Racing

Sail Hard. Sail Friendly – The BCYC Way.

BCYC Racing motto embodies the spirit of racing at BCYC. Try to win; but always respect others. Group harmony is more important than winning or losing. Sure, it's great to win; but the supreme pleasure is to simply get out there, be a part of it, give it your best and learn from mistakes.

BCYC's goal is to diffuse differences by sharing knowledge, experience and guidance on handling close situations so regardless of who wins a race everyone shares the pleasure.

A day of Racing is not added to your lifetime allotment of days. Cares and worries vanish, replaced by a good clean fitness activity. Older racers feel young and the young get exposure to great experience, providing an ideal opportunity for improvement.

Back on shore the best sailors share their secrets and techniques. Everyone improves. BCYC racers include regional, national and world level competitors who embrace the club motto.

Skipper's Meetings and Racer Meetings include winning techniques and knowledge of rules and strategies. No matter what your level of experience, age or sex, BCYC provides a rewarding program.

Members who have passed a simple check-out can use a club boat: BCYC has 12 Sunfish, some rigged for competition and can be taken to other clubs for events. There are 5 420-Class racing dinghies and 6 special Catalina Capri 16.5' keelboats that are used in our Adult Sail School and club racing. That's 23 boats available for no extra fee.

Not ready for skippering a Race Boat? The Race Committee Chair works to connect skippers and crew. This can be on club owned boats or larger member owned PHRF boats where different size boats are able to compete through a handicap system that adds or subtracts time from finishes to make racing equal between many styles of boats.

Become a Race Boat skipper in BCYC's nationally recognized Sunfish Fleet 756, where everyone sails solo and finds out real quick what works and what doesn't. Fleet 756 has novice instruction and year-round weekly racing that makes learning fast, fun, affordable and effective.

The Rhumb Runners are the BCYC women's group who conducts their own racing program and much more.

BCYC sails monthly PHRF races on the Sunday following the third Friday of the month, weekly Sunfish races on Saturdays in the winter and Tuesday evenings featuring Sunfish and Capris during summer.

BCYC is open to expansion. There is active racing in PHRF, Sunfish and Capri 16.5's. Other Classes are welcome. There could be a Portsmouth fleet and other One Designs. BCYC seeks to grow the racing program on beautiful Boca Ciega Bay, with a nice facility and boats waiting for you.

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