The final three races of the One Design Spring Series were competed on Sunday July 3rd. Sunday’s racing was characterized by close racing, wind from around the compass and a different winning boat in nearly every race. On the whole, 8 skippers participated in the Front Runner series and the Flying Scot fleet saw 17 different skippers on the line. It was a fun series with a variety of conditions that challenged the sailors and the race committees. The Front Runner fleet series champion is Matt Braun followed by Mark Stephens and Kevin Cross. In the Flying Scot fleet, Len Guenther won the series followed by John Beery, Noel Clinard and Rob Whittemore. Complete series results are posted at …
SCREWPILE ENTRY PROCEDURES: Entries must be submitted on the Official Screwpile Challenge 2011 Entry Form, available at the official web site www.splc.us , and be accompanied by a check. The deadline for entry is July 13th. Make checks payable to Screwpile Challenge and mail with entry form to: SCREWPILE CHALLENGE 2011, PO BOX 66, HOLLYWOOD MD 20636
Heading for SCREWPILE: Here's how the numbers break down as far as boats coming out of southern Bay clubs/sailing associations: Hampton Yacht Club - 6; Fishing Bay Yacht Club - 4; Broad Bay Sailing Association - 3; Dahlgren Yacht Club - 2; SAYC - 1. Hampton Yacht Club won The Battle of the Chesapeake at Screwpile in …
Come join us for some family fun on Saturday and Sunday, July 2 & 3, 2011
Events include:
Saturday July 2 at Noon (No Cost)
Help us build and enter a FBYC float in the Deltaville parade which occurs on Saturday July 2. Decorating the float will begin at 12 noon at FBYC.
Sunday, July 3 (Cost: $10 for adults, $5 for children)
Parents and kids race at 12:00 Noon (race anything you have that floats)
Events we are considering beginning about 1:00 p.m. include:
An optical course or a treasure hunt
A dinghy race - might be blindfolded race with a spotter
Water battle (bio-degradable of course)
Three legged race, crab walk, other …
Reduced Registration Fee for the 13th Annual Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta, July 8 - 10, in Deltaville has been extended due to difficulties with processing registrations on the Leukemia Cup website. Now those who were unable to register by June 17 will be able to register at the lower entry fee of $125 either on line at www.leukemiacup.org/va or in person until registration closes on Friday evening, July 8, before the Auction & Crabcake Dinner at Stingray Point Marina.
Don't miss out on all the fun over Leukemia Cup weekend...almost 70 yachts so far have registered to participate in the Regatta. Thanks for supporting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its effort to help patients …
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office has a redesigned and reinvigorated website for its Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy Systemwww.buoybay.noaa.gov. In addition to a fresh new look, the site features streamlined navigation and offers users the often-requested ability to bookmark individual buoys data pages (so you can quickly get to info from the buoy closest to you, for example). The data download and graphing sections have been revamped, giving you more options for exploring CBIBS data.
The site now includes a frequently updated Buoy News area to keep the community CBIBS visitors up to date on the system, as well as a Featured User section that will highlight how people around the watershed use information from CBIBS. The old …
From the Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta
(racing July 9-10) comes word that Early Bird Pricing has been
extended! This event includes a Cruising Class and a
Classic Class for yachts designed by 1976 in addition to PHRF spinnaker and
non-spinnaker classes. Event officials are offering multiple races
each day; drop mark courses will be in the Chesapeake Bay off Stingray
Point. Fishing Bay Yacht Club and Stingray Harbour Yacht Club sponsor
this, the 13th edition, of the event. For info and/or to enter, please
contact Sue Willis at 800-766-0797 or sue.willis@LLS.org.
RUNNING TIDE, Waddy Garrett's J46,
was the only southern Bay boat in the 2011 Marion to Bermuda
Race. Running Tide finished …
Numerous photo galleries from Junior Week have been posted. Thanks again to all of our photographer who have contributed to them. Jenny M Photography Pictures are here (2 weeks only). Member photos are posted here.
In anticipation of a website upgrade, we have changed the usernames of 120 users - those with email addresses or two words as usernames - to single words with no "@" in the username. Those who are effected should have received an email from me on Wednesday June 22 announcing the change.
It also requires that I conform your "roles" from your old username to the new username. All members should be straight now, we will finish up non-member roles this morning. When you log in you should see the same links to Members, Board across the top that you used to see.
To retrieve your new username visit http://www.fbyc.net/ForgotUser ad enter the email address FBYC has on your …
Interesting NY Times article about the technology expected on the TV in the upcoming America's Cup races.
The Americas Cup, Translated for Television
By ANNE EISENBERG
THE yacht-club crowd may turn out to cheer at regattas, but sailboat racing hasnt been a big hit with mainstream television audiences perhaps because they have trouble following whats happening on the waves.
Experts in the sport may appreciate a helmsmans split-second tactical decisions or a crews athleticism, yet the drama often goes over the heads of landlubbers who dont know how points are scored, or even who is ahead.
Now technology may change that. Starting in August, a two-year series of regattas, culminating in the 34th …
"Copyright Rappahannock Record , used with permission." June 20, 2011 by Shannon Rice Racers rally for regatta to find no wind in their sails
Not only was there no race-able wind, there was no wind at all. That made it a slow start for the inaugural Cape Dory Typhoon National Regatta last weekend on the Rappahannock River near Carters Creek.
Photo:Some 32 Typhoons participated in the inaugural Cape Dory Typhoon National Regatta hosted by the Rappahannock River Yacht Club last weekend.
The event sponsored by the Rappahannock River Yacht Club featured 32 typhoons, 19 in the Championship Fleet and 13 in the Corinthian Fleet. The regatta was constructed as a one-design, non-spinnaker race for Weekender, Daysailer and Open Typhoons …
Congratulations to Len and Barb, representing Fleet 103, for their superb 1st Place Trophy at the 2011 Summer Solstice Regatta, held at Selby Bay in Maryland. In very trying conditions, they bested a field of heavy hitters, including Allan Terhune (2010 NAC Champion), David Neff, and John Aras/John Wake.
RUNNING TIDE is doing the Marion to
Bermuda Race www.marionbermuda.com, beginning this Friday, June 17 at noon.
Crew is all Fishing Bay members: Waddy Garrett, Parker Garrett, Winston Trice, Ned
Trice, Charlie Clough, Paul Becker and Tad Thompson. RUNNING TIDE is racing in Division A.
I certainly hope they enjoy the race and do well. I understand that because of insurance requirements (an over 10 year old boat - participating in an ocean race), RUNNING TIDE is sporting all new standing rigging. Please sail fast.
The article is available under Read More.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jake Fish Communications Manager, US SAILING 401.683.0800 x612 jakefish@ussailing.org
LONG BEACH, Calif. (June 12, 2011) - Racing concluded today in San Pedro Bay at the U.S. Youth Multihull Championship hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club in Long Beach, Calif. Fourteen teams raced Viper F16s in light and shifty breezes this morning. Later in the afternoon, wind speed increased slightly with a hard shift. In the end, it was the team of Taylor Reiss (Panama …
The Parent's Race is coming up on Wednesday, June 22. This is a fun opportunity for parents of junior week sailors and other sailors to get out on the water for some fun mid-week sailing. We'll sail right off the dock in Fishing Bay.
We welcome anyone interested in sailing a laser or 420 to come out and join us. For anyone who does not have a boat, we will do our best to find one for the evening. Jon will help find boats, so send an email to jon-fbyc@jdeutsch.com if you are in need of a boat for the evening.
In order to get as many people on the water as possible we will be …
The Laser Spring Regatta saw 8 Standard Lasers and 3 Radials out for racing on a beautiful day on the Piankatank. The wind was a little light, but PRO Matt Lambert kept the course as square as they could and ran 6 races.
With a few short courses and a few longer courses the fleet got in some good competitive races and everyone had a good time.
The format for Laser racing at FBYC has changed this year. Rather than participate on the same days as other one design fleets at FBYC, we have scaled back the Laser events to just 3 on days where no other classes are sailing. 2 more Laser race days remain: Sunday, September 18 and …
Come join us at FBYC for some family fun on
Saturday and Sunday, July 2 & 3, 2011
Events include:
Saturday July 2 (No Cost)
Help us build and enter a float in the Deltaville 4th of July parade.
Sunday, July 3 (Cost: $10 for adults, $5 for children)
Parents and kids race at 12:00 Noon (race anything you have that floats)
Events we are considering beginning about 1:00 p.m. include:
An optical course or a treasure hunt
A dingy race - might be blindfolded race with a spotter
Water battle (bio-degradable of course)
Three legged race, crab walk, other landlubber events
The "little boats" found enough wind on the Rapp River on Saturday to get their planned one day 11 boat Laser regatta in and on Sunday to get the 5 Front Runners and 8 Flying Scots around the course. RESULTS: - LASERS : 1. Dan Herlihy, 2.Jon Deutsch, 3. Len Guenther. FRONT RUNNERS: 1. Matt Braun, 2. Mark Stephens. FLYING SCOT: 1. Len Guenther, 2.John Wake, 3.John Berry. The One-Design Regatta was hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club.
The 13th Annual Southern Chesapeake Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta (July 9-10) at Fishing Bay/Deltaville is building to a crescendo. You can enter on line at www.leukemiacup.org/va Or, mail your entry and fees to …
The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a $97,575 bid from Docks of the Bay construction company to dredge a portion of the mouth of Jackson Creek in Deltaville.
The project will be 75% funded through a Port Authority grant. The board agreed to fund $13,125.
Keith Ruse spoke for landowners on the creek and said they will fund the other $13,125 to complete the project.
County attorney Mike Soberick told county supervisors not to accept the bid until the private sector has written the county a check for the $13,125 …
Tim Zimmerman is a writer for Sailing World and was a competitor at the 2011 Laser District 11 Championship we hosted a few weeks ago at Fishing Bay Yacht Club and he's written a nice blog article about his experience at the regatta:
Dont get me wrong. The regatta itself, the District 11 Laser Championships, was not terrible. In fact, it was fantastic. Hosted by the smoothly-run, beautifully-situated, Fishing Bay Yacht Club down in Deltaville, Va., on the southern Chesapeake Bay, the regatta was blessed with excellent winds, a great crowd of sailors, and a Laser-loving chef, Alain Vincey, who cooked up a spectacular Saturday-evening dinner. Even the camping was nice.
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office has a redesigned and reinvigorated website for its Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System
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Not only was there no race-able wind, there was no wind at all. That made it a slow start for the inaugural Cape Dory Typhoon National Regatta last weekend on the Rappahannock River near Carters Creek.
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