2016 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – August 26
The last of the Friday night series Brad and I joined Matt and Guthrie on E.L.E. for a light air night of sailing with 2 other J/70s. We ended up doing one race and saw a beautiful sunset.
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Fishing Bay Yacht Club’s J70 Friday Night Series that ran from 2014-2016
2016 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – July 1
Tonight was the first night of sailing the J/70 Friday nights. My Dad came down earlier in the day and we were able to go for a sail in between some storms.
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.
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 J/70 Friday Night Series – August 7
No racing for me tonight as I was preparing to sail in the 76th Annual One Design Regatta – but I did get out and do some RC on what was a rather windy and entertaining night.
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 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!
2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – June 19
We had another beautiful night of J/70 racing on the Piankatank River. The wind was in the 6-8 range. We had 5 boats out and started with 2 one lap races. We had a bit of a slow start, but got our boatspeed a little better and really noticed the difference in speed on the balance of the boat. By the 3rd and longer race we led wire-to-wire and were leading the 4th race to the dock when we put the afterburners(engine) on to beat the rush to the hoist.
2015 FBYC J/70 Friday Night Series – June 6
We started the 2015 FBYC Friday J/70 Series with a nice evening to be out on the water. The wind was a little light – but enough to make a race out of it among the 4 other boats that were out there.
On board were Ron, Brad and Borna and we sailed pretty well hitting the left corner on the first beat while most of the rest of the boats went right. It worked out for us and we had a nice lead until E.L.E. was able to claw us back to pass us in the final boat length to the finish as a puff came from behind.
We started racing back to the dock and gave up when the wind died for good.