The team wrapped up a fantastic summer season with five top three finishes at the final CBYRA High Point Regatta of the summer, held this past weekend in Oxford, Maryland. The last week was amazing, with most of the kids racing all week on the Bay at the Maryland State Championships, the Miles River Yacht Club Annual Junior Regatta and at the Oxford Regatta. Three of our sailors, Walker Angus, Sofia Forsberg and Logan Hayes arrived at Oxford at 3:30am on Saturday after racing all week in Michigan at the US Sailing Chubb Youth Nationals! They had outstanding finishes at the Youth Nationals-with Walker and Sofia finishing 8th in the double handed division, and Logan finishing 13th in the …

Junior Program 2022

We have experienced high interest in the Junior Program, which is wonderful.  A reminder to all club members wishing to have their kids participate in Junior Week or Junior Teams, the FBYC member-only priority period ends at the end of February.  On March 1, all classes will be open enrollment.  Some classes are already showing they will be full once open enrollment begins, so if a member wants to be assured to have their kid involved, it is important to register by Feb 28.  When you enroll, if you end up on a waitlist and you are a member, please email juniors@fbyc.net., as we have purposefully left room in all the classes for members who …

The days are getting longer and the junior programs committee has been hard at work preparing for an exciting summer of junior sailing. Here's the skinny:

• Learn all about Opti-kids, Junior Week and all the race team programs at: https://www.fbyc.net/junior-sailing
• To register, go to:  https://www.fbyc.net/junior-sailing/register-now
• FBYC members also receive a discount by using the coupon code:  FBYC
• Grandparents no longer need to register their grandchildren;  Your grandchildren's parents (also called your kids!) can register directly online by using the coupon code:  FBYC
• If you have additional questions, email:   juniors@fbyc.net

****DUE TO WEATHER THIS HAS BEEN MOVED TO THURSDAY JUNE 24TH****

Next week is Junior Week and even though our focus is getting our juniors on the water, we invite the whole club to join us for our family night on Thursday June 24th from 4pm - 7pm. We will have three food trucks at the club with live music by Johnathan Meadows. This is going to be a great night on the bay

On the Flip Side Food Truck

Serving Specialty & Delicious food like Lumpia, Pancit, Hibachi Rice, Chicken & Pork Teriyaki, Bulgogi and many more.

Shore Bites Food Truck:

A mobile food truck featuring gourmet mac & cheese flavors, hamburgers, etc etc.

Dots Dogs Food Truck

Dot's …

ILCA ACCs were held in Wrightsville Beach, NC on May 21-23.  Finn Ciszewski, Henry Ciszewski, Reed McAllister, Baylor Goldthwaite, Logan Hayes, Jack Cabell, and Joshua Almany all competed.  Olympian Sarah Lihan was also present to provide coaching support.  Everyone did well in challenging conditions, which ranged from no wind to heavy wind and sea conditions to match.  Long postponements, heat, and exhaustion did not deter the sailors, and all of them did a great job.  Their next event will be ILCA Nationals in Norfolk, June 17-20, followed directly by Junior Week and FBYC Junior Regatta.  Sail fast, FBYC Juniors.

If it takes a village to raise a child, imagine what it takes to teach over 100 of them to sail. We need your help. If you're interested in volunteering please review our sign up genius of areas where you can help by clicking the following link Junior Week Volunteer List

Register early for the FBYC Junior Regatta!  This regatta is our biggest annual junior event to finish off Junior Week and showcase your mad sailing skills.  Spots will be limited.  There will be good competition for you “old” salts, and a friendly environment for beginners - something for everyone. 

Register at https://www.regattanetwork.com/event/22109

Volunteers needed to put on the best regatta, at the most beautiful club, with the most fun people on the Bay.  

Contact Craig Ciszewski to volunteer at craig.ciszewski@yahoo.com

Registration is LIVE now for the 2021 Summer Junior Programs. REGISTER HERE FOR JUNIOR PROGRAMS

Don't delay. Space is limited in many of our programs and people are ready to get on the water. We are thrilled with the programs we are planning including Opti Kids, Junior Week, Sailing School and our Development and Race Teams. Registration has been significantly improved through CampDocs which will make registration, and health form collection much easier. 

Junior Week is a month away and we need extra help this year to put on our great junior week. We have a job for you or for someone you know. Please dont wait and email us your interest by clicking Volunteer Here

New Junior Program Registration Site has been launched! We have worked closely with CampDoc to provide a new and enhanced registrations process including forms management for our junior sailors. Launched in perfect time for the summer, we are proud to be able to continue our junior programs with Opti Kids, Junior Week, Sailing Schools, Development and Race Teams. Although some of our programs have moved to later in the Summer (Opti Kids is July 25/26 & August 1/2; Junior Week is August 2-6) our race teams are geared up to begin on June 13th and Development Teams on June 25th. Further, we are launching weekly sailing schools through the summer beginning June 22nd. Don't wait to sign up …

After reviewing recent guidelines from the CDC and the Commonwealth of Virginia on standards for being allowed to safely host camps, FBYC is rescheduling Junior Week to August 2nd - 6th.

The new dates for our Junior Week will start on Sunday, August 2nd at 1 pm and will end on Thursday, August 6th at 12 pm. By rescheduling Junior Week to the new dates, we believe we can provide our sailing classes in a more safe and deliberate manner reducing the potential risks to our sailors, families, volunteers and staff. 

You can expect to see an increase in communication both via email and through the o help get Juniors on the water in a safe environment. Club website regarding our …

Thank you all for the great submissions to the first Junior Week T-Shirt Contest. We gathered all the suggestion and anomalously submitted the designs to Commodore Tracy Schwarzchild for his decision. After much great deliberation, he chose this years T-Shirt Winner as the design submitted by Charlotte Stass. Congratulations Charlotte!!!

Charlotte's design will be sent to our graphic designer as the official art direction.

Opti Kids is postponed to July 25-26, and August 1-2

Over the past weeks, the Junior Leadership Committee in coordination with Fishing Bay Yacht Club Flag has been monitoring updates from the Federal, State, and Local authorities as it relates to activities at the Club. As you may have seen, FBYC is currently closed until June 10th and the Club is making its best effort to resume activities as soon as it can.

Currently, Virginia is expected to open May 15th and enter Phase 1 of the re-opening plan. This phase is forecasted to last 2-4 weeks before Phase 2 can begin. The philosophy of the Junior Program at Fishing Bay has always been to support getting juniors on the …

Let's get excited for JUNIOR WEEK! This year we are holding a T-Shirt design contest for the 2020 Junior Week T-Shirt. Have your design worn by over 130 sailors during this Summer's Junior Week.

Rules:

• Artist must be under the age of 18 years old
• Design must be submitted to juniors@fbyc.net by 5pm, Friday, May 8th, 2020!
• Must include contact information of artist's parent and the name of the artist in the email
• Include the following text on the design: Junior Week, June 22nd-26th 2020
• No more than 3 entries per artist
• No bribes to the Commodore 
• Have fun!!

Submit your designs to juniors@fbyc.net by May 8th! The T-shirt design winner will be chosen by the …

Not knowing the future, we will continue to take registrations for our summer Junior programs and certainly hope that we can provide them as planned. We will know more in the weeks to come and will communicate any changes as we learn of them.

Our goal is to continue to focus on providing the very best summer experience for our young sailors while maintaining a safe and healthy environment for them and their families and for the local community. In the event we are forced to cancel any summer programs, we will be providing a full and complete refund. Our goal is to make this decision by June 1st should we have to.

Again, with Junior Week almost 2 1 …

REGISTRATION OPENS ON FEBRUARY 1ST!!!

JUNIOR WEEK 2020

June 22nd - 26th

Summer Race Teams

June 13th - August 9th

Opti Kids 

June 13-14, and June 20-21

To find our more about these exciting junior programs, please go to the Junior pages on the FBYC.net site. Information about Junior Week, Opti Kids, our Summer Race teams and other sailing opportunities are being updated as we speak. If you have questions about our programs please email juniors@fbyc.net.

THE CORRECT DATES FOR 2020 Junior Programs are:

Opti-Kids:  Saturdays & Sundays; June 13-14 and June 20-21

Junior Week:  Monday, June 22-Friday, June 26.

Wind, fog and dead calm infused with heat indexes over 100 degrees did not stop our FBYC Junior Laser sailors from racing fast in the Laser North American Championships in Brant Beach, NJ July 18-21.  With more than 120 contenders, including adults, this was the largest regatta for many of our Juniors.  Our eight racers, along with their coach, braved the conditions and represented FBYC well. Pictured are Logan Hayes, Guthrie Braun, Joshua Almany, Morey Levy, Jack Cabell, Luke Hayes (CNU), Finn Ciszewski, Coach Alex Zimmermann, Jordan Bendura, Joshua Bendura.  Special shout-outs to Guthrie Braun who placed 6th in Laser Radials and Jordan Bendura who placed 18th.

We are proud of you all!

Last week was a wonderful time of learning to sail and making new friends in our Junior Week program! Many thanks go to countless volunteers to make it happen.

Junior Sailors can continue to build upon the sailing skills they learned during Opti Kids and Junior Week. There are more great opportunities at FBYC:

Summer Sailing School: We have small group classes during the summer for juniors and adults. To see the entire schedule and register, go to:

https://www.fbyc.net/junior-sailing/sailing-school/

Classes are subject to change.  Keep checking for updates or request a class for your group!  Here are the first few offerings:

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Mon-Wed 7/1-3: Intro to 420 Sailing: 2 sailors per boat, 12-18 yo

Mon-Wed …