perfect for a Summer day of Laser Sailing - 90 and mostly sunny, wind from the SW at 8-10. Water temps are a pleasant 76 degrees and the nettles are few, so it should be an ideal day to be on the water. We will have a mix of skilled and veteran sailors out there, so no matter what your skill level, we look forward to seeing you there. Of course, the pool is open, if you want to bring the family. We also have plenty of other kid-friendly entertainment options. And we can set up …
Check out the FBYC Junior Race Team as they leave today for the Chesapeake Bay Junior Olympics at Corsica River Yacht Club in Centreville, Maryland. And thats not even everyone!
We have reached a new milestone with 1,000 people liking our page. Since our page was founded almost 5 years ago on July 24, 2009 it has been a great way to find out what's going on at the club and for us to share our activities with our members, crew, friends, family visiting sailors and the local and sailing communities.
Once Hurricane Aurthur blew through it was smooth sailing for the Flying Scots and Front Runners at the first One Design Summer Sea Breeze regatta on Saturday. What was clouds with winds in the 30's just a day before gave way to mostly sunny skies and 8-10 knot winds for 4 races run by PRO Mike Dale and his race committee. Thanks to Veronica Hinckle for some pictures.
Your Junior Race Teams have not been idle since the end of Junior Week. Beginning the day after its conclusion, the teams competed at 6 different regattas at 6 different clubs on the Bay in a total of 12 days! We have a record 45 kids total-12 on the Opti Development Team, 12 on the Laser Race Team, and 21 on the Opti Race Team!
After the Commonwealth, the Opti Development Team stayed home to practice, while the Opti Race Team and Laser Race Team hit the road. First up after the Commonwealth on June 21-22 was the Rock Hall Yacht Club Annual Junior Regatta in Rock Hall, Maryland; followed by the Tred Avon Yacht …
This is intended to be an open invite event …
FBYC is 75 years old and we're hosting our 
The Laser Fleet at Fishing Bay welcomes you to come join us this 
