Download the announcement from the Portsmouth Boat Club to find out more.
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2010 Southern Bay Race Week (SBRW) for the Black Seal Cup
The 2010 SBRW is scheduled for June 4th through the 6th, with a check-in and welcome party on the 3rd. A number of new components to the races and procedures have been added so check out the web site accessible here for detailed information. Nearly 60 boats are already entered for the "3 days of great racing and 4 nights of great parties" as the billing on the website says. Our own 2010 YRYC Race Co-Captains Ben & Michele have already entered Rumble into the event.
2010 Race Rules & Guidelines
YRYC Race Manual 2010
Read More2010 Racing Calendar (correction made)
Wednesday Night Racing Series:
- 4/7/10 Tune Up Race
- Spring Series: 4/14/10 through 6/2/10
- Summer Series: 6/9/10 through 7/28/10
- Fall Series: 8/4/10 through 9/22/10
- 10/3/10 through 11/14/10
- 6/25/10 Moonlight Race
- 8/7/10 Admirals Cup (Co-hosted with Seaford Yacht Club)
- 9/18/10 York River Cup
- 9/26/10 Singlehanded Race Read More
2009 Racing Rules and Guidelines
YRYC Racers, please see the link below to download the 2009 version of the YRYC RRG.
Read More60th Down the Bay Race for the Virginia Cruising Cup
The Down the Bay Race is back after a 10 year hiatus. On May 22, Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, the starting gun will send boats off on a 120 nautical mile, non-stop race down the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis, Maryland, to Hampton, Virginia. This race will mark the 60th running of the event and the first since 1999. Press release attached.
Read More2009 Racing Rules of Sailing
The RRS are changing for 2009. Jim Bordeaux, YRYC's new Race Captain, recommends the attached article by Dave Dellenbaugh for an overview of the changes.
Read MoreTurkey Shoot Regatta
The Rappahannock River was the place to be for racing this October, a feeling that was shared by sailors on about 130 boats who arrived en mass for the Turkey Shoot Regatta. Some, like Helen Quimby’s Avalon II, were still on the hard minus a mast when that feeling took hold, so you can imagine the mad dash to get everything back on board, barrier coat and paint the bottom and back in the water just 2 days before she sailed north. Avalon II rendezvoued with Zatarra on Friday, who provided the crew of Ray and Trica Savoie and Jack and Judi Barnett for the race.
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