When We Race
41 Registered RYC Members with 13 boats on average on each Sunday.

Race’s start at 10am on Sunday and end at 12:30pm.

Rochester YC RC Sailing Notice v1

2026-2027

Rochester Yacht Club Model Yachting

1. The Soling 1-meter fleet will race Sunday morning at the Club, with a couple of Saturdays noted or communicated 3 days before race Day.

1.1. SAFETY is a priority: NO finger pier during racing in cold/Icy weather.

2. The Boats: Soling 1 meter one design

3. RC RACING SCHEDULE

Tuneup/promotional Race

9/19 10:00 am till 12:30 pm RYC area

Series

Fall Series Sundays (FYI Upriver 10/3)

(7 weeks) –GENE FAUST 10/4 10:00 am till 12:30 pm (Bills vs Patriots 1pm)



10/4 -11/15 10:00 am till 12:30 pm

Winter Series (Sundays) Moonshine Trophy

(8 weeks) 11/22 – 1/10/26 10:00am till 12:30 pm

--Turkey Shootout (11/29)- part of Winter Series

--Festivus Regatta (12/27 or 1/3/26) part of Winter series

Shut-Down Series – (Sundays) (Genny trophy)

(8 weeks) 1/17/26 – 3/7/26 10:00 am till 12:30 pm

Spring Series - Sundays & Saturday

(7 weeks) 3/14 - 4/25/26 (Sat/Sundays) 10:00 am till 12:30 pm

** 3/27/24 SATURDAY – due to EASTER –Also the WhiteTail Regatta

Regatta’s

Gene Faust - 10/4 (Day after up the river) - (Half Hull trophy)

Turkey Shoot Out - 11/29 Sunday weekend of Thanksgiving (Trophy Cup)

Festivus Regatta - (12/27 or 1/4) Frozen Bottle Trophy around Christmas/Newyears

White Tail regatta- (3/27) (Trophy TBD) Around Easter timeframe

4. RC RACING Scoring Results Posted Somewhere per Race Director 5. RC RACING LOCATIONS Where we race: 5.1. RYC area BASED on conditions, and the safety boat is available ** Locations are chosen on race day based on wind and pond conditions. If you want to observe or try out a boat, contact Pugs 6. BOAT AND RACING INFO & LINKS

General Links: US Sailing RX rules: https://www.racingrulesofsailing.org/rules?part_id=54 Racing Rules of Sailing: http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/index.php Basic rules guidelines website: http://www.bcya.com/Misc/BasicRacingRules.pdf Rules quiz: http://game.finckh.net/indexe.htm American Model Yachting Association: theamya.org Soling 1m class website: Soling1m.com >Go here for class rules, to apply for a sail number, get templates for sail number location, etc

Other Model boat SI’s http://hudsonyachtclub.com/Soling_SI_2009.pdf