Ned Rennolds and Auris Productions were at the club the other weekend with a drone getting some aerial photos of the club and now here's the video:

Fishing Bay Yacht Club from Ned Rennolds on Vimeo.

Atlee High School sailor and FBYC Member Eric Roos won the Singlehanded Mid-Atlatic Scholastic Sailing Association Qualifier and will represent his school at the High School National Championship later this fall.

On Saturday following 1030 harbor start, first gun was 1130. Races were sailed in an easterly ranging from 12+, dropping down to 6 kts. Courses were modified windward/leewards. Four races were sailed until the rain moved in and we lost the breeze, leading to an abandoned fifth race. One protest was filed and heard before dinner.

Sunday morning's breeze started at N/NW at 12kts, shifted due North and then settled back N and dropped in velocity. First gun was at 9:51am. Six races were completed …

Light winds on Saturday plagued the FBYC offshore fleet as they took part in the first of the Fall Series and only 1 race was sailed for the 17 boats in 5 fleets.

Results:

• PHRF-A: Afterthought -Craig Wright
• PHRF-B: GOIN' - Dennis Hannick
• PHRF-C: Cheeky Monkey - Paul & Julie Ann Wash
• PHRF-NS: Chilcoot - Alex Alvis
• J/70: Loonatictu - Noel Clinard

Photo: Cathy Clark

This year the 2014 Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta at Rappahannock River Yacht Club has been moved up a weekend and quite a few FBYC boats are planning on taking part.  88 boats are already registered and range from 18' to over 45' and all of them must be of a design that is 25 or more years old.

This is an annual benefit for the local Hospice organization and FBYC's big boat racing has the weekend off - so consider heading down the Rappahannock and joining the fun.

Regatta Website

FBYC Boats Registered as of 9/16 (scratch sheet)

• CHOMHCHUI - Frank Murphy
• Layla - Durwood Usry
• Onward - Jim Raper
• Thistledowne - Bill McClure
• Mad Hatter - Bob Fleck
• Trilogy - Wayland Rennie
• Kestrel …

Last week at the J/70 World Championship the 3 boats with FBYC sailors saw some tough conditions and some even tougher competition.  All 3 boats with FBYC members aboard sailed in the silver fleet after the qualifying round.

Nostalgia Racing finished 4th in the silver fleet.

Latane Montague on Full Monty was 14th in the Silver fleet

Ron Thompson's NoName finished 30th in the Silver Fleet

RESULTS | PICTURES

3 boats with FBYC ties are taking part in the first ever J/70 World Championship starting today at the New York Yacht Club.  Each of these teams had to qualify through events earlier this year and have been preparing all season to take on the 90-boat fleet.  Good luck guys!

Nostalgia with Blake Kimbrough, Lud Kimbrough, Julia Kimbrough and Rob Whittemore

Full Monty - Latane Montague

And from the Southern Chesapeake J/70 Fleet - Ron Thompson with Len Guenther and Carrie Russell aboard.

After the Wolf Trap Race Ned Reynold's had his drone out and got some great photos of the club from the air.  Check them out:

What a day it turned out to be for the Wolf Trap race with winds 12-19 out of the SSW and mostly sunny skies for 16 boats taking part. 

The race started with a 1/2 mile beat in the mouth of the Piankatank, then a mile run down to C followed by a close reach to Milford Haven and then a beat to Wolf Trap.  The trip back was a Run followed by a broad reach with winds shifting west as boats appoached the Piankatank and switched back to close reaching before the final beat to the finish.

Nanuq put up the best overal time and won the PHRF-A fleet.  Mad Hatter had the 2nd best …

OCTOBER 18-19, 2014

Fishing Bay Yacht Club will host the Laser Masters Atlantic Coast Championship this October.  FBYC has a 30-year history of running the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters and plans to have an even greater bash with this event elevated to the Masters ACC.

Alain Vincey will be back to put on another great dinner and our RC team lead by PRO Rick Klein will be back again to put on solid racing.

Visit the Notice of Race and Register Online before October 13 to get the early discount.  T-shirts will be available to those who register early while supplies last.

Should we have 12 or more Radials sign up by September 30th, a separate start will …

Attention offshore fleet:

We hope you will come join us tomorrow for the annual Wolf Trap Race. The course is an approximate 24.6 nm trek down to the Wolf Trap Light and back again. Tomorrow's conditions will provide us with a beat to the light with a sleigh ride back home. This is the last race of the 2014 Offshore Distance Series.

Following the race, Bonnie Black will be providing dinner for $5 a head. The menu includes:

• Lasagna
• Bread
• Salad
• Cookies

Sounds good don't you think? So come on out!

Fine Print: Notice of race and sailing instructions can be found here: http://www.fbyc.net/Events/2014/09.06.offshore/ssi.dtml

The Stingray Point Regatta was capped with 3 great days of racing with the Stingray Light Distance Race on Saturday followed by buoy racing series on Saturday and Sunday.  Here are the winners along with some great photos:

Stingray Light Distance Race

• J/70: Hotty Toddy - Steve Quiriconi
• PHRF-A: Pursuit - Norman Dawley
• PHRF-B: Mad Hatter - Bob Fleck
• PHRF-C: Cheeky Monkey - Paul & Julie Anne Wash
• PHRF-Non-Spin: Juggernaut - Mike Dale

Stingray Point Regatta Series

• J/70: Nostalgia - Blake & Lud Kimbrough
• PHRF-A: Voodoo 2 - Leroi Lissenden
• PHRF-B: Mad Hatter - Bob Fleck
• PHRF-C: Cheeky Monkey - Paul & Julie Anne Wash
• PHRF-Non-Spin: RedSky - Doug Anderson

Pictures

• Friday
  • Sharon Wake
• Saturday
  • John Hubbard
  • Andrea Winner
  • Sharon Wake
• Sunday
  • John Hubbard
  • Andrea Winner
  • Sharon …

A terrific Social Committee, a squared away Race Committee, and Mother Nature all conspired last weekend to provide racers with an epic Stingray Point Regatta. As is often the case at FBYC, the volunteers made all the difference. This weekend Kelly Lambert and Lucy Norton made an enormous difference. From skipper packages to late night drink ticket sales, and from breakfast treats to rum-spiked ice cream, they were on point. I hope our heroic Social Chairman, Matt Lambert, buys these ladies dinner this week – ‘cause they made him look good.

How did I see this all from the bar? Easy, the skippers and crews from Corryvrecken, Nanuq, Mad Hatter, Airspeed, Afterthought, Cheeky Monkey, E.L.E., Nostalgia, and Juggernaut …

For the third straight time, FBYC will compete in the New York Yacht Club United States Qualifying Series for the Invitational Cup at Harbour Court in Newport, Rhode Island.  This event is the preeminent Corinthian Regatta for American Yacht Clubs.  FBYC's Team consists of Clark Dennison, Caroline Garrett, A.L. Braun and Scot Collins. The event will be sailed in J70s and Sonars, with preliminary rounds in both boats for half day each on Wednesday and Thursday, and a Finals in J70s for the top preliminary teams and a consolation fleet in Sonars for the others, on Friday and Saturday. For more detail see the seeding of the Blue and Red Groups for the preliminaries, Yacht Club …

While visiting Mike and Toni Massie in Nantucket and sailing the Labor Day Series in Mike's Rhodes 19, Noel Clinard attended the Annual Awards Ceremony at Nantucket Yacht Club, where he was surprised and delighted to be awarded the 2014 Vice Commodore's Trophy. He was given the award for his collateral support of the Nantucket Yacht Club's Team for the NYYC USQS during their 2012 Campaign and for his mentorship of the NYC Team for 2014, including Max Bent, Tris Worth, Spencer Verney and FBYC's Sophie Massie, during the J70 Winter Series, in which that tea trained for the USQS on Noel's J70 LOONATICTU.

Check this out - the Google Maps satelite imagry was taken while our offshore boats were getting ready to do a starting sequence just off Gwyn's Island.  Thanks to Phil Strause for pointing it out! See for yourself.

The Sailing Instructions for the Stingray Light Distance Race on Friday and the Stingray Point Regatta Saturday and Sunday Series are now available.

• Stingray Light Distance Race
• Stingray Point Regatta Saturday and Sunday Series

Southern Bay LASER Racers at District 11 Championships.  The 2014 District 11 Championships were hosted Saturday and Sunday at Tred Avon Yacht Club in Oxford, Maryland.  The Championship was part of the TAYC annual Heritage Regatta which also included Stars, Shields, and Log Canoes.  Henry Amthor (HYC) finished 2^nd overall among the 20 title contenders and Jon Deutsch (FBYC) was 6^th in the fleet that was heavily laden with northern Bay area racers, a number from Severn Sailing Association.  There were no southern Bay racers in the 11 boat Laser radial section.  Congratulations to Henry and Jon, who persevered through a light and damp air Saturday to enjoy a beautiful, sunny, breezy Sunday.  …

August 29-31 FBYC will host the 20th Annual Stingray Point Regatta and all FBYC members are invited to participate Stingray Point Regatta night dinner Saturday, August 30. Asocial/dinner only sign up page is now available here. This is great opportunity to meet and mingle at the club, enjoy a wonderful catered meal and party with live music  for a very attractive price, so whether you are racing or not please join us Saturday evening at the main club house. Details & signup here.

On the menu Saturday:

• Slow-Smoked Beef Brisket
• Southern Fried Chicken
• Summer Pasta Salad
• Stewed Summer Squash
• Butter pats rolls

Stingray Point Regatta Competitor Registration remains unchanged,  so go to www.stingraypointregatta.org and jump over …