BYC organizes sailboat races in the Ottawa area. Boating consists of a combination of Rowing (sport), Paddling, Sailing, Windsurfing, Fishing, Luxury yachting and a few motorboats involved in Water-skiing, Wakeboarding, in racing, Cruising (maritime), and Day sailing for recreation. There is the occasional Sea-doo, Jet-ski or remote control watercraft. Watercraft (historic and modern) Depending on the event, BYC watercraft include Brigantine Canoes Catamarans Cruisers Dinghys Dragon (keelboat) Fishing boat Frigate Jam Keelboats Lobster fishing Fishing trawler raceboards Sailboats Sailboard sailing Sloop Shark (keelboat) War Canoes, and/or Yacht. In addition, there are displays of Radio-controlled boats. Club members own and operate a wide variety of watercraft such as: 420 (dinghy) Access 2.3 Albacore (dinghy)Alberg 35Aloha Bayliner recreational boats Bluenose 23 (schooner) Bristol YachtsBeneteau yachts Bombardier Recreational Products Byte CII C&C Yachts Cal Yachts Carver Yachts Catalina Yachts Catalina 22 Catalina 30 Chris-Craft Commander Columbia Yachts Contessa 26 Contessa 32 Cygnus (dinghy), Dragon Ericson YachtsEtchells Glastron Shark Hobie cat Kirby 23 Laser (dinghy) Mistral One Design Class Nonsuch (sailboat) O'Day MarinerOptimist (dinghy) Ariel Ensign Pearson Triton Ranger (yacht) Reinell Sandpiper 565 Sea Sprite Sailing Yachts Sea Ray SharkShark 24Soling Sunfish (sailboat)Tempest Thunderbird 26 and Whaler. In addition, the Ottawa Police Service' Underwater Search and Recovery Unit and Marine Unit serve out of the BYC. Training fleet The International 14 (dinghy)`s K1, introduced to BYC by Doug Carmen in 1943; K1-K6 designs of racing dinghies were involved in racing, training and pleasure until the 1980s. The Lightning (keelboat) was introduced to BYC by Victor Pinard in the 1950s. The Y flyer, introduced to BYC by Harvey Fenton was used as a racing, training & pleasure sloop rigged racing dinghy from 1955-1970. The Wayfarer (dinghy) was introduced to BYC by Douglas Arrol from 1963-present. In 1963, a single Wayfarer sailed in a mixed BYC Day Sailer (dinghy) fleet of 15 including an Enterprise (dinghy), two Snipe (dinghy), a Grew Dinghy, an Albacore (dinghy), a Jolly boat, a Firefly, and an H.R. 20. In 1964, a tradition developed of naming B.Y.C.'s Wayfarers starting with "W's", for example, Watusi (W.826); Whisky, Windigo, Windlass, Wihuri and Wirrinda (W.827); BYC Wayfarers competed in the St. Lawrence Valley Y.R.A. Regatta and the Canadian Wayfarer Championships. W 1257 Peter Jefferson of BYC won the Wayfarer racing North American Championship in 1964. The Shark (keelboat), introduced by past BYC commodore Livius Sherwood, was used as a racing, training & pleasure sailboat