THIS COMING SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2nd, AT
2:00 AM, 0200, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS - SNOOZE AN EXTRA HOUR
!!! Set your clocks BACK one hour before your get under your blankie on
Saturday night!
New Rule Books are coming
soon! This past week the new Racing
Rules of Sailing for 2009-2012 was unveiled at the US
SAILING Annual General Meeting in St. Petersburg, FL. There are a
number of significant changes, all of which will be covered in detail at
the MURPHY RULES clinic, set for January 24, 2009, at Norfolk Yacht and
Country Club (see information below). US SAILING members should look
for their copies of the new rule …
I am now entering my fourth year as Race Chair for the Staggered Start Race. The first two years I had laid out many alternative courses, but then lost the notebook with the courses, and in 2007 we had a slightly revised system, which will be used again this year.
At the Skippers meeting to occur at the Flagpole at 9:30am on Saturday Ocober 25, 2008, 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. The spreadsheet forces me to set courses with a length on exactly X miles - i.e. no fractions …
Both old and new tie designs are now available in the FBYC Store. These ties will be available at the Awards Banquet at the Virginia Museum on November 7 at the Virginia Museum. They feature the club colors of red or blue in a "rep" stripe design with one embroidered burgee between the stripes at the wide part of the tie, as pictured here. Also available is the traditional FBYC tie with multiple burgees on a navy blue background. The latter design is also now available in a limited number of bow ties. The price is $35 per tie, both long and bow ties.
In these uncertain times, it is nice to see a validation of our own self-interested justifications for what we spend on our boats and our membership in Fishing Bay Yacht Club. Happily, I think we can rest assured that, as the Club goes forward, its Leadership will weigh carefully each and every expenditure at Fishing Bay, but will also keep an eye on the things that really matter to us all. This article, found at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/business/yourmoney/18money2.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
says it well.
In the last month or so, it has become much harder to take out our wallets without feeling guilty.
Pride of
Baltimore II is first to finish at Thimble Shoal.
Virginia's nemesis, The Pride, rolled down the Bay from
Annapolis, Thursday afternoon and through the night to finish this
year's Great Schooner Race at Thimble Shoal at 6:16:03 AM on Friday. Skipper Jan
Miles won line honors as well as the AA Fleet on corrected time. Our
Virginia (skipper Hank Mosely) finished 2nd in the water at
8:30:36AM, but 4 in her fleet corrected on her with handicap times, pushing
her to 6th once all the paperwork was done.
'ROUND THE LIGHTS RACE - October 25- THIS COMING
SATURDAY - sponsored by Old Point Comfort Yacht Club.
This is a CBYRA …
I am pleased to report that I have completed some changes to the FBYC Site Navigation.
On the horizontal navigation across the top of the page - the Link which is in use converts to a non-link - and is a different color. In that way, you can see what link you are on, and can not click on the Club Link, if you are already on the club link. (all true except for the Events link - which doesn't use a folder structure - so we keep the Events Link active no matter what Events page you are on.)
On the sidebar - the list of links has been shortened to only the sub-folders on the selected link. I think the shorter list …
IT'S THE DAY WE HONOR OUR FELLOW SAILOR, CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS. CHRIS WAS MOST DEF A RACER, MOST LIKELY OF THE BLUEWATER
STRIPE. HONOR CHRIS BY LEAVING WORK EARLY AND GOING FOR A
SAIL!!
2008 HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA IS IN THE
BOOKS! One hundred and thirty (130) boats raced
in the event which opened on Friday night with the usual welcome
party at Yankee Point Marina. Twelve fleets (two Divisions) competed
on Saturday on drop mark courses, and, on Sunday, did an
up-the-river-and-back pursuit race. That many boats racing
up the Rappahannock River from the mouth of the Corrotoman to Urbanna and back
on a perfect day (10-15 knots) was a perfect ending to a great …
MORNING LIGHT is coming. As a
preliminary piece, ESPN2 HD will air on October 8, Wednesday, at 8
PM, a 60 minute program on the tryouts and selection team leading
up to the movie which premieres later this month.
13th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA is
counting down to this coming weekend, October 10-12 - on the Rappahannock
River off Carter's Creek and the Corrottoman River. This is a
full blown regatta, including welcoming Happy Hour with live music on
Friday, drop mark courses on Saturday, and a pursuit race (up the river
and back) on Sunday, pre-race breakfasting and post-race eating, drinking
and socializing, and, of course, grand awards. More than 106 boats
are already entered and more …
The 13th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA is
counting down to October 10-12 - on the Rappahannock River off Carter's Creek
and the Corrottoman River. This is a full blown regatta,
including welcoming Happy Hour with live music on Friday, drop
mark courses on Saturday, and a pursuit race (up the river and back) on
Sunday, pre-race breakfasting and post-race eating, drinking and
socializing, and, of course, grand awards. Last year, Turkey Shoot
was awarded "Best of the Bay" by Chesapeake Bay Magazine.
More than 100 boats are expected to join in the fun and race for a good
cause. Winner of the Lightning Division (PHRF racing), will be invited to
compete in the National Hospice Regatta …
Today is the First Day of Fall. Fall means
you should locate your socks..., but do not put them on
yet!
To Fiddler's Green -
Dale Moser, a mainstay around southern Bay racing and
especially on the Rappahannock River scene, passed last Tuesday, after
battling an illness. He is gone way too
soon. Those who knew Dale will miss him terribly; those
who had not known him, have missed a truly gentle man. "And in the night
of death, hope sees a star, and listening love hears the rustle of a
wing."
Southern Bay racers made good use of the last day of summer
yesterday as the PHRF A and PHRF B fleets sailed …
If you click on any of the links along the top of the Page, like Club, Sailing, Fleets, you will now see that navigation to pages within those sections are found by taking a look at the list on the left side of each of those pages.
On the Sailing Page, the links on the left currently look like the image to the left. If you click on a different section, like Club, then the sections under Sailing will disappear, and a set of links to pages under Club will open up.
And I will be adding more links - like Members - to the left sidebar. My biggest problem is trying to decide if better names for the links Sailing, Fleets …
The glitch is fixed, at least for now. Thanks to David Hinckle, the Java Score Files for the Distance Series have been rebuilt and the results have been posted on this site. See the link, above, under "Most Recent Results".
Due to a problem within Java Score involving the old version versus the new version, the Offshore Distance Series files are being rebuilt from existing race data by Cathy Clark and David Hinckle and will be posted in the very near future. Your patience and understanding are appreciated.
2008 LASER MASTERS ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIP
REGATTA , hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club weekend before
last, was shortened to a one day event because of Tropical Storm
Hanna. Twenty-eight (28) Laser racers competed. Here are the top 5
finishers in the 3 race series: 1. Had
Brick (GM), Island Heights YC; 2. Mike Miller, FBYC;
3. Mike Schmidt, Magothy River SA; 4. Chris
Legg, Severn SA; and, 5. James Jacob,
FBYC. Race Chairman - David Hazlehurst
Does this sound familiar? "Coming about...watch the
boom!" "Oh...THAT boom!" Rex Morgan, M.D., is
getting a practice session under his belt in preparation for crewing in the
HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA, October 10-12 …
Shown as the second article under 2008 at http://www.fbyc.net/Sailing/Publicity are the cover and two pages of September 2008 Sailing World mentioning Deltaville and FBYC.
Included are a touching letter from my law partner Doug Garrou who rode with me on LOON as Mark Boat and who has two autistic sons, one with Leukemia. No doubt, his letter, and perhaps our success with FS NACs kept Deltaville and FBYC fresh in the editors' minds.
Also included is the editor's monthly column which mentions Deltaville as being one of the "also ran" small towns with great sailing programs, as an outtake to a major article on America's great sailing towns.
A member has volunteered to assist me in improving the navigation and usefulness of the web site. In anticipation of making some changes to how it might look, I have moved some pages around, and hence you may run across links that do not work. At this moment, missing pages, the Classified, Weather, Links, might be found under Sailing or Web Tools.
If you want a peek at the navigation that we are proposing to the Board on Thursday, please take a look at the top and left side of
http://www.fbyc.net/kristen/Club. Notice how the links to Club and Fleet change as you click from one to the other. The idea is to show the users …
2008 LASER MASTERS
ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA , hosted by Fishing
Bay Yacht Club - shortened by Tropical Storm Hanna to one day of racing
(Sunday). As of publication, final results were not
available.
CCV FALL SERIES OPENS, Sunday, September
14, Races 1 & 2. First warning at 1030 / 10:30AM, in the Harbor.
OPEN TO ALL. Deadline for entries is 1300 / 1:00PM on Saturday, September
13. Those with CCV Racing Memberships are automatically entered
in this Series. All races in
this Series will be sailed in Hampton Roads Harbor. Starts for all PHRF
fleets as well as a non-sanctioned Cruising fleet (one headsail
only) September 21 - Race 3 (single
race …
Remember there is a new buoy off Stingray Point that gathers wind and weather data.
http://www.buoybay.org/site/public/explore/. Just run the mouse over the bouy and it will display current conditions, or click and it will get you more data than you really need.
Racing Saturday in the Laser Masters Atlantic Coast Championship has been postponed until Sunday, September 7.
The schedule on 9/7 will be:
Registration and Check in 7:30-8:30
Skipper's Meeting 8:45
First warning at 10
Additionally we are still planning on having dinner at the clubhouse starting around 6:30pm Saturday evening.The forecast for Hanna has been holding and still appears as if the storm should be out of the area in time to sail on Sunday. In the last 24 hours the forecast has called for a slightly weaker storm to hit the coast with the possibility that it may not reach hurricane strength before making landfall.
On behalf of Fishing Bay Yacht Club I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of the sailors planning on attending the Laser Masters Atlantic Coast Championship this weekend. We will be watching Tropical Storm Hanna very closely over the coming hours. The current forecast has the center of the storm going east of us and it appears to be clear enough for at least one full day of sailing on Sunday. With that in mind we are going to be optimistic that the weather will change for the better and give an even bigger window to sail in.Since this is a bit of a tough situation, we have set up an email distribution list for facilitating …
Both old and new tie designs are now available in the FBYC Store. These ties will be available at the Awards Banquet at the Virginia Museum on November 7 at the Virginia Museum. They feature the club colors of red or blue in a "rep" stripe design with one embroidered burgee between the stripes at the wide part of the tie, as pictured here. Also available is the traditional FBYC tie with multiple burgees on a navy blue background. The latter design is also now available in a limited number of bow ties. The price is $35 per tie, both long and bow ties.
I am pleased to report that I have completed some changes to the FBYC Site Navigation.
If you click on any of the links along the top of the Page, like Club, Sailing, Fleets, you will now see that navigation to pages within those sections are found by taking a look at the list on the left side of each of those pages.
