Some years ago Bay clubs, including our own, arranged a bus trip to Baltimore to meet the winners of the Volvo around the world race for the leg ending that ended in that city. One of the crew of the Dutch boat, Assa Abloy, skippered by Roy Heiner, that won that leg was a UK resident who was retiring from racing to become manager of Cowes week. According to today's Scuttlebutt, this years races have had more than their share of SNAFU's so he's had his hands full. First a new Swan 60 ran into a chain between two buoys that protects the wreck of the Mary Rose. A sure way to slow a boat down. There …
After the Virginia Governor's Cup, one-design racers will want
to head over to Fishing Bay Yacht Club to the 65th ANNUAL ONE-DESIGN
REGATTA, Saturday and Sunday, August 14th and 15th. Here's
another two day, multiple race series for FrontRunner, Mobjack, Flying Scot,
Hampton, Albacore, Laser, Laser Radial, 420, Byte and Optimist. Three
separate race courses. What's not to like???! So, head for the
Little Sue on the outskirts of Deltaville and follow Stove Point Road to
FBYC. For info contact: Lori Moyer at (804)
342-7404. Yes, camping is allowed. Yes, on Saturday there
will be dinner and music; you provide the dancin' !
The following is the official Schedule Of Events for the Stingray Point Regatta. At the bottom of this notice, please find links to the entry form, NOR, and information on accommodations and directions to Fishing Bay Yacht Club. Further information is also available on the Events page: 10th ANNUAL STINGRAY POINT REGATTA
2004 Stingray Point
RegattaSchedule of Events Friday,
September 3, 2004
1800
2100
Registration
and Welcome Party
Saturday,
September 4, 2004
0730 0900
Registration and Continental
Breakfast
0900
Skippers Meeting
1100
Warning Gun for First Race of the Day
1800 2200
Cash
Bar Tent featuring Mount Gay Rum
1830 2230
Dinner, Awards and Live
Entertainment
FBYC will host the USODA 2004 Atlantic Coast Championships on October 9-10, 2004 (race days). Many visiting sailors from the Atlantic Coast are expected to need accomodations at least the nights of October 8 and 9. We are hearing from registrants that there is concern about accomodations for this event in the immediate area. While there are limited accomodations in Deltaville, there are plenty of rooms in the surrounding area within 25 miles on high quality, fast moving, rural highways, particularly in the Gloucester (Comfort Inn), Kilmarnock (Holiday Inn Express), Irvington (Tides Lodge), Topping (Pilot House Inn), and White Stone (Whispering Pines Motel)areas. A number of currently available accomodations (totaling 145 rooms) within 25 miles (and within 30 minutes …
Sunday morning, August 1, dawned bright and sunny, although without the heralded winds of Saturday. Six intrepid sailors braved the windless morn, some taking refuge in the shade as others fine-tuned the rigs. Well stocked with water and a hearty dose of good cheer, the boats pushed off from the beach at around noon, blowing heavily into the sails to get some momentum going. The abbreviated race committee (Mike and Chris Fehn) set the course and blew a whistle start . . . the race was on!
We sailed three races in ever-increasing wind, fighting wind shifts and errantly anchoring boats. The afternoon was spiced with close mark roundings, two photo-finishes, a dragging leeward mark, and lots of fun and companionship. Lightning precipitated …
The new August Spinsheet provides some good coverage of FBYC interests with Nereid and Eric Powers and crew pictured at the start of the Annapolis to Bermuda race, great pics from the Virginia State Optimist Championship, and a write-up from the Leukemia Cup.
I'm looking for a Flying Scott to borrow for the Annual Regatta this August. If anyone has a boat, isn't sailing the regatta, and is willing to let me and my dad (Lud) race it, please email me at MrByteMan@aol.com. Thanks a bunch.
NOT SMITH POINT - PLENTY
OF WIND - AHHHHHHHHHHH! CCV's NOT SMITH POINT RACE was a
tour around southern Bay marks, a break from the windward-leeward routine.
Yesterday Sea Star, Rhumb Line, Movin' On and
Black Widow were the tour leaders. 32 boats refused to listen to
the "We're doomed, doomed" talk on the weather channels and got in a
great day of racing in winds that built from 8-10 at the start to 16 true when
the first boat to finish (Scherherazade) crossed the line.
Fleets A and B ran an 18.54 nm course that included a nice 6
mile power reach, and Fleets C and Non-Spin went 15.49 nm.
RESULTS: PHRF …
At the FBYC Cluhbouse today, using the new wireless high speed connection, we finally set up on Line Registration for the upcoming Annual regatta on August 14. There is a link to the event and the On Line Registration at the top left corner of the web page.
Austin Powers was the first to register. Please click
Here to
see List of Participants. New names are added to the page as they register.
Please try out the system. If you have any problems, or if it breaks, please let Jon Deutsch
jon-fbyc@jdeutsch.com know. He learned a little about the system today, and knows how to reach the technical expert.
SCREWPILE WRAP UP:
Each morning the wind had the makings of a nice racing breeze, but by
each mid-afternoon the wind took a powder, and left racers wishing for more than
they had. Hard working race committees got in 4 races (1 on Sunday,
2 on Monday, and 1 on Tuesday). The parties were top of the line and event
organizers have been showered with positive comments from racers. After
all, wind is wind and no matter what, "you play the cards you're dealt" ,
as Maverick would say.
Three
southern Bay boats did especially well: John Hanna's
Battlewagon, Pearson 37, finished 2nd in the largest fleet (PHRF 4 - 23
boats), Paul Anderson …
Mobjack Hull number 68 for sale. $1250.00. Maybe the last boat built in the first mold; making it a true vintage item. Excellent condition with great mast; center board and rudder ready to go. Sails are in fine sailing condition, main just proffesionally tuned and cleaned up. With this fine boat comes original sails with hand written notes by the sailmaker. Can be seen in the FBYC small boat parking lot. White hull with light blue interior. The package includes a sound road ready trailer. Contact Gil Miles - gilmagic@aol.com or call 804.672.1200
One of the goals for the year has been to install high-speed wireless internet access at FBYC for members. Today Brandy Kennard called Rear Commodore Lud Kimbrough to report that it now is up and operating upstairs and outside on the porch, with downstairs yet to be tested.
The installation has not been without difficulty, but Brandy and Lud are to be congratulated on a good job. Thanks to you both. Now there are no excuses to not spending more time at the River. Those who wish to gain access to the wi-fi network will need to consult with one of our technicians.
This should enable results to be posted more quickly, and the Junior Coaches to check their e-mails …
This year's Leukemia Regatta was again a phenonemal success. Thank you to all the sponsors and those who participated in all our events. Starting with the Jr. Challenge, Kayak Tour and Poker Run in May, followed by the Sail-a-Thon and Arts at FBYC in June, ending with the Regatta weekend made this year's Regatta Series the best one yet,raising over $150,000. A special thanks to our top Fundraiser Paul Nezi who raised over $14,000 and all the other sailors that worked so hard to raise money for the Leukemia Society.
The regatta weekend started off with our traditional Silent Auction followed by our first ever Live Auction, a special thanks to Mark Motley who assisted …
Thanks to Durwood Usry for a good picture of Doubloon with Noel Clinard and Ron Jenkins going to windward right next to Antonio with Mike Massie and crew on Saturday at the first Summer Seabreeze races. There 7 Optis - the winner was Madeline Alderman, 8 Lasers - won by Alain Vincey (who actually tied for points with James Jacob - who was assisted by his crew - daughter Erin), 5 Frontrunners - won by Bill Spencer, and 6 Flying Scots - won by John Buhl. Complete Results are available at
http://www.fbyc.net/Events/2004/07.17.onedesign/results.xls
SONG TO HELP DISABLED SAILING
London England 9 July 2004
Some of the proceeds from sales of a CD featuring a song about sailing are to help raise awareness of disabled sailing.
Sailing is one of the sports featured in the Paralympic Games which take place in Athens this September, and to mark the occasion, UK singer/songwriter Peter Brodie has released a CD with 10 tracks including 'Summer Breeze', a ballad about going sailing. For every copy of the CD sold during 2004, Brodie is donating one US Dollar to the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS).
IFDS is the body responsible for disabled sailing around the world, including sailing for people with physical disabilities, blindness, deafness and learning …
David Hazlehurst, the FBYC
Commodore and coach for the Community Sailing program that he organized through the new Middlesex YMCA, looking over the sailing school behind him.
The coaches were - left to right in the picture under Read More were Rebecca Walker, Robby Walker, Jere Dennison, Jessica
Shearin, David Hazlehurst and not pictured, Andrew Wilton and Justin Wilton.
I understand there were about 20 Middlesex kids each day who came by bus from the YMCA, where they had signed up for the program.
Thanks to Bob Walker
bob@adworksonline.net
Chesapeake Bay Magazine
for providing the pictures.
Mark your calendars for August 1st and the Women's 420 one-design race. This event is replacing the annual Women's Portsmouth. Grab your favorite crew and a club 420 for what promises to be a wet and wild day of racing on Fishing Bay. We hope this will be a multi-generational event with Juniors and not-so-Juniors racing together. So...Let's go girls!
Check out your Events book or the one-design schedule on the web for the full Notice of Race.
2004 LEUKEMIA CUP REGATTA WINNERS: 66
boats took to the water Saturday on behalf of the Southern Chesapeake
Leukemia Cup. The event garnered more than $150,000, the preliminary
amount reported. Here are the racers who won their
fleets: PHRF A: Rob Whittemore,
Patriot. PHRF B: Dan Smoker, Smoke.
PHRF Non-Spin: Mac Butler, Jaguar.
Cruising: Booty Baker, Klimax. Classics:
Buddy Petzinger, Shinola; Russ
Seltzer, Joie de Vie, Sandy Bottom; and Ric
Bauer, Desperado, in their respective classic
categories. Race chairman for the racer course, Case Whittemore,
and for the classics and cruisers course, Mike Mastracci.
SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE
CHALLENGE 2004 - JULY 18, 19, 20 - 3 days of knock down,
drag out, sailboat racing!
Record
number of …
ISABEL (THE BIG BLOW) TOOK MOST OF MY BOAT TO DAVY JONES LOCKER.
I WAS ABLE TO SALVAGE THE MAST & RUDDER & SOME OLDSAILS. ANYONE WHO CAN USE THEM
IS WELCOME TO THEM. THEY ARE AT FLEETON (NEAR REEDVILLE, VA - EAST END OF 360).
PHONE 804-453-6625 OR EMAIL.
On Friday July 2, eight FBYC Juniors participated in the Hampton Yacht Club Junior Regatta. William and Natalie Wirt participated in the 30 boat Opti Fleet, and FBYC entered 3 of the Club 420s in a fleet of 12 420s. Our 420s included Alex OToole and Eliza Strickland, Strother Scott and Thomas Jenkins, and Kathryn Clinard and Lina Scott. Coach Rob Wright accompanied the race team.
In the first 420 race, Alex and Eliza has a great start and had clear air in the light conditions. Strother was in equally good position, until he and Thomas ran into problems with a port-starboard situation and had to do a 720 (the boat they hit went on to win the race …
Austin Powers was the first to register. Please click
Thanks to Durwood Usry for a good picture of Doubloon with Noel Clinard and Ron Jenkins going to windward right next to Antonio with Mike Massie and crew on Saturday at the first Summer Seabreeze races. There 7 Optis - the winner was Madeline Alderman, 8 Lasers - won by Alain Vincey (who actually tied for points with James Jacob - who was assisted by his crew - daughter Erin), 5 Frontrunners - won by Bill Spencer, and 6 Flying Scots - won by John Buhl. Complete Results are available at
David Hazlehurst, the FBYC
Commodore and coach for the Community Sailing program that he organized through the new Middlesex YMCA, looking over the sailing school behind him.
I understand there were about 20 Middlesex kids each day who came by bus from the YMCA, where they had signed up for the program.