Radio Controlled Sailboat Racing
www.highschoolrcsailboatracing.com
 

                                        
                                                    START A CLUB IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL     
      1) Find at least four interested friends (more if you schools requires more students to start a club).
     
      2) Ask a teacher or parent to be a sponsor.
     
      3) Hold a meeting that includes you, your friends, your sponsor, and your parents. This meeting is to go over what your club could look like - it's a start. Invite to your meeting members of a local sailing club.  Check "theamya.org" website for a local club and contact them.  Tell them you are planning to start a club at your high school for racing model sail boats and ask them if they would have two or three members who would come and share their stories, show off a few boats, answers questions.  They have a wealth of information.
     
      4)   Complete "club application" provided by your high school (check main office).  Include a reference to the HighSchoolRCSailBoatRacing.com web site for the Administration to peruse. For application purposes, the officers of the club would be Commodore, Vice Commodore, Rear Commodore, Secretary, and Treasurer.  School administrators encourage students to take the initiative in forming clubs.      
     
      5)Register each skipper in your club with the American Model Yacht Association as a Junior Member. Go to "theAMYA.org" > Membership > Membership-Join.  Fill in the information.  Check "Class Micro Magic". Registering with the AMYA is important.  The AMYA carries liability insurance that covers their members.  Some ponds you will sail upon may require your club to show a certificate of insurance.  There is a small cost for the AMYA to send that certificate.
     
      6) Register your sail number.  Within theAmya.org site, go "Register Your Boat" and click on the link to the Micro Magic.  The site is easy to navigate. Cost is about $10.  This can be done before you get your boat.  Your sail number will be good for the rest of your life; anywhere you sail anywhere in the world.  No one else will have your number.
     
      7) Pond/lake. Scope out water in your area where your club could sail. Should be at least one foot deep and have no weeds in the area you are sailing. Metro Parks, State Parks, City Parks are good places to start.  Sometimes a house on the lake works well.  Most homeowners policies will cover liability exposures.  That liability exposure is just about zero.
     
     8) Local Clubs - Good idea to tie into a local club - see directory on the AMYA site.  Go to the CALENDAR tab on these local clubs sites to see where they are racing and then go watch them.  Tell them your connection to your high school club.  They just might let you get some "hands-on" experience.  Don't insist on them having Micro Magics - remember, there are 34 sanctioned boats.  If they offer their boat (regardless of which class of boat), take them up on it.  The principles of sailing are all the same for all boats.  In southeast Michigan, the Detroit Model Yacht Club (DMYC) offers free membership in the DMYC to all students who are part of their high school radio controlled sailing club (AMYA membership is required).  This allows students to sail in sanctioned races that are not part of the high school racing program to gain skills in sailing and make friends with students from other school as well as other nice people.  In southeast Michigan, all the students need to do is to register with the DMYC.
   
      9) Be good ambassadors and spread the word around to your friends - even at other schools. This movement to have RC Sail Boat Racing in high schools started in 2023).(When you start a club, let us know so we can put your school on this site for all to see. Reference Sailboat Racing in Subject Line.