For the Optimist Nationals we've created a separate email list to keep everyone up to date with what is going on with the regatta.
Each week leading up to the regatta well be sending out a weekly digest of any regatta-related news. In addition to the weekly updates, emails with specific information may be sent from our event chairs, PRO, or others involved with the administration of the event.
During the regatta, we will be sending out daily recaps of the days activities.
GARY JOBSON will help kick off The Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society 12th Annual Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup season on
May 6th in Richmond. Jobson, a world class sailor,
television commentator, and author, titles his presentation "Sailing: Speed and
Passion." This event is open to the public on Thursday, May 6,
6:00 PM, at the Sun Trust Corporate Office at 919 E. Main Street, 24th Floor, in
downtown Richmond. Free parking in the SunTrust parking garage is
available. Admission is $25 per person and includes wine, beer, and heavy hors
d'oeuvres. Please RSVP by contacting Laura Boone at 804.627.0400 or laura.boone@lls.org. Advance reservations
are strongly recommended.
Question - how does a person who wants to sail connect with a race boat willing to take them along as crew? For example FBYC has just finished its Crew Training Classes, and some of them need rides. Please check out several resources. First - please register on our Crew Finder. Type in information about yourself that will accurately describe your situation. Members who need crew can check out the list, and you will occasionally get an invitation. Secondly, for a more proactive connection - check out the web page that shows who needs crew for an upcoming race - and call them up and invite yourself.
Neither system is Web 2.0 state of the art, but both systems do work. Please use …
Those of you who have, by now, read and memorized the 2010 GSIs NORs for the Offshore Events should regard this as a refresher. For the rest of you this will be a teaser, with plot spoilers, but no substitute for actually reading them:
General Sailing Instructions
Most of the changes are minor and non-substantive corrections of typos, but there are 3 changes worth noting
Section 5 – Classes and class flags:
PHRF C has been broken out of B/C and the split has changed . The split between PHRF B and PHRF C is now 161. The split between PHRF A and PHRF B has not changed
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will kick-off the 12th Annual Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup season with an appearance in Richmond at SunTrust Bank on by Gary Jobson. Jobson, a world class sailor, television commentator, and author, titles his presentation Sailing: Speed and Passion.
This event is open to the public on Thursday, May 6, 6:00 PM, at the SunTrust Corporate Office at 919 E. Main Street, 24th Floor, in downtown Richmond. Free parking in the SunTrust parking garage is available. Admission is $25 per person and includes wine, beer, and heavy hors doeuvres. A similar event featuring Gary Jobson was a sell-out several years ago, so please RSVP by contacting Laura Boone at 804.627.0400 or laura …
Try sailing - it's NOT easy! -
Bill Schanen, SAILING
Magazine
Collegiate scene:
UVA, George Washington U, and Hampton
U all qualified to compete for the America Trophy by
finishing 1-2-3 at this past weekend regatta hosted by the College of William
and Mary. That means these teams and 15 others will be sailing at Cornell
University, April 17-18, for the MAISA Championship. The top eight teams
from the MAISA Championship will compete for the national title.
SBRW EARLY BIRD ENTRIES deadline is
Saturday, April 17th. Save at least $10
on your entry fee and receive 10 FREE regatta drink tickets. And, you do
NOT have to wait for your PHRF certificate to …
John and Linda Dodge of Richmond, Virginia are in the second month of their Project Sails to Save Haiti, a donation program designed to get as many used sails ( " the bigger the better but we will take anything" ) as well as spinnaker poles, lines, and anything else one might think of to construct shelter in an effort to help the over 600,000 Haitians who have been left out in the exposure due to the January 12th earthquake that killed over 230,000. With the rain season now upon them and the death toll rising, time is of the essence. John is an oncology account specialist with Cephalon Oncology and an active sailor on the sailing circuit while wife Linda …
UPDATE: As of 4/1/2010, the only racks/lockers still available for rent are A-12 (east side/tan lockers), B-5 and B-6.
There are 6 sail racks now available for rent - 5 in the newly closed off barn stall and the other is one of the original barn lockers. Each sail rack measures 13 L x 18 H x 18 D. Each rack can store several sets of one design sails rolled up, the rudder, tiller, etc., for a Flying Scot, Front Runner or Mobjack or the full rig of a Laser or Opti. Combination locks are furnished and the annual fee is $95. Locker A-2 (white lockers on west side of barn) and new sail racks B-1, B-2 …
This Thursday is APRIL Fools'
DAY. Have some fun - call your best sailing friend
and say in an urgent tone, "I'm at your boat. Where do you keep your
big sump pump!!??" After all, that's what friends do on April Fool's
Day.
John and Linda Dodge have organized
Project Sails to Save Haiti, a donation program designed
to get as many used sails (the bigger the better but they will take anything) as
well as spinnaker poles, lines, and anything else one might think
of to construct shelter in an effort to help the over
600,000 Haitians who have no cover due to the January 12th
earthquake that killed over 230,000. With the rain season …
The annual Fireball & Friends Regatta was held at the Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, Fl March 12-14. Classes in attendance included Fireball, Interlake, Front Runner, Windmill, and A Cat classes. The Front Runner class fielded a fleet of 10 boats to make the 14th annual trek to DIYC one of largest fleets at this much long standing mid-winter regatta. Fueled by the thought of sunny Florida skies, warm weather and cold beer the participants made arrangements, fixed trailers and boats to make the journey. Watching the wavering forecast with eager enthusiasm and overcoming several flat tires on the 12 hour trip, the group was welcomed by torrential rain, tornado watches and sustained winds of 25 knots. The poor weather …
The second annual Safety-at-Sea Seminar will be held this Saturday, March 27, at the yacht club. Registration for late comers, bagels and coffee will be available at the main clubhouse beginning at 8:15 a.m. The seminar will begin at 9:00 a.m. We have a very interesting program with a discussion on electronics presented by Kevin Fay of Marine Electronics of Hartfield. He will talk about AIS-Automatic Identification System, MMSI-Mobile Maritime Service Identity, EPIRB, FCC licensing, SSB HF communications and PROCTOR e-mail, Broadband Radar, Cell Phone and WiFi amplifiers and Gyrocompass. There will be an electronics display for hands on demonstration. Our Commodore Mayo Tabb will talk about electronic interfacing and Ted Bennett will talk about weather …
SPRING HAS SPRUNG! THE GRASS HAS RIZZZ! WONDER WHERE
THE RACERS IS?! Wonder no more - racers are jamming
boatyards, attending seminars, burning socks, flipping the pages of their
Layline@ catalog, surfing the web for parts, and haunting the
aisles of West Marine.
Fishing Bay Yacht Club offers the
FBYC Safety-at-Sea Seminar on March 27 (0815 - 1530) at
FBYC, Deltaville, VA.. This seminar is OPEN TO
ALL. The Seminar will cover electronics, electronic interfacing,
weather, medical emergencies, and sea sense (man overboard techniques, warps and
preparation for helicopter pick up). Cost of $10 includes a lot of instruction
and lunch. Kevin Fay, Mayo Tabb, and Dr. Sterling Ranson will lead
the seminar. A fun and …
As mentioned in a recent Commodore Tabbs Quarterdeck Column, FBYC is one of 26 "pre-eminent American yacht Club's" invited by the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) to participate in the U.S. Qualifying Series for the next NYYC Invitational Cup. The Qualifying Series will be sailed in Newport, Rhode Island, September 8-13, 2010, and the actual Invitational Cup will be September 10-17, 2011. The Qualifying Series will feature fleet racing in Sonars and J/22s in historic Newport, R.I. on the same waters that the NYYC conducted the America's Cup from 1958-1983. This will be the only opportunity for domestic yacht clubs to earn a place in the 2011 Invitational Cup. The top three U.S …
Ian G. Lorimer died on February 27, 2010 while on a cruise around the southern point of South America. He is survived by his wife of almost 55 years, Pat Lorimer; son, Jim Lorimer; daughters and sons-in-law, Beth Bahner and Mark Grunwald, Kathy and Ken Lemelin, and Robin and Bryan Proffitt; and six granddaughters. Ian was born in the Bronx, NY. Pat was also born in the Bronx but she was younger than Ian and did not know him when growing up even though both went to some of the same schools. After graduating from high school, Ian went on to college at Georgia Tech. It was while working …
FBYC's Opti Kids and Junior Program have experienced a record number of early registrations this year, including early registrations from non-members. As a result, Opti- Kids and Intermediate Opti or Racing Opti classes of Junior Week are now closed. Non-member registrations are subject to final confirmation after April 20, depending on member registrations. If you are an FBYC member and still wish to register for Opti Kids or the Intermediate Opti or Racing Opti classes, please contact Alison Lennarz at avlennarz@gmail.com as soon as possible, but in no event later than April 20, 2010. Opti Kids and Junior Week each have finite capacity, and space in either program cannot be guaranteed to any member at any time …
LEARN TO CREW on a
Race Boat: Two great programs in the southern
Bay for folks who want to learn to crew on a race boat. Fishing
Bay Yacht Club cranks up with their first classroom meeting on Tuesday,
March 23, in Richmond at the Retreat Hospital Board Room (6:30 - 9:30pm).
For detail contact Jim Snowa at (804) 323-1510 OR go to www.fbyc.net and click on "Crew Training
Registration". Later in the Spring, the Cruising Club of Virginia
(CCV) begins their Racing Crew Training course with the first classroom
session on Tuesday, May 25, and the first on water session on Wednesday, May 26,
all in Hampton. For info contact Dave Taylor (757) 344-5292 …
Those who race Front Runners know where to race in
early Spring. Eight (8) FBYC Front Runners are heading to Tampa to
sail at Davis Islands Fireball and Friends midwinters. Matthew
Braun, Lee Farinholt, Mark Stephens, Brad Miller, Kevin
Cross, Rick Farinholt, Jon Deutsch, Justin Ailsworth
are hitting the road South!
Brad
Miller, who resides in Hanover, Virginia, is the first PHRF C boat to
enter SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK 2010. Brad returns to SBRW with his Beneteau
305, Schiehallion. Two more returnees, Dennis
Hannick, King George, Virginia, with his Tripp 26, Goin', and
SamMitchener of Roanoke, Virginia, with
his J109, Double Eagle are all set for SBRW
2010.
For the Optimist Nationals we've created a separate email list to keep everyone up to date with what is going on with the regatta.
An advertisement and article regarding the USODA Opti Nationals at FBYC appeared in the February/March issue of the Optimist Class Magazine, OptiNews, attached at 
The annual Fireball & Friends Regatta was held at the Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, Fl March 12-14. Classes in attendance included Fireball, Interlake, Front Runner, Windmill, and A Cat classes. The Front Runner class fielded a fleet of 10 boats to make the 14th annual trek to DIYC one of largest fleets at this much long standing mid-winter regatta. Fueled by the thought of sunny Florida skies, warm weather and cold beer the participants made arrangements, fixed trailers and boats to make the journey. Watching the wavering forecast with eager enthusiasm and overcoming several flat tires on the 12 hour trip, the group was welcomed by torrential rain, tornado watches and sustained winds of 25 knots. The poor weather …
As mentioned in a recent Commodore Tabbs Quarterdeck Column, FBYC is one of 26 "pre-eminent American yacht Club's" invited by the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) to participate in the U.S. Qualifying Series for the next NYYC Invitational Cup. The Qualifying Series will be sailed in Newport, Rhode Island, September 8-13, 2010, and the actual Invitational Cup will be September 10-17, 2011. The Qualifying Series will feature fleet racing in Sonars and J/22s in historic Newport, R.I. on the same waters that the NYYC conducted the America's Cup from 1958-1983. This will be the only opportunity for domestic yacht clubs to earn a place in the 2011 Invitational Cup. The top three U.S …
IN MEMORIAM