SHYC-MBC Junior Regatta 2025

We look forward to welcoming juniors in the Opti RWB, Opti Green, Laser Radial, 420 and Feva fleets to the 2025 Junior Regatta on July 11! 

This is a friendly event hosted from our clubhouse on our beautiful stretch on the Sound. We offer good fun and good competition; Green Fleet racers are welcome and will have their own course.

Reception and awards to follow racing; awards for the top three in each fleet; all green fleet racers will receive an award.

Note on launching and hauling: High tide is around noon. It will be important for sailors traveling by car to haul as quickly as possible following racing as we'll be losing water at our launch site at the back of Sachem's Head Harbor.

Make sure all sailors are wearing proper footwear if launching from the back of the harbor. *Local shellfish are not friendly to bare feet*.  (See below for more information on traveling to SHYC by car)

Schedule:

08:00-10:30: Launching, Rigging, Check-In 

10:45: Skippers’ Meeting (Opti RBW, FEVA, and ILCA)

11:00: Skippers’ Meeting (Opti Green)

11:00: Harbor Start fo

11:30:  First Gun  for for Opti RBW, FEVA, ILCA 

11:45: First Gun for Opti Green Fleet 

14:30:  No race will start after 14:30 

16:00: Awards 

INFORMATION FOR TRAVELING TO SHYC BY CAR

*Launch Location. As those of you have been to our event before know, our launch site is in a different location than our clubhouse. Please plan to travel to the launch site rather than the clubhouse and see tide information below. The link will take you directly to the launch site, but if you want an address to punch in to your phone, you may use 600 Colonial Road, Guilford CT, 06437, which is just beyond the landing. Shane Waldern from Sachem’s Head Yacht Club will be at the location assisting and orchestrating. His number is 203-228-4755

*Footwear: MAKE SURE YOUR SAILORS ARE WEARING APPROPRIATE FOOTWEAR FOR LAUNCHING AND PULLING. LOCAL OYSTERS ARE NOT KIND TO BARE FEET.    

*Getting to the clubhouse on foot. The clubhouse is not far from the launch site. To get, there, proceed to the dead end of Colonial Road, cross the footbridge, and take a right to Chimney Corner Circle (see map below) 

*Lunch/Food: We will have a post-racing reception at the clubhouse with pizza and snacks, but lunch will not be provided. Please plan accordingly.

*On the Water Communications: coach boats and race committees will be using channel 69 on the VHF

*Awards and Reception: We are preceding a social event at the SHYC Clubhouse, so we will move right into our reception and awards after sailing. Please proceed directly to the club docks (rather than launch site) after the final race.

Let us know if you have any questions or problems. I can be reached at 203-843-1354. 

Jake Lundberg