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#569 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday November 28, 2011 09:12AM

To Fiddler's Green. This past week Lester L. Hudgins, Jr., succumbed to cancer. Lester was a southern Bay legend who will be fondly remembered especially for his time racing his C&C, Defiance, on the Bay and beyond. Lester turned a lot of folks on to competitive sailing and there will be many a toast raised in his honor and his memory.

OP SAIL coming in June 2012. OpSail 2012 Virginia™ organizers have announced the first participating ships, including fourteen tall ships and naval vessels from eleven different countries, and more ships are expected to announce in coming weeks. OpSail 2012 Virginia™ events will span the Commonwealth. Affiliate ports include the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake …

2012 Draft Schedule

Jon Deutsch on Sunday November 27, 2011 05:18PM

The 2012 sailing events committee, led by vice commodore George Burke, has been meeting over the couple of weeks to set the schedule for 2012. There may still be a view changes, but as this is finalized it will be loaded permanently on the website.

2012 Fishing Bay Yacht Club Sailing Events Schedule
Day	Date	Offshore	One Design	Junior	Cruising	Social (FBYC Main House)
Sat	Apr-7
Sun	Apr-8	Easter	Easter	Easter	Easter
Sat	Apr-14	Opening Day		Opening Day	Opening Day	Opening Day Dinner
Sun	Apr-15	Spring Series #1
Sat	Apr-21	Spring Series #2
Sun	Apr-22		One Design Opening Day (FS/FR)
Sat	Apr-28	Spring Series #3
Sun	Apr-29	…

#568 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday November 21, 2011 08:33AM

Your PHRF at work. As a follow-up on the PHRF Annual General Meeting, from Mike Dale, President of PHRF of the Chesapeake comes a brief update on the southern Bay area, CBYRA Region 4. First , for 2012 fleet splits for Region 4, both North and South Divisions, will remain the same as in 2011. Keep the fleet splits in your pocket when you go to talk to the boat broker. Second, if you provide spinnaker information on your rating application, both ratings (spin and non-spin) will be assigned automatically. It is on you to provide required rig/sail dimension information. Handicappers know a lot, they say, but they cannot provide numbers only you have. Third …

Website software upgrades to continue

Strother Scott on Monday November 14, 2011 12:01PM

Having successfully tested the next Zope upgrade, we plan to install it on the web site over the next few days. We do expect that it will cause some breakage which we will fix as they arise.

Please let Strother know if you run across any errors.

When this last upgade is installed, we will have our web software entirely up to date.

#567 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday November 14, 2011 08:34AM

TARTAN TEN Class reactivating Fleet 10 on the Chesapeake. The T-10s hope to have a fleet in place to race in the Annapolis NOODs in early Spring. Plans are to have an organizational meeting in December or January to encourage members' discussion, election of a Fleet Captain and Fleet Measurer, and finalize a schedule for 2012. Miles Booth has contact info and can point interested folks in the right direction. Miles' email address is danagay@juno.com This is a great opportunity for Tartan 10 owners.

FROSTBITE #3 is in the books - good racing, plenty of wind. The breeze climbed to 20+ when the clouds rolled in and boats and crews had a good romp …

2011 Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner

Jon Deutsch on Sunday November 13, 2011 08:04PM

Highlight video from our Annual Meeting & Awards dinner:

New flag officers:

The following awards were given at the Annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, November 12. A complete set of pictures can be found here.

Matthew Fontaine Maury Bowl – FBYC’s Highest Award: awarded for outstanding contributions to FBYC – Not Awarded

Piankatank Trophy - awarded to the skipper who most exemplifies the principle that "all is not lost until the boat sinks" – Wayland R. Rennie

Commodore's Bowl - awarded on an alternating year basis to the outstanding skipper in Offshore and One-Design events for the year based on performance and participation - D. Bradford Miller

Annual Race Committee Trophy - awarded to the FBYC member who has made the greatest …

Awards Party Registration Extended

Mary Spencer on Tuesday November 8, 2011 11:23PM

Annual Meeting and Awards Party

Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Country Club of Virginia
James River Club House
709 South Gaskins Road

Jon Moody has extended the registration period until 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 10th. If you have not made your reservations, please do so now.

EASY RESERVATIONS:

Register and pay online with a credit card at http://www.fbyc.net or contact Jon by email at themoody5@msn.com.

Name: ___________________________________________

# ___ Members $______, #____ Children $_____ Total $_____

#566 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday November 7, 2011 04:18PM

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDED YESTERDAY - SUNDAY MORNING. If you are at work an hour early, they probably will not pay overtime!

THANK A VET - THIS COMING FRIDAY, NOV 11th, is VETERANS' DAY.

SEA STAR, COOL CHANGE, ROUNDABOUT, and VIRGINIA H are 2011 CCV High Point Champions. The party's over. . . for 2011 and Saturday night at the Cruising Club of Virginia's annual year end bash High Point trophies were handed out. This year CCV based their awards on 7 days of racing scattered over the entire season. HIGH POINT AWARD RECIPIENTS: PHRF A - 1st: Dave Eberwine, Sea Star; 2nd: Phil Briggs, Feather. PHRF B …

Laser Frostbite Regatta Results

Jon Deutsch on Sunday November 6, 2011 09:35PM

The final sailing event of the 2011 season at Fishing Bay Yacht Club was the Laser Frostbite regatta on Sunday. 7 Lasers came out for some short-course racing in North East winds in Fishing Bay. Under mostly clear skies with water temperatures in the 50's and air temperatures in the 60's our PRO Mike Karn got us 7 races.

Ron Thompson was the most consistent with only one race out of the top 3 to win the day. Michael Moore, also with all but one top 3 finishes edged out Jon Deutsch for 3rd.

Thanks to the Hampton Roads sailors who came up and joined us and thanks to Mike Karn and Lisa Suhay for …

Annual Meeting On-line Registration issues

Jon Moody on Friday November 4, 2011 05:16PM

We have been having trouble with online registration - and finally - sort of - have it working again.

Some people have been able to register for CCV and pay this afternoon.
Others have registered - selected dinners to buy - but they don't show up on the Payment Page- and they get an error when they pay - because they are paying for nothing.
Please register if you plan on coming. If necessary - just don't add the dinners to buy - but please put a note in the Comment Box that you will be paying for X number of dinners at the door.
If all else fails - simply email Jon Moody that you want a reservation.

Web site issues continue

Strother Scott on Thursday November 3, 2011 09:37AM

We are upgrading our site software but in the meantime many of the website features are not working - like

On Line Registration
Event Pages

We are aware of the issues and hopefully will get the important parts working soon.

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