In investigating the Spam problem with our Email Server, we have run across one specific fixable issue as follows:
About 150 people who have registered to use the web site have set up an email forward account with a fbyc.net email address as part of getting a user account. For them, mail which is sent to their email @fbyc.net is forwarded to their real email address. The forwarded email includes both real email and spam although most of it is probably spam. Comcast, Gmail and other services receiving this forwarded email from fbyc.net see such a high percentage of spam that they treat all email from fbyc.net as junk. This includes email from our mailing lists …
On Saturday and Sunday, August 9-10, 2008, FBYC will hold its 69th Annual One Design Regatta. Traditionally, this is a great event with upwards of 70 boats. In addition to our fine One Design Fleets, we generally have many perennial visitors sailing Lasers, Front Runners, Flying Scots, Hamptons, Albacores, 420s and Mobjacks. Depending on conflicting Junior events elsewhere, we usually have a Junior turnout in Optis, Laser Radials and 420s. There will be a separate Green Fleet for Optis.
Attached is the event logo design for event apparel available on line and on site, including white short sleeve cotton tee shirts, short sleeve micro fiber shirts, and long sleeve micro fiber shirts. Please order early on line to facilitate inventory …
The summer is flying by . . . junior week is now a distant memory . . . but those club boats are so inviting! Your opportunities to take advantage of coaching at the club are not gone!
Our next class is Beginning Optis (parents, you can do it too!), from July 28-31. For $150 (members), you can have 6 hours of instruction for 4 days with our own Hart Moore, and then be really ready to use those boats. What a bargain!
Intermediates (or beginning Lasers) have one more group option this summer, from August 12-15. Get a couple of your friends to take the class with you, and then practice for the fall regattas!
The July/August issue of R-Home magazine features FBYC and Stove Point. The article entitled "Sail Away - A tiny peninsula in the Bay with a sailing tradition offers a slice of Americana and innocence" by managing editor Carrie Nieman Culpepper offers eight pages of text and 20 photographs. Included are racing photographs taken during one of our O-D Spring Series events as well as pictures of club grounds, the clubhouse interior, and cottages owned by FBYC club members. Run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore to get a copy...it is well worth the price of purchase.
VOODOO 2, INEVITABLE, BOOMERANG,
BATTLEWAGON, and LAST BOAT III won the racing
fleets at the 2008 Southern Chesapeake Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta
hosted this past weekend at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. A
total of 35 PHRF and one-design racers took to the course to support the
Leukemia Cup, a two day event. Racing Fleet Results:
PHRF A (6 boats): 1.VooDoo 2, Leroi Lissenden;
2.Midnight Rider, John Haracivet; 3.Double
Eagle, Sam Mitchener. J/105 (6 boats):
1.Inevitable, Mike Karn; 2.Loose Cannon,
Strother Scott; 3.Blade Runner, Brad
Davis. PHRF B/C (9 boats): 1.Boomerang,
Jerry Latell; 2.La Maga, Allan
Heyward; 3.Shenanigan, Miles Booth.
PHRF …
Four Tips from
BoatU.S. to Prevent Hurricane Damage
HURRICANE ALLEY, VA, July 8, 2008 -- With the first storm of the year,
Hurricane Bertha, lurking offshore, Boat Owners Association of The United States
(BoatU.S.), with 40 years of experience gained from post-storm recovery efforts
and thousands of hurricane-related insurance claims files, has four tips that
can help your boat make it through this storm season.
· Make your hurricane plan now, before hurricane warnings are
posted. Year after year, some boaters are
lulled into believing a storm won't come their way and fail to make a serious
effort until a hurricane is forecast. However, by then there may be no one
available to haul their boat ashore and stores …
Note: FBYC Members Marie Crump, and Strother and Evie Scott and twins Strother, Jr. and Lina sailed with FBYC Members Rives, Walker and Allen Potts in the Anniversary Regatta. Rives is holding the trophy, Allen is kneeling and Walker is furthest to the right. Marie, Lina and Strother are the three backs on the starboard side in the picture under Read More.
Strother, Jr. and Marie also sailed with the three Potts on Carina in the 2008 Newport - Bermuda Race where there finished 3rd in Class.
Carina, a McCurdy & Rhodes 48 with a winning history going
back to 1969, was the overall winner of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
Anniversary Regatta sailed Friday in Bermuda. As the top …
Fishing Bay Yacht Club has been selected to host the 2008 Laser Masters Atlantic Coast Championship on September 6-7 in Deltaville, Virgina. The ACC's will be held in place of FBYC's Annual Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship and will follow the same format and setup.
FBYC has hosted an annual Laser Masters event since 1981 which was first won by Brent Halsey. This will be the 4th major Laser Masters event held at Fishing Bay Yacht Club in the last dozen years. FBYC has previously hosted the ACC's (1997, 1999, 2003) and the U.S. Master's Championship (2000).
The event website will be updated in mid-July with the NOR.
In order to allow hard-working racers to participate in the fun-filled (and food-filled) social on July 4, the time has shifted from a late lunch of 2-4 to a later lunch (or early dinner) of 3-6. Mark your calendars and sign up to join us! (www.fbyc.net)
Drinks, burgers, and hotdogs provided. Each participant is asked to bring along a side dish to share.
The Parent's Race is coming up on Tuesday, June 17. 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 FBYC Store will offer the pictured Tervis Tumblers containing the FBYC Burgee in 12 oz (short) and 16 oz (tall) sizes at the Rosegill Event and thereafter. They each come in sets of sets of 4. They are priced at $58 for the set of 4 tall tumblers and $48 for the 4 short tumblers. Get them while they last! Or to order, email or call Noel Clinard at his office address or number.
Coach Mike Karn poses with his Saints sailing team at Christ Church School on May 10 after competing in the Leukemia Cup Junior Challenge. Although his team did not win the regatta, the Saints team was the second highest fundraising school with $3,110. All of the participating eight high school teams raised over $10,800, a new record for this event according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Other teams included Christ Church School, Norfolk Collegiate, Poquoson High, Maury High, Walsingham Academy, Hampton Roads Academy, and Smithfield High. Norfolk Collegiate was the winner on the course in a tie-breaker with Christ Church. Mike is to be congratualated for his dedication to youth sailing and his support of the Leukemia …
The 10th season of Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup activities begins this month in Deltaville. New this year, the One Design Challenge on Saturday, May 31, was created to give one design sailors an opportunity to support the overall event with their own races and fund raising. This was discussed briefly at the skippers' meeting on the first day of the One Design Spring Series. Separate daily place awards, apart from Spring Series dailies, will be given to the winning Challenge entries of each sailboat class, as a function of the number of entries as usual. Races will be run simultaneously with the FBYC Spring Series, but separate results will be recorded for entering Challenge boats.
A special thanks to all members that have assisted and made recommendations regarding our powerboat fleet. Continuous improvements have been planned and hopefully will be completed.
Again, thanks to all.
In accordance with the pricing policy, the Early Registration Pricing for the above three events has been removed. From now on, the pricing has increased $50 to $75 per event, and shown on the On-Line Entry Forms and on
http://www.fbyc.net/Juniors/2008/RegistrationTable
From now on, registration is available on a space available basis, and finally, all registration will be closed on May 15.
Many thanks to those who have signed up by the deadline. It certainly eases the planning for these events. As on today, we have 100 children signed up for Junior Week - a record number for this early in the spring.
Travis Weisleder won the Melges 24 Class at Charleston Race Week in Car Loan - and Car Loan was selected as Boat of the Week!
Quoting from the Press Release --
Travis Wiesleder and his all-pro crew on Carloan.com won the coveted Charleston Race Week Cup Perpetual Trophy for winning the most competitive One-Design class this year, an easy choice for the 27-boat Melges 24 division. Carloan.com started off this morning in a tie with Kristen Lane's Out House, from Marin, California. We needed one good start today, and we got it, said Carloan tactician and top OD sailor Scott Nixon. This talent-laden class is always competitive, and at a big event like Charleston, it's doubly so. Even …
FBYC IS ONCE AGAIN HOLDING AN OLD FASHION FLEA MARKET FOR MEMBERS TO SELL, BARTER OR TRADE THEIR BOATING STUFF. BOATING STUFF MAY BE ANY USED OR NEARLY NEW EQUIPMENT, MARINE SUPPLIES, ONE-DESIGN BOATS, OPTIS OR DINGHIES.
The 10th season of Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup activities begins next month in Deltaville. The fun starts with the Kayak Tour to be held again this year at the Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park from 9AM to Noon on Saturday, May 10. The launch site at idyllic Holly Park provides the perfect protected venue on Jackson Creek for this event while allowing convenient access to the big waters of Chesapeake Bay if conditions allow. This tour has become increasingly popular over the past years, and co-sponsor, Bay Trails Outfitters, will provide kayaks for newcomers and those without kayaks if you register early. Otherwise, bring your own kayak and gear.
Equally a fundraising event, kayakers are encouraged to …
On Saturday and Sunday, August 9-10, 2008, FBYC will hold its 69th Annual One Design Regatta. Traditionally, this is a great event with upwards of 70 boats. In addition to our fine One Design Fleets, we generally have many perennial visitors sailing Lasers, Front Runners, Flying Scots, Hamptons, Albacores, 420s and Mobjacks. Depending on conflicting Junior events elsewhere, we usually have a Junior turnout in Optis, Laser Radials and 420s. There will be a separate Green Fleet for Optis.
The FBYC Store will offer the pictured Tervis Tumblers containing the FBYC Burgee in 12 oz (short) and 16 oz (tall) sizes at the Rosegill Event and thereafter. They each come in sets of sets of 4. They are priced at $58 for the set of 4 tall tumblers and $48 for the 4 short tumblers. Get them while they last! Or to order, email or call Noel Clinard at his office address or number.
Coach Mike Karn poses with his Saints sailing team at Christ Church School on May 10 after competing in the Leukemia Cup Junior Challenge. Although his team did not win the regatta, the Saints team was the second highest fundraising school with $3,110. All of the participating eight high school teams raised over $10,800, a new record for this event according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Other teams included Christ Church School, Norfolk Collegiate, Poquoson High, Maury High, Walsingham Academy, Hampton Roads Academy, and Smithfield High. Norfolk Collegiate was the winner on the course in a tie-breaker with Christ Church. Mike is to be congratualated for his dedication to youth sailing and his support of the Leukemia …
Travis Weisleder won the Melges 24 Class at Charleston Race Week in Car Loan - and Car Loan was selected as Boat of the Week!
The 10th season of Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup activities begins next month in Deltaville. The fun starts with the Kayak Tour to be held again this year at the Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park from 9AM to Noon on Saturday, May 10. The launch site at idyllic Holly Park provides the perfect protected venue on Jackson Creek for this event while allowing convenient access to the big waters of Chesapeake Bay if conditions allow. This tour has become increasingly popular over the past years, and co-sponsor, Bay Trails Outfitters, will provide kayaks for newcomers and those without kayaks if you register early. Otherwise, bring your own kayak and gear.