42nd ANNUAL VIRGINIA
GOVERNOR'S CUP: Lars Rathjen
and crew Jude Brownwon the Albacore class of 14 boats and
the 2006 Governor's Cup. The Albacores were the largest class
(14) in the 60 boat fleet. Rathjen/Brown won by 3 points with finishes
of 2-3-1-2-3-2. Hampton One Designs were the second largest
class with 11. The father-son team of Randy (the dad) and Sam
(the kid) Stokes won the HOD class with finishes of
1-1-1-1-5-2. CLASS WINNERS: Albacore - Lars
Rathjen; Hampton One Design - Randy
Stokes; Moth - Mark Saunders;
Laser - Jon Deutsch; 5o5 - Ryon
White; Buccaneer - Sue
Mentzer; Mobjack - Len
Gunther; Mutineer - Scott
Bush; Junior Laser …
Thirty-three sailors from 3 lower Chesapeake Bay Sailing Clubs braved the 100-plus heat index at the Fishing Bay August Junior Regatta on Thursday August 3, 2006.
Thanks to an able crew of volunteers, Fishing Bay was able to host a very successful regatta, despite the heat and fickle breeze. Winds ranged from 0-5 knots and came from most every point on the compass during some part of the race day, putting a premium on solid race committee and mark boat work. Brooks Zerkel and his crew on the Optimist course were able to get in four races, even with multiple general recalls. With smaller fleets and an older group of sailors, 6 races were run for each fleet on the …
The 2006 Cruise Regatta tied our previous record for participation with 13 boats registered, 10 competing, and 9 completing the staggered start race. The 14 mile course was shortened to 8 miles during the race because of developing light air. Results were:
1. Snack Bar Dixon 2:46:59
2. Calypso Waters 2:50:59
3. Pelican Cay Strickland 2:58:03
4. Battlewagon Cross 3:02:09
5. Schiehallion Miller 3:06:22
6. Trilogy Rennie 3:07:17
7. Soulemate Soule 3:26:28
8. Dandelion Anderson 3:32:41
9. Celebration Nelson 3:46:41
10.Pleione Wirt DNF
11.Plainsong Bayless DNC
12.Blew by You Hubbard DNC
13.Reveille Burke DNC
50 hungry, thirsty competitors …
This last week has seen the FBYC Junior Racing Team and their coaches boxing the compass at multiple events around the country and across the ocean. Four of our Optimist sailors plus one guest from England attended the USODA National Championship Regatta in Sarasota Florida. Traveling Girls on the Team also raced in the Girls Championship held on the first day of the event. The Team battled moderate to light winds, delays and crowded started lines of 90 plus boats to pit their skills against an overall fleet of 280 boats drawn from around the the US and from numerous other countries. While three of our team members posted top-half finishes after seven races, Alex Jacob took team honors with …
DOUBLE-BARREL WEEKEND REGATTAS FOR
ONE-DESIGNERS: Spend some quality time at two special events
!
42nd ANNUAL VIRGINIA GOVERNOR'S CUP ONE DESIGN
REGATTA: Saturday - Sunday, August 5-6, at Ware River Yacht Club
(Gloucester, VA). Expect Albacore, Hampton One Design, Mobjack,
Laser and other classes that apply with a minimum of 5 boats. Usually
junior classes for Laser and 420 make at this traditionally great regatta.
Regatta Chairman is Clayton James (757) 952-1815. For registration
and/or general information contact Rick Klein at (804) 693-5629.
And, after you do the Gov's Cup regatta, get the
boat on the trailer, hitch up, and run just up the road a piece to
the....
HUZZAH! Bang the drum! A special salute to
all the southern Bay racers who met the Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge last week
in Solomons, Maryland. They sailed into the waters "on the Far Side",
raced their brains out, and several returned with heavy silverware.
Good on ya'll. The Southern
Bay Brigade consisted of 25 boats racing in the 145 boat Screwpile
fleets in the 3 day, 6 race regatta. Here's a summary of how each boat did
in her fleet: Meridian (Sledd Shelhorse), 2nd;
Kahuna (Sanford Richardson), 3rd; Wairere (Peter
Hunter), 8th; Cash Flow (Lloyd Griffin, Jr), 2nd;
Liberty (Pete Morrison), 8th; Double Eagle (Sam
Mitchener), 9th; Radio …
FBYC Juniors hauled home another load of silver yesterday as they wrapped up US Sailing's 2006 Junior Olympics Regatta hosted by Gibson Island Yacht Squadron, Gibson Island, MD. Sixty-nine Optimists (Red, Blue, White and Green Classes), 13 Laser Radials and at least as many 420s turned out in the hot, light air conditions to attend this two-day, 2X CBYRA High Points event.Madeleine Alderman took top honors with her 1st place finish overall out of 54 boats in the Championship Optimist class as well as in her Red Fleet class. She also took home the woman's trophy for the second time in a row. Alex Jacob did not disappoint with his usual top-end performance by skewering a 4th …
Come join Calypso and her crew on a week-long cruise somewhere between FBYC and St. Mary's City. We leave the morning after the Cruise Regatta and will return to the docks on Sunday, August 6.
Anyone interested in cruising, anyone interested in cruising . . . Calypso, Calypso. Switch and answer channel 71.
The latest cruise in a jam-packed club cruising schedule begins on July 30, the morning after the Cruise Regatta. Well gather for coffee and chitchat at Fannies House at around 9:00 am and look at the wind, weather, and whim to decide on our first destination in a week-long look at Calypsos brand of the cruising life. General plans have us reaching St. Marys …
"Run to your homes Virginia girls, fix your hair with
pins..." The southern Bay boats are coming home, and they are flying proud
colors.
25 southern Bay boats traveled to Screwpile this year to
compete in 6 races over 3 days. 145 boats entered the event, which has
become a mid-summer favorite of PHRF and one-design racers on the
Chesapeake.
Preliminary results indicate the Southern Bay
Brigade packed and wrapped Screwpile 2006. No fewer than 7
southern Bay boats finished in the top three in their fleets with 3
winning their fleets outright.
Bringing home fleet champion titles
are: PHRF 4 - Bumps and David Eberwine,
Sea Star (1-1-1-2-3-2); J/30 One …
Flying Scots Get Slammed at Marblehead 2006 North
American Championships: Late Tuesday afternoon of what was
to be a week long regatta, Mother Nature threw a major hissy-fit, in
the form of a micro-burst tornado, at host Corinthian Yacht Club and Marblehead
(Massachusetts) Harbor. Boats were flipped, rigs mangled, and docks
tortured. As far as the Rappahannock River area contingent, damages ran
the gambit from "not too bad" to "a total mess". Luckily
the communication from the shore support people to the RC folks on the water was
excellent and when the damaging cell (a micro-burst tornado) popped up on
the weather radar, the racers were sent / towed in. All the boats were …
SCREWPILE BEGINS THIS COMING WEEKEND! As of last
night 138 boats are registered and race ready! Check-in
is Saturday, July 15; RACING Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - July 16, 17,
18. At this point the Southern Bay Brigade includes 24
boats; they are: from Hampton Yacht Club (11) -
Midnight Mistress (Jake and Pat Brodersen);
Impulse (Tom Peddy); Kahuna (Sanford
Richardson); Sea Star (Bumps and Dave
Eberwine); Namesake (Craig Olsen);
Cyrano (Bob Mosby); Feather (Phil
Briggs); Meridian 2 (Sledd Shelhorse;
Gremlyn (Greg Cutter); Cool Change
(Rusty Burshell); and Valkyrie (Karl
Petersen); from Fishing Bay Yacht Club (6) - Voodoo
Chile (Leroi Lissenden and D Krushelnisky;
Corryvreckan (David Clark); Schiehallion
(Brad Miller); Blade Runner (Brad
Davis); Double Eagle (Jim Mitchner …
You've all seen the website news about the microburst tornado we experienced at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA on Tuesday afternoon. Here are a few photos of the scene before and after.
Before - was taken on Saturday afternoon. You can see that CYC is the picture of order. The first 9 Flying Scots launched were assigned spots at the dock. The remaining 55 were assigned moorings in the harbor. We felt so "special" to be at the dock along with several members of the Board of Governors.
After - shows how the docks looked not long after the storm. Boat number 10 is our "3Sixty5". Yes, that's her mast bent like an "L" across the dinghy rack …
Seven FBYC Juniors raced their way to multiple awards at West River Sailing Club's Junior Regatta and Maryland State Championship on Tuesday. Winds were light and fluky on the West River near Galesville, MD but Alex Jacob still managed to pull out a 1st overall among 66 boats after three racesin the Optimist fleet. Madeleine Alderman continued her winnning performance with a 3rd in class (Red) and 5th overall finish in the Optimist fleet while also becoming the first recipient of West River Sailing Club's Joan Watts Memorial Trophy, which honors top performing women youth sailors. Austin Powers took a 5th out of the 30 boat Optimist Blue Fleet and a 15th overall. One of our star performers …
2006 North American Championship Regatta, Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, MA, July 9-14, 2006
The third qualifying race was held today. This afternoon, July 11th, shortly after all Flying Scots had been towed or sailed to safety at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA, harbor by the Corinthian Race Committee, a micro-burst tornado devastated the Flying Scot fleet and many of the Yacht Clubs' boats and docks. The above photo shows just a sample of the carnage that occurred. Scots on the the dock, such as 34 in the photograph above, were flipped 8 to ten feet in the air, with results seen above. Out of 63 Scots a conservative count would say 30 of those boats were turtled, with …
Sudden extreme weather, including hail and a twister, possibly a tornado, abrubtly ended the 2006 Flying Scot North American Championships in Marblehead, Mass., yesterday afternoon. At the end of two days of qualifying races in which Len Guenther was in the low twenties out of sixty-some boats, John Hubbard was around thirtieth with the Bauers close behind, a hail storm brought the fleet off the water and drove them into the clubhouse. This fortunate sequence prevented personal injury from the following twister, but left the fleet rafted up and exposed on the Corinthian waterfront. Numerous Scots, perhaps a dozen, were lifted from the water, dismasted and overturned. Hubbard's boat was saved by what had been thought a disfavored mooring …
The FBYC Junior Race Team hauled the silver home again this past Friday, July 7th at the Severn Sailing Association Sandy MacVickar Junior Regatta. After sailing her Optimist Dinghy through five races in light to moderate conditions off the US Naval Academy, Madeleine Alderman came away with a 2nd Place overall and 2nd in Red Fleet out of a fleet 54 of some the Bay's best sailed Optimists. She was followed closely by Austin Powers who grabbed 5th overall and 2nd in Blue Fleet. Aiden Toms and Graeme Alderman snitched 3rd and 4th respectively in the Optimist White Fleet. Quinton Jenkins came away with a 4th in the laser Radials. Other FBYC kids made their marks including Eric and …
Arrrgh! A crew of eleven FBYC Junior sailors recovered Blackbeard's head after three long days of racing off the pirate infested waters off Hampton Yacht Club. In spite of missing everything from the waist down, Blackbeard managed a big smile from his engraved silver punch bowl presented to Madeliene Alderman for being the overall winner of Hampton YC's Annual One Design Regatta on July 2nd. This, just two days after she claimed overall honors for the Optimist class in Hampton YC's Friday Junior Regatta. Madeliene had lots of company to help her bring home the booty though. The FBYC Team came home with a chest of awards during the three days of racing. Her brother Graeme pillaged …
When Ted and Myra Bennett led their convoy of cruisers to Cape Charles on Saturday June 24, modest breezes were predicted for their return. But the only thing modest about the journey home for our cruisers on Sunday was the understated way that Ted describes it. Ted writes:
"A fleet of 8 boats made the trip across the bay to Kings Creek Marina at Cape Charles on Sat June 24. Boats that made the crossing were: Battlewagon, Paul & Freda Cross Celebration, Gordon & Sheila Nelson Miss Kate, Tony & Kate Sakowski Nugget, Charlie & Stella Jones Obsession, Joe & Carolyn Schott Pharos, Ted & Myra Bennett Reflections, Sam & Nancy Stoakley Wings, John & Fay Koedel.
The wind was …
We must be living right. For nearly all of Junior Week we had beautiful warm weather including a full range of wind conditions on Fishing Bay from a 15-knot souwester to a full fish frying drifter at midweek. Sure the nettles made a prematurely prolific appearance along with fiesty hords of noseeums in the evening on a night or two, but by and large we were living very large. The kids tried on their sailing shoes with the help of some of the best coaches you'll find anywhere and I can't believe they didn't make some new friends. Best of all, they added to their enjoyment of the sport of sailing with memories that should last them …
Arrrgh! A crew of eleven FBYC Junior sailors recovered Blackbeard's head after three long days of racing off the pirate infested waters off Hampton Yacht Club. In spite of missing everything from the waist down, Blackbeard managed a big smile from his engraved silver punch bowl presented to Madeliene Alderman for being the overall winner of Hampton YC's Annual One Design Regatta on July 2nd. This, just two days after she claimed overall honors for the Optimist class in Hampton YC's Friday Junior Regatta. Madeliene had lots of company to help her bring home the booty though. The FBYC Team came home with a chest of awards during the three days of racing. Her brother Graeme pillaged …
We must be living right. For nearly all of Junior Week we had beautiful warm weather including a full range of wind conditions on Fishing Bay from a 15-knot souwester to a full fish frying drifter at midweek. Sure the nettles made a prematurely prolific appearance along with fiesty hords of noseeums in the evening on a night or two, but by and large we were living very large. The kids tried on their sailing shoes with the help of some of the best coaches you'll find anywhere and I can't believe they didn't make some new friends. Best of all, they added to their enjoyment of the sport of sailing with memories that should last them …