Come join us for the first of FBYC's summer Junior regattas. We welcome all FBYC and Bay area Juniors to this CYBRA sanctioned event which includes a day of racing followed by awards and a cookout.
This is a perfect event to try out those skills you have learned since the beginning of the summer. Both beginners and seasoned racers will enjoy these races set in our picturesque Fishing Bay. For more details, click here
The District 11 Grand Prix was held this past weekend in Hampton Virginia..
Our Alain Vincey won the Masters Trophy! Results are here.
Lyn McCarthy was on the RC boat and provided the following report.Wild wind (gusts well above 30 knots and frequent) took Sunday away from the
Laser racers at the District 11 Laser Grand Prix Regatta in Hampton Roads.
They did get in three races on Saturday before Mother Nature threw her hissy
fit. Henry Amthor (Hampton YC) won the championship with three 2nd places.
Walt Bryde (Hampton YC) took home the 2nd place trophy (4-4-5) and Brian
Shores (Severn Sailing)(3-6-6) 3rd. George Panayides (Hampton YC),
defending 2002 champion, had a 1st in both race #1 …
It's early May, and here we sit aboard NOMADESS, our newly acquired cutter, in English Harbor, Antigua. Our FBYC Burgee snapping in the stiff easterlies that inhabit these low latitudes. We are asking ourselves the age-old question, "how did we get here this time?" I guess the bug bit again at the Ft. Lauderdale International boat show in October. Click Read More for the full story of our year of cruising in the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, and Caribbean.
After years of racing EAGERNESS on the bay, and hours of trolling for anything that might bite aboard EAGER TOO, we were torn between a long-range motor cruiser or an around the world sailing vessel. For three years or so we …
A meeting was held this past weekend to wrap up the
final details of the new FBYC event -- Team Racing.
This will be an interclub event with teams from FBYC
and RRYC competing in this two race day series held in
Flying Scots. The first race day will be held at FBYC
on Sunday, June 29th. The second and final day will
be at the RRYC on Sunday, July 27th. Awards and a
cookout will follow the at the end of each day. There
will also be an overall trophy for the winning team at
the conclusion of the series.
We will have a four boat team from each club, with
multiple races on each day. Since this will be …
BLACK SEAL CUP - SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK: Racing
begins Friday, June 13 and runs through Sunday, June 15. (Hampton
One-Designs, International 505s, and International Canoes race June 14-15.)
To
avoid the $25 late registration fee, enter before midnight THIS SATURDAY,
JUNE 7th. For info, check out the web site at www.blacksealcup.com
Wild wind (gusts well above 30 knots and frequent) took
Sunday away from the Laser racers at the District 11 Laser Grand Prix
Regatta
in Hampton Roads. They did get in three races on Saturday
before Mother Nature threw her hissy fit. Henry Amthor won the
championship with three 2nd places. Walt Bryde
took home the 2nd place trophy (4-4-5) and …
Dont
miss out this Saturday for the conclusion of our Spring Series One Design
racing. Afterwards, there will be dinner and awards. We hope you can stay and enjoy the
Just
in case you didnt get your fill of racing this spring, races will be offered on
Sunday. This one day Sunshine
Regatta is an additional opportunity to get out and sail
since Mother Nature has kept us on the dock the past few weekends. There will be a skippers meeting at
1000 followed by the first warning signal at 1100.
In a lack of wind foreshortened race, Voodoo Chile reached the finish line set at the bridge by Dabney Overton and his crew of the handsome Mr. Roberts replacement boat. Hours later a few other boats finished, but most retired and headed for Urbanna for the party, dinner provided by Janie French, and the barn dance.
Many more hours later, the partying continued.
Thanks to Bradley Davidson Photography for the excellent pictures he has taken for FBYC. Please visit For many more pictures. Scott Collins and Will Crump cruised to the event on a Mobjack.
DISTRICT 11 GRAND PRIX REGATTA - LASER CHAMPIONSHIPS
ARE THIS COMING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, MAY 31 AND JUNE 1.
The venue is on Hampton Flats. Host yacht club is Hampton YC. Expectations
are for 35-40 boats for this district-wide event. George Panayides,
aka "The Laser Guy", will be defending his 2002 championship title. For
info and/or to register contact Leigh Morgan at leigh.morgan2@verizon.net
or George Panayides at gpanayid@wrsystems.com The
NOR is available at www.hamptonyc.com Spectators are
welcome - bring your own boat, though.
Better get your SCREWPILE stuff together. John
Hanna said the regatta will cap entries at 170 boats this year.
The dates for the 2003 Screwpile Lighthouse …
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 …
It's early May, and here we sit aboard NOMADESS, our newly acquired cutter, in English Harbor, Antigua. Our FBYC Burgee snapping in the stiff easterlies that inhabit these low latitudes. We are asking ourselves the age-old question, "how did we get here this time?" I guess the bug bit again at the Ft. Lauderdale International boat show in October. Click Read More
for the full story of our year of cruising in the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, and Caribbean.
A meeting was held this past weekend to wrap up the
final details of the new FBYC event -- Team Racing.
This will be an interclub event with teams from FBYC
and RRYC competing in this two race day series held in
Flying Scots. The first race day will be held at FBYC
on Sunday, June 29th. The second and final day will
be at the RRYC on Sunday, July 27th. Awards and a
cookout will follow the at the end of each day. There
will also be an overall trophy for the winning team at
the conclusion of the series.
In a lack of wind foreshortened race, Voodoo Chile reached the finish line set at the bridge by Dabney Overton and his crew of the handsome Mr. Roberts replacement boat. Hours later a few other boats finished, but most retired and headed for Urbanna for the party, dinner provided by Janie French, and the barn dance.
Many more hours later, the partying continued.
Thanks to 
Scott Collins and Will Crump cruised to the event on a Mobjack.
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 …