Posted by McCarthy on Monday October 06, @01:29PM
MORNING LIGHT is coming. As a
preliminary piece, ESPN2 HD will air on October 8, Wednesday, at 8
PM, a 60 minute program on the tryouts and selection team leading
up to the movie which premieres later this month.
13th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA is
counting down to this coming weekend, October 10-12 - on the Rappahannock
River off Carter's Creek and the Corrottoman River. This is a
full blown regatta, including welcoming Happy Hour with live music on
Friday, drop mark courses on Saturday, and a pursuit race (up the river
and back) on Sunday, pre-race breakfasting and post-race eating, drinking
and socializing, and, of course, grand awards. More than 106 boats
are already entered and more are expected this week.
Winner of the Lightning Division (PHRF racing) will be invited to
compete in the National Hospice Regatta in Spring of 2009. For info and to
enter, go to
www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
and/or call host
Yankee Point Marina at (804)462-7018.
THE GREAT CHESAPEAKE BAY SCHOONER RACE starts
Thursday, October 16, within sight of the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge (Annapolis side) and finishes sometime Friday, October 17th, with the
grand schooners docking in host city Portsmouth, Virginia. This year there
are 53 schooners, including our own VIRGINIA, racing.
Sponsoring clubs are Broad Bay Sailing Association (Virginia Beach), Fells
Point Yacht Club (Baltimore), Portsmouth Boat Club (Portsmouth), and Town Point
Yacht Club (Norfolk). The October issue of SPINSHEET
MAGAZINE contains the Official Preview Program for the event and
is already available (and FREE) at the usual distribution
locations.
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Posted by McCarthy on Tuesday September 30, @10:02AM
The
13th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA is
counting down to October 10-12 - on the Rappahannock River off Carter's Creek
and the Corrottoman River. This is a full blown regatta,
including welcoming Happy Hour with live music on Friday, drop
mark courses on Saturday, and a pursuit race (up the river and back) on
Sunday, pre-race breakfasting and post-race eating, drinking and
socializing, and, of course, grand awards. Last year, Turkey Shoot
was awarded "Best of the Bay" by Chesapeake Bay Magazine.
More than 100 boats are expected to join in the fun and race for a good
cause. Winner of the Lightning Division (PHRF racing), will be invited to
compete in the National Hospice Regatta in Spring of 2009. For info and to
enter, go to
www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
and/or call host
Yankee Point Marina at (804)462-7018.
HIGH SCHOOL SAILING UPDATE: Over
the weekend
, Christ Church School finished first
through 12 races, followed by Norfolk Collegiate and Smithfield in that
order. For details visit Sail VISA at
http://www.sailvisa.com
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Posted by McCarthy on Monday September 22, @01:56PM
Today is the First Day of Fall. Fall means
you should locate your socks..., but do not put them on
yet!
To Fiddler's Green -
Dale Moser, a mainstay around southern Bay racing and
especially on the Rappahannock River scene, passed last Tuesday, after
battling an illness. He is gone way too
soon. Those who knew Dale will miss him terribly; those
who had not known him, have missed a truly gentle man. "And in the night
of death, hope sees a star, and listening love hears the rustle of a
wing."
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Posted by Strother Scott on Thursday September 18, @11:27PM
If you click on any of the links along the top of the Page, like Club, Sailing, Fleets, you will now see that navigation to pages within those sections are found by taking a look at the list on the left side of each of those pages.
On the Sailing Page, the links on the left currently look like the image to the left. If you click on a different section, like Club, then the sections under Sailing will disappear, and a set of links to pages under Club will open up.
And I will be adding more links - like Members - to the left sidebar. My biggest problem is trying to decide if better names for the links Sailing, Fleets, WebTools, might better be Divisions, Participate, Sailing Info, etc. or what.
Formerly, such links were found along the top of the page - as a sort of a third row, which changed often depending which page or sub page you were on. This new list is more stable, and will allow users to find pages which are buried in the web site more easily. This is a work in progress, so please bear with me as I continue to conform the web pages to the presentation.
There will be glitches as I work to make it all work together. But if anyone does have comments, I welcome them.
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Posted by Mike Dale on Wednesday September 17, @07:32PM
The glitch is fixed, at least for now. Thanks to David Hinckle, the Java Score Files for the Distance Series have been rebuilt and the results have been posted on this site. See the link, above, under "Most Recent Results".
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Posted by Mike Dale on Tuesday September 16, @05:49PM
Due to a problem within Java Score involving the old version versus the new version, the Offshore Distance Series files are being rebuilt from existing race data by Cathy Clark and David Hinckle and will be posted in the very near future. Your patience and understanding are appreciated.
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Posted by McCarthy on Monday September 15, @05:58PM
2008 LASER MASTERS ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIP
REGATTA , hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club weekend before
last, was shortened to a one day event because of Tropical Storm
Hanna. Twenty-eight (28) Laser racers competed. Here are the top 5
finishers in the 3 race series: 1. Had
Brick (GM), Island Heights YC; 2. Mike Miller, FBYC;
3. Mike Schmidt, Magothy River SA; 4. Chris
Legg, Severn SA; and, 5. James Jacob,
FBYC. Race Chairman - David Hazlehurst
Does this sound familiar? "Coming about...watch the
boom!" "Oh...THAT boom!" Rex Morgan, M.D., is
getting a practice session under his belt in preparation for crewing in the
HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA, October 10-12, 2008,
hosted by Yankee Point Marina, Lancaster, Virginia. Racing is on the
Rappahannock River off Carter's Creek and the Corrotomon River.
Chesapeake Bay Magazine named the TURKEY SHOOT 2007 "Best of the Bay"
in the regatta category. Join the fun. Check out
www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
for details and entry info. This event is a member of the National Hospice
Regatta Alliance. And, you can follow
Rex Morgan,
M.D.'s Hospice Regatta experience in the nationally syndicated comic
strip by
Woody Wilson and
Graham Nolan.
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Posted by Noel Clinard on Thursday September 11, @04:03PM
Shown as the second article under 2008 at http://www.fbyc.net/Sailing/Publicity are the cover and two pages of September 2008 Sailing World mentioning Deltaville and FBYC.
Included are a touching letter from my law partner Doug Garrou who rode with me on LOON as Mark Boat and who has two autistic sons, one with Leukemia. No doubt, his letter, and perhaps our success with FS NACs kept Deltaville and FBYC fresh in the editors' minds.
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Posted by Strother Scott on Wednesday September 10, @04:56PM
A member has volunteered to assist me in improving the navigation and usefulness of the web site. In anticipation of making some changes to how it might look, I have moved some pages around, and hence you may run across links that do not work. At this moment, missing pages, the Classified, Weather, Links, might be found under Sailing or Web Tools.
If you want a peek at the navigation that we are proposing to the Board on Thursday, please take a look at the top and left side of
http://www.fbyc.net/kristen/Club. Notice how the links to Club and Fleet change as you click from one to the other. The idea is to show the users the links in an easier and clearer fashion.
A few of you with higher level permissions will be able to see the proposed left side menus at
http://www.fbyc.net/SiteMap3.
Lasers have now been moved to http://www.fbyc.net/Fleets/Laser. I know the links do not all work correctly, but please let me know if you have any comments on the suggestion.
P.S. There are no changes being made to anything related to events.
P.P.S. If the Board agrees to make these changes, I should get them all implemented with a week or so. And then I will need to find and fix broken links throughout the site.
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Posted by McCarthy on Sunday September 07, @10:53PM
2008 LASER MASTERS
ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA , hosted by Fishing
Bay Yacht Club - shortened by Tropical Storm Hanna to one day of racing
(Sunday). As of publication, final results were not
available.
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Posted by Strother Scott on Friday September 05, @04:04PM
Remember there is a new buoy off Stingray Point that gathers wind and weather data.
http://www.buoybay.org/site/public/explore/. Just run the mouse over the bouy and it will display current conditions, or click and it will get you more data than you really need.
And as a reminder, at the bottom of every FBYC web page is a Link to the usual weather links found at
http://www.fbyc.net/Club/Weather including the National Hurricane Center website at
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ .
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