Summer 2014 is almost here!

Welcome back everyone! We're all super excited for the summer to start and get back out on the water!

Some important things to think about and upcoming events as the BHYC Jr Sailing Program approaches:

• Some of the coaches will host a "Rig-Day" this Saturday morning at 10am. This will help your sailors get their boat rigged and ready to go for the first day of program.
• Parents Meeting this Sunday at 5pm in the Merrick Center.
• The Juniors Kickoff BBQ is next Tuesday the 24th. There will be food, music, games! 
• Register your Intermediate, Opti Whit-Blue-Red, and 420 girls for the Powder Puff Regatta at MCYC ASAP! This event fills up quickly and closes out. Registration is online at his link.
• Mid-Atlantic Junior Olympics at IHYC registration is online as well. This event is for experienced racers on the Merrick side of the program (no Greenies or Intermediates). This even is also the qualifier for Midget Eliminations this year (Optis must be in Gold fleet to qualify).

 We've got a great group of coaches this year, and we're all looking forward to seeing you at the Parents meeting this coming Sunday.

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August Opti Point Races

Yesterday we waited for breeze and when it came up got 2 more point races for August. This is where we stand so far after six races:

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August Greenies!

We've got a new crop of Greenies in for the August session, and three days in they're off and running! Check out more photos at our Flickr photo site

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Regatta Rewind

The past week was the busiest, and hottest, of the summer, and BHYC junior sailors represented the club extremely well. Monday our 420s placed 2nd and Lasers 3rd in the LYC Team Race regatta, and Tuesday our Opti sailors dominated a very good field of 132 boats in the LYC Opti Regatta, placing 6 in the top 10, including the winner Alex Fasolo. Then we traveled Wednesday to MYC for the Opti Interclub, won by our own white fleeter Fritz Sellig and placing three in the top 10.

Besides our top finishers, we had a ton of sailors improving and having great regattas. While we could go on all day, some notables were Logan Houpt finishing 32nd out of 138 at LYC, his best regatta ever and having a great time. Congratulations also go out to our Intermediate sailors, who sailed on the big course for the first time at a travel regatta at the MYC Interclub!

Thursday our A Optis competed at MCYC for the Mid-Atlantic regional championship qualifier (known as Midgets), and while we didn't qualify we got to compete and practice against some great competition. Friday we sent six sailors to represent BHYC at the Barclay Cup Team Race regatta, one of the older trophies on the bay. Out of 12 teams both BHYC teams qualified for Gold. Our team of Alex Fasolo, Sarah Burn, and Sam Gavula earned 2nd place overall, and the team of Robbie O'Brien, Eloise Burn, and Caitlin Welch finished 5th overall.

Taylor Gavula and Julianna Rustum at 420 NAs. they're in 14th after 3 days.

We also have 420s competing in the 420 North Americans in Nova Scotia, and today and tomorrow have Optis and Lasers at the Mid-Atlantic Junior Olympics at IHYC.

You can view full results of many of the local regattas at the BBYRA website results page.

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