Partnerships
We have a variety of ways to collaborate and partner and we welcome your ideas!
Community Access and Education..... It takes partners!
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SBJSA has operated since 1956 as a summer camp for children 8-18 years. In that time we have learned that success is a combination of learning with a large dose of fun and adventure. Our summer day camp offers opportunities that are not always available to children that normally don't have access to the water.
We also believe that community access to the water and the availability to use boats from our fleet is a key part of our mission, along with boating education for all. SBJSA is continually seeking partnership and sponsor opportunities with those individuals and institutions that would like to help further our goals and programming. Through our scholarship and endowment programs SBJSA is always looking to provided "access" to our fleet, facilities, and our greatest asset Great Sodus Bay. Please review out partnership opportunities and consider how your organization, may benefit from a partnership with SBJSA.
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If you have any questions please email: info@sbjsa.org
Partnerships:
Collegiate Sailing
With our fleet that includes (12) identical and well maintained C-420 sailboats, as well as over a dozen Lasers in very good condition and all 3 rig sizes available, SBJSA offers the perfect location and boats for a collegiate sailing team or recognized collegiate club that wishes to practice and improve their sailing skills. In addition, SBJSA also has the resources and capability to host an intercollegiate regatta from mid-April to mid-October.
Middle & Hight School Sailing Partnership
SBJSA can provide the resources and facilities to enhance traditional middle/high school curriculum offerings. Looking for opportunities to expand outside of the classroom for enrichment or specialized instruction? Consider the resources of Great Sodus Bay and the access to the water that SBJSA can provide.
Continuing Education
As the primary boating education center in Wayne County, the SBJSA Community Boating Center has the watercraft and facilities ideally suited as a resource for Adult and Continuing Education in a variety of areas. SBJSA is poised to serve as a resource for regional school, village, and town programs that would like to enhance their continuing education programs for adults.
Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts
SBJSA Community Boating will provide area scouts and scout leaders the venue and facilities to accomplish a multitude of scouting endeavors and rank advancement opportunities for boys and girls. With a waterfront and fleet of over 60 boats and personal watercraft, SBJSA can tailor a weekend or weekday schedule for which scouts can either work toward a merit badge or hold a scouting event.
Sodus Bay Yacht Club
Although both organizations continue today as completely separate organizations with different missions, a small group of members from SBJSA and SBYC (known as the Joint Liaison Committee) work together each year to ensure that we maintain good, cooperative relations that benefit us both. This includes sharing race program equipment and boats, parking lots, land, restrooms and meeting space and also jointly hosting sailing events like the annual Centrals on Sodus Regatta.
Sodus Bay Lighthouse
Recently, SBJSA and the Sodus Bay Historical Society, which operates the Lighthouse Museum, have partnered together to help promote and support our organizations. We both share a love for Sodus Bay and encourage visitors to learn about the bay’s history as well as experience it first-hand, on the water in a boat!
When an SBJSA family or Community Boating member registers for an SBJSA program on our website, there is an opportunity to join the Sodus Bay Historical Society and become an annual “Friends” member for $40. This membership includes the following benefits: free admission for 2 adults (in the same household) and their children and grandchildren to the Lighthouse Museum all summer, 10% off merchandise purchased in the museum store (on-line or in-person), invitations to member-only events and a subscription to the membership magazine (“The Flash”), published twice each year.
Lake Yacht Racing Association LYRA
Within US Sailing’s organization, the United States is organized into 7 regions, or Areas, designated by a letter (A – G). Within each of those Areas, there usually are a small number of “Regional Sailing Associations” (RSAs) that conduct or sponsor at least one major annual regatta in their area. RSAs also handle regional protest appeals on behalf of US Sailing, help promote safety and host quarter-final and semi-final qualifiers for a variety of US Sailing Championships, etc.
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On Lake Ontario and surrounding waters, the RSA is the Lake Yacht Racing Association (LYRA), which also happens to be the oldest RSA in North America, founded in 1884!
US Sailing Connection
Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association is a member of US Sailing, the national governing body of the sport of sailing in the United States since 1897. We’ve been a member for over 40 years and continue to enjoy and benefit from the services, education, race management and other best practices US Sailing offers to over 1500 member yacht clubs, sailing schools and community boating centers across the country.