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| FBYC's great crew of volunteers worked tirelessly to bring in boats after the racing concluded Sunday afternoon. |
Well, instead of live blogging from the regatta last weekend, how about late blogging. It was a wild and woolly weekend with no way to do more than race through the winds on Saturday while trying to control my boat yougogirl with the able help of Dwight Timm. I returned from a very full weekend of racing and awards at about 10:30PM Sunday to find lots of real advertising and marketing work to swamp me in Irvington. It's 5:30AM and I'm feeling too guilty about my lack of posting to sleep. Here's the scoop on what was a very exciting, competitive weekend.
Fishing Bay Yacht Club's 73rd Annual One Design Regatta attracted 120 boats, some chose to pull out due to the heavy winds Saturday. Many of you have already seen Lin McCarthy's Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use. Please note that RRYC's member Frank Birdsall, a mere 82, won first place with his RRYC crew mates Tom Richardson and Tom's daughter Hannah Richardson age 15. They're all terrific racers. Hannah was registered to race in the Laser Fleet but made the smart decision to pull out and join the Typhoon racers after learning the weather report.
Not mentioned in the SB Racing News report are the second and third place winners in each category. In the Typhoon racing, RRYC club member Gary Hooper and his crew mate Mike Kennedy narrowly took second from RYYC member Chuck Carmichael who narrowly beat out RRYC's Ned and Stan Crockett and yours truly racing with Dwight Timm.
Here's its Monday morning recap:
Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use # 603
SBRNYCU is an independent weekly publication of southern Chesapeake Bay racing happenings. Founded in April, 2000.
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 (6 boats) – Frank Birdsall ; Flying Scots (33
boats) – John Aras; Albacore (6 boats) – Barney Harris; Lasers (10
boats) – Dan Herlihy; Lasers Radial (3 boats) – Luke Hayes; Thistles
(4 boats) – Robert Perera; Windmills (10 boats) – John Danneberger.
Optimists (17 boats) – Guthrie Braun. Event Chairmen: David
Hinckle and George Burke; Event Principal Race Officer and Front
Runners, SJ21, and Typhoons – Rick Klein; Race Officer Flying
Scots – David Lee; Race Officer Albacores, Lasers, Lasers Radial;
Windmills and Thistles - Allan Heyward; Racer Officer Optimist –
A.L. Braun. For complete results, please go to www.fbyc.net
