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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 cover is shown at left.
Copies of the supplement can be downloaded from the Southside Sentinel websiteas a PDF here.
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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5 races over two days - no races were held today - so the results from Wednesday are the
Final Results and Event Pictures
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FBYC sailors did very well. Of the 458 boats, the largest one design regatta in US history, our Juniors placed overall as follows:
Madeline Alderman - 20
Ben Buhl - 38
Austin Powers - 112
Erin Jacob - 164
Grame Alderman - 172
Alex Jacob - 192
Eric Roos - 236
Conrad Roos - 244
Top 10 finishers included:
Madeline Alderman - 6th Girl
Erin Jacob - 6th in the White Fleet
Grame Alderman - 8th in the White Fleet
Eric Roos - 12th in the White Fleet
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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.
Full Entry List shown below.
Event Website at http://208.106.141.167/npt/m/_general/07optinehome.asp
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On Saturday, Jon noticed that some sailors forgot their clew tie-downs which holds the clew of the sail to the end of the boom. Without a clew tie-down, the sail is less efficient and the boat goes slower …
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Many of you are familiar with the intersection in the West End of Richmond where Grove Avenue dead ends into Three Chopt Road. A right turn will take you toward Village Shopping Center, and a left turn will head to CCV or across the Huguenot Bridge.
Eugene Sydnor, a member of FBYC for about 50 years, lived at the intersection of Three Chopt Road and St. Andrews Lane for many years until his death several years ago, when the house was sold. His back yard is fenced in and it extends to behind the intersection, and you will notice a newly installed section of wooded fence in the middle of this picture.
Last weekend, in a the late evening, a …
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The Maryland Dove, a floating exhibit of Historic St. Marys City, Maryland, will pay a visit to Deltaville during the John Smith Shallop Rendezvous scheduled for the weekend of August 25 & 26. The replica of a 50-ton 16th century British merchant ship will moor alongside the pier at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club to conduct free tours from 10 AM to 4 PM during both days of Rendezvous activities taking place on club grounds that weekend.
Named after the pinnace Dove that served colonists in Marylands first capitol in 1634, the 76-feet LOA Maryland Dove is a 3-masted bark spreading 1,965 square feet of sail area. An active sail-training program is part of her mission. She …
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If patience is a virtue then the FBYC Optimist Team was put to the virtual acid test after waiting two days just to see a race through on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota last week. In spite of the weather, our stalwart sailors found lots of fun stuff to do from their lair on Bug Island including swimming, bailer fishing cards and best of all, the 2007 National Trash Boat Regatta.
We still dont know who won the trash boat regatta but on Wednesday the Lake Minnetonka Yacht Club R/C was able to punch out four races in one afternoon in light to moderate conditions. However, Wednesdays racing success was followed by yet another period of calm on Thursday …
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The Girls Optimist Nationals were sailed on Sunday with 90 participants who got in
4 races.
Madeline Alderman, Kendall Swenson and Erin Jacob participated (12th, 42nd, 48th). Conditions were fairly windy, very unsteady 8-12 knots, lulls below 7. Erin Jacob won 2nd in white fleet!
Congratulations!
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Michael and Cori found challenging conditions ranging from cold and wet with up to 25 knots on the first day to 2.5 knots on the second day.
We're all very proud of their fine efforts and look forward to seeing Cori and Kyle Swenson carry the FBYC burgee to the Hyannis Regatta this weekend.
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There are 8 FBYC sailors listed, with top 1/2 finishes by at least 4 of the sailors. Alex Jacob has an 8th overall, Ben Buhl is 65, Madelaine Alderman is 89, Austin Powers is 105, Conrad Roos is 147, and Madelaine Alderman is standing 12th out of 80 in the Girls Nationals.
The weather forcast for today shows continuing wind, so let's hope they can improve their postions before the awards ceremony this evening.
Good luck, guys and girls!
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Alex Jacob has just returned from the North American Optimist Championship held in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico between July 9th and the 14th. Alex competed with 191 sailors from 19 countries that qualified to sail in this event. The US team was comprised of 25 sailors selected at the US team trials held at Coral Reef Yacht Club in early May. Nuevo Vallarta is a new resort area of Puerto Vallarta featuring a large hotel and timeshare community.
The sailing conditions started daily with a light easterly coming off the land. As the noon temperatures passed 90 degrees the wind went dead …