Kattack will provide live tracking in Newport next week

The New York Yacht Club will also post on its web site a daily blog, written by Brad Dellenbaugh, daily photographs and will post throughout the day the preliminary race results.

The NYYC has also issued a press release Who’s Who at U.S. Qualifying Series for Next Week’s New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup . The press release mentions that Will and Marie Crump are event co-chairs, and that we should expect stiff competition - including a Sonar World Champion, and an Olympic Competitor in the Finn class.

Best of luck to our team in Newport.

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STINGRAY REMINDER - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

16th ANNUAL STINGRAY POINT REGATTA
For the Brent Halsey Jr. Memorial Trophy
September 4 & 5, 2010

REGISTRATION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

ENTRY FEE: $100 per boat. Entry fee includes Friday welcome reception, continental breakfast Saturday and party Saturday night with live music by The Wrest.

For more information and to register online:
Check out www.fbyc.net
Or contact Alex Alvis: (804) 370-8241 or alexalvis@comcast.net

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:
Bartenders (1-hour shifts) – Contact Tom O’Connell at (804) 360-9516 or toconnell6@gmail.com

Contact Alex Alvis at (804) 370-8242 or alexalvis@comcast.net if you can volunteer for any of the following:

Friday, Sept 3 – Clean Up post registration party
Saturday A.M., Sept 4 – Parking, Registration, Merchandise Sales, Breakfast
Saturday P.M., Sept 4 – Merchandise Sales, Clean Up
Sunday, Sept 5 – Post Race Clean Up

Volunteers Needed for Sting Ray Regatta

Here it is! This is the call.

I know we’ve had a very busy season but we still have events to do.

String Ray Regatta (Labor Day weekend) needs YOUR HELP!

Volunteers are needed for the following:

Sept 3 Friday night Clean-up post registration party

Sept 4 Saturday morning Parking Registration Merchandise Sales Breakfast

Saturday evening Merchandise Sales Clean up

Sept 5 Sunday morning Breakfast

Sunday afternoon Post Race Social Clean up

Thank you in advance for you willingness to help. The volunteer spirit is what makes FBYC successful.!

Enjoy the weekend – SAIL; PARTY and VOLUNTEER

Contact Alex Alvis at 804-370-8241, 804-370-8241 or email alexalvis@comcast.net

#505 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

A Classic Night on the Bay - Smith Point Race 2010

There are no known pictures to prove or disprove the yarns shared and claims made at brunch Sunday morning about the 2010 Smith Point Race, started August 21. The Race Committee can, however, confirm that vicious tides, a prestart wind shift and light air at the start brought a couple of competitors to an intimacy with the Race Committee's anchor line neither desired nor intended, but all ten boats got off safely in 4-6 knots of breeze at 2:00 in the afternoon. The forecast held, and the wind slowly but steadily built to a solid 10-12 knot southerly breeze for the sprint up the bay.

Four PHRF A boats sailed the 59 mile course east to the cut channel and up around Smith Point Light, and Four PHRF B/C boats made straight for Smith Point light after clearing Stingray and Windmill Point lights, on a 42 mile course. The lone non-spinnaker entry sailed a shorter (32 mile)course that did not take him around Smith Point light.

For the other details, we can only rely on the stories the competitors brought back. Revelers at a party at Smith Point lighthouse reportedly cheered the rounding boats around, and the partygoers' whaler, tied off to the walkway on the lighthouse well above the waterline, provided a challenge to anyone attempting a close rounding. Once around, the competitors faced a building southerly, and a long, hard, slog home in 14-20 knots (and maybe a good bit more, according to Sunday morning memory), adverse current, and a lumpy sea, under a nearly full moon.

By 1:30AM Sunday morning everybody had finished. Competiton was tight: the 4 PHRF A boats(ratings 84-108) finished within 25 minutes on a 59 mile course, and the PHRF B/C finishes were similarly close. Strother Scott and LOOSE CANNON took first in PHRF A, and Tom Lakin's SWEET LIBERTY edged out the Commodore's EXCITATION and Glen Doncaster's NANUQ for second. In PHRF B, Eric Powers' NEREID took line honors in PHRF B/C and first place in PHRF B, with Brad Miller and SCHIEHALLION claiming PHRF C and correcting out to first in PHRF B/C: SHENANIGAN and TRILOGY rounded out the B/C fleet. Frank Murphy's LAST BOAT III took first in PHRF Non-Spinnaker and the Murphy family followed their triumph by providing a stellar brunch Sunday morning for the tired fleet.

The great fun of long (and long-ish) races, is meeting the challenge of racing in varying wind, tide, and other conditions (equipment problems, anyone?) over an extended period. The stories these races spawn and the camaraderie of the sailors who can share those stories are the real prizes. By that measure, the 2010 Smith Point Race provided a good measure of fun and rewards: Buy these sailors a drink, and ask them to tell you about the 2010 Smith Point Race.

FBYC Team Wins Rhodes 19 Class at Nantucket Race Week

The racing was characterized by moderate to heavy winds and strong harbor currents. Sophie drove with Mike trimming jib and working foredeck and Noel trimming main and spinnaker. The upwind speed of Toni Too was the deciding factor with frequent leads at the windward mark, which turned into a liability in one race. Days One and Three were traditional round the buoys races, with Day Two featuring a crazy beach start with unusual rounding marks. The team was First on Day One.

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Fishing Bay to Host the Hampton One Design National Championship

Fishing Bay is hosting the 76th-annual Hampton One Design National Championship August 20, 21, and 22. The Hampton Class is returning its Championship to the club for the first time since 1948.

Organizers are expecting about 20 boats from various yacht clubs, including PRSA, HYC, NY&CC, TAYC, BBSA, CYC and WRYC. The competitors will include some of the top dinghy sailors from around the Bay, including collegiate all-Americans, past Optimist National Champions, Collegiate and Interscholastic sailors and Coaches, sail makers, and good-old-fashioned class stalwarts like Norfolk’s Charlie McCoy who will be competing in his 52nd (fifty-second) consecutive HOD Nationals. FBYC will be represented in the competition by Latane Montague, Mike Toms, Kenney Cobb, Walter Bundy and others. Walter Bundy sails one of the newest Hamptons #728 which was built on Gwynn’s Island last year by renowned local boat builder David Judson. The PRO for this year’s event is Rick Klein. For details, check out the HOD website at: www.hamptononedesign.com

STINGRAY POINT REGATTA

16th ANNUAL
STINGRAY POINT REGATTA
For the Brent Halsey Jr. Memorial Trophy
Fishing Bay Yacht Club
September 4 & 5, 2010

CALLING ALL PHRF, OFFSHORE ONE DESIGN AND CRUISING CLASS SKIPPERS
Come join the premier regatta on the middle Chesapeake Bay!

118 Boats attend 2010 AOD

This year’s event saw record breaking attendance from the Flying Scot Fleet with 36 boats registered. Additionally, the San Juan 21s showed up again with the largest numbers to date. For the first time in many years a Windmill fleet consisting of 7 boats joined us. We hope they enjoyed themselves and will make FBYC a regular stop on their regatta circuit. Of course we had a good showing from the Front Runners, Albacores, Typhoons, and Hampton One Designs. FBYC will be hosting the Hamptons again this weekend at their Nationals. Lasers and Laser Radials had good participation with 9 boats in each fleet. Last, but by no means least, 15 Optis and 7 Green Fleet Optis raced this weekend.

While the weather was good and the food was great, the thing that made the 2010 Annual One Design Regatta successful was the people. I cannot thank the folks who volunteered to help put this event on enough. The thing that is nice about being an event chair is that you often get to take credit for other people’s hard work! Rick Klein, James Jacob, and Mark Hayes were terrific PROs who put together very professional race management teams on each of the three courses. Matt Lambert and Kevin Cross did a great job with the food and bar. Veronica and Emily Hinckle orchestrated the breakfasts, made RC lunches and basically helped in every aspect of this event.

Thank you all!

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Cruising News - August 2010

On July 28 the progressive dinner was held with 28 people attending. Cocktails were had at Sarah Carneal's home with dinner up river at Andy and Ellen Soyars home. It was a hot evening as it was 98 that day but fans keep us cool for a pleasant evening. The cocktails and hors d'oeuvres were outstanding followed by a delicious meal. If you were not there you missed an excellent affair. On Sunday morning, breakfast was served at the home of Don and Ann Wickwire-again an excellent meal. We have some cruisers who can cook.

The next event will be the pirates cruise to Gwynn's Island. Jim Morrison-cruise director has made every possible effort to accommodate different schedules and club activities to make this a really fun affair. So pack up the kids and put on pirate duds and head over to the beach behind Gwynn's on Saturday.

The Captain's choice Cruise on Aug 28 will be preceded by dinner on Friday night at the clubhouse. Stella and Charlie Jones will be bringing barbecue from NC for the dinner and then Saturday we will head for where ever the wind will take us. So sign up online ASAP so the Jones can get an idea of how many to plan on for dinner on Friday.

A lot of activity, so come out and enjoy these activities with your fellow sailors.

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FBYC Shines in New England

The following week, the team attended the New England Optimist Championships in Newport, hosted by Sail Newport. There were about 330 Optis in the Red, White, and Blue fleets. Alex Hanna got a 4th overall, and Kendall Swenson was the 6th girl and got a 30th overall. Deeper in the finish order were 70 Will Whitmore, 71 Gray Kiger, 100 Erin Jacob, 114 Hannah Steadman, and 161 Jed Londrey. All basically top 1/2 in a huge fleet! Full results are here.

Repeat, that's a 1st followed by a 4th by Alex Hanna at two huge Junior Regattas!

Lasers: The junior laser sailors also had great results up North the past few weeks. They completed in the Canadian Nationals (Laser Radials) where Alex Jacob placed 10th (5th Junior), Austin Powers 11th (6th Junior) and Ben Buhl 17th. The wind blew over 25 knots during a couple of days during the regatta. In the Junior Olympics at Island Heights, FBYC took the 3 of the top 4 Laser Radials with Jeremy Herrin at 2nd, Conrad Roos in 3rd, and Austin Powers in 4th. Madeleine Alderman was the 2nd female in 7th place overall, and the whole team finished in the top half of the results. Alex Jacob and Ben Buhl finished 2nd in the 420 Fleet.

At Hyannis, Jeremy Herrin finished 2nd, Austin Powers 3rd, Madeleine Alderman 9th, and the rest of team in close to the top half of the fleet. Jeremy and Austin actually “blew it” as Austin was first after Day 2 with an 11 point lead over Jeremy and a 41 point lead over 3rd place; unfortunately, they both received an OCS on the last day with no drops allowed.

Kyle Swenson competed in the Youth Champs as well and got an 11th in the Laser fleet. Kyle has been sailing most of the summer off the bay at national-level events - for instance, in the Laser North Americans in Houston -- sailed the Laser Radial and finished top half in the Gold Fleet District 8 Championships at Sayville YC, NY -- sailed the Laser and won the regatta. US Sailing Youth Champs -- finished 11th in the Laser fleet

420s: While the laser team was at Hyannis, July 28-Aug 1, Alex and Ben went to the Youths at Cabrillo Beach, CA where they placed 11th. When they returned they attended the Buzzards Bay Regatta in New Bedford, Aug 7-8, where they placed 10th, losing a three way tie breaker in the 140 boat fleet.

Prior to that they had placed 2nd of 56 at Island Heights in the Mid Atlantic Junior Olympics and 16th of 109 at the 420 NAs in Brant Beach NJ, July 20-23.( which was one day after the laser Canadian nationals)

Adults: Finally, and these are not really Juniors, Old man James Jacob limped into 13th against 2 former master’s world champions ,an Olympic gold medalist, and other foes in the 62 boat full rig lasers. JJ managed 6th at Hyannis

Will and Marie Crump sailed with Thomas Klok in his brand new J-80 at the Buzzards Bay Regatta August 8-9. It was their first race in the boat, named Guldfaxe, and they got a 5th in a 26 boat J-80 fleet who did a total of 9 races. Guldfaxe's program is to participate in the J-80 worlds in Newport this year http://www.j80worlds2010.org/ in October 4-9,2010 and in the J-80 worlds next year in the Klok's home port of Aarhus, Denmark. Buzzards Bay results are here.

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