Melford Pond, Bowie, Maryland

Radio control sail boating at its finest!

The Maryland Model Yacht Club is a fun group of enthusiastic sailors (both men and women of all ages!) from the tri-state area. We actively race several classes of radio-controlled sailboats and members range from novice to several national champions. We invite you to come join the fun.

The club is sanctioned by the AMYA (#205).

Come join us!!!

Next up ODOM Region 2 Regatta May 17th at Melford Pond.

Race Day #3 is also May 17th at Melford Pond. We hope to see you there!

Note time change: 0900 Vics, 1100 DF65s, 1200 ODOM Skippers check-in.

See this month's story below!!

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Bob Adams getting his ODOM wet for the very first time!

MMYC continues to grow! I am happy to report, this past month, we had three new sailors race with us. Bob Adams raced his rebuilt ODOM for the first time ever. It also was his first time RC sailing, but he is going to move up quickly, as he has a good amount of big boat racing under his belt. Bob Kehoe, all the way from Delaware, raced his DF 95 in the One Meter Class. Using borrowed boats he also raced in the Vics and the DF 65s. Bob also has lots of big boat racing experience, and it showed, as he held his own out there on the course. Finally, James Poindexter joined us in the Victoria fleet. James is an associate of Fleet Commodore Richard Herbert. Great job Richard getting some new people sailing.

We need to have more members to help get new people sailing with us, and show them how much fun this sport is. James is like most new people who venture into this sport. He had limited experience but had guts to just jump in and try it. I commend him for that! James told Richard that he enjoyed himself and will be back this next month. Trust me James, you will have even more fun next month as you can apply everything you learned. Keep coming out and learning it always is fun! I want to welcome these new sailors, and remind everyone to be sure to introduce yourself to them when you see them next month!

John Ebell

All are welcome to come and race but non-member scores are not considered in club season standings.

Where there are no strangers...
only friends you haven't met yet!

Contact: mdmodelyachtclub@gmail.com

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Our sister clubs in the area.

Richmond Model Yacht club

Northern Virginia Model Yacht club

Cumberland Valley Model Yacht club

Northern Maryland Model Yacht Club

Combined 2025 schedule for the local clubs

Visits since 11 Sept 2020

Recent News: March 8 Club Prep Day at Tom's Garage

You really realize an event you are having is going to be a success, when people start showing up a half hour early! That’s what happened at MMYC’s recent boat clinic. We decided to hold this hands-on event due to the recent surge of new members into the club. We wanted to make sure anyone who had any questions or problems with their boats, could get them resolved before the start of the season. That way, people would be racing, not fixing or dealing with issues the first race day. Who knew (maybe Dave Branning) that it was going to be such a success? It was a very satisfying time seeing around 20 people talking sailing, tinkering on boats, and socializing. To me, that’s the core mission of any club, to deliver to its members!

We had six or so workstations set up in Tom Walsh’s garage for people to work on, examine, test their boats. Thanks again to Tom for the kind use of your heated (very important) garage. Attendees ranged from Champion Sailor Walter House, past IOM World Champion Steve Andre, to our most recent members and rookie sailors Eric Griesinger, assembling his brand-new DF 65 and Kevin Brennan working on his rebuilt ODOM. Again, that’s the purpose, to hand down the vast experience of our senior members to newer members. That gets more people on the race course and everyone benefits! In addition, a couple of attendees actually didn’t have an RC boat, and they were there to actually check out our club. I feel pretty confident they will have transmitters in their hands and big smiles on their faces in short order!

There were plenty of adult beverages and snacks for everyone. We also ordered pizza, and everyone had their fill before the end of the day. I was very happy to receive many emails thanking us for hosting this event and confirming how much useful information so many people took away with them. Again, the main purpose is to help people get better racing RC boats and to have more fun. In retrospect, I hope we didn’t do too good of a job, winning at MMYC is hard enough! I predict this year it’s going to be a really competitive year!