This is a Murphy Seminar presented by Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use, and hosted by Hampton Yacht Club, Hampton, Virginia. The seminar is entitled “Bearings and Angles and Numbers, Oh, My!” The morning will be spent discussing starting lines, gates, offset legs, finish lines and other places where numbers are important, but need … Continue reading "NUTS & BOLTS for RACE COMMITTEES – Saturday, March 10, 2018."
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For Race Officials, and those who want to be, the US SAILING One Day Race Management Seminar will be on Saturday, January 20, 2018, hosted by Hampton Yacht Club in Hampton, Virginia. This is a day long seminar (8:30am to 5:30pm) that covers race management procedures and techniques in depth. Those who attend the … Continue reading "US SAILING ODRMS – Saturday, January 20, 2018"
Read MoreSome of you may remember FireFly, the yellow hulled sailboat that did a refit at YRYH last fall. They have a blog, svfirefly.wix.com/firefly and we have recently been in touch with them. They had a successful trip south and are now in Fort Lauderdale hoping to soon take a job on a yacht.
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It wasn’t an April Fool’s, although we were introduced to it on that date. YRYC Sailboat Racing will begin using a different method of scoring starting this year. Strongly advocated by U.S. Sailing, popular in Europe, and now used by a number of clubs within the Chesapeake Bay, the purpose is to make racing more … Continue reading "YRYC Racing to Use New Scoring Method"
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Mike Mastracci has been teaching the Sailboat Racing 101 for years now. It’s open to anyone and provides great information for old salts as well as those new to sailboat racing. His notes are available online. But reading them isn’t the same as seeing him present it in person. The notes are a great summary … Continue reading "Sailboat Racing 101 Teaches Old and New"
Read Moreto members of yryc; my name is bob Patterson and l found your web site and thought you might be interested in a bit of York river history you don’t have. In 1969 November l was the navigator in uss ruchamkin lpr-89 we were returning from a top secret mission off the azores where we … Continue reading "York River Military History"
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Read MoreThe York River Yacht Club will be hosting a series of educational clinics in the coming months. The next seminar will be Saturday, February 21, and will cover the use of Radar, including radar principles and operation, as well as tuning, display interpretation, radar navigation, radar piloting, and collision avoidance. Also USCG Navigation Rules and radar. The clinic will … Continue reading "Educational Clinics"
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