Please come and help out this Sunday at the L street facility.
We have lots to do packing up for the winter.
We will try and start at 9 am.
Please come and help out this Saturday at the L street facility.
We have lots to do packing up for the winter.
We will try and start at 9 am.
FOBH Members
Unfortunately we will not be open for member hours today due to lack of coverage.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
FOBH
We will be open Tuesday with both morning and afternoon junior sailing sessions.
Shark River discovery Camp will be open at regular 10 am start as well.
Monday morning Junior Sailing program is cancelled.
Monday afternoon Junior Sailing program is ON.
Shark River Discovery program is on for Monday at 10am.
FOBH email is not working at the moment due to storm damage.
Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.
All sailing sessions are cancelled today while we make preparations for the Irene.
All member sailing is cancelled for the rest of the weekend.
Hopefully there will be enough of FOBH left to resume Monday.
Monday AM session is cancelled. We will have to put the boats/dock back together.
Afternoon is possible.
Shark River Discovery Camp is questionable for Monday.
Please Check Back Here On Sunday Night/Monday Morning
We have heard some rolling thunder already and there looks like more to come the rest of the day.
Member sailing tonight is also cancelled.
We are making preparations for hurricane Irene, which if her present course holds, may come by and affect us this weekend. The full force of 40+ mph winds may start to hit us Saturday night.
Stay tuned to this web site for updates as to member hours etc this weekend. It could be a complete washout.
Starting Thursday night we will be pulling some boats off the dock and moving some others out of the mooring fields. We can always use help, so if you have some time available, come down to the dock and lend a hand. We will try to leave an ongoing list with the dock workers so there should be something to do any time after Thursday afternoon.
FOBH will not be open tonight for Member Usage dues to water, weather and earthquakes.
Actually we have been having staffing problems. If anyone knows some who would like to work the docks during the evenings 4 pm - 8 pm and on weekends please email info@fobhnj.org. Dock workers must have a valid NJ boating certificate.
From WallPatch.com
Eight township residents attend three-week junior sailing program
Ten-year-old Natasha Collett never knew sailing existed before she enrolled in the Junior Sailing Program run by the Friends of Belmar Harbor.
But by the end of the three-week instructional program she’s attending via a scholarship from the Wall Recreation Department, Collett hopes to sail by herself on the Shark River.
Collett and seven other Wall Township children, along with 40 others from area towns, are attending the afternoon program from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday through Aug. 19.
“The last day of the junior sailing program is the Mayor’s Cup Regatta. The students get to show off the skills they have learned over the three weeks,” said Tom Adcock, Friends of Belmar Harbor Board Member.
The Friends of Belmar Harbor and the recreation departments from Wall, Belmar, Avon, Neptune, Neptune City and Bradley Beach sponsor 48 children - eight per town - to attend each summer.
Now in its seventh season, the free junior sailing program is based out of the Friends of Belmar Harbor headquarters located on the shore of the Shark River at the intersection of L Street and Route 35.
“This is an amazing program and it’s all for free,” said Marilyn Ryder, grandmother of 10-year-old Kelsey Stout, of Joseph Court.
“I never sailed before. The other day, Natasha and I sailed all the way over to Memorial Park in Neptune City,” said Kelsey said. “I think we might be sailing by ourselves this week.”
The goal of the program is to introduce sailing and expose the children to the water to children ages 10 to 16, according to Adcock.
The students practice on the Friends of Belmar Harbor’s fleet of 8-foot Open Bics, 8-foot Optimus Prams and JY15s.