If you are looking for crew for this weekend's Leukemia Cup, please contact me at paul.wash@webnext.net. We have several people interested who really want to get on a boat.

The Leukemia Cup preliminary scratch sheet has been posted. Look for updates during the week as more boats enter and we refine OD classes and sub classes. There will once again be two courses. One for the PHRF and OD classes and then one for the Classic and Cruising boats, including the Typhoon OD class. If you have any questions, please contact me at paul.wash@webnext.net.

Keep your eyes on these southern Bay youngsters, who distinguished themselves by finishing in their fleet top 10 at the recent Junior Olympics in Baltimore. In the 51 boat Optimist Fleet, Brenton Amthor took 1^st  overall and won the Chesapeake Bay Optimist Open Championship Trophy; Garett Levy finished 4^th and Trent Levy 7^th.  Among the 45 Laser Radials, Alexander Hanna finished 2^nd, Hannah Steadman was 6^th (and top girl) and Gray Kiger was 7^th.  Among the 21 C420s, Jacob Marquardt and Anna Patterson were 7^th and Victor Lane and Nicholas Baker were 9^th.

10 knots steady from the West makes for a nice racing day and that’s how the …

A few photos from the 2013 Commonwealth of Virginia Junior Championship Regatta:

Interested in sailing lessons in a club-owned Laser or 420?  Or do you have your own boat, and just need the extra training to master the sport on your own?  The Junior Division is pleased to offer Private Sailing

Lessons for Adults from June 24 - August 16th.

Lessons will be tailored to your needs...whether you are learning to sail or a seasoned racer.

Coaching will be provided by accomplished instructors and can be scheduled in 4-hour blocks of time. 

Pricing is as follows:

• One 4-Hour Block ($25 / hour)  = $100
• Two 4-Hour Blocks (8 hours total / $20 / hour) = $160
• Three 4-Hour Blocks (12 hours total / $15 / hour)  = $180

(Note:  above pricing is for club …

[UPDATE: 6/22/2013 FBYC is no longer seeking additional applications and thanks those who have applied for their interest.  We'll be in contact with applicants soon]

Fishing Bay Yacht Club (“FBYC”) is seeking a new Executive Secretary for a year-round parttime job. The position will be salaried with hours averaging approximately 15 per week. The work will generally be performed out of his/her home office, but will be expected to attend Board meetings in Richmond on the second Thursday of every month (6-8PM) and an annual meeting.

The salary will be commensurate with experience.  The successful applicant must possess strong organizational skills, be a good problem solver, self-motivated, self-directed and able to work independently.  …

The Parent's Race is coming up on Wednesday, June 22.  This is a fun opportunity for parents of junior week sailors and other sailors to get out on the water for some fun mid-week sailing.  We'll sail right off the dock in Fishing Bay.

We welcome anyone interested in sailing a laser or 420  to come out and join us.  For anyone who does not have a boat, we will do our best to find one for the evening.  Jon will help find boats, so send an email to jon@jdeutsch.com if you are in need of a boat for the evening.

In order to get as many people on the water as …

A few photos of FBYC Boats at Southern Bay Race Week.

Nostalgia

Double Eagle

Cheeky Monkey

Loonatictu

Mad Hatter

Schiehallion

Wavelength

Nanuq

Afterthought

Shenanigan

Juggernaut

GOIN'

Corryvreckan

SBRW in a nutshell – 89 big boat skippers and crew sailed their brains out for three days in beautiful weather, partied their brains out with rockin’ bands and Gosling’s rum, partook of the downtown pirate festival street skirmishes and swashbucklin’ fun, tried out vendor standup paddle boards, laughed, sang and danced with one another, watched fireworks from the host yacht club lawn and raced, and raced, and raced.  The courses were different each day and to take home an award was no easy task.  The challenges were in the harbor (triangles – multiple races), off Buckroe in the Bay (a distance race) and off Ocean View in the Bay (windward-leewards – multiple races).  The winds were …

In order to bring improvements and needed changes to the FBYC website, we're going to make the site unavailable for a few hours beginning sometime after 10am on Monday, June 3.  We hope to complete our work in a few hours, but more time – days - may well be needed.  Viewing content on the site may work normally or the site may be simply down. Please expect “Zope Errors”, to have trouble logging in to the site and not being able to register for events or post results.

We have been transitioning from our original Zope platform www.fbyc.net  to a newer Django framework http://new.fbyc.net/news/  that serves up the news and …

The 2013 Down The Bay Race was one for the record books.  It was an epic downwind race that smashed the 30-year old record.  FBYC boats taking part included Excitation, Nanuq, Mad Hatter, Wind Dancer & Schiehallion.

Bob Fleck's Mad Hatter won the PHRF-B division and finished 8th overall.  Brad Miller's Schiehallion finished 2nd in PHRF-C and was 12th overall.  Glen Doncaster's  Nanuq was 3rd in A2 and 13th overall. Complete Results.

Here's a writeup that sums it up pretty well from Jon Deutsch who sailed aboard Excitation:

Friday morning we set out on Excitation – a Farr-Dickinson 37 for the Down The Bay Race from Annapolis to Hampton in what would …

URBANNA RACE OFF / ROSEGILL ON

The Deltaville to Urbanna Race scheduled for today, May 25th, has been canceled because of high winds blowing down the river. The social event at Rosegill this afternoon and night will take place as scheduled.

A word to the wise: Driving under the influence this weekend will be severly punished in Middlesex County.

Memorial Day Weekend Private Events:
 
During the upcoming Memorial Day weekend there will be two private events taking place in the main clubhouse. The first event begins Saturday, May 25, at 6:00 p.m. and the second Sunday, May 26, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Although members will not have full access to the main clubhouse during those events, they will have access to all other facilities including the pool, beaches, main clubhouse bathrooms via exterior doors, grills, and cook-out tent on the Fishing Bay side and all Jackson Creek facilities unencumbered. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Rear Commodore Matt Braun at (804)-640-3184 or matt.braun@thalhimer.com.

The final high point standings are posted. Awards will be presented at Rosegill this coming Saturday. Congratulations to the skippers who placed in their classes. Thanks to everyone for a successful 2013 Spring Series. Don’t forget that this weekend is Race to Urbanna. The list of racing entries is a little light so if you intend to race please sign up. While you are at it, remember to sign up for the Long Distance series that starts June 22^nd with the Moonlight Regatta followed by ice cream with Goslings topping. Finally, good luck to those doing Down the Bay starting this Friday.

Offshore Fleet:

The interim high point results have been posted to the FBYC web site. This is for informational purposes only and the scores are not final. The results are organized by fleet. There are 3 pages in each result set. The first page is the summary of daily scores as recorded in low point. The second page is the raw high point conversions, scores, and calculated participation. The third page is the current standings summary and ranking; excluding boats whose participation level did not meet the 51% or greater eligibility requirement. The third page is the page that shows the "final" series results once they are final of course.

Overall, I realize the computation here is different from the …

Since when can the weathermen predict the weather, let alone the future? That’s what many racers were asking before Saturday’s Offshore Spring Series III coupled with a little Back to the Future storm reference. What started out as a miserable day early in the morning turned out to be warm, partly sunny day with 10-15 kt. breezes out of the southwest. To top it off it was a great day of sailing and racing.

Certainly, one thing unpredictable was the results and nobody’s clock was safe this day. In PHRF A, Nanuq not only won PHRF A, but they received the best score for the day with a total of 4 points receiving 2 bullets and a 2^nd. It …

FBYC Spring Series racers got in three races on this past Saturday.  Action will continue on this coming Saturday, May 18^th, as Day 4 of the 2013 series takes place.  For all the race by race details and to figure the current standings, please go to www.fbyc.net and click on the applicable results.

PHRF of the CHESAPEAKE Update:  The difficulty our friends at PHRF have had this year with the ratings database is not news.  However, they have been working away at it and now have more than 400 of the 2013 ratings processed.  So, if you have not applied for renewal (whether you received a renewal reminder notice or not), you …