73rd ANNUAL ONE-DESIGN REGATTA at Fishing Bay Yacht Club experienced thunderstorms and heavy rain on Saturday afternoon, but yesterday brought a gentle 5-8 from the North. The 112 boat regatta raced on four courses including a special Optimist course for 17 youngsters. The San Juan 21 fleet of 14 boats was sailing for the class (East Coast) National Championship. Branin Thorn won the spinnaker group title and Mike Evans the working sails group for 2012. John Aras sailing in the Flying Scot Fleet won the John R. Hawksworth Trophy which recognizes the best sailor in the most competitive fleet. The winners for the classes racing are: Front Runners (9 boats) – Matthew Braum ; Typhoons …
This Saturday, August 18th, is FBYC’s annual Smith Point race and, as always, promises to provide skipper and crew much needed quality bonding time before the upcoming Stingray Point Regatta. So sail off those summer doldrums and come out Saturday…The first warning is at 1400 – for full NOR and course information visit http://www.fbyc.net/Events/2012/08.18.offshore/ssi.dtml.
And…to sweeten the deal, there will be a 5 star breakfast on Sunday morning at 1000 prepared by FBYC’s very own Cheeky Monkey team, the menu features made to order...
Crabmeat omelets, western style omelets, shrimp and grits, Chesapeake style Bloody Mary’s, homemade Béarnaise and more...
The 73rd Annual One Design Regatta was a huge success with 112 boats racing. Most fleets sailed 6 or 7 races and John Aras sailing in the Flying Scot Fleet won the John R. Hawksworth trophy. Here is some video of the events including the rain shower that came in just after most of the boats had returned to the dock on Saturday afternoon.
The Fishing Bay YC Sonar Team, Blake Kimbrough, skipper, John Wake, jib/bowman and tactician, and Matt Braun, middle crew, finished 7th of 17 at the Sonar New England Championship Regatta sailed this past weekend in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Races were conducted just outside Falmouth Harbor by FYC in moderate to heavy air and massive 3-4 knot Woods Hole current. The team was very competitive in boat speed and were 4th after day 1, but slipped to 7th on Sunday.
***STINGRAY POINT REGATTA – August 31 – Sept 2. Celebrate Labor Day Weekend at a long standing southern Bay regatta racing on the Bay (in the vicinity of the Rappahannock River) off the mouth of the Piankatank (Deltaville area), hosted by …
The most anticipated event of the summer is just around the corner for the sexagenarian set (age 60 & over) as well for sleek Classic boats. The ranks of Club membership are swelling with a growing number of candidates for the Legacy of Sail Regatta on August 25…that’s just one week before the club’s signature Stingray Regatta over Labor Day weekend.The NOR has been changed so please read on.
Being rebranded with a new name (though still whimsically nicknamed the ‘Geezer Regatta’), the Legacy of Sail Regatta: Classic Boats & Vintage Skippers will also include not only One-Designs, but Classic small boats as well. Other changes this year will allow non-FBYC sailors to skipper O-Ds and Classics and will …
Prophet, Sonar 725 packed and ready to depart to Falmouth MA and Rochester NY as the FBYC team preps for the NYYC US Qualifying Series in September. See details and a plea for contributions in the August Log.
This Sunday’s Laser Summer Regatta was well attended and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. The conditions challenged 10 full rigs, and one radial with very shifty wind that got lighter as the day went on. All this kept the RC busy dealing with wind readings between 45 degrees and 125 degrees.
All of the races were very competitive, with numerous position and lead changes, as well as photo finishes. This close racing carried through to the end, as the overall standings for positions 2-5 were not decided until the last 100 yards of the last leg of the last race. The top 5 finishes after 5 races were:
Come Laser sailing with us at FBYC Sunday! Weather looks great and we are expecting a solid turnout.
Schedule is registration at 9, Skippers Meeting @ 10, 1st gun @ 11, no races starting after 1600. Register free online. The social folks would appreciate this, to know how many to buy for.
The forecast is calling for high 80's. Hopefully we get a day like today, which Alain will tell you, was about picture perfect. He got three hours of fine sailing in this afternoon in a solid 15 knots of breeze.
Brad Squires is in charge of social, so count on some good stuff. No pressure there, Brad.
Last week, twenty-one area youth participated in the Middlesex Family YMCA’s junior sailing camp hosted by FBYC. Head Coach Eric Bokinsky and YMCA Director Rosabeth Kisman led the program with coaches Nick Baez, Will Bomar, Ben Buhl, Sam Russell, and Conrad Roos managing the mayhem. Some participants were returning veterans looking to improve their skills, but most of the attendees learned to sail for the first time. This year, two YMCA members who attended FBYC’s Junior Week assisted the YMCA coaches as Counselors in Training. This year the teacher/student ratio was dramatically increased so class could be divided into three sections, according to age. This provided more intensive training and much greater learning accomplishment, as well as improved safety …
During several islands stops on Virgin Gorda, Marina Cay and Jost Van Dyke, we noticed that other visting yacht clubs had left a momento of their home club. Not to be outdone from our friends in Annapolis, we decided to leave our own tribute to FBYC.
May 5th -12th - Chartering a boat in the British Virgin Islands has got to be one of the pinnacle vacations a sailor can plan, and for our family this was a trip we had planned for years.
This May, we chartered two 44ft catamarans from Sunsail out of Tortola. FBYC families Kathryn and Jason Angus with Richard and Kay Clary on one boat; Patti and Will Angus on the other.The week was spent …
Congratulations to Clark Dennison, along with his able crew Jen Holzer, for handily winning the 2012 FS Spring Series. Thirteen boats participated in the series. Phil Webb edged out Jay Buhl for 2nd place and 3rd place.
“Mad Dogs and Englishmen [and sailboat racers] go out in the mid day sun”, or words to that effect, and seventy (70), some meeting overlapping criteria, went out on a sizzling race course off Stingray Point both days this past weekend for a very good cause – the 14th Annual Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta. The event was two days of racing and additional days of shore side happenings, including a Friday evening special “Meet and Mingle” with Gary Jobson, National Chair of The Leukemia Cup Regatta. The record setting heat conditions required some chutzpah on the part of the racers and some creativity on the part of race officials. Nevertheless, each of the fleets got in …
Did you know that our CBYRA Delegate, Tom Roberts, was actually Dr. Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence as the Georgia Delegate to the 1776 Continental Congress!! Tom/Dr. Hall in full regalia after the sold-out closing performance last night of "1776, America's Musical", at the Kimball Theatre in Colonial Williamsburg. Ask Tom to show you a little minuet two step.
Social Chair Jon Moody will host an informal 4th of July cookout at the club on the afternoon of the 4th. The cost of admission is a side dish of some sort. The club will provide dogs and drinks plus beer for the racers. If you are interested in attending the cookout, contact Jon at themoody5@msn.com or call his cell at (804) 334-0893.
4TH OF JULY – INDEPENDENCE DAY – Celebrate yours – go sailing!
As southern Bay racers we sometimes suffer tornados, hurricanes, storm surges, nor’easters, thunder boomers, hot spells, windless days, and gales. All of which are cancelled out by one day as glorious as this past Wednesday, when close to 40 boats raced in Hampton Roads and more raced in other groups including those off Little Creek, in the York River, and elsewhere. All were accompanied by race committees and spectator fleets. Mid-week casual racing at its most enjoyable. Get it while you can! SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE CHALLENGE entries hit 109 and still climbing! SPLC continues to accept entries until noon, Wednesday, July 11th …
Cause of devastation at the Deltaville Maritime Museum on July 18 is being investigated. Building and collections considered a total loss.
