2015 Shamrock Regatta

This year’s Shamrock was held at the Riverton Yacht Club in Riverton, NJ. RYC is celebrating 150 years of racing. The club is the oldest Yacht Club in New Jersey and one of the oldest yacht clubs in the country in continuous operation since 1865. The Club also shares the West Jersey RC Laser Fleet with Cooper ... More

Cherokee Long Dock RC Laser Sailing March 2015

The RC Laser Tour de Abaco finished our sailing season with a beautiful day at Cherokee Sound, Abaco. Tim and Julie Sands put on a fantastic picnic lunch and grilled the hot dogs that were second to none. High tide was at 5:00, so we greeted some new friends while we waited for the tide to come in. At low tide, the sailing ... More

2015 RC Laser Mid-Winter Championship Regatta

The easy headline would be “Jim Kaighin tops field for fifth consecutive Marco Island win”. However, there is more to the story. Let’s start with the organizers of this year’s RC Laser Mid-Winter Championship at Marco Island bringing out a new format with a shorter duration and the class reacting with fifty ... More

SPECIAL NOTE

Our class is growing fast, and we want to thank all the RC Laser boat owners for the support of the North American RC Laser Group and a special thank you for those skippers who have joined the American Model Yachting Association. With your support we have been able to improve our web site and give better support to all ... More

Snowbird Tune-Up Regatta

A full house of thirty skippers was registered for this regatta, but the forecast of heavy rain and thunderstorms had three skippers think twice about racing. Although the weather was not perfect all day there was some great racing with cheering for those novice regatta skippers who finished well. The breeze for the ... More

Local Loesel Wins SE Florida Winter RC Laser Regatta

Scott Loesel from the local Sabal Pines Model YC Fleet bested a field of twenty one RC Laser sailors that was made up of Floridians and Snowbirds seeking the warm Florida weather. Scott won 4 out of the 11 races that made up the series, with a total of 23 points beating out Mark Schwegman from Ft. Lauderdale by 8 ... More

Dave Brawner Wins RC Laser Invitational World Indoor Championship

It was balmy breezes in February that current RC Laser National Champion Dave Brawner sailed to win the RC Laser Invitational World Indoor Championship. This year eleven RC Laser sailors from as far away as Vermont and Maryland traveled to the snow covered Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains for this exciting event. The pond ... More

Sail Number Specifications And Placement

Each new RC Laser is shipped with a piece of paper that lists the 4-digit hull number. The sail number for that boat hull would be the last two digits of the hull number. So, for instance, if your hull number is 3068 then your sail number would be 68. If you are an AMYA member and you don’t know what your boat number is ... More