Friday Night J/70 Practice
This evening I ran some races for a couple of J/70’s out practicing at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. What a beautiful night and a great way to start the weekend!
Tag: Race Committee
Race Committee organizes and runs sailboat races.
2013 FBYC Summer Seabreeze PRO
On Saturday I had the unplanned opportunity to be the PRO (Principle Race Officer) for Fishing Bay Yacht Club‘s Summer Sea Breeze regatta. I was all set to race a Front Runner, but we didn’t end up having a fleet and my crew Stephen Boling came along to help run race committee. Now I’ve been on signal boats and race committees a hundred times for everything from club races to national championships – but this was my first time actually being a PRO. Lucky for me the wind was steady enough not to have to change the course and we were able to get 5 races off for the Flying Scot fleet and all went very well.
Pictures | Results
Last Regatta
Another great weekend in Deltaville. Saturday was probably the last regatta I am going to sail in for the year. It was the Sail Against SIDS/Indian Summer Regatta and we had 3 lasers out. I can’t say I sailed very smart, missing things like the number of laps and major wind shifts. But I made up for it by being fast and won 5 close races. It was fun sailing with Mike and Steve and I want to thank Allan’s crew for putting up with me always wanting our fleet to sail a different course than the other fleets.
Sunday was the Offshore Fall Series #2 at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. I ran the mark boat with Miles. With a strong, cool north wind, we sailed the races in Fishing Bay. Occasional light rain added a little misery. It’s always a sight seeing 15-20 twenty to forty footers racing in the shifty conditions in the Piankatank.
Despite the bad weather, I was able to get some pictures of the action that can be seen here.
Optimist Nationals Follow-up
Following up on the USODA Layline Nationals – the event went fantastic. I was out on the water each day for the entire week with one part of the race committee or another. The social media experiment went very well with a lot of traffic hitting the site, and a lot of people following on twitter and facebook. Being able to quickly post information to the web was great for both the RC and organizing authority to get information out, and for parents/coaches to see the detailed stuff. At some point I’ll be writing up something of a case study to share what I learned with those who want to replicate some of what I did with this regatta.
My vantage point with the RC also enabled me to get some incredible photos. Some of those include a fisheye photo of the start from the bow pulpit, and photos of the start while standing on the goal posts. And event photographer Dave Hein was nice enough to swap spots with me for a race so I could get a few shots from around the course.
I did get some photos of the racing action, but I mostly focused on photos that highlighted the club and community effort to put on the event. Those photos were rolled into a scrapbook that is now in the club library. All of the photos that I took can be found here. These collections are about 93% mine and the rest were contributed by other club members.
For more videos, pictures, results and all of the writing done for the regatta. Check out the event website which will remain up for some time as an archive.
FBYC Annual Junior Regatta
Photos are posted of the 2010 FBYC Annual Junior Regatta. I had a prime vantage point on the Race Committee boat where I was the scorer. It was also a great opportunity to do a trial run of some new technology I’m getting configured. I’ll soon have the ability to take pictures and beam them via wifi directly from my new camera to a computer or website. More on that once I get it completed.
FBYC 2009 Offshore Photos
This weekend I got out to help with Race Committee and photograph the Fishing Bay Yacht Club Offshore Spring Series #2. The complete collection of photos can be found here.