We have five cruising/racing events scheduled for the months of June and July, 2004. Plan to join the Cruising Division as we continue to explore the Chesapeake together, and push ourselves a little in racing with two different events. If you have your PHRF rating then join the non-spinnaker group of racers at the Leukemia Cup Regatta, or do a more leisurely sail/race at our Cruising Regatta that will be chaired by George and Lyons Burke. There is something for everyone. Please note the change in venue for the previously scheduled trip to Crisfield, that is now going to St. Marys City/Mill Creek on June 25-27 and will be chaired by Charlie and Stella Jones. The …
The Cruising Class has had a terrific time together in May. The first event was the VIMS Raft Up Rendezvous on May 8-9, which was attended by over 200 sailors from around the bay. Thirty-seven cruising boats made the trip to our club in the face of some very high winds. On Saturday, many of us attended exhibits, tasted Bay oysters, and were amazed by the size of the Asian species that is being studied by VIMS.
We toured the research vessel, Pelican, met new friends from other yacht clubs, and learned more about tidal surges associated with hurricanes. A silent auction was well attended and featured such fun times as …
FBYC SPRING SERIES - CEFALU,
WAVELENGTH, LA MAGA, and SCHIEHALLION WIN FLEET
TITLES: The final day of Fishing Bay Yacht Club's Spring
Series ended with a sea breeze that generated a lot of excitement
on the first windward leg of the second race Sunday. Almost everyone
(previously on a wind search all over the course) got to the rounding mark at
about the same time. Yeee-Haaaa - get that chute hoisted and do it
NOW!!! Here's how things shook out after the entire series.
RESULTS: MORC: 1. Cefalu, Blackwell
Nottingham; 2. Insatiable, Mike Karn;
3. Mojo, Mark Wensell. PHRF A: 1.
Wavelength, Rob Whittet; 2. Voodoo Chile,
Leroi Lissenden; 3.Loose Cannon, Strother
Scott. …
I've posted some pictures that I took from the race committee boat on Saturday of Offshore Spring Series #5. They can be found at http://www.jdeutsch.com/Pictures/20040522/
Enjoy, if you would like full resolution copies of any of these just email me.
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LASER SAILORS: Come out Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day Fun Races. We are expecting a good fleet and we'll have a good time with some short, fun races. NOR: http://www.fbyc.net/Events/2004/05.31.onedesign/ssi.dtml
Spring Series 4 & 5: June 6, 12.
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How to enjoy Croatia ?
1. Why Croatia ?
Croatia is the closest Mediterranean destination to central Europe. It takes 2 hours by plane from London,
45 minutes from Munchen... Croatian natural beauties are significant and amongst the best preserved in the world
( over 5,800 km of coast, over 1,000 islands, numerous national parks ... ). More about Croatia find on the official web site
www.croatia.hr2. How to Croatia ?
Traveling by car you have to keep in mind that the traffic is increased in summer season. National ferry line is
Jadrolinija and the national airline company is Croatia Airlines
3. Where in Croatia ?
Although the inland of Croatia is beautiful as well, lot of tourists decide for one of …
Please join us at the Deltaville Maritime Museum for the opening of our first permanent exhibit
History of Boat Building in Middlesex County
with a special section on Arts of the Watermen
Saturday, May 29, 2004
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Junior sailors from across Tidewater and Central Virginia out-did themselves in this year's Christchurch Leukemia Cup Junior Challenge, although the record-setting effort was not done on the water. Gusty ENE winds scrubbed the scheduled races on the Rappahannock River in this year's regatta at Christchurch, but the young sailors raised almost $21,000 to fight leukemia. "It was an awesome accomplishment," said Kristin Stokes, regatta coordinator for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. "This puts things into perspective when we look at what these kids can do."Overall, the 50 or so young sailors representing eight area schools took part. The leading fundraising schools were St. Christopher's of Richmond, Walsingham Academy of Williamsburg and regatta host, Christchurch School …
The title, "25 Years of Sailing," may not excite the masses. Even a young Ted Turner states in an opening film clip from the eve of the U.S.'s loss of the America's Cup in 1983: "I wouldn't say the nation's prestige is at stake. It's just a sailboat race, really."
But a sneak preview of Gary Jobson's one-hour special on ESPN Classic Wednesday night (6 and 9 p.m. PT, 9 p.m. ET) reveals it as more than just a sailing show, skipping from highlight to highlight. There are plenty of those, but this is just for sailors like "Seabiscuit" was just for horse racing fans …
What do sailing, power boating and kayaking have in common with baseball? Well, baseball will be joining the line-up of events for this years Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta. The occasion is the Inaugural Leukemia Cup Regatta Night at the Ball Park at 7:30pm on Saturday, June 19. For the first time, fans and players will be joining a host of other participants, sponsors and contributors in raising money to fight leukemia, the leading disease killer of children.
This is a special cause and this will be a special game, says Mike Ward, publicity manager for the Deltaville Deltas. We expect plenty of action when the Deltas square off against the Fredericksburg Meadow Farm team. And, I can …
The 6th annual Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta continues this month and next with a series of exciting on-the-water and shore-side events, capped by Regatta Weekend in Deltaville, July 9-10.
Coming up in June is a brand-new addition to this year's line up of regatta events, Leukemia Cup Night at the Ball Park," takes place Saturday night, June 19th. "Our goal is to reach out to increased numbers of people, sailors and non-boaters alike, who might want to support us in this important fundraising cause," says Brenda Coffman, coordinator of the baseball event. We have learned that many, many people will take part if we provide events they can get behind, enjoy and support." Tickets for the game between …
This morning more than 135
J/22 skippers, crew, and boats are ready for the beginning of the J22
Worlds, hosted by Annapolis YC. Racing begins
tomorrow. The southern Bay has skippers competing (Steve Hunt,
Will Crump, Dave Alexander, and Scott Batchelor) and a number of racers
crewing. Racing will conclude on Friday, the 21st. One
solid week of knock down, drag out sailboat racing!
A gusty nor'easter blew out the
Leukemia Cup Junior Regatta a couple of weeks ago, but the
weather did not stop the young sailors from raising funds for the 6th Annual
Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta (July 9 and 10). Eight area high
school teams took part in …
Also, having taken the Mothers Day weekend off, FBYC
resumes their 2004 Spring Series Sunday, May 16, for the "big boat"
fleet. Saturday, May 15, is when the FBYC One Design
(dinghy) fleet continues that spring series with John
Beery leading the Flying Scots, Lee Farinholt the
Front Runners, and Alain Vincey the Lasers.
CCV SPRING SERIES FINALE - Sunday, May 16 - There will
be 2 races (Spring Series Race #3 followed immediately by Race #4) - NOTE:
RACING STARTS WITH THE FIRST WARNING SCHEDULED FOR 1000 ( For those with short
term memories, that's an hour earlier than Races #1 and
#2.)
J/24 Fleet 71
racers: The new lift HYC is operational and, in fact …
For newcomers to Fishing Bay Yacht Club, Mothers Day is sacred, and the club studiously avoids scheduling races for the entire weekend. So what can you do? Come to the club and join in the VIMS activity, enjoy their landing craft displays and their lectures. Alternatively take your mother, or your grandmother out for a sail. If you own a J-105 it's a shoe-in, the maker adverizes the J-105 as a boat that Granny can day sail. Or take the lady out for lunch, she certainly deserves no less. But if you are really ambitious join your Commodore and his first lady on a trip to Washington, DC to join some 100,000 or more mothers asking Congress, some …
The pictures posted are a representative sample of the photos taken throughout what became a beautiful day of racing.
If you would like to order any prints from the posted shots, or would like to see all of the photos taken of a particular boat, please drop Ed Funk with Vista Enterprises a line!!
Prices are as follows:
4x6 $5.00
8x10 $10.00
11x13 $20.00
13x19 $35.00
Fishing Bay Spring
Series racers take a break this coming weekend with Mike
Karn, Insatiable, sitting atop the MORC division, Rob
Whittet, Wavelength, leading the PHRF A fleet, and
Allan Heyward, La Maga, out front in PHRF B.
Brad Miller, Schiehallion, is in first place among the
PHRF Non-Spin racers. PRO: Bill Spencer.
Fishing Bay YC Series racers
will be off this coming weekend and pick up with the 4th race day on
May 16.
The 2004 Screwpile Lighthouse Regatta Sailing
Instructions are now posted on the Screwpile website www.screwpile.com The number of
entries continues to mushroom - 58 have already done their entry duties
for 2004 (there were 9 entered this time …
15 years building a boat in the woods on Orcas Island 6 miles from a launching facility.The Old Man, the Mountain and the Sea Naturalist Has Big Plan for Sailboat
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. -- At 85, App Applegate keeps pushing the limits of living off the grid.
Out here in Puget Sound, on the upper west side of the American dream, he lives in a shack without running water, listens to National Public Radio on a hand-crank radio and avoids outhouses as ecologically incorrect. He prefers a shovel and an open …
FISHING BAY YACHT CLUB
J/29 INVITATIONAL REGATTA
APRIL 16-18, 2004
Eight boats came to FBYC in Deltaville, Virginia for the sixth annual J/29 Invitational Regatta. The weather was horrible all weekcold, rainy and very windy. On Thursday, as participants were getting their boats ready, the rain finally stopped and the wind started to decrease, somewhat.
Friday dawned sunny and clear with a spring nip in the air. The wind blew 6-10 and shifty. David Lee, the PRO, and his race committee were very busy moving marks but managed to get in 4 good races. Patriot won the day with 3 bullets and a 6th. Titillation was just 1 point behind. Hustler had a spinnaker halyard jump the …
Now that spring racing has begun, and as a reminder of things every good skipper needs to know before heading out the the race course, we are reprinting the
The Model SkipperProvided by Bill Gladstone, North U Director
Having Trouble Building a Winning Program? Here are Twenty One Team Building techniques we've observed.
1 - When it is time to put the jib up prior to the start on a blustery day, sail a close reach to maximize spray across the foredeck. By soaking the crew prior to the start they won't be so reluctant to get wet during the race. Do not reach off in an effort to keep the foredeck dry.
Kahuna,
Cheryl Lea, Movin' On, and Checks in the
Mailromp in CCV Spring Series #1: Mother
Nature lured the fleet out with promise of a 10-15 knot southerly, let
things get underway, and smashed everyone's plans with a 90 degree shift to the
East, and winds building to the low 20s. At one point the wind at the
leeward mark was at 085, and at the same moment at the windward mark it was
165. A good first spring race test for the 37 boats (of 55
registered) on the course. RESULTS: PHRF A:
1. Sanford Richardson, Kahuna (Farr 395);
2. Sledd Shelhorse, Scherherazade (Taylor
40); 3. Dave Eberwine, Sea …
Titillation
finishes 2nd and Patriot 3rd at J/29 Invitational. At
the FBYC J/29 Invitational this past weekend, Paul Andersen's
Titillation and Case Whittemore's Patriot
filled out the top three spots in the event. Racing was close on
Friday and Saturday, but Sunday never happened because of light to no air.
Hustler took home the first place trophy.
Opening Day at Fishing
Bay: FBYC Spring Series 1 & 2, Saturday, April 24 - Sunday, April
25. The warning is set for 1100; skippers meeting at 0930,
Saturday, at the FBYC flag pole. Fleet blessing, awards,
refreshments, and entertainment follow the racing. CBYRA sanctioned
races. Race chairman is Al …
Please join us at the Deltaville Maritime Museum for the opening of our first permanent exhibit
Check out this article in the Washington Post.