Like father, like son. Back before WWII, and this started in Europemore than two years before Pearl Harbor, my father
turned to BBC to hear the play by play report of the latest Test Match, cricket, between England and Australia. With
live coverage unavailable I'm reduced to reading about Olympic sailing on my Macbook. The Star final may not have been a nailbiter like the Laser radial but in the end Ian Piercy and his crew got the requisite place ahead of the Swedes.
And in second place none other than Robert Scheidt whose second place finish behind Ben Ainslie in the 1999 World Championships in Melbourne in January of 1999 was one of the few World's where …
On August 9-10, FBYC held its 69th Annual One Design Regatta. Over 80 boats attended including four 420s, six Albacores, twenty-three Flying Scots, nine Front Runners, seven Mobjacks, four Hampton One Designs, twelve Lasers, five Laser Radials (including four Juniors of which three were Girls) and thirteen Optis (of Fleets, two were Red, seven were Blue, four were White and one was Green). Joining the regatta for the first time were four San Juan 21s, led from afar by FBYCs Mike Chesser. The Mobjacks combined the Event with their 2008 National Regatta, beginning early on Friday for a three day championship regatta for that class.
The regatta was sailed on three courses with separate Race Committees chaired by Rick …
The wind was light, the waves choppy, the visibility diminished, and the stakes high. This was the scene for the Laser Radial medal race in Qingdao on Tuesday. American Anna Tunnicliffe had to finish 4th or better to secure a Gold medal. No USA woman had won a Gold since 1988. Several thousand fans were a few hundred yards away on the sea wall screaming for these 10 women. Among them USA team leader Dean Brenner and the US Sailing Team looked and cheered like Super Bowl fans. The race was one that will be talked about for many years …
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The sailing association also is building its competitive resumé. A member of the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association, the group is an underdog compared with more sailing-focused schools like the U.S. Naval Academy or Georgetown but performs neck and neck with Virginia Tech and William & Mary.
"The regattas are both laid-back and intense," says Overstreet. "They are very sociable off the water, but on the water, rival skippers will rip your head off if you make a mistake and …
No-one is happier than the writer to see Lasers coming back into fashion at FBYC and todays news is icing on the cake.
Golds for former ODU sailor Anna Tunnicliffe and Paul Goodison sailing for GBR, that countries third gold.
Closer to home a write up by our own Jon Deutsch, Laser District 11 Secretary about last weekends District Championship at Deep Creek, Maryland with Scot builder Harry Carpenter as PRO. Jon's usual prompt and complete write up follows
From: jon@laserdistrict11.org
Subject: District 11 Championship Results
Date: August 18, 2008 1:22:01 AM EDT
Deep Creek Sailing Association at Turkey Neck hosted 48 Lasers and Radials at the 2008 Laser District 11 Championship. Ted Morgan from …
Kyle Swenson and Jon
Deutsch from the southern Bay raced in 2008 District 11 Laser
Championships this past weekend. Against 40 full rig
Lasers, Kyle finished 4th and Jon 9th in strong competition away
from home. Congrats to our Laser guys!
"T'was NOT a
dark OR stormy night..." when 11 boats started the Fishing Bay
YC SMITH POINT RACE on Saturday afternoon.
According to reports, there was plenty of moonlight and gentle breezes (most of
the time). RESULTS: PHRF A (2 boats) - 1.Brad
Davis, Blade Runner. PHRF B/C combined (5 boats)
- 1. Dave Hinckle, Elancer; 2.Eric
Powers, Nereid; 3. Brad Miller,
Schiehallion. PHRF Non-Spin (4 boats) - 1.Ric
Bauer, Desperado; 2 …
Last night at the Board Meeting, we discussed Jon Deutsch's suggestion that we adjust a few things on the top of the Home Page. The Board deciding it would be a good idea to remove the "clutter" of results and photos at the top of the Home Page and put most of them elsewhere.
This morning I started that process, and have considerably shortened the number of items displayed at the top. Please Notice the Link to Many More: Results and Photos which will take you to a page with most of the last 6 months Results and Photos.
Please Note - I have now added a list of the most recent volunteers recorded into our system on the left …
Racing this past weekend on the southern Bay was
filled with extreme wind shifts, T-storms, and "dead sea"
conditions. Mother Nature was her most uppity on Sunday. Oh,
well, it's August!
Meanwhile, up on the Rappahannock / Piankatank
Rivers, on Sunday, Lady Nature left racers at
Fishing Bay Yacht Club's 69th Annual One Design
Regatta breathless - truly. The sound of thunder and lack of
wind sent the dinghy fleets in on Sunday with little accomplished, although, as
in Hampton Roads, it "weren't for lack of trying!"
The Annual One-Design Regatta ran Friday through Sunday, and during the first
two days most classes got plenty of racing. The Mobjack Class …
Saturday, August 2nd witnessed an all-FBYC team of
Sophie Massie, Blake Kimbrough, and Strother Scott Jr. do what had been
previously thought next-to-impossible in Nantucket Harbor. On the first day of
the August series, the three of them, in the Massie’s Rhodes 19 Toni Too, won a race. The picture to the left is
of Toni Too from last year.
This might not seem like that big of a deal, but in doing so, the
team snapped a near-unprecedented streak of dominance – about 50 races without a
loss. Skip Willauer, a sailor who
grew up on Nantucket and has raced the Rhodes
19 Race Horse there for many years,
had not failed to record a bullet in any …
Paul Mellen from OPCYC is
organizing a loose “rally” of folks who think it’s about time
to sail to Bermuda. D-Day is Saturday, 6 June 2009 – the 65th
anniversary of the original nautical crossing which was also termed
“D-Day.”
We held an initial
organizational meeting for the 2009 Bermuda Rally on Tuesday 15 July. At the
time of this writing, we have seven boats signed up to participate, and loads
of people who want to crew for the seven skippers. The seven boats and skippers
are:
I went to 4 different bookstores before I found my very own copy of Carrie Nieman Culpepper's article in Richmond Home magazine. I have scanned it, and a pdf of the article is available - a 12 MB file - as to first link on the
the Publicity Page
Four Fishing Bay Flying Scots traveled to Toms River Yacht Club for the 2008 North American Championship Regatta. The volunteers at Toms River hosted a great regatta, rivaling our performance in 2007. There were a total of 69 boats sailing in the two fleets: Challenger and Championship. Top FBYC finisher was Travis Weisleder with his old friend Chris as crew, placing 5th in the Championship division.
The other FBYC competitors were Blake and Lud Kimbrough, Mike Miller with Tom Lawton of Lake Norman as crew, and Ric and Sharon Bauer. Amy Miller crewed for district governor Hans Noordanus of Lake of the Woods.
For full results and photos of the event go to www.tomsrivernac.com.
When looking at the …
In investigating the Spam problem with our Email Server, we have run across one specific fixable issue as follows:
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 …
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 …
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!
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.
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 …
Meanwhile, up on the Rappahannock / Piankatank
Rivers, on Sunday, Lady Nature left racers at
Fishing Bay Yacht Club's 69th Annual One Design
Regatta breathless - truly. The sound of thunder and lack of
wind sent the dinghy fleets in on Sunday with little accomplished, although, as
in Hampton Roads, it "weren't for lack of trying!"
The Annual One-Design Regatta ran Friday through Sunday, and during the first
two days most classes got plenty of racing. The Mobjack Class …
I went to 4 different bookstores before I found my very own copy of Carrie Nieman Culpepper's article in Richmond Home magazine. I have scanned it, and a pdf of the article is available - a 12 MB file - as to first link on the
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.
