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About 150 people who have registered to use the web site have set up an email forward account with a fbyc.net email address as part of getting a user account. For them, mail which is sent to their email @fbyc.net is forwarded to their real email address. The forwarded email includes both real email and spam although most of it is probably spam. Comcast, Gmail and other services receiving this forwarded email from fbyc.net see such a high percentage of spam that they treat all email from fbyc.net as junk. This includes email from our mailing lists, event registration confirmations, and volunteer-related emailings. We would like to stop forwarding spam which means we must eliminate our email forwards. Please let me know if this will cause you any problems.

On this web page is a list of all our email forwards. We suspect that only very few of you, if any, are using the email forward accounts which have been set up. If we remove the email forwards, obviously that email will stop, so please let me know if you want us to keep your email account.

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Annual One Design Regatta

Posted by Noel Clinard on Monday July 21, @12:39PM

On Saturday and Sunday, August 9-10, 2008, FBYC will hold its 69th Annual One Design Regatta. Traditionally, this is a great event with upwards of 70 boats. In addition to our fine One Design Fleets, we generally have many perennial visitors sailing Lasers, Front Runners, Flying Scots, Hamptons, Albacores, 420s and Mobjacks. Depending on conflicting Junior events elsewhere, we usually have a Junior turnout in Optis, Laser Radials and 420s. There will be a separate Green Fleet for Optis.

Attached is the event logo design for event apparel available on line and on site, including white short sleeve cotton tee shirts, short sleeve micro fiber shirts, and long sleeve micro fiber shirts. Please order early on line to facilitate inventory planning. There may also be a special hat in nautical red, denim blue and khaki. The white and tan hats on the website now are the logo from last year (undated).

The summer is flying by . . . junior week is now a distant memory . . . but those club boats are so inviting! Your opportunities to take advantage of coaching at the club are not gone!

Our next class is Beginning Optis (parents, you can do it too!), from July 28-31. For $150 (members), you can have 6 hours of instruction for 4 days with our own Hart Moore, and then be really ready to use those boats. What a bargain!

Intermediates (or beginning Lasers) have one more group option this summer, from August 12-15. Get a couple of your friends to take the class with you, and then practice for the fall regattas!

You also can sign up for individual lessons with Hart, for $20 an hour. Call Hart on his phone, or see him around the club and talk to him. He�ll be more than happy to work with you and your kids.

For any questions on these programs, please contact Nica Waters at 434 295-1016. Happy sailing!

The July/August issue of R-Home magazine features FBYC and Stove Point. The article entitled "Sail Away - A tiny peninsula in the Bay with a sailing tradition offers a slice of Americana and innocence" by managing editor Carrie Nieman Culpepper offers eight pages of text and 20 photographs. Included are racing photographs taken during one of our O-D Spring Series events as well as pictures of club grounds, the clubhouse interior, and cottages owned by FBYC club members. Run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore to get a copy...it is well worth the price of purchase.

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VOODOO 2, INEVITABLE, BOOMERANG, BATTLEWAGON, and LAST BOAT III won the racing fleets at the 2008 Southern Chesapeake Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta hosted this past weekend at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. A total of 35 PHRF and one-design racers took to the course to support the Leukemia Cup, a two day event. Racing Fleet Results: PHRF A (6 boats): 1.VooDoo 2, Leroi Lissenden; 2.Midnight Rider, John Haracivet; 3.Double Eagle, Sam Mitchener. J/105 (6 boats): 1.Inevitable, Mike Karn; 2.Loose Cannon, Strother Scott; 3.Blade Runner, Brad Davis. PHRF B/C (9 boats): 1.Boomerang, Jerry Latell; 2.La Maga, Allan Heyward; 3.Shenanigan, Miles Booth. PHRF Non-Spin (A) (9 boats): 1.Battlewagon, Paul Cross; 2.Namesake, Craig Olsen; 3.Temptress, Robert DeJong. PHRF Non-Spin (B) (7 boats): 1.Last Boat III, Frank Murphy; 2.Shockwave, Don Deese; 3.Cats Pajamas, Drake Johnstone. In addition to the racing fleet, there were 54 entries in the Cruising fleet - results of the cruising competition were not available as of SBRNYCU publication time. Principal Race Officers - Brooks Zerkel and Lud Kimbrough

T.L.Sea, Tony Thornton's Cal 31, makes it 22 Southern Bay and Beyond Racers Headed for Screwpile. Already entered and headed up to Solomons are: Cash Flow (Hadley 40), Lloyd Griffin; Double Eagle (J-109), Sam Mitchener; Chilcoot (Quest 30), Alex Alvis; PF Flyer (Pearson 30), Larry Preddy; Wavelength (C&C 37), Rob Whittet; Inevitable (J/105), Mike Karn; Wairere (Thompson 30), Pete Hunter; Black Widow (Irwin 38), Leo Wardrup; The Hunter (Hunter 26.5), Justin Morris; After Thought (J109), Craig Wright; Boomerang (B25), Jerry Latell; Pegasus (J24), David Kelsey; Flying Colors (J105), Richard Payne; Namesake (Olson 30), Craig Olsen; Voodoo 2 (Tripp 38), Lissenden-Birch-Krushelnisky; Corryvreckan (J105), David Clark; Blade Runner (J105), Brad Davis; Meridian 2 (Farr 36), Sledd Shelhorse; Schiehallion (Beneteau 30), Brad Miller; Lola (Thompson T750), Dennis Hannick; and Midnight Mistress (C&C 35), Jake and Pat Brodersen. And, former southern Bay stalwart, Kahuna (Farr 395), Sanford Richardson. The DEADLINE FOR SCREWPILE ENTRIES IS WEDNESDAY, JULY 16th. Go to www.screwpile.net or www.splc.us for entry forms and "how to".

HURRICANE BERTHA OFFSHORE, REMINDING BOATERS TO PREPARE FOR STORM SEASON

Posted by Boat US on Tuesday July 08, @11:01AM

Four Tips from BoatU.S. to Prevent Hurricane Damage

HURRICANE ALLEY, VA, July 8, 2008 -- With the first storm of the year, Hurricane Bertha, lurking offshore, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatU.S.), with 40 years of experience gained from post-storm recovery efforts and thousands of hurricane-related insurance claims files, has four tips that can help your boat make it through this storm season.

� Make your hurricane plan now, before hurricane warnings are posted. Year after year, some boaters are lulled into believing a storm won't come their way and fail to make a serious effort until a hurricane is forecast. However, by then there may be no one available to haul their boat ashore and stores may be sold out of basic hurricane supplies such as rope, anchors or fenders. Whether you are new to boating or been on the water for years, waiting until the last moment and making only a token effort is tempting fate. If you're likely to be away from your boat during hurricane season, make arrangements ahead of time for someone else to prepare your boat - many insurance policies provide coverage for professional evacuation to a hurricane hole or other storm preparation efforts.

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Note: FBYC Members Marie Crump, and Strother and Evie Scott and twins Strother, Jr. and Lina sailed with FBYC Members Rives, Walker and Allen Potts in the Anniversary Regatta. Rives is holding the trophy, Allen is kneeling and Walker is furthest to the right. Marie, Lina and Strother are the three backs on the starboard side in the picture under Read More. Strother, Jr. and Marie also sailed with the three Potts on Carina in the 2008 Newport - Bermuda Race where there finished 3rd in Class.

Carina, a McCurdy & Rhodes 48 with a winning history going back to 1969, was the overall winner of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Anniversary Regatta sailed Friday in Bermuda. As the top prize, Rives Potts’ and his crew won the New York Yacht Club Trophy with two bullets in Class 1, and a 1,3 in fleet for the day.

Thirty-three boats competed in the 2008 Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Anniversary Regatta which also forms the third event of the Onion Patch Series. Forty-four had entered the regatta, but eleven did not start following the long Newport Bermuda Race that brought them to the Island.

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FBYC to host Laser Masters Atlantic Coast Championship

Posted by Jon Deutsch on Monday June 30, @10:49AM

Fishing Bay Yacht Club has been selected to host the 2008 Laser Masters Atlantic Coast Championship on September 6-7 in Deltaville, Virgina. The ACC's will be held in place of FBYC's Annual Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship and will follow the same format and setup.

FBYC has hosted an annual Laser Masters event since 1981 which was first won by Brent Halsey. This will be the 4th major Laser Masters event held at Fishing Bay Yacht Club in the last dozen years. FBYC has previously hosted the ACC's (1997, 1999, 2003) and the U.S. Master's Championship (2000).

In order to allow hard-working racers to participate in the fun-filled (and food-filled) social on July 4, the time has shifted from a late lunch of 2-4 to a later lunch (or early dinner) of 3-6. Mark your calendars and sign up to join us! (www.fbyc.net)

Drinks, burgers, and hotdogs provided. Each participant is asked to bring along a side dish to share.

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