New England Spring

This is normal behavior for New Englanders once the temperatures hit 40

Here in New England, the sailing season begins as soon as we can punch our daggerboards through the ice.  Six intrepid souls took to the water at Barrington Yacht Club's spring frostbite series under light winds, cloudy skies and a ripping current.  Racing was close, with only three points separating the top three boats.

Hypothermia be damned! This is perfectly normal spring behavior for New Englanders

There are lots more photos of average, normal New Englanders Here in the MYC Pressroom

Spring is here! (Really?)

An intrepid Sunfish Sailor stands at the ready for the BYC Frostbite series

Spring is scheduled to arrive next Sunday, when the Barrington Yacht Club Spring Frostbite Series begins.  It will run every Sunday from March 3 until April 26.  MYCSunfish will be there as soon as I can get my boat dug out from the Pleistocene ice pack that surrounds it.

Looking for a few good Sailors

Just in time for the start of the new Sunfish racing series, the Massapoag Yacht Club has announced that it is looking for new members.  The club is home to the MYCSunfish fleet, as well as vibrant Flying Scot, Laser and Day Sailer fleets.  We run races 4 days a week, plus we offer "How to Sail", "How to Sail Better" and Racing courses during the year.  It's really a great club.  Give us a try!

http://www.sailmyc.org

email to: MYCMembership@SailMYC.org

Sunfish Racing is on!

Last night, the MYC Race Committee finalized the 2013 racing schedule.  Sunfish Racing will start on Saturday June 1, kicking off with the 6th annual Sunfish/Laser regatta.  Regular series racing will begin two weeks after on June 15 at 3:00pm and will continue every Saturday, concluding with the two-day 66th Annual Regatta on Sept 7-8.

The regular Saturday races will consist of 2, 6 week series.  The format will loosely follow the same format as the Barrington Frostbite series, with the Race Committee getting in as many races as possible each week.

We will publish the full schedule here as son as it is available.  Stay Tuned.

Schedule Coming Into Focus

The draft MYC racing schedule has just come out, and it looks exciting.  The season is going to be bookended by the 6th Annual MYC Sunfish/Laser Regatta on June 1, followed by regular Saturday racing, and concluding with the multi-fleet Annual MYC Regatta on September 6, 7 and 8th.

The Race Committee meets to finalize the schedule on February 10, and it will be presented to the general membership on February 21.

Winter Projects 1

LaserPerformance Open House Boat Repair Seminar from Mark Stoughton on Vimeo.

A couple of years ago, the people at LaserPerformance opened up their factory for tours and a seminar entitled "Care and Feeding of your LaserPerformance Boat".  It was a walkthrough of a complete repair to a hole in a Laser hull, right from making the hole to final polishing.
To keep the sailing juices flowing for those of us in the northern hemisphere, we present the video here. Stay tuned, because there are outtakes and additional footage that didn't make it into the final cut. We'll be posting them here over the next couple of weeks.

Full Steam Ahead for Saturday Sunfish Series!

The Sunfish Fleet at MYC has been given the go ahead for the proposed Saturday Sunfish Series at MYC for next summer.  The racing is to be a small boat series, with both Sunfish and Lasers, with separate starts for each fleet.  Right now, the racing is planned to start at 3:00pm on Saturdays, with at least 6 races scheduled each week.

Several members have already committed to the new series, and a few even offered to loan their extra boats (or their own boats when they aren't racing) to others to make it easier for people to participate.  Our own Kevin Buruchian, one of the best Sunfish sailors in the world, has generously offered to conduct on and off the water racing seminars over the summer.   Mark Stoughton was appointed Sunfish Fleet Captain to coordinate the effort.

The 2013 racing schedule will be completed on February 21, 2013, and will be posted on this blog and on the club's web site http://SailMYC.org.