News - FBYC

Your next Lightning

catesby jones on Monday October 8, 2001 12:18PM

I want to build the Fishing Bay's Lightning Fleet! Give me a budget... I'll find you a boat! Read on...It's time to start thinking about the 2002 sailing season! The Lightning Class is a STRONG class with strong competition at the local level! Give me a budget and I'll find you a competitive Lightning THIS winter. Ron Buchanan, Fleet Captain Fishing Bay Lightning Fleet #509

Indian Summer Results

Lori Moyer on Sunday October 7, 2001 09:21PM

The Indian Summer Regatta was held this weekend. We had 10 Optis, 16 Lasers, and 4 Frontrunners. Early on Saturday a cold front with heavy air and rain squalls raised havoc with the race courses. All boats withdrew or were towed to the beach.After lunch, the Lasers and Optis returned to Fishing Bay and got in a number of races under cold windy and wet conditions.

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day with a strong northerly wind.

The results for Indian Summer are available on the Sailing Events page or by clicking here. Evan Aras won the Opti Class and Henry Amthon won the Laser Class.

Nominations Needed for 2001 Awards

Randy Alley on Sunday September 30, 2001 11:49PM

Time is running short to get in your nominations for this year's trophies, including: outstanding crewperson, outstanding woman sailor, the offshore skipper who you feel displayed the best sportsmanship, the junior who has showed the most interest in sailing, the cruiser who has shown great support, adventure and comradeship, the skipper who has consistently been a good loser, and a club member who has provided "outstanding contribution to sailing." Nominations should be submitted to any Board member by Oct. 9th!!

Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet is Friday, October 26th. Make reservations now.

Mason Chapman on Saturday September 29, 2001 04:29PM

The 2001 Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet will be held on Friday, October 26, 2001 at the Country Club of Virginia. The Annual Meeting and cocktails begin at 6:30 followed by dinner and awards.

The agenda for the annual meeting includes reports from your flag officers on the clubs operations during the year, an update on the exciting Fishing Bay clubhouse construction, and election of officers and trustees for the 2001-2002 year.

We are particularly excited about this years dinner. We have worked hard to make sure there are an abundance of choices. It will be served buffet style with main course selections that include baked salmon, beef tournedos, and lemon chicken. These will be accompanied by …

Web Site software upgraded by Baymountain

Strother Scott on Friday September 14, 2001 09:53AM

FBYC is fortunate to have its website hosting provided by Baymountain, a small company in Richmond led by our Offshore Lt. Commander, Mark Wensell. The site uses open source software - primarily Zope and Squishdot.

In the weeks before the Stingray Regatta a problem in posting, editing and deleting news articles surfaced. Recently Baymountain has upgraded our site to Zope 2.3.3 and Squishdot 1.3.0. The upgrade is almost complete - everything seems to be working fine, except we are still unable to search articles on the main FBYC web page.

Thanks to Mark and Baymountain for providing and continuing to manage the software and infrastructure for our web site.

Offshore Fall Series Begins Sunday, Sept 9

Stuart Burnett on Saturday September 8, 2001 03:24PM

The Offshore Fall Series begins this Sunday, Sept 9. Enjoy great fall sailing on the Chesapeake and join our four-day Fall Series.

We anticipate providing starts and awards for the PHRF-A, PHRF-B&C, and MORC classes with additional sub-class awards for the J105, J29, and J24 offshore one design fleets.

We also extend a special invitation to the many skippers of Cruising Division boats who participated in the Leukemia Cup and Stingray Point Regatta non-spin classes. The Offshore Division would be happy to provide a start for non-spinnaker boats.The entire race series includes:

Sun, Sept 9, buoy races
Sat, Sept 15, Wolf Trap race
Sun, Sept 30, buoy races
Sat, Oct 13, medium distance race

For more details see pages …

Stingray Point Regatta Mt. Gay Tent to be at Fishing Bay Trace

catesby jones on Thursday August 16, 2001 12:51PM

Entry Forms are now available for the Stingray Point Regatta, see Notice of Race , to be held September 1 & 2 at FBYC. The Friday night welcome party will be held at the Yacht Club, but the Mt. Gay tents and the parties on Saturday and Sunday nights will be held on the large lawn at Fishing Bay Trace condos on the right hand side of Stove Point Road 1/2 mile west of FBYC. Parking for the regatta will be across the road from Fishing Bay Trace.

The Official Entry Form includes reservation requests for various Regatta Packages meals, beer, Mount Gay Tent, etc. Please send your reservations to Mason Chapman and if you have any questions about the regatta, please contact Mike Karn at 804-359-2894.

Itinerary for the Stingray Point Regatta

Friday, August 31, 2001

6:00 PM 9:00 PM: Registration and Welcome Party (Fannys House)

Saturday, September 1, 2001

7:30 AM 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast (Fannys House)

7:30 AM 9:00 AM: Registration (Fannys House)

9:00 AM: Skippers Meeting

11:00 AM: Warning Gun for First Race of the Day.

******** Hospitality Tent Following Races (Fishing Bay Trace)

6:30 PM 8:00 PM: Dinner

7:30 PM: Trophies and Band (Fishing Bay Trace)

Sunday, September 2, 2001

7:30 AM 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast (Fannys House)

10:00 AM: Warning Gun for First Race of the Day

******** Hospitality Tent, Lunch & Trophies Following Races (Fishing Bay Trace)

Building Contract Signed - Construction is Underway

Strother Scott on Thursday August 16, 2001 10:55AM

At long last we are pleased to announce that we have raised adequate money to proceed with construction and that we now have signed an acceptable contract to construct our new building. Construction should now proceed at a more rapid pace. Under Read More, you can see the "From the Quarterdeck" article that appeared in the August LogBuilding Contract - You may recall last August's letter from Mike Karn which indicated that we planned our building to cost the same as the $85 - $100 per square foot we paid for Fannie's House. We have now negotiated and executed a contract with Northwind, Inc. to build our new clubhouse and have been successful in bringing the contract in for a …

RRYC Fall Regatta to be held September 15

Strother Scott on Wednesday August 15, 2001 03:21PM

Attached is the Notice of Regatta for the Rappahannock River Yacht Club Fall Regatta (2 races) on September 15 at Irvington. The Entry Form is available at www.rryc.org and your entry should be faxed to RRYC at 804-438-6650. More information available from Ron Mihills.

Heat-illness Prevention for Sailors

Stuart Burnett on Friday August 10, 2001 10:58AM

(From Scuttlebutt No. 876, an online sailing newsletter)

In light of recent extreme heat conditions here is some information on heat-illness and suggestions for precautions sailors can take.For those who are not familiar with heat-related illness, it can include heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and life-threatening heat stroke. Dehydration plays a significant factor and can contribute to decreased performance, increased injury, and further risk of heat illness. Anyone is susceptible to these conditions, but the young, the elderly, the disabled and those with certain diseases including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes are at increased risk for problems.

Heat cramps, which can be painful, are associated with excessive sweating and are usually, caused by salt depletion. Heat exhaustion occurs when the …

Fishing Bay kids have fun

catesby jones on Wednesday August 8, 2001 02:29PM

Kids have fun racing, crabbing, bowling, fishing, and here is a picture of us in junior week.

Gene Roberts' service scheduled for Deltaville on Saturday Aug. 11

Strother Scott on Monday August 6, 2001 10:01AM

Gene Roberts, a long time FBYC member and Mobjack one-design sailor, died on Wednesday, August 1, of a massive stroke. His service is scheduled for 11AM on Saturday, August 11, in Deltaville at the "Zoar Church Beach Property". It is located off Route 33 East just past Stingray Harbor Marina, facing the Rappahannock River.Zoar Church uses this beach for interdenominational services every Sunday morning at 8:30AM. We understand most people who attend services there bring a lawn chair or a blanket to sit on.

The service is the same day as our Annual Regatta. The skipper's meeting for the annual regatta is scheduled for 10:30AM on Saturday with racing to begin at 11:30AM. We will …

Betsy Carwile medals at Junior Olympic Festival

Strother Scott on Wednesday August 1, 2001 03:24PM

The FBYC Junior Racing team attended the U. S. Junior Olympic Festival and Bay Open Championships this past weekend at Tred Avon where there were 89 optis on the starting line. Betsy Carwile - left - received her medal for 6th place in the Green Fleet (45 boats), and Lucy Kupersmith - right crewed on the 2nd place 420. Congratulations to them both, and thanks to our hard working coaches for putting the program together - and to the Hamiltons for housing the team!

62nd Annual Regatta August 11-12, 2001

Tom Roberts on Sunday July 29, 2001 05:30PM

Fishing Bay will host two days of one design racing on three separate courses for it's 62nd Annual Regatta on August 11-12.Two days of up to seven races on three separate race courses. Invited classes are Optimists (FIshing Bay Course), 420, Byte, Laser, Laser Radial, and Albacore (Godfrey Bay Course) Front Runner, Flying Scot, Hampton One Design and Mobjacks (Hills Bay Course) Tractors will be provided for launching boats. Be prepared to drop boats and gear off at the gate. Cars will be parked in the field on the left past the club grounds. Watch for signs. Attached is a PDF Notice of Race.

Southern Bay Boats do well at Screwpile

Strother Scott on Thursday July 26, 2001 05:31PM

Three boats based in the southern Chesapeake Bay brought home first place silver in their fleets from Screwpile 2001 and 10 others finished in the top half of their classes. The Solomons, Maryland, event hosted 135 race boats in 12 PHRF and one design classes.

First in their classes were John Scott, Check Six , sailing in MORC, John Hanna racing in PHRF A2 in Battlewagon, and Case Whittemore, Patriot, who won the J/29 one design class.

SCREWPILE 2001 RESULTS SUMMARY

SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Screwpile 2001 Results Special for Clubs and Sailing Associations

July 25, 2001

A total of 19 boats from the southern Bay and one from the Outer Banks competed at Screwpile. Here are …

Junior Offshore Sailing Day

Stuart Burnett on Friday July 6, 2001 11:21AM

On Sunday, July 1, the Offshore & Cruising Divisions sponsored a Junior Race Day. Ten juniors and seven adults took out three boats and enjoyed a brisk sail.With conditions somewhat threatening, we decided to forego a formal race and held a more informal "rally" around to Fishing Bay and back. David Hazlehurst, Jimmy & Kenny Cobb, and Stuart Burnett who provided the boats. Thanks to Dick and Jean Cole who prepared a barbeque lunch for all participants.

Junior Week Pictures Available From Kids-n-Motion

Stuart Burnett on Wednesday June 27, 2001 06:11PM

During Junior Week, Kids-n-Motion, a professional photography service which concentrates on youth sports and activities spent two days recording the action of our junior sailors with perfect digital resolution. These pictures are now on sale at their special FBYC JR WEEK web site.Using advanced digital cameras with large, high-speed telephoto lenses, Kids-n-Motion captured beautiful images of our Junior Week experiences. Brad Hopkins, owner of Kids-n-Motion, and his assistants shot over 1,000 pictures of the classes sailing as well as group shots of each class and all of junior week. These were available as key chain viewers in their red tent during the family meal Thursday night. Now these images are available from their internet site in a variety …

Offshore Junior Sailing Day, Sun, July 1

Stuart Burnett on Tuesday June 26, 2001 04:21PM

With Junior Week and the Volvo Leukemia Cup over, it's time to plan for our Junior Offshore Sailing Day on July 1. This is an opportunity to support our Junior Program and build interest in offshore sailing with our younger club members.The focus of the day will be to add some FBYC junior sailors to your normal crew and give then a taste of sailing on BIG boats. Cruisers who are not participating in the July 4th cruise are invited to take like-minded juniors for a day sail while our offshore racing fleet will conduct a series of fun races with the juniors who are interested in racing on big boats.

A "Skipper & Crew Meeting" will be …

53 boats compete - Fundraising reaches over $80,000

Strother Scott on Sunday June 24, 2001 08:41AM

On Friday night at the silent auction at Stingray Harbor Marina , it was announced that the 2001 Southern Chesapeake Volvo Leukemia Cup had raised over $80,000. On June 23, 53 sailboats raced in 15-20 knot winds. The race committee set a full Olympic Course for the spinnaker classes and the races concluded just before intense rainsqualls hit the fleets. At the Gala on Saturday night - under continuing rain - the awards were presented by FBYC Commodore Strother Scott and SunTrust Virginia CEO C.T. Hill. In the Fundraising class, the top award went to Carolyn Schmalenborger, Len Scharf and Dr. Rip Radcliff who raised $31,000. Mike Karn came is second with $10,000, and Chip Powell was third. And …