From President Nick Bowen March 22, 2025
Spring is in the air and it is time to starting thinking about sailing. A few opening thoughts:
- For 2025, we are offering free NBYA senior membership to all owners who have a valid PHRF Narraganset Bay certificate. Your membership gets you all notifications, access to all senior racing and social events and enables you to compete to win both the GMT Boat Of The Year Trophy and the Tenacious Trophy at no extra cost. Join here.
- We have published the 2025 racing schedule for the bay. The season will kick off on May 17 with the Twenty Hundred Club’s infamous 3 Bridge Fiasco race. A story about the origins of this race can be found here.
- NBYA will have two PHRF events this summer in addition to the Boat of the Year and Tenacious Trophy. The first will be the Middle Bay Race on July 26. The second will be the Fall Regatta (combined with the Team Challenge) on Sept 7.
- We have brought on a new Junior Program Director, Skylar Batz, and she has been working with the member clubs to proactively get the schedule and race documents in place. We hope to have all schedules, NORs and SIs published within a month.
As always, don’t forget to follow NBYA Junior Sailing on Instagram at @nbyajuniorsailing
Sincerely,
Nick Bowen, President nsbowen@gmail.com