Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters
Championship Won by JamesJacob for 6th
Time. Jacob won the 2007 title in his home waters; he sails
out of Fishing Bay Yacht Club and FBYC hosted the event. Three other
southern Bay sailors finished in the top 10 of the 33 competitors - Henry Amthor
(HYC, 5th), Alain Vincey (FBYC, 6th), and Mike Toms (FBYC, 9th). Laser
racers traveled from parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and
Maryland to race in the event.
GABRIELLE WHO?? What a nice Monday morning!
CCV FALL SERIES begins this coming Sunday. Two
races in the Hampton Roads harbor area. The 2007 CCV Fall Series
schedule is: Races I & 2, September 16 …
STINGRAY POINT REGATTA: Christian Schaumloffel, Mirage, Hobie 33, won the
PHRF A fleet in Fishing Bay and took home the Halsey Memorial Trophy as
well. The 13th Annual Stingray Point Regatta offered up 5 races over
Saturday and Sunday in great racing conditions. In the
recent past the regatta has endured impending or passing hurricanes and
other dire weather conditions, but not this year! There was food and
refreshments, there was live music, there was competitive racing, and there were
awards. It really don't get no better. RESULTS: PHRF A (5
boats): 1.Mirage, Christian Schaumloffel;
2.Cash Flow, Lloyd Griffin; 3.Feather,
Phil Briggs. PHRF B (9 boats): 1.Radio
Flyer …
38 skippers and crews enjoyed two glorious days of racing at the 13th Annual Stingray Point Regatta. Great winds and moderate temperatures combined with an excellent racecourse left little for competitors to ask for. One skipper commented, If you dont like this, you probably dont like ice cream either!
Christian Schaumloffel and the crew of Mirage took top honors winning the Brent Halsey Jr. Memorial Trophy.
The Hampton team of Mirage (PHRF A), PF Flyer (PHRF B) and Blue Bus (PHRF C) took home the Potts Trophy. Congratulation guys!
Of course it would not be the Stingray Point Regatta without a great party! Good food, a terrific band and lots of Mount Gay rum had folks dancing until …
FBYC Juniors slipped in one last travel event before the end of the summer attending Severn Sailing Association's End of Summer Optimist Regatta this past weekend. Thirty-three Optimist sailors attended the two-day regatta held on Saturday and Sunday, August 22nd/23rd. On Saturday, the east to southeast breeze filled in nicely and the sailors had to slog it out through five races in choppy seas near the mouth of the Severn River.
On Sunday, the wind dropped to almost nil but eventually filled in very light and shifty from the northwest enough to sneak in three more races before the breeze went again went dead. In spite of the difficult conditions, FBYC sailors captured six of the ten top …
We congratulae former FBYC member and Stove Point resident on the following:
August 30, 2007 - Nantucket, MA - Great Harbor Yacht Club proudly announces the appointment of its first Commodore, Norwood H. Davis, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia and Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Davis, a founding member of the Great Harbor Yacht Club (GHYC) in 2003, has been instrumental in establishing GHYC as a competitive sailing club. He created the celebrity Pro-Am Regatta during Nantucket Race Week and chaired the event for 3 years. He also enlisted Gary Jobson, the pre-eminent ambassador for sailing in the U.S., as GHYC Executive Director of Sailing and Honorary Chairman of Nantucket Race Week.
GHYC is destined to be one of the premier yacht clubs in the …
The Rendezvous of the John Smith Shallops held this past weekend at the
Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville exceeded the expectations of event
participants and organizers. A
steady stream of enthusiastic visitors over the two-day event yielded attendance
estimates of between 2,500 and 3,000 people.
The celebration, co-hosted by the
Deltaville Community Association and FBYC, heralded the arrival in Deltaville of
the John Smith/Sultana Project shallop that has been retracing Captain John
Smiths 1608 voyage of discovery around Chesapeake
Bay. Smith visited the
Piankatank River on his historic 1,700-mile expedition to search
for the mythical Northwest Passage to the Pacific, establish trading
relationships with the native peoples for the fledgling …
On Saturday, August 25, Noel Clinard seized a last minute opportunity to take the day off from the FBYC Store during the Shallop Rendezvous at FBYC to sail with Mike Massie on his Rhodes 19 "Toni Too" (seen at left in a race earlier this summer) in the last race of the August Series at Nantucket Yacht Club. Mike and Noel were joined by Blake Kimbrough who happened to be coming to Nantucket for an IOD (International One Design) race on Sunday.
As preparation for the race, Mike and Noel swam to the mooring in the cold Nantucket waters. Mike, ever the preparer, had Noel scrub the bottom with an abrasive pad while Mike pumped the bilge and gave encouragement …
ANNA is GOLDEN! Anna Tunnicliffe
(former southern Bay 3-time All American collegian at Old Dominion University -
class of 2005) won a gold medal in the Laser Radial class at The Good
Luck Beijing - 2007 Qingdao International Regatta in
China. Anna is drawing a bead on the trials for the 2008
Olympics, hoping to return to China for the "big dance".
* STINGRAY POINT
REGATTA: Fishing Bay / mouth of the Piankatank in the
Chesapeake Bay. Hosted by Fishing Bay YC. Racing on Saturday and Sunday
with Monday intentionally left open for deliveries home or casual
sailing. Fishing Bay Yacht Club has been hosting this event for many …
Today is the last day. Going into the last day - today, the FBYC junior Laser coach, LUIS HORACIO CANUTO aka Dingo, is in a strong 15th place of 100 boats in the Sunfish Worlds at Brant Beach YC on the Jersey shore. Dingo has never sailed a Sunfish---he is ahead of laser and sunfish legend Dick Tillman and multiple Sunfish world champ Donny Martinborough.
Noel has been on a well earned family vacation on the south west coast of Jamaica this week. His trip home was delayed as it coincided with the planned arrival of Hurricane Dean. His location is marked with a white dot. The Red areas sustained hurricane force winds, whereas the orange experienced tropical force winds.
His Blackberry worked throughout and reported the following excerpts...
"We are moving to the most solid manor house with 20 others, on a limestone bluff 100 feet above the sea. If the storm passes north of the island the mountains should protect us. If south and we get the leading edge, it could be hairy. We are postponed to a Wednesday departure and if the …
Unofficial word around the docks is that, if
possible, the Stringray Point Regatta will consist of
3 races on Saturday and 2 on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend. More racing = more
fun!
Mark Arnold Captures His 10th Mobjack National
Championship: The 2007 Mobjack Nationals were hosted by
Fishing Bay Yacht Club in conjunction with the FBYC 68th Annual
Regatta. Mark's championship string was 1-2-1-1-1-[3]- 1.
Len Guenther finished 2nd and Meg Roberts
3rd.
Special Notice: THIS IS HUSH-HUSH!
This Wednesday, Aug 22, about 7:30pm, there will be a special celebration
of Bumps Eberwine's 82nd birthday. Racers and
friends are invited for beer and birthday cake on the Hampton YC flag …
This week's Southside Sentinel includes a Special Supplement - entitled Shallop Rendezvous - August 25-26 - Deltaville, Va. a free historic experience at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.
The 68th Annual One Design Regatta and 48th Mobjack Nationals turned out to be a great regatta.
Early registrations were very light, about half of what the previous year was, but the 100 degree temperatures broke just in time and the weekend was fantastic. We had 65% of our registrations on Saturday morning. Thanks go to our busy registration volunteers Lori Moyer and SB Londrey.
The two days of racing for the 85 boats started with good brisk winds on Saturday providing some hard racing. On Sunday we had more August-like conditions with a drifter for the first race and a filling seabreeze for the afternoon. John Smith and his Shallop crew could have beat all of us in Sunday …
Chief Anne Richardson of the Rappahannock Indian Tribe will make welcoming remarks during the historical presentations portion of the Rendezvous of the John Smith Shallops program at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville on Sunday, August 26. The presentations will highlight a two-day public event August 25-26 celebrating the arrival of Captain John Smiths shallop in the Deltaville area nearly 400 years ago.
During the celebration, there will be on-the-water and interactive displays coinciding with the arrival of a replica of Smiths shallop currently retracing the route of the voyage of discovery around Chesapeake Bay by the early Jamestown settlers. At the Fishing Bay Yacht Club, the voyaging replica constructed by the John Smith Four Hundred/Sultana …
The Hyannis Yacht Club's 65th Annual Regatta for One-Design Classes and PHRF classes was held in the waters of Nantucket Sound and Lewis Bay from July 27-29, 2007. This was the premier regatta on Cape Cod drawing boats from as far west as Chicago, as far east as Annapolis, and as far north as Canada. Two of our Junior sailors, Kyle Swenson and Cori Radtke competed in the event under the tutelage of their coach, Luis Dingo Canuto. Kyle finished a most respectable 19th place out of 51 Laser Radial sailors. Cori was only able to compete during the first day of competition as she had to leave early for the Leiter Cup competition in Marblehead.
Kyles father …
FBYC Junior Women's Sailor Cori Radtke has just wrapped up yet another sailing trek to the North East this summer by competing in the Leiter Cup Championship in Marblehead, MA from July 29 August 3. This regatta was the Junior Girls National single-handed (Laser) championship with 51 top-notch female North American sailors competing for the coveted Leiter Cup. The girls all had a wonderful week in Marblehead where they were hosted by local families. After two days of practice and training from expert college coaches, the girls competed in three full days of racing. Cori finished in 29th place, a most admirable performance to cap her summer travel sailing season! More can be found about the event at
US …
Hampton One Design (dinghy) Nationals (Aug
17-19): Hosted at Hampton YC, for info contact Mark Wheeler
at (757) 460-5844.
FBYC Smith Point Race (Aug 18) - Hosted by
Fishing Bay YC - contact Brad Squires at (757) 229-3960
CCV FOUNDERS RACE: They squeezed every bit of
light breeze out of the day and all four fleets got in a race off
Ocean View. This is one of two CCV mid-summer races, the other is the Not
Smith Point Race. Thirty boats, skippers, and crew tested their light air
sailing and post-race hotdogs and beverage socializing skills.
RESULTS: PHRF A: 1. Sledd Shelhorse, Meridian
2; 2.Lloyd Griffin, Cash Flow; 3.Dave …
It's Official - The 2007 Optimist New England Championship is underway with the largest single class one design regatta in United States History! 462 boats!
FBYC is represented as our team is among the many boats. Some Parents are reported planning lunch at Harbour Court, the New York Yacht Club's home base in Newport.
USODA New England Championship 8/7/2007
First Name Last Name Sail Number Class 1) Ty Ingram 7188 Opti Blue
2) Curtis Adam 73032 Opti Blue 3) Grace Adam 16234 Opti Blue 4)
Henry Anderson 10649 Opti Blue 5) Charlotte Antoni USA 14854 Opti Blue
6) CJ …
Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters
Championship Won by James Jacob for 6th
Time. Jacob won the 2007 title in his home waters; he sails
out of Fishing Bay Yacht Club and FBYC hosted the event. Three other
southern Bay sailors finished in the top 10 of the 33 competitors - Henry Amthor
(HYC, 5th), Alain Vincey (FBYC, 6th), and Mike Toms (FBYC, 9th). Laser
racers traveled from parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and
Maryland to race in the event.
FBYC Juniors slipped in one last travel event before the end of the summer attending Severn Sailing Association's End of Summer Optimist Regatta this past weekend. Thirty-three Optimist sailors attended the two-day regatta held on Saturday and Sunday, August 22nd/23rd. On Saturday, the east to southeast breeze filled in nicely and the sailors had to slog it out through five races in choppy seas near the mouth of the Severn River.
The Rendezvous of the John Smith Shallops held this past weekend at the
Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville exceeded the expectations of event
participants and organizers. A
steady stream of enthusiastic visitors over the two-day event yielded attendance
estimates of between 2,500 and 3,000 people. 
On Saturday, August 25, Noel Clinard seized a last minute opportunity to take the day off from the FBYC Store during the Shallop Rendezvous at FBYC to sail with Mike Massie on his Rhodes 19 "Toni Too" (seen at left in a race earlier this summer) in the last race of the August Series at Nantucket Yacht Club. Mike and Noel were joined by Blake Kimbrough who happened to be coming to Nantucket for an IOD (International One Design) race on Sunday.
Fantastic news out of Brant Beach Yacht Club today. They are hosting the
Noel has been on a well earned family vacation on the south west coast of Jamaica this week. His trip home was delayed as it coincided with the planned arrival of Hurricane Dean. His location is marked with a white dot. The Red areas sustained hurricane force winds, whereas the orange experienced tropical force winds.
This week's Southside Sentinel includes a Special Supplement - entitled Shallop Rendezvous - August 25-26 - Deltaville, Va. a free historic experience at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.
Chief Anne Richardson of the Rappahannock Indian Tribe will make welcoming remarks during the historical presentations portion of the Rendezvous of the John Smith Shallops program at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville on Sunday, August 26. The presentations will highlight a two-day public event August 25-26 celebrating the arrival of Captain John Smiths shallop in the Deltaville area nearly 400 years ago.
FBYC Junior Women's Sailor Cori Radtke has just wrapped up yet another sailing trek to the North East this summer by competing in the Leiter Cup Championship in Marblehead, MA from July 29 August 3. This regatta was the Junior Girls National single-handed (Laser) championship with 51 top-notch female North American sailors competing for the coveted Leiter Cup. The girls all had a wonderful week in Marblehead where they were hosted by local families. After two days of practice and training from expert college coaches, the girls competed in three full days of racing. Cori finished in 29th place, a most admirable performance to cap her summer travel sailing season! More can be found about the event at
5 races over two days - no races were held today - so the results from Wednesday are the
It's Official - The 2007 Optimist New England Championship is underway with the largest single class one design regatta in United States History! 462 boats!