Caribbean 1500 Update: Some are back
home from Tortola, the destination of the 1500 fleet, and some, aka the smart
ones, are still "down there". Of the 69 boat fleet, 39
approached the bluewater adventure from the racing angle. Some of the
southern Bay entries faired especially well in the 5 handicap
fleets. Phil Gillihan, who resides on Willoughby Spit
(Norfolk) and sails out of Smithfield, VA, brought his Corsair 3600 catamaran,
Parallax, in first in Class 2. Wesley
Jones, from Gloucester, VA, (FBYC) took second in Class 4 with
Valient, a Fast 40. Gordon and Eta
Johnson, of Hampton, VA, (OPYC) sailing out of Southall Landings,
finished second in Class 5 in …
I thought this article on Scuttlebutt was interesting. Excerpts below:
After extensive on-the-water testing, in late 2006 American Yacht Club (Rye, NY) selected the RS K6 as a new one-design class for the Club. Over prior years American had witnessed a decline in one-design keelboat racing at the Club and elsewhere in Western Long Island Sound. While the reasons for this are many, the Club believed that a modern design together with a time efficient racing program could reverse the trend, and a committee was formed to develop criteria and evaluate different boats. These criteria included good performance and sailing attributes, reasonable purchase and ownership costs, and the ability to be raced with a wide variety of crews without requiring …
In addition to seminars and workshops, US SAILING presented several awards to one-design sailors and organizations:
Fishing Bay Yacht Club (FBYC) in Deltaville, Va., received the national award for organizing the best One-Design Regatta, the Flying Scot 50th North American Championship. A record number of Flying Scots competed in three national competitions (the Womens National Championship, the Junior National Championship and the North American Championship), making it a multi-fleet event. FBYC's careful planning led to an overwhelmingly successful regatta, which brought over 300 competitors. In preparation, the club built a concrete launch ramp, upgraded the clubs signal boat equipment, designed a …
Renaissance Racer - Tom
Roberts, CBYRA vice-president for Region 4 (the southern Bay), has seen
and experienced racing from all the angles - both small boat and big boat.
Now Tom has teamed up with Blackwell Nottingham on a Hunter 37
cutter. They delivered their new baby from Solomons Saturday a week ago in
the teeth of a mini-gale and were delighted with her performance. "We had
everything up and she went just great," Tom said. Tom and Blackwell expect
to spend a lot of time on Adventure with families and friends.
They say the boat is going to be their "summer cottage". But, don't be
surprised …
The FBYC Cruising Division adopted "Jamestown 400" as its sailing theme for 2007. Beginning with a sail to Onancock's John Smith Shallop exhibit, cruising to Jamestown itself, cheering on the Fishing bay Shallop regatta, and visiting the historic sights of Philadelphia and Baltimore formed the core of this program. As a finale to this theme, four division members were unexpectedly treated to a daysail aboard the Godspeed during Urbanna's 50th Oyster festival. For pictures of this, see our photos - on
website for the Wilton Creek Cruise and Party
FBYC has been awarded the US Sailing One-Design Regatta Award for 2007 for hosting the 2007 Flying Scot North American Championship (NAC) during the 50th Anniversary of that sailboat class. This award, one of five prestigious awards given yearly by the US Sailing One Design Council, recognizes excellence in development, promotion, and management by organizers and sponsors of the years outstanding regional regatta. The award was presented on November 18 at the Councils annual One-Design Sailing Symposium in Columbus, Ohio.
FBYCs Vice and Rear Commodores Ric Bauer and Noel Clinard traveled to Columbus to receive the award. Noel was the event chair for the NAC and Ric was the on-shore/launch coordinator for that regatta. The President …
I am thrilled to report that Bill Ross just called me on behalf of the US Sailing One Design Committee to announce that FBYC has been awarded the U S Sailing National One Design Regatta Award for the year. This award will be presented on Saturday November 17, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio, at the One Design Symposium.
Ric Bauer and I are discussing the FBYC delegation to travel to Columbus to receive the award. Bill Ross, immediate past Commodore and Barbara Griffin, President, of FSSA, will be there.
Needless to say, we could not have done without you and without Barbara Griffin, as President of FSSA. Her unstinting support and meticulous nomination write-up carried the day!
Caribbean 1500 hangs a right at Cape
Henry. At noon yesterday 69 boats headed for points
south, specifically Tortola BVI. The 18th annual Caribbean 1500 rally
makes up in Hampton each October and has boats that come from all parts of the
country. Steve Black, head honcho of the Cruising Rally
Association which administers the 1500 as well as the Atlantic Cup and the
Bermuda Cup, makes his home in Hampton.
SLEEPYHEAD ALERT - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDED EARLY
YESTERDAY MORNING. IF YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE IN THE OFFICE RIGHT
NOW, THAT IS WHY!
Fluky-shifty winds in FROSTBITE #2 caused
constant shuffling of positions within the fleets Sunday. Boats dropped
from first …
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS THIS COMING SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
4th, AT 2AM. Set your clock for Eastern Standard Time -
fall back one hour. Racing Sleepyheads ...
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz!
The Caribbean 1500fleet, currently
gathering in Hampton, will head for Tortola, BVI, Sunday, November
4. The start of the race / cruise is planned for just east of Thimble
Shoal Light around mid-morning / noon-ish on Sunday. Check at
www.carib1500.com for specifics and
definite times. This looks to be a record setting number of boats - each
one beautiful. Most are berthed at Bluewater Yachting Center (Sunset Creek
- Hampton River, Hampton) and at other facilities on Hampton River.
The United States Optimist Dinghy Association (USODA)has announced its roster of members for the 2008 South American and Holland Teams and each team includes an FBYC junior Optimist sailor! We're very proud that our optimist team sailors Alex Jacob and Kendall Swenson have qualified for these two teams respectively. They both qualified earlier this month by performing exceptionally well at the USODA Atlantic Coast Championship held at Norfolk Yacht and Country Club October 6th-8th. Six other FBYC Optimist team members also raced in the event and did very well with one other (Austin Powers) missing the qualifier for the Holland team by only 11 places. Next summer, our two qualifiers will attend these very prestigious International Optimist Dinghy …
This is a heads up to what will be announced at the skipper's meeting at 0930 on Saturday morning. For the Closing Day Regatta we will have a Staggered Start Pursuit type race.
Some of us have learned the hard way, that one of the most important aspects of this race is to have a digital watch that is synchronized with the Race Committee's digital watch. If you refresh www.fbyc.net, you note the Race Committee time on the top left corner of the Home page. Knowing what time it is will be almost your only indicator as to the proper time to cross the starting line, as there are no sound or visual signals for your …
WAVELENGTH, LA MAGA, and CHECKO
Top Fishing Bay YC Fall Series Fleets. After racing
Saturday, the FBYC Fall Series final standings over the 9 race series were
tallied and bragging rights on the Rapp River are all set for the Winter.
RESULTS: PHRF A (6 boats) - 1. Wavelength, Rob
Whittet; 2.Blade Runner, Brad Davis;
3.Double Eagle, Sam Mitchner. PHRF B/C (7
boats) - 1.La Maga, Allan Heyward;
2.Elancer, David Hinckle; 3.Schiehallion,
Brad Miller. PHRF Non-Spin (5 boats) -
1.Checko, Steve Smith; 2.Mr Williams,
William Crudts; 3.Last Boat III, Frank
Murphy.
OLD SCHOOL and SALUTE
Win 2007 Rappahannock Cup. Jerry Latell, coming off a huge
win …
Virgina BeatsThe Pride! Schooner VIRGINIA Flies Down the
Bay in GCBSR! The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race started for
Virginia at 1340 on Thursday and Virginia was home in
Hampton Roads at 12:58:52, Friday morning! Along the way, she set a record
for fastest time down the Bay (11 hours 18 minutes 53 seconds), took line honors
at the Thimble Shoal finish line, and, to the pleasure of southern Bay sailors
and citizens, she beat The Pride of Baltimore. Always a
gentleman in this grand competition, Jan Miles, skipper of
The Pride, was the first to congratulate Virginia's skipper,
Nicholas Alley, and crew, on their win. Miles
radioed Virginia from up the …
"In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean
blue." We celebrate his discovery of our part of the world today,
having adjusted the date to suit the Federal holiday calendar. Take a sail
to honor Chris!
130 BOATS SHOOT THE BIRD! The 2007
HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA topped records for number of boats
(130) and amount of funds raised (more than $40,000).
130 boats (11 fleets) raced for two days on the Rappahannock River - drop
mark courses on Saturday and a pursuit race on Sunday. The event began
Friday night with the welcoming reception, competitors' briefing and food and
drink, including rock fish cooked on the Yankee Point Marina decks. More
than 450 …
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 …
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 …
And this is what they look like now that the Contractor has completed the construction work.
The railings will be the next stop.
Here's a quick look at the new steps and bulkhead work. Taken Friday Nov. 23 2007.
U. S. Sailing's National One-Design 
The FBYC Cruising Division adopted "Jamestown 400" as its sailing theme for 2007. Beginning with a sail to Onancock's John Smith Shallop exhibit, cruising to Jamestown itself, cheering on the Fishing bay Shallop regatta, and visiting the historic sights of Philadelphia and Baltimore formed the core of this program. As a finale to this theme, four division members were unexpectedly treated to a daysail aboard the Godspeed during Urbanna's 50th Oyster festival. For pictures of this, see our photos - on 
FBYC has been awarded the US Sailing One-Design Regatta Award for 2007 for hosting the 2007 Flying Scot North American Championship (NAC) during the 50th Anniversary of that sailboat class. This award, one of five prestigious awards given yearly by the US Sailing One Design Council, recognizes excellence in development, promotion, and management by organizers and sponsors of the years outstanding regional regatta. The award was presented on November 18 at the Councils annual One-Design Sailing Symposium in Columbus, Ohio.
I am thrilled to report that Bill Ross just called me on behalf of the US Sailing One Design Committee to announce that FBYC has been awarded the U S Sailing National One Design Regatta Award for the year. This award will be presented on Saturday November 17, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio, at the One Design Symposium.
Caribbean 1500 hangs a right at Cape
Henry. At noon yesterday 69 boats headed for points
south, specifically Tortola BVI. The 18th annual Caribbean 1500 rally
makes up in Hampton each October and has boats that come from all parts of the
country. Steve Black, head honcho of the Cruising Rally
Association which administers the 1500 as well as the Atlantic Cup and the
Bermuda Cup, makes his home in Hampton.
