Laser Masters Worlds

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Jon Deutsch sent the following article to both Club and District 11 Laser sailors. This District covers Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The Regatta which started on September 29 runs through October 6 and is being held on the Mediterranean coast north of Barcelona, Spain..

Entries for Laser Masters Worlds Regattas are open to any Laser sailor over 35 and attracted over 400 boats, many trailiered in from all over Europe. when the Regatta was held at the Royal Cork YC in July, 2001. This was my final appearance in a Worlds Regatta and followed Cancun in March 2000, Melbourne Australia in January 1999, and Allgorobo, Chile in October 1997. In Chile I excelled myself with two mid-fleet finishes but …

Website Maintenance Update

Strother Scott on

Club News
This may interest some of you. About 2 weeks ago, the day I got back from Canada, the web site broke and would not allow on-line registrations because the hard disk was full. It was fixed promptly, like in a day, but more cleanup has now been done.

The hard disk is 73GB, so I was amazed it could be full. A couple of months ago, BM deleted a Qmail log file which recorded the time stamps and other data of all the email that comes and goes from the web site - which as you may know is about 1% real email using our mailing lists and 99% spam. The log file was 4-5GB recording about 4 years data, none …

Website Maintenance

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The website may disappear for a few hours in the next week or so as we are doing some maintenance. Strother

# 363 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:   PHRF RACERS - here is your chance to be heard where it matters.  If you hold a valid PHRF certificate,  list a Region IV club as your "home" club on your PHRF cert, and have anything on your mind that relates to fleet splits or anything else that you think can be done to improve PHRF racing on the Chesapeake, grab your club's Delegate or Handicapper or contact Mike Dale, Region IV Vice President, at J27166@aol.com and let your thoughts be known. On Thursday, October 18, the PHRF Delegates and Handicappers for Region IV will meet in order to determine fleet splits for 2008 and discuss other items and issues of concern …

# 362 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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Yesterday, September 23rd, was officially the first day of Autumn.  Don't be alarmed; we don't end Daylight Savings Time until November 4th.  Keep on sailing!
 
Hospice Turkey Shoot update -    (Racing Sat, October 6 and Sunday, October 7)  There are more than 100 boats on the  regatta T-shirt (early entries), and it looks like this is going to be quite a happening up on the Rap Rivah!   The Rappahannock River at its most beautiful time,  three days of socializing, a Friday evening Competitors Clinic led by event Principal Race Officer John McCarthy, racing on Saturday and Sunday,  the historic yacht  Miss Ann from Tides Inn  (Irvington, VA) serving as the official spectators boat,  and …

# 361 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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Important Address Update:  CBYRA Region 4 Official Scorer, Dick Boykin, has changed his email address to  dboy24@verizon.net  
 
Fishing Bay Yacht Club Fall Series Begins Sunday, September 23rd.  For info contact Sharon Bauer at 769-4293 (Aylett, VA).
CASH FLOW  and ROUNDABOUT  WIN in the first day of CCV Fall Series with two bullets- Bang! Bang! - in PHRF A and PHRF C respectively.  A beautiful day, wind, and 33 PHRF boats ready to go at some real racing.  There were 4 boats tied for 3rd in PHRF A.  Cyrano, won the tiebreaker by virtue of having a third in the second race.  RESULTS:  PHRF A: 1.Cash Flow (1-1), Lloyd …

# 360 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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Laser StartChesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship Won by James Jacob for 6th Time.  Jacob won the 2007 title in his home waters; he sails out of Fishing Bay Yacht Club and FBYC hosted the event.  Three other southern Bay sailors finished in the top 10 of the 33 competitors - Henry Amthor (HYC, 5th), Alain Vincey (FBYC, 6th), and Mike Toms (FBYC, 9th).  Laser racers traveled from parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Maryland to race in the event.
GABRIELLE WHO??  What a nice Monday morning!
 
CCV FALL SERIES begins this coming Sunday.  Two races in the Hampton Roads harbor area.  The 2007 CCV Fall Series schedule is:  Races I & 2, September 16 …

# 359 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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DSC_0110 STINGRAY POINT REGATTA:   Christian Schaumloffel, Mirage, Hobie 33, won the PHRF A fleet in Fishing Bay and took home the Halsey Memorial Trophy as well.  The 13th Annual Stingray Point Regatta offered up 5 races over Saturday and Sunday  in  great racing conditions.  In the recent past the regatta has endured impending or passing hurricanes and other dire weather conditions, but not this year!  There was food and refreshments, there was live music, there was competitive racing, and there were awards.  It really don't get no better.  RESULTS: PHRF A (5 boats):  1.Mirage, Christian Schaumloffel; 2.Cash Flow, Lloyd Griffin; 3.Feather, Phil Briggs.  PHRF B (9 boats):  1.Radio Flyer …

Mirage wins at the 13th Annual Stingray Point Regatta!

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Offshore Racing
DSC_0460 38 skippers and crews enjoyed two glorious days of racing at the 13th Annual Stingray Point Regatta. Great winds and moderate temperatures combined with an excellent racecourse left little for competitors to ask for. One skipper commented, “If you don’t like this, you probably don’t like ice cream either!”

Christian Schaumloffel and the crew of Mirage took top honors winning the Brent Halsey Jr. Memorial Trophy.

The Hampton team of Mirage (PHRF A), PF Flyer (PHRF B) and Blue Bus (PHRF C) took home the Potts Trophy. Congratulation guys!

DSC_0047 Of course it would not be the Stingray Point Regatta without a great party! Good food, a terrific band and lots of Mount Gay rum had folks dancing until …

FBYC Juniors Take One for the Road at SSA

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Junior Activities
end of summer.JPG FBYC Juniors slipped in one last travel event before the end of the summer attending Severn Sailing Association's End of Summer Optimist Regatta this past weekend. Thirty-three Optimist sailors attended the two-day regatta held on Saturday and Sunday, August 22nd/23rd. On Saturday, the east to southeast breeze filled in nicely and the sailors had to slog it out through five races in choppy seas near the mouth of the Severn River.

On Sunday, the wind dropped to almost nil but eventually filled in very light and shifty from the northwest enough to sneak in three more races before the breeze went again went dead. In spite of the difficult conditions, FBYC sailors captured six of the ten top …

NORWOOD DAVIS NAMED 1ST COMMODORE OF THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB

Strother Scott on

History
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We congratulae former FBYC member and Stove Point resident on the following:

August 30, 2007 - Nantucket, MA - Great Harbor Yacht Club proudly announces the appointment of its first Commodore, Norwood H. Davis, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia and Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Davis, a founding member of the Great Harbor Yacht Club (GHYC) in 2003, has been instrumental in establishing GHYC as a competitive sailing club. He created the celebrity Pro-Am Regatta during Nantucket Race Week and chaired the event for 3 years. He also enlisted Gary Jobson, the pre-eminent ambassador for sailing in the U.S., as GHYC Executive Director of Sailing and Honorary Chairman of Nantucket Race Week.

“GHYC is destined to be one of the premier yacht clubs in the …

Shallop Rendezvous Makes History

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Shallop Race Finish.jpg The Rendezvous of the John Smith Shallops held this past weekend at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville exceeded the expectations of event participants and organizers.  A steady stream of enthusiastic visitors over the two-day event yielded attendance estimates of between 2,500 and 3,000 people. 

 

The celebration, co-hosted by the Deltaville Community Association and FBYC, heralded the arrival in Deltaville of the John Smith/Sultana Project shallop that has been retracing Captain John Smith’s 1608 voyage of discovery around Chesapeake Bay.  Smith visited the Piankatank River on his historic 1,700-mile expedition to search for the mythical Northwest Passage to the Pacific, establish trading relationships with the native peoples for the fledgling …

Three FBYC Amigos Place Second in Nantucket

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tonitoo.JPG On Saturday, August 25, Noel Clinard seized a last minute opportunity to take the day off from the FBYC Store during the Shallop Rendezvous at FBYC to sail with Mike Massie on his Rhodes 19 "Toni Too" (seen at left in a race earlier this summer) in the last race of the August Series at Nantucket Yacht Club. Mike and Noel were joined by Blake Kimbrough who happened to be coming to Nantucket for an IOD (International One Design) race on Sunday.

As preparation for the race, Mike and Noel swam to the mooring in the cold Nantucket waters. Mike, ever the preparer, had Noel scrub the bottom with an abrasive pad while Mike pumped the bilge and gave encouragement …

# 358 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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LABOR DAY WEEKEND IS UPON US!  SPEND IT SAILING!
 
ANNA is GOLDEN!  Anna Tunnicliffe (former southern Bay 3-time All American collegian at Old Dominion University - class of 2005) won a gold medal in the Laser Radial class at  The Good Luck Beijing - 2007 Qingdao International Regatta in China.    Anna is drawing a bead on the trials for the 2008 Olympics, hoping to return to China for the "big dance".
 
*  STINGRAY POINT REGATTA: Fishing Bay / mouth of the Piankatank in the Chesapeake Bay. Hosted by Fishing Bay YC. Racing on Saturday and Sunday with Monday intentionally left open for deliveries  home or casual sailing.  Fishing Bay Yacht Club has been hosting this event for many …

Dingo at the 2007 Sunfish World Championships

James Jacob on

Junior Activities
sunfish.jpg Fantastic news out of Brant Beach Yacht Club today. They are hosting the 2007 Sunfish World Championship - August 18 -24, 2007.

Today is the last day. Going into the last day - today, the FBYC junior Laser coach, LUIS HORACIO CANUTO aka Dingo, is in a strong 15th place of 100 boats in the Sunfish Worlds at Brant Beach YC on the Jersey shore. Dingo has never sailed a Sunfish---he is ahead of laser and sunfish legend Dick Tillman and multiple Sunfish world champ Donny Martinborough.

See Results through today.

I can not tell if the picture is Dingo or not! except I do see he has a second and two thirds so far - awesome in a fleet of 100 in …

Rear Commodore Clinard survives Hurricane Dean

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Dean.gif Noel has been on a well earned family vacation on the south west coast of Jamaica this week. His trip home was delayed as it coincided with the planned arrival of Hurricane Dean. His location is marked with a white dot. The Red areas sustained hurricane force winds, whereas the orange experienced tropical force winds.

His Blackberry worked throughout and reported the following excerpts...

"We are moving to the most solid manor house with 20 others, on a limestone bluff 100 feet above the sea. If the storm passes north of the island the mountains should protect us. If south and we get the leading edge, it could be hairy. We are postponed to a Wednesday departure and if the …

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Unofficial word around the docks is that, if possible, the Stringray Point Regatta will consist of 3 races on Saturday and 2 on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend. More racing = more fun!
 
Mark Arnold Captures His 10th Mobjack National Championship:   The 2007 Mobjack Nationals were hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club in conjunction with the FBYC  68th Annual Regatta.  Mark's championship string was 1-2-1-1-1-[3]- 1.  Len Guenther finished 2nd and Meg Roberts 3rd. 
Special Notice:  THIS IS HUSH-HUSH!  This Wednesday, Aug 22, about 7:30pm, there will be a special celebration of Bumps Eberwine's  82nd birthday.  Racers and friends are  invited for beer and birthday cake on the Hampton YC flag …

Annual One-Design Regatta

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One Design Racing

The 68th Annual One Design Regatta and 48th Mobjack Nationals turned out to be a great regatta.

Early registrations were very light, about half of what the previous year was, but the 100 degree temperatures broke just in time and the weekend was fantastic. We had 65% of our registrations on Saturday morning. Thanks go to our busy registration volunteers Lori Moyer and SB Londrey.

The two days of racing for the 85 boats started with good brisk winds on Saturday providing some hard racing. On Sunday we had more August-like conditions with a drifter for the first race and a filling seabreeze for the afternoon. John Smith and his Shallop crew could have beat all of us in Sunday …

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