2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – August 28
We had our final night of the J/70 Friday Night Series at FBYC. The wind was light and the sunlight shorter. Made for one of the prettiest nights I was out.
Category: No Quarter Sailing
No Quarter Sailboat Racing
2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – August 21
Another beautiful night of J/70 racing at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. It was a bit light – but still fun to be out on the water.
2015 FBYC 76th Annual One Design Regatta
We had a windy start for the first day of racing at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club 76th Annual One Design Regatta. Two lasers were unfortunately involved in a collision before the first race that left one boat severely holed and not sea worthy. A broken mast and traveler on other boats rounded out the rest of the carnage.
The second day was much lighter. We hadn’t sailed on the same course as Flying Scots in a while and with 16 of them on the course – it was important to find clear air. In the end I finished 2nd to Charlie Brewer who sailed a great regatta and found a way to win the last race to take the regatta.
2015 FBYC J70 Summer Regatta II
We had a great day for J/70 racing at Fishing Bay Yacht Club in the 2nd J/70 Summer Regatta. With 7 boats and 6-13 knot winds we were able to sail 5 races in the mouth of the Piankatank River with the wind out of the south west.
We started a little slow having not learned our lesson about the current in this part of the Piankatank that we learned during the Laser Atlantic Coast Championship sailed in the same area last spring. And we were also figuring out the boat sailing 3-up with Dave and Andrew. But we got better as we went. The crew work came together and we were able to put the boat where we wanted it. The racing was close with Ron T and Clark/Drake and we wound up 2nd overall.
2015 District 8 Championship: Sunday
The 2nd day of the Laser District 8 Championship at Sayville Yacht Club started out slow with nearly an hour postponement on shore as we waited for the wind to build. As expected it did and we had another 3 races in 8 building to 14. With a little less chop than yesterday afternoon along with some good starts enabled me to stay with the fleet and I even led some of the last race. The downwinds were tough for me – an area I still need to work on.
Sunday’s finishes of 5-7-5 were enough to move up to 7th overall. Another fun trip to Sayville – nice club, well-run regatta (even without the corn on the cob) and a beautiful place to sail and camp.
2015 District 8 Championship: Saturday
Arrived at Sayville Yacht Club Friday afternoon as a junior regatta was wrapping up with 150 sailors scattered all over the place. I got out to practice for a little over an hour in similar conditions to the first day of racing.
On Saturday the wind slowly built throughout the morning and afternoon with a nice sea breeze and mostly sunny skies. The course was a long one and something I hadn’t seen as much of yesterday was the seaweed that definitely slowed us down. And having sailed so much at FBYC I realize I had gotten used to the waves and was a little thrown by the more irregular pattern here. So it was a tough slog through 5 races today where I had some good moments and some bad ones. It was still fun and is a very competitive fleet and I’m sitting right at mid table.
Tomorrow a little lighter winds are expected and 3 more races are scheduled.
2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – July 24
It was another beautiful night for J/70 sailing and Brad, Dave and Ron were aboard for it. There were 3 other boats out and with the lightish wind we were finding our groove and actually holding our own against the other boats. And then the forestay came undone. The spinnaker halyard was quickly lashed to the bow and the sails brought down and we were done for the day. At least we got 3 1/2 races in and didn’t do any real damage.
2015 Leukemia Cup Regatta
The 2015 Southern Chesapeake Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta was another opportunity to have the J/70 out for some racing. Saturday was a 1 race day with thunderstorms approaching and Sunday we got 3 more races in. It was definitely a learning weekend as John, Stuart and Ron got more coordinated in all of the maneuvers – and I had my share of goofs driving. All in all it was a good learning weekend and glad we got some more time in the boat. Here are a few pictures of us in action by Andrea Winner and Ann Gray.
2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – July 3
We had a great night of sailing to start the July 4th weekend with 10 boats on the starting line and plenty of wind. Aboard were Ron, Christin and Stuart. With half of the crew being on the boat for the first time we focused on getting the maneuvers right and getting around the course the best we could. We eventually got chased off the course as some rain started approaching. On the ‘race’ to the dock we had a great vantage point of the 5-wide racing in the channel with boats on both sides calling for water.
2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – June 26
The rain threatened but never materialized and gave us a great night for racing in a 6-9 knot breeze with 6 boats out. We sailed 2 races and then a 3rd to the dock.
In the first race we had a bad start and were behind the whole time. The second race we led the first 3 legs and were passed by E.L.E. who hit the shifts better on the other side of the course.
The 3rd race was to the dock and after leading the first 2 legs we were just edged out to the entrance to the channel and then we motor-raced to the hoist. Thanks again Brad, Mary and Jay for a great night of sailing!