At the FBYC Board Meeting tonight, we were all surprised when Sharon Bauer arrived at the conclusion of the meeting, in very close sychronization with Rear Commodore Ric Bauer's announcement near the end of the meeting, under OLD BUSINESS that David Hazlehurst will be 75 years old tomorrow!!!!
We shared a beautiful cake and wished David many Happy more!
2006 PHRF Southern Bay Fleet Splits Remain
Unchanged for 2006: It's official - the PHRF Class
splits for the southern Bay (Region 4) remain the same as last
year. PHRF A - up to 115; PHRF B - 116 to
166; PHRF C - 167 and higher. PHRF Non-spinnaker
will be sailed allowing two headsails downwind unless the sailing
instruction specifically states differently.
PHRF RENEWALSWILL BE MAILED OUT DURING THE LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER.
Don't wait to renew or apply for your 2006 valid rating
certificate. If you have made changes to the boat, sails, etc.
, get your paperwork started right away, since the handicappers review all
changes before issuing the 2006 …
Scuttlebutt provides intereting reading with the final resuts of the Lightning Worlds sailed in Chile in yesterdays issue. Bob Wardwell finished a very respectable 10th. The winner, Tito Gonzalez, a perpetual winner in several classes sails out of Miami. One of his crew, Christian Herman, was first in the Apprentice Division at the Laser Masters Worlds sailed in Algarrobo, Chile in October '97, and is a good friend of Senor Juan Romero, our Opti coach in '05, and our two coaches for the coming season. One of the techniques South American countries use to develop world class sailors like Robert Scheidt and Torben Grael from Brazil, is to select promising sailors and put them on the water five or more …
SCREWPILE 2006 NEWS FLASH!
The Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge has outgrown their
Zahniser's Yachting Center headquarters location. The regatta
has been headquartered at Z's for the last 13 year's, but space has become an
issue, thanks in great part to you, the racers, who continue to return year
after year and to bring newbies with you. So, the headquarters location
for 2006 will be just up the creek at the Holiday Inn Select in
Solomons. Screwpile Chairman, LG Raley, made the
change announcement "with sadness and joy at the same time,"
expressing appreciation for the long standing, successful partnership between
SPLC and Zahniser's and looking forward to the future in the …
FBYC Three Week Italian Cruise/Tour April 29-May 20, 2006
The FBYC Cruising Division is going to Italy for a tour and cruise in 2006 that you wont want to miss! Wayland Rennie has developed a land tour that will include the regions of Tuscany and Umbria, as well as four days in Rome. The one week cruise on 40 plus yachts will depart from Naples and tour the Bay of Naples with anchorages at such scenic spots as Capri, Amalfi, Ischia, Sorrento, and Procida. You may evaluate some of the cruise destinations by going to www.capriweb.com. There are multiple photos and itineraries to provide ample information on the wonderful historical areas that we will visit.
This item is from today's Scuttlebutt and is a good example of what can happen if you encourage your kids to sail. Our daughter after time out to provide us with two grand daughters sails a white boat with pink stripes and a spinnaker you'll never forget. Think about it, sailing is for life and what better way to keep your family together than on the water.
EARNING HER STRIPES
Nashotah, Wis. -- Sally Barkow was a kid when she first flashed the
competitive spirit that would help make her a world champion sailor. Her
older brother, Carl, could not skipper a sailboat for a regatta on tiny
Pine Lake where the family lived 30 miles west of Milwaukee …
Two hundred eighty-seven years ago to the day,
November 21, 1718, Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the British
Navy stuck Blackbeard the Pirate's head on a pole and
stuck the pole at the entrance to Hampton River as a deterrent to
other pirates. Except for the frequent appearance of numerous
sailboat racers, the deterrent to "troublemakers" seems to have
worked. (For the uninitiated, Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, did not
play well with others. Eddie loved to terrorize his victims by
putting lighted candles in his wild, black beard and swinging his saber at
them, so you know he ran with scissors too. )
FROSTBITE #4 - Light to no wind =
abandoned race = additional NFL-watching! No matter:
FROSTBITE #5 will go …
This past Sat. & Sun, Nov. 5-6, two FBYC Flying Scots traveled to LNYC (Lake Norman Yacht Club) in Mooresville, North Carolina. Noel Clinards, Doubloon and John Hubbards, Fathom Knot II, traveled in convoy 6 hrs. to compete at LNYC 8th Annual Fall 48 & Carolina District Flying Scot Championships. Forty-five Scots competed over two beautiful days in winds from 2 to 18 knots.
LNYC & THE BURGEE SWAP
Larry Vitez, Flying Scot Fleet Captain, and LNYC were excellent hosts. They provided accommodations on the clubs 25 acre site for many of the sailors and provided a good meal and revelry Saturday night. Larry and other Scot sailors gave us the royal treatment as several of …
On Sunday, October 30, three Flying Scots from FBYC and three Scots from RRYC (Rappahannock River Yacht Club) traveled to LOWSC (Lake of The Woods Sailing Club) just west of Fredericksburg, to compete for LOWSC's Fall Invitational Team Racing. FBYC was represented by Noel Clinard &M ike Schmidt, Len & Barbara Guenther, John Hubbard & Debbie Cycotte. All together 9 Scots (3 teams of 3) were involved in a series of races to determine the best team. It was great fun, and involved strategies foreign to typical regatta racing, like doubling back on the race course to block and slow opponents while team mates advanced. Fortunately, no spinnakers were used or things could have gotten hairy quickly! FBYC won …
2006 Racing Schedule Dates Already
Set: The dates listed here are as close as it gets to being
set in stone for the coming year. The responsible clubs have confirmed
their intention to hold the event on the date shown. It's OK to put them
on your 2006 racing calendar - use a #1 pencil !
Jan 16-18 Key West Race Week
Jan 28 SBRNYCU
RACING RULES SEMINAR, hosted by HYC
Feb 18-19 US SAILING BASIC RACE MANAGEMENT COURSE,
hosted by HYC
Jun 2-4 SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK
(Black Seal Cup) (racing on Fri - Sun)
Jun 9-11 Harborfest (Norfolk's downtown
waterfront festival)
Jun 10 TOWNEBANK HOMETOWN
REGATTA, PBC
Jun 24 COCK ISLAND RACE,
City of Portsmouth and PBC …
On October 29, I served as the Race Committee for the Closing Day Regatta at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. The Closing Day Regatta is a staggered start race. This means that the slowest boats start first and are given a head start equal to their rating difference on the larger and faster boats. Calculating the starting advantage relative to the handicap requires knowing the length of the course. I had distributed to each boat an excel spreadsheet that gave starting times for any course length from 7 to 18 miles. The conditions were 15 - 20 knot Northwesterly winds, a clear blue sky, and temperatures in the 50s, so I decided on a 16 mile course with a nice windward starting …
Our Leukemia Cup Regatta again is one of the Top Six Regattas in the Nation. We are getting close to being the top fundraiser. This year's top Fundraiser was San Diego Yacht Club with $236,000. That is only $30,000 less than what we raised, hard to believe we are in the same league with one of the most well known yacht clubs in the world.
You should be proud of your contributions, FBYC has truly made a name for itself within the Leukemia Regattas around the country.
I was honored to be asked to speak at the conference as to the success of our regatta. They were all curious as to how a small yacht club in …
An article in a recent Scuttlebutt described how clubs on the Gulf Coast were recovering from Katrina; it takes a lot to keep committed sailors off the water!
BACK ON THE WATER
While South Florida was scrambling to prepare for Hurricane Wilma, and then
to recover from the hit, the hard working sailors of the Gulf Coast were
getting themselves back on the water in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In
some cases, they've been sailing for weeks, and in all cases, they are
sailing in spite of huge challenges.
Mobile Yacht Club Commodore James Green reports that, six weeks on, the
owners of boats that were scattered into the trees and up-bayou by Katrina
now face costs of …
Photographer Jon Deutsch is a laser sailor out of Fishing Bay Yacht Club. Whenever there wasn't Laser sailing going on, he always found himself at the club helping out with race committee at whatever regatta happened to be going on. He toted a camera with him and tried to snap a few pictures to show the folks who didn't come how much fun they were missing. That's how he got into photography. He's recently photographed events such as the US Laser Masters, Optimist Nationals, Flying Scot ACC's and the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters. Jon, welcome to photoGray
Fawcett Boat Supplies 2005 International 505 East Coast Championship--Alden Bugly's photoGray
I am now entering my third year as Race Chair for the Staggered Start Race. The prior two years I had laid out many alternative courses, and made a spreadheet to correspond to the lengths of those courses. I find I have now lost the notebook with the corurses, and hence we will have a slightly revised system this year.
At the Skippers meeting to occur at the Flagpole at 9:30am on Saturday Ocober 29, 2005, I will hand out printed copies of
this Spreadsheet. Please note it has 2 pages - one sheet is to be used if we start on time, the other if the start is to be delayed. Unlike last year, the spreadsheet forces me to …
FALL BACK! EASTERN STANDARD TIME returns -
Sunday, October 30th. - Sleepy heads get an extra hour of ZZZZZZZs
before heading out for Frost Bite racing on Sunday.
FBYC Fall Series Standings as of
Sunday: At the top of the posted, preliminary series standings
are: PHRF A - Wavelength, Rob Whittet;
PHRF B/C - Shenanigan, Miles Booth; PHRF
Non-Spin - Checko, Barfield/Smith;
MORC - Mojo, Mark Wensell.
Rhumb Punch, John and Linda Edwards, won the
FBYC Annual J/29 Invitational. Case Whittemore's
Patriot took 2nd and Paul Andersen's
Titillation finished 3rd. The Edwards are from Solomons, MD,
and both Patriot and Titillation are southern Bay homies from
Fishing Bay. The fleet of 6 got in …
There is a FLICKR Daily Zeitgeist "java widget?" on the top left corner of the home page, displaying in motion recent photographs uploaded the FBYC's Flickr photo site. It is much easier for us to put pictures there than on the event pages, although we will continue to use both places.
For those of you who notice, the pictures have recently changed, indicating new pictures. Jere Dennison and 10 other FBYC members were guests of Brent Halsey on the Schooner Virginia on a 2 1/2 day trip from Deltaville to Richmond immediately following the Stingray Point Regatta.
Jere has written an article for this month's Log that describes the trip - along with great pictures, which Vic will …
They raced 17 miles in 15-25 knots from the
Northwest in the Fishing Bay Yacht Club Fall Series Medium Distance
Race on Saturday. And, the tough sail handling continued
after the boats got back to the piers on Jackson Creek. Stiff NW
breezes, being what they are, made folding and stowing spinnakers a
challenge even on land. FLEET WINNERS: PHRF
A: Leroi Lissenden, Voodoo Chile.
PHRF B: Mike Dale, Juggernaut. PHRF
C: Brad Miller, Schehellion. PHRF
Non-Spin: Barfield, Smith,
Checko. Meanwhile the J/24 fleet did 4 short
windward-leeward races and Mark Wensell's Mojo
took top honors. PRO: Tom Roberts.
Imagine! Sets Records and Wins 2005
GCBSR. Mike Bagley's Imagine!, a …
Beginning Tuesday night (Oct. 18) Route 33 will be closed to traffic at the Lord Delaware Bridge over the Mattaponi River between West Point and King and Queen County from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly through Sunday morning (Oct. 23).
Motorists travelling between Deltaville and Richmond these evenings should use one of the following alternate routes:
Route 17 to Route 360
Route 33 to Route 14 through King and Queen County to Route 360
Route 17 south to the Coleman Bridge then to I-64
When using these alternate routes, travel time may be increased by 60 to 90 minutes, depending on your destination. Detour signs will be posted along each alternate route.
Urbanna Oyster Festival Cruise, November 4-6, 2005
Depart Jackson Creek around 1330. Arrive Urbanna Creek in time for the Fireman's Parade at around 1800. Dinner on your own at the festival where food is in abundance: from oyster stew to turkey legs and 'bloomin onions. Saturday is more of the same plus the local parade at 1400. Saturday evening we can organize cocktails and a cookout on the lawn at Bob Montague's "Little Sandwich" overlooking the harbor.
In Urbanna Creek you can drop the hook or rent a slip. The town has constructed a new dingy dock and marina facility on the right just inside the creek (where the Windows Restaurant was located). For more information or a …
At the FBYC Board Meeting tonight, we were all surprised when Sharon Bauer arrived at the conclusion of the meeting, in very close sychronization with Rear Commodore Ric Bauer's announcement near the end of the meeting, under OLD BUSINESS that David Hazlehurst will be 75 years old tomorrow!!!!
THE EVENT
LNYC & THE BURGEE SWAP
On October 29, I served as the Race Committee for the Closing Day Regatta at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. The Closing Day Regatta is a staggered start race. This means that the slowest boats start first and are given a head start equal to their rating difference on the larger and faster boats. Calculating the starting advantage relative to the handicap requires knowing the length of the course. I had distributed to each boat an excel spreadsheet that gave starting times for any course length from 7 to 18 miles. The conditions were 15 - 20 knot Northwesterly winds, a clear blue sky, and temperatures in the 50s, so I decided on a 16 mile course with a nice windward starting …
