# 372 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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Good News for J/22 racers  (and others, too):  PHRF of the Chesapeake has made an adjustment to their 2008 Safety Requirements. It appears to allow boats who meet everything but the lifeline requirement for Category 4P to sail in Cat 4P races provided everyone on the boat wears a PFD.  There are, of course, details and explanations.  So, read the info on the PHRF of the Chesapeake Bay website,  www.phrfchesbay.com , click on 2008 Special Regulations For Safety Requirements, and check out paragraph 4.2.  If you have questions and/or concerns contact your club PHRF delegate. 
 
IMPORTANT:   SPLITS  DECISION:  PHRF racers in the SOUTH DIVISION of Region 4 …

Commodore Bev Crump is Legal Elite - the best in the state

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Club News
Commodore Bev Crump was selected in the December 2007 Virginia Business magazine as the Legal Elite - the best in the state for Real Estate and Land Use - - http://www.virginiabusiness.com/edit/magazine/yr2007/dec07/legal_real2.shtml .

His comments in the full page color picture include:

Favorite Vacation Spot: Deltaville

Hobbies: Sailing, fishing, waterfowl hunting

What are the keys to being a successful real estate attorney? “In my case because my practice involves commercial real estate, the transactions are usually complex and present unique challenges. My approach is to focus on the client’s goals in crafting the structure and details of the transactions. Each real estate transaction usually involves interacting with multiple parties with differing interests, and I have …

Noel Clinard's daughter Elizabeth on the stage in Denver

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Club News
Noel Clinard's daughter Elizabeth is a dancer in "White Christmas" in Denver at the Denver Center or the Performing Arts. This link should open up Windows Movie Player and you can see the promo pictures for the event.
  • In the green and pink number, she both starts and ends up between the two guys;
  • In the train car scene in warm clothes, she is at far right holding some sort of white thing in a shadow;
  • In the tap number with Black dresses, she is second from left,
  • who knows in the white scene.
  • The blonde lead in the purple fan dance is the one she is understudies for.
Enjoy.

Or you can access the video by going to …

# 371 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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Caribbean 1500 Update:  Some are back home from Tortola, the destination of the 1500 fleet, and some, aka the smart ones,  are still "down there".  Of the 69 boat fleet, 39 approached the bluewater adventure from the racing angle.  Some of the southern Bay entries faired especially well in the 5 handicap fleets. Phil Gillihan, who resides on Willoughby Spit (Norfolk) and sails out of Smithfield, VA, brought his Corsair 3600 catamaran, Parallax, in first in Class 2.   Wesley Jones, from Gloucester, VA, (FBYC) took second in Class 4 with Valient, a Fast 40.   Gordon and Eta Johnson, of Hampton, VA, (OPYC) sailing out of Southall Landings, finished second in Class 5 in …

New Pool Steps woodwork finished

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Club News
New Pool Steps at FBYC 11-28-07 006.jpg And this is what they look like now that the Contractor has completed the construction work.


New Pool Steps at FBYC 11-28-07 005.jpg The railings will be the next stop.

Strother

FBYC Pool Steps and bulkhead

Dixon Cole on

New Building
Picture 044.jpg Here's a quick look at the new steps and bulkhead work. Taken Friday Nov. 23 2007.

File also attached under more if you want to look at it bigger.

Starting a New One-Design Class at American YC

David Hazlehurst on

One Design Racing
I thought this article on Scuttlebutt was interesting. Excerpts below:

After extensive on-the-water testing, in late 2006 American Yacht Club (Rye, NY) selected the RS K6 as a new one-design class for the Club. Over prior years American had witnessed a decline in one-design keelboat racing at the Club and elsewhere in Western Long Island Sound. While the reasons for this are many, the Club believed that a modern design together with a time efficient racing program could reverse the trend, and a committee was formed to develop criteria and evaluate different boats. These criteria included good performance and sailing attributes, reasonable purchase and ownership costs, and the ability to be raced with a wide variety of crews without requiring …

US SAILING's One-Design Sailing Symposium

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Flying Scots

2007ODAward-Regatta3.jpg U. S. Sailing's National One-Design Awards Press Release states in part:

National One-Design Awards Presented

In addition to seminars and workshops, US SAILING presented several awards to one-design sailors and organizations:

Fishing Bay Yacht Club (FBYC) in Deltaville, Va., received the national award for organizing the best One-Design Regatta, the Flying Scot 50th North American Championship. A record number of Flying Scots competed in three national competitions (the Women’s National Championship, the Junior National Championship and the North American Championship), making it a multi-fleet event. FBYC's careful planning led to an overwhelmingly successful regatta, which brought over 300 competitors. In preparation, the club built a concrete launch ramp, upgraded the club’s signal boat equipment, designed a …

# 370 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  AND, GOBBLE, GOBBLE!
Renaissance Racer -   Tom Roberts, CBYRA vice-president for Region 4 (the southern Bay), has seen and experienced racing from all the angles - both small boat and big boat.  Now Tom has teamed up with Blackwell Nottingham on a Hunter 37 cutter.  They delivered their new baby from Solomons Saturday a week ago in the teeth of a mini-gale and were delighted with her performance.  "We had everything up and she went just great," Tom said.  Tom and Blackwell expect to spend a lot of time on Adventure with families and friends.  They say the boat is going to be their "summer cottage".  But, don't be surprised …

A Daysail on the Godspeed

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Cruising News
IMG_0897a.jpg The FBYC Cruising Division adopted "Jamestown 400" as its sailing theme for 2007. Beginning with a sail to Onancock's John Smith Shallop exhibit, cruising to Jamestown itself, cheering on the Fishing bay Shallop regatta, and visiting the historic sights of Philadelphia and Baltimore formed the core of this program. As a finale to this theme, four division members were unexpectedly treated to a daysail aboard the Godspeed during Urbanna's 50th Oyster festival. For pictures of this, see our photos - on website for the Wilton Creek Cruise and PartyIMG_0887.jpg

FBYC Wins US Sailing One-Design Regatta Award For 2007

Noel Clinard on

Flying Scots
Regatta Award.jpg FBYC has been awarded the US Sailing One-Design Regatta Award for 2007 for hosting the 2007 Flying Scot North American Championship (“NAC”) during the 50th Anniversary of that sailboat class. This award, one of five prestigious awards given yearly by the US Sailing One Design Council, recognizes “excellence in development, promotion, and management by organizers and sponsors of the year’s outstanding regional regatta.” The award was presented on November 18 at the Council’s annual One-Design Sailing Symposium in Columbus, Ohio.

FBYC’s Vice and Rear Commodores Ric Bauer and Noel Clinard traveled to Columbus to receive the award. Noel was the event chair for the NAC and Ric was the on-shore/launch coordinator for that regatta. The President …

FBYC and NACs Win National Award!!!

Noel Clinard on

Flying Scots
NAC FBYC PROOF.jpg I am thrilled to report that Bill Ross just called me on behalf of the US Sailing One Design Committee to announce that FBYC has been awarded the U S Sailing National One Design Regatta Award for the year. This award will be presented on Saturday November 17, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio, at the One Design Symposium.

Ric Bauer and I are discussing the FBYC delegation to travel to Columbus to receive the award. Bill Ross, immediate past Commodore and Barbara Griffin, President, of FSSA, will be there.

Needless to say, we could not have done without you and without Barbara Griffin, as President of FSSA. Her unstinting support and meticulous nomination write-up carried the day!

This award is one …

# 368 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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lipscomb.jpgCaribbean 1500 hangs a right at Cape Henry.    At noon yesterday 69 boats headed for points south, specifically Tortola BVI.  The 18th annual Caribbean 1500 rally makes up in Hampton each October and has boats that come from all parts of the country.  Steve Black, head honcho of the Cruising Rally Association which administers the 1500 as well as the Atlantic Cup and the Bermuda Cup, makes his home in Hampton.
  
 
SLEEPYHEAD ALERT - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDED EARLY  YESTERDAY MORNING.   IF YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE IN THE OFFICE RIGHT NOW, THAT IS WHY!
 
Fluky-shifty winds in FROSTBITE #2 caused constant shuffling of positions within the fleets Sunday.  Boats dropped from first …

Four Lanes now open on both West Point Bridges

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Club News
I made a quick round trip to the river this morning and noticed that all lanes are now open on both bridges in West Point.

Hopefully, the Friday Night logjams as traffic enters West Point will be a thing of the past!!!

# 367 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS THIS COMING SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4th,  AT 2AM.  Set your clock for Eastern Standard Time - fall back one hour.  Racing Sleepyheads ... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz!
 
The Caribbean 1500 fleet, currently gathering in Hampton, will head for Tortola, BVI, Sunday, November 4.  The start of the race / cruise is planned for just east of Thimble Shoal Light around mid-morning / noon-ish on Sunday.  Check at  www.carib1500.com for specifics and definite times.  This looks to be a record setting number of boats - each one beautiful.  Most are berthed at Bluewater Yachting Center (Sunset Creek - Hampton River, Hampton) and at other facilities on Hampton River.
 
Get spooked!   Halloween is this coming Wednesday …

Two FBYC Sailors Qualify for International Teams

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Junior Activities
The United States Optimist Dinghy Association (USODA)has announced its roster of members for the 2008 South American and Holland Teams and each team includes an FBYC junior Optimist sailor! We're very proud that our optimist team sailors Alex Jacob and Kendall Swenson have qualified for these two teams respectively. They both qualified earlier this month by performing exceptionally well at the USODA Atlantic Coast Championship held at Norfolk Yacht and Country Club October 6th-8th. Six other FBYC Optimist team members also raced in the event and did very well with one other (Austin Powers) missing the qualifier for the Holland team by only 11 places. Next summer, our two qualifiers will attend these very prestigious International Optimist Dinghy …

Staggered Start this weekend

Strother Scott on

Offshore Racing
This is a heads up to what will be announced at the skipper's meeting at 0930 on Saturday morning. For the Closing Day Regatta we will have a Staggered Start Pursuit type race.

Some of us have learned the hard way, that one of the most important aspects of this race is to have a digital watch that is synchronized with the Race Committee's digital watch. If you refresh www.fbyc.net, you note the Race Committee time on the top left corner of the Home page. Knowing what time it is will be almost your only indicator as to the proper time to cross the starting line, as there are no sound or visual signals for your …

# 366 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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WAVELENGTH,  LA MAGA, and  CHECKO Top Fishing Bay YC Fall Series Fleets.  After racing Saturday, the FBYC Fall Series final standings over the 9 race series were tallied and bragging rights on the Rapp River are all set for the Winter.  RESULTS:  PHRF A (6 boats) - 1. Wavelength, Rob Whittet; 2.Blade Runner, Brad Davis; 3.Double Eagle, Sam Mitchner.  PHRF B/C (7 boats) - 1.La Maga, Allan Heyward; 2.Elancer, David Hinckle; 3.Schiehallion, Brad Miller.  PHRF Non-Spin (5 boats) - 1.Checko, Steve Smith; 2.Mr Williams, William Crudts; 3.Last Boat III, Frank Murphy.
 
 
OLD SCHOOL  and  SALUTE  Win 2007 Rappahannock Cup.  Jerry Latell, coming off a huge win …

# 365 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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Virgina Beats The Pride!  Schooner VIRGINIA Flies Down the Bay in GCBSR!  The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race started for Virginia at 1340 on Thursday and Virginia was home in Hampton Roads at 12:58:52, Friday morning!  Along the way, she set a record for fastest time down the Bay (11 hours 18 minutes 53 seconds), took line honors at the Thimble Shoal finish line, and, to the pleasure of southern Bay sailors and citizens, she beat The Pride of Baltimore.   Always a gentleman in this grand competition, Jan Miles, skipper of The Pride, was the first to congratulate Virginia's skipper, Nicholas Alley, and crew, on their win.  Miles radioed  Virginia  from up the …

# 364 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

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"In 1492  Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue."  We celebrate his discovery of our part of the world today, having adjusted the date to suit the Federal holiday calendar.  Take a sail to honor Chris! 
 
130 BOATS SHOOT THE BIRD!    The 2007 HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA  topped records for number of boats (130) and  amount of funds raised (more than $40,000).  130 boats (11 fleets) raced for two days on the Rappahannock River - drop mark courses on Saturday and a pursuit race on Sunday.  The event began Friday night with the welcoming reception, competitors' briefing and food and drink, including rock fish cooked on the Yankee Point Marina decks.  More than 450 …
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