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Middle Bay Island Lighthouse, prominent marker for Mobile Bay sailing races
Middle Bay Island Lighthouse, prominent marker for Mobile Bay sailing races

Buccaneer Yacht Club (abbreviated formally as BucYC or in local tradition as BYC) is a member-run sailing club which has operated out of Mobile Bay, Alabama since 1928. The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem acc of traditio which means "a giving up delivering up surrendering" and is used in a number of Sailing is the art of controlling a Sailing vessel. By changing the Rigging, Rudder and dagger or centre board a Sailor manages the force Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. It is a member club of the Gulf Yachting Association and the United States Sailing Association. The United States Sailing Association, better known as US Sailing, is the governing body for the sport of Sailing in the United States, particularly Its members are active competitors in 420, Fish, Flying Scot, Laser, Optimist, Star, Sunfish, PHRF and Portsmouth class events, many of which it hosts (see GYA 2007 schedule). While the Mobile Yacht Club predates it BucYC remains arguably the oldest continuously operating sailing club in Alabama. The Flying Scot is a day sailer dinghy used for pleasure sailing as well as racing throughout North America. The International Laser Class sailboat, also called Laser Standard and the Laser One is a popular One-design class of small sailing dinghy The International Star (or Starboat) is a 69 m (227 ft one-design racing keelboat for two people Racing There are regional continental and world championships every year Performance Handicap Racing Fleet ( PHRF) is a Handicapping system used in Yacht racing. The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY or Portsmouth handicap scheme is a system of Handicapping used in Yacht racing. The Mobile Yacht Club is a private boat club and harbor which first met as a group in 1847 before establishing a physical clubhouse in the 1850s

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Races and fleets

As one of four sailing clubs on Mobile Bay, BucYC hosts the Dauphin Island Race once every four years. Dauphin Island is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, located on a Barrier island also named Dauphin Island This is "arguably the largest single day point to point sail race in the U. S. A. " with over 300 boats and 1000 crewmembers. [1] In 2007 it hosted the 87th annual Sir Thomas Lipton Inter-Club Challenge sailboat race, an Olympic style GYA racing event for sailors of Flying Scot dinghys. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton Bt KCVO (born 10 May 1848 in Glasgow; died 2 October 1931 in London The Flying Scot is a day sailer dinghy used for pleasure sailing as well as racing throughout North America. [2]

BucYC members maintain the largest surviving fleet of Fish Class sailboats in the world and the club hosts the majority of races-(see index on left) for this class. Fish boats were designed in 1919 and were the original Gulf Yachting Association inter-club racing boat until they were replaced by Flying Scots in 1969. The Flying Scot is a day sailer dinghy used for pleasure sailing as well as racing throughout North America. They ". . . incorporated features of the New England Sharpie and some of the Biloxi Cat--the straight lines and chine of the Sharpie, the wide beam and low free-board of the Cat. History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the Sharpies are long narrow Sailboats with flat bottoms extremely shallow draft, Centerboards and straight flaring sides A catboat (alternate spelling cat boat or a cat-rigged Sailboat, is a Sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward ( A chine in boating refers to a relatively sharp angle in the hull, as compared to the rounded bottoms of most traditional boat hulls The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point or at the mid-point of its length . . " as well as a vee bottom, lead keel and gaff rigged sail. In boats and ships keel can refer to either of two parts a structural element or a hydrodynamic element Gaff rig is a Sailing rig (configuration of sails in which the Sail is four-cornered Fore-and-aft rigged controlled at its peak and usually A sail is any type of surface intended to generate Thrust by being placed in a Wind &mdashin essence a vertically-oriented Wing. [3][4]

The club is one of over forty nationwide hosts of the Leukemia Cup Regatta, a major fund raising event organized by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to raise donations for medical research into the causes and treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (wwwllsorg is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood Cancer research education and patient services Leukemia or leukaemia (Greek leukos λευκός, "white" aima αίμα, "blood" is a Cancer of the Blood Lymphoma a type of Neoplasm that originates in Lymphocytes (a type of White blood cell in the vertebrate Immune system) Hodgkin's lymphoma, also known as Hodgkin's disease is a type of Lymphoma first described by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832 Multiple myeloma (also known as MM, myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, or as Kahler's disease after Otto Kahler) is a type of

Notable members

Its notable members include Sunfish sailer, Karl Kleinschrodt, who won fourth place among international contenders in the 2007 Sunfish North American championship race. [5] Karl's mother, Amy Champman Kleinschrodt, had won the coveted Adams Cup in 1977, 1980 and 1997. [6][7] Another member, Donnie Brennen, (also a member of New Orleans Yacht Club) has been named as boatwright for the 2008 U. S. Olympic sailing team. The New Orleans Yacht Club (NOYC was founded in 1949 and is dedicated to further the sport of Yacht racing, marine safety and seamanship See also Shipbuilding (song. Shipbuilding is the construction of Ships It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a The United States (USA has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games, except the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted [8]

USA Sailing Club

In the interest of providing sailing education and race training BucYC is the sponsoring club for the University of South Alabama Sailing Club, which competes in intercollegiate races against teams such as those from Oklahoma State University, Texas A&M University and Tulane University. The University of South Alabama ( USA) is a public, doctoral-level University in Mobile, Alabama, USA. The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA is a Volunteer organization that serves as the governing authority for all Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU, is a Coeducational public Research University located in College Station Tulane University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. [9]

Notes

  1. ^ Untitled Document
  2. ^ Warner, Joey. "Lipton Challenge sails into Mobile Bay", Mobile Press-Register, Mobile Press-Register, September 9, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor  
  3. ^ De Buys, Rathbone, The Fish Class...Its Origin and Growth (version1), <http://www.fishclass.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2:2>. Retrieved on 23 January 2008 
  4. ^ De Buys, Rathbone, The Fish Class...Its Origin and Growth (version2), <http://www.schurrsails.com/fish/debuys.htm>. Retrieved on 24 January 2008 
  5. ^ http://www.fairhopeyachtclub.com/RegattaPages/SunfishNAs2007/Sunfish%20NAs-Final.htm
  6. ^ Smith, Lissa; Mariah Burton Nelson, Lucy Danziger (October 1999). Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports. Atlantic Monthly Press, 124. ISBN 978-0871137616.  
  7. ^ Adams Trophy History
  8. ^ Andrews, Casandra. "From Buccaneer to Beijing", Mobile Press-Register, Mobile Press-Register, August 17, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor  
  9. ^ http://www.southalabama.edu/sailingclub/constitution.htm USA Sailing Club Constitution

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The Fish class sloop, also known informally as Fish boat is a One-design Sailboat designed in 1919 by New Orleans resident Rathbone De Buys The Mobile Yacht Club is a private boat club and harbor which first met as a group in 1847 before establishing a physical clubhouse in the 1850s The New Orleans Yacht Club (NOYC was founded in 1949 and is dedicated to further the sport of Yacht racing, marine safety and seamanship Sailing is the art of controlling a Sailing vessel. By changing the Rigging, Rudder and dagger or centre board a Sailor manages the force Sailing (or yachting) was introduced as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, as a men's competition Sailing Southern Yacht Club is an extremely active sailing club and is the organizing body for the Race to the Coast the oldest point to point Regatta in the Western A yacht club is a sports Club specifically related to Sailing and Yachting.
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