Come and support a great effort at 9:30 on Saturday morning and participate in the Grand Opening of the Deltaville Museum and Holly Point Nature Park. Our past Commodore, Tim Blackwood, Chairman of the Board of the Museum, will do the ribbon-cutting which will be followed by refreshments and tours of the facility. On the way to FBYC, the museum is located at 287 Jackson Creek Rd. (Right off of Rt # 33 at the Deltaville Convenience Center, second driveway on the left).
Click Read More for more on the mission of the museum and plans for its development.
The mission of this great facility is "to protect and enhance the natural beauty of the area designated Holly Point and …
The 8th Annual Little Creek Regatta to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will be held August 1 & 2, 2003 at Bay Point Marina, Norfolk, VA. The Regatta consists of a sailing race, power boat poker run and fishing tornament. The Regatta has raised over 1/2 million dollars in the fight against cancer. Please see the attached for more information and check out www.littlecreekregatta.org/
Alan McCullough, Jr. was a FBYC member most of his life. He died May 11, and his memorial service on Friday was attended by his family and many friends. Among the rememberances read at the service was the following article, which was written and read by Ken Ringle.
As most of us know, Mac made a movie about his life. No film
was actually shot, of course, but that is somehow beside the
point. The movie was always showing on the inside of Mac's forehead.
What made relations with Mac so maddening, so bewildering
and so much fun-all at the same time-was that he was always simultaneously
shooting the movie and watching it. And directing it. And editing
it …
WHITTET, MARSHALL, ANGUS, and POWERS Win FBYC Offshore
Spring Series: Tie-breakers decided the series final positions
in PHRF A as well as Non-Spin. The finale Saturday was sailed in
brisk winds on the Rappahannock. RESULTS: PHRF A:
1. Rob Whittet, Wavelength; 2. Strother Scott, Loose Cannon.
PHRF
B: 1.
Sam Marshall, Night Music; 2. Allan Heyward,
La
Maga.
MORC: 1. Jason and Will Angus,Brass Monkey.
PHRF
Non-Spinnaker: 1. Eric Powers,
Nereid; 2. David
Hazlehurst, Oracle.
The maxi-cat PlayStation is at Bay Point Marina
at the mouth of Little Creek in Norfolk. Steve Fossett is waiting
for the right weather pattern to develop, so that he can make a run at …
I have a wooden Hampton One-Design that I need to get from Portsmouth, VA to Boise, Idaho. My college student that was going to tow it for me backed out. Click Read More... for details.
Greetings!
WANTED: Enterprising person to tow an old wooden HOD from Portsmouth, VA to Boise, Idaho as soon as possible. Will pay per-mile towing fee plus a sum to make it worth your while, to be negotiated. Perfect summer job for an energetic college student. Contact Vince Serio, III at serio@mindspring.com or 208-342-7090.
This weekend 106 Lasers took part in the Atlantic Coast Championships held at Severn Sailing Association. Fishing Bay member Jon Deutsch made the trip for the event. Light and shifty winds on Saturday allowed only 2 races and conditions on Sunday led the races to be abandoned just before they were to start.
The overall winner was Scott Ferguson from Jamestown RI. Olympic hopeful Andrew Campbell finished fifth and George Panayides from HYC finished 11th. Numerous other frequenters of FBYC events and Masters Regattas from around the region were also in attendance.
Other big events in the district coming up are the District Championships at HYC May 31-June 1 and the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship September 6-7 at FBYC …
CAPE HENRY CUP IMPORTANT INFO: The
point of contact for this event, Scott Almond, has a new phone number,
effective immediately. To reach Scott, call him at home at (757)
471-2663, or work (757) 428-4646. Also, from a BBSA board member
comes the following info on the CHC awards presentation plans:
CHC awards will be presented May 20th (Tuesday evening) at BBSA's cover
dish supper meeting at the ODU Sailing Center. Award winners
are invited to attend the supper, tour the Center, and pick up their trophies.
(Race date - Saturday, May 17; entry deadline - Friday, May 16).
ROUND DELMARVA 400 EXPECTED ARRIVAL AT SALT PONDS (Hampton):
This
is a cruisers rally, not a …
The Christchurch Junior Challenge Regatta on May 3rd was an outstanding success, raising more than $14,000well above the previous years' results. In all, more than 50 high school aged sailors competed for racing and fundraising honors on a wind-whipped Rappahannock River during a blustery day of northwest winds and chilly temperatures. Click Read More... for more on this and upcoming Leukemia Cup events.
Sponsored by Fishing Bay Yacht Club, Christchurch School, the Edward Rip Radcliffe family, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Societys Virginia Chapter , this year's races drew teams from Hampton Roads Academy, Walsingham Academy, Murray High School, Norfolk Academy, and St. Catherines in Richmond. Competing in 420's, the junior sailors raised money from …
Saturday, May 24, race up the river, cruise or drive to the biggest barn party on the bay in one of the Chesapeake's most outstanding and beautiful settings. Food will be catered again by the famous Willobys, featuring a Caribbean meal. Entertainment will be live from The Energy Crisis. Cocktails are at 6:00. Dinner is at 7:00. Reservations must be submitted by May 21. Cost for members is $20 per person. Guests are welcome at $25 per person. Children under 16 are $10. Send your check with full payment to
Janie French, 620 Henri Road, Richmond, Virginia 23226. If you are not familiar with Rosegill, give yourself a treat and visit the Rosegill website (http://www …
The club was buzzing with activity Saturday evening after off-shore boats returned from Mosquito Point as One Design sailors rigged their boats for the start of the 2003 season the following day. Most noticeable were the 420 crews rigging four new club boats. Conditions on Sunday were close to ideal, some 10-15 knots out of the NNW. In order of start there were 5 Front Runners, 9 Flying Scots, 3 Lasers and 3 420's, starting with a near perfect line and a windward-leeward course.
Using the Laser class rule of thumb "no triangles unless you have a steady 12 knots" the race committee changed to a "G" course for all but the 420's and ignored mild complaints from …
Through the efforts of FBYC member Dick Curtiss, USCG Auxiliary Vessel Examiners will be available on the Jackson Creek docks starting at 9:00 AM on Saturday May 10 to conduct free courtesy safety examinations. The USCG courtesy safety inspection program is designed to promote safety awareness and information. A description of the program, and a copy of the checklist used in the inspection, are available for by clicking on the links. Any boat passing the courtesy inspection will receive, and will be entitled to display, a Safety Check Decal, signifying that it has passed a safety inspection by a USCG approved Vessel Examiner.
This past weekend the Fishing Bay Yacht Club may not have been represented widely among the many classes at the Annapolis NOOD event, but in the hotly contested 50-boat J/22 fleet, a couple of Fishing Bay boys demonstrated that the little club is still a force to be respected. Scott Collins and I represented FBYC in the J/22 fleet and brought home a hard fought fourth place standing.
This was my first regatta as a driver in well over a year and my first regatta driving a J/22 since the 2000 World Championship in Medemblik, Holland. It was nice to get back in the saddle, and especially nice to do it with Scott Collins who I grew …
MOTHER'S DAY IS SUNDAY, MAY 11th - Take her sailing,
or... if appropriate, let her take you sailing!
SEA STAR, COOL CHANGE, ROUNDABOUT, and CHECKS-IN-THE-MAIL
finish
first in CCV Spring Series: Three Sunday
races over a four week stretch brought out the best in skippers and crews
as cold to cool and mostly cloudy conditions prevailed for the series.
When all was said and done, an average of 36 PHRF boats raced each of the
3 race days, covered a fleet total of 135.5 miles (as the crow flies),
and ate-nobody-knows-for-sure-how-many hotdogs. Series Provisional
Results: PHRF A: 1. Sea Star, J/36,
Bumps and
David Eberwine; 2. Cyrano, Frers 36, Bob Mosby; …
Marine Science Day
VIMS will host its annual open house at the Gloucester Point campus from 10 am-3 pm on Saturday, May 17th, free and open to the public . Numerous hands-on activities for both children and adults. Activities include canoe trips, seining, tours of laboratories and the teaching marsh, a seafood chowder cook-off, a spin-casting game for young anglers, and much more.
After Marine Science Day, help support VIMS research by attending the Calypso Party Fundraiser from 3:30-6:00 PM on the VIMS Lawn. $50 per person for Caribbean food, steel drum band and chance to win one of the six unique prizes in the VIMS Ecotour Raffle such as aerial sea turtle tracking, billfish tagging and chance to …
The Laser District 11 Championship Regatta will be held at Hampton Yacht Club , May 31 through June 1 this year.
The word on the street is to expect a minimum of 30 boats for this event, and it's being talked up with the local college sailors, as well. To add to the fun, the popular and colorful Blackbeard Festival is being held in Downtown Hampton that same weekend. http://www.downtownhampton.com/blackbeard/
This is a double-edged sword (ha ha). The festival is great and offers lots to do in the evenings after racing, including a Pirate's Ball on Friday and a special Block Party on Saturday night. Also, if you bring your families, there is guaranteed entertainment …
Kenneth Andreasen, U. S. Optimist Dinghy Association Director and Coach of the U. S. National Optimist Team, will give a two-day OPTIMIST COACHES SEMINAR at Fishing Bay on June 7 and 8. Kenneth, who travels with the US Optimist team when they compete in international events, is truly one of the country's outstanding Opti coaches; so this is a terrific opportunity for all of us who will be working with "Juniors" and Optis. Click "Read More " for further details.Coaches, instructors, CITs and parents who volunteer with the racing team will want to learn all the latest tips for rigging Optis for speed, boathandling techniques, and on the water drills and games. Kenneth and his team of national …
We hope cruisers or racers will join us at Indian Creek on June 6,7,and 8. We cruise to Indian Creek Friday and either raft up in Pitman's Cove or go to the Club's slips. Both golf and tennis will be available to us on Friday afternoon and Saturday. Dinner on Friday will be at the Club restaurant and Saturday we'll have our own picnic there. I will need a close head count for dinner at the Club on Friday and an accurate count for tennis and golf. I have arranged for a special fee for golf at $25.00 per person including cart. There will be a fee for tennis also. The club does not …
The 2003 Offshore Spring Series at Fishing Bay Yacht Club
got things underway this past weekend. In the MORC fleet Thin
Ice (Landau/Hope) and Mojo (Mark Wensell) each
recorded 2 wins out of 5 races; Brass Monkey (Jason/Will Angus)
won Race #5. In PHRF A, Wavelength (Rob Whittet)
took 2 first in 3 races, and Chilcoot (Alex/Donna Alvis)
got the Race #2 win. In PHRF B, Sam Marshall's
Night
Music, Allan Heyward's La Maga, and Wayland Rennie's
Trilogy
shared the #1 spot over 3 races. Dick Cole in
Nutcracker
won
both PHRF Non-Spin races.The mega flood current, a 70 degree wind shift around
the middle of the race …
The question always comes up among FBYC members - How can we increase participation in our events. One of the excuses always is - "I can't find any crew". For the last several months, a link to iwanttosail-subscribe@fbyc.net has been posted on the FBYC home page. It is designed as a means to recruit people - members and non-members alike, who want to sail but do not know whom to ask.A month ago there were 43 people on the list, mostly added as a result of the member surveys. Today there are 54 people on the list, the last 11 are non-members who subscribed in the last month.
This past weekend, there we two crew members aboard boats at …
Gary Jobson is a household name in racing sailors'
homes. We all know who he is. Our man in New Zealand for the
America's Cup. Mr. ESPN of our sport. He often comes into the
southern Chesapeake Bay to offer his name and presence to boost a worthwhile
cause or just to share his thoughts with racers about the current state
of our sport. He has for the last 11 years given a huge portion of
his energy on behalf of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Cup Regatta.
This morning Gary Jobson began chemo treatments for non-Hodgkins
lymphoma.
Gil Renaut sent word that Gary was diagnosed a couple
of days ago. To quote Gil …
Come and support a great effort at 9:30 on Saturday morning and participate in the Grand Opening of the Deltaville Museum and Holly Point Nature Park.
Our past Commodore, Tim Blackwood, Chairman of the Board of the Museum, will do the ribbon-cutting which will be followed by refreshments and tours of the facility. On the way to FBYC, the museum is located at 287 Jackson Creek Rd. (Right off of Rt # 33 at the Deltaville Convenience Center, second driveway on the left).
Click Read More for more on the mission of the museum and plans for its development.
The 8th Annual Little Creek Regatta to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will be held 
August 1 & 2, 2003 at Bay Point Marina, Norfolk, VA. The Regatta consists of a sailing race, power boat poker run and fishing tornament. The Regatta has raised over 1/2 million dollars in the fight against cancer. Please see the attached for more information and check out 
Alan McCullough, Jr. was a FBYC member most of his life. He died May 11, and his memorial service on Friday was attended by his family and many friends. Among the rememberances read at the service was the following article, which was written and read by Ken Ringle.
I have a wooden Hampton One-Design that I need to get from Portsmouth, VA to Boise, Idaho. My college student that was going to tow it for me backed out. Click Read More... for details.
This weekend 106 Lasers took part in the Atlantic Coast Championships held at Severn Sailing Association. Fishing Bay member Jon Deutsch made the trip for the event. Light and shifty winds on Saturday allowed only 2 races and conditions on Sunday led the races to be abandoned just before they were to start.
The Christchurch Junior Challenge Regatta on May 3rd was an outstanding success, raising more than $14,000well above the previous years' results. In all, more than 50 high school aged sailors competed for racing and fundraising honors on a wind-whipped Rappahannock River during a blustery day of northwest winds and chilly temperatures. Click Read More... for more on this and upcoming Leukemia Cup events.
Saturday, May 24, race up the river, cruise or drive to the biggest barn party on the bay in one of the Chesapeake's most outstanding and beautiful settings. Food will be catered again by the famous Willobys, featuring a Caribbean meal. Entertainment will be live from The Energy Crisis. Cocktails are at 6:00. Dinner is at 7:00. Reservations must be submitted by May 21. Cost for members is $20 per person. Guests are welcome at $25 per person. Children under 16 are $10. Send your check with full payment to
Through the efforts of FBYC member Dick Curtiss, USCG Auxiliary Vessel Examiners will be available on the Jackson Creek docks starting at 9:00 AM on Saturday May 10 to conduct free courtesy safety examinations. The USCG courtesy safety inspection program is designed to promote safety awareness and information. A 
This was my first regatta as a driver in well over a year and my first regatta driving a J/22 since the 2000 World Championship in Medemblik, Holland. It was nice to get back in the saddle, and especially nice to do it with Scott Collins who I grew …
The Laser District 11 Championship Regatta will be held at 
This is a double-edged sword (ha ha). The festival is great and offers lots to do in the evenings after racing, including a Pirate's Ball on Friday and a special Block Party on Saturday night. Also, if you bring your families, there is guaranteed entertainment …
Kenneth Andreasen, U. S. Optimist Dinghy Association Director and Coach of the U. S. National Optimist Team, will give a two-day OPTIMIST COACHES SEMINAR at Fishing Bay on June 7 and 8. Kenneth, who travels with the US Optimist team when they compete in international events, is truly one of the country's outstanding Opti coaches; so this is a terrific opportunity for all of us who will be working with "Juniors" and Optis. Click "Read More
" for further details.Coaches, instructors, CITs and parents who volunteer with the racing team will want to learn all the latest tips for rigging Optis for speed, boathandling techniques, and on the water drills and games. Kenneth and his team of national …
We hope cruisers or racers will join us at Indian Creek on June 6,7,and 8. We cruise to Indian Creek Friday and either raft up in Pitman's Cove or go to the Club's slips. Both golf and tennis will be available to us on Friday afternoon and Saturday.
Dinner on Friday will be at the Club restaurant and Saturday we'll have our own picnic there. I will need a close head count for dinner at the Club on Friday and an accurate count for tennis and golf. I have arranged for a special fee for golf at $25.00 per person including cart. There will be a fee for tennis also. The club does not …
Gary Jobson is a household name in racing sailors'
homes. We all know who he is. Our man in New Zealand for the
America's Cup. Mr. ESPN of our sport. He often comes into the
southern Chesapeake Bay to offer his name and presence to boost a worthwhile
cause or just to share his thoughts with racers about the current state
of our sport. He has for the last 11 years given a huge portion of
his energy on behalf of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Cup Regatta.