Posts tagged: ICQS
J-Boats' New J-70 Speedster - The Inside Scoop
Blakely H Kimbrough on Monday April 23, 2012 11:23AM
Recently on a typical April, fog-laden Saturday morning in Newport I packed my sailing bag and headed up to Bristol, RI. Agenda for the day included a private tour, led by Jeff Johnstone, of the factory and build process for the new J-70 ‘Speedster,’ and later sneaking onto the prototype hull #1 for a test sail. The J-70 is J-Boats’ most recent installment and much hyped design representing their first new small keelboat one-design in 18 years (since the J-80 from the early 90s). She’s a 22.75ft asymmetrical keelboat sporting a trailer-launch able lifting bulb keel with an all carbon, deck-stepped masthead rig with furling jib.
FBYC Again Invited to Premiere NYYC Event
R. Noel Clinard on Thursday January 19, 2012 12:43PM
The New York Yacht Club has invited FBYC to compete in the 2012 U.S. Qualifying Series (“USQS”) for the 2013 Invitational Cup (“IC”). This is the second time we have been invited to this premiere event. In 2010, the Club Team of Travis Weisleder, Rob Whittemore, Lud Kimbrough and Ben Buhl brought us honor by finishing in the top ten finalist round of the USQS. It is an extraordinary recognition of FBYC for us to be re-invited to the most prestigious event in amateur Corinthian yachting.
The USQS will continue the format in which U.S. teams compete in two fleets of one-design keelboats, as they vie to be one of only three domestic yacht clubs to compete in the Swan 42 with about 20 clubs from 14 nations in the 2013 IC. Unlike the 2010 USQS, in which the boats were the J/22 and Sonar, in 2012, the new J Boat J/70 will be featured with the Sonar when, as NYYC says, “24 of the nation’s most competitive yacht clubs compete” off Newport, RI from September 4 to 8. The top three finishers will earn the right to compete in Swan 42s in the 2013 IC presented by Rolex.
Pictures from the ICQS at the NYYC
R. Noel Clinard on Thursday September 16, 2010 04:52PM
Our Team of Travis Weisleder, Rob Whittemore, Ben Buhl and Lud Kimbrough have returned from racing the NYYC Invitational Cup Qualifying Series where they sailed against some very tough competition which included past Sonar North American Champions and Olympic sailors.
Pictures of the event are posted on FBYC Flickr pages and on the teams Facebook Page
Team Continues Replenishment in Style
Jon Deutsch on Saturday September 11, 2010 08:25AM
Team FBYC completed 6 more races Friday with a 7-11-5-2-12 leaving them tied for 8th in the Championship Fleet of 12, with the three leaders being Annapolis, Eastern and Newport Harbor. After racing, the Team and its supporters feasted on scalding hot steamed lobsters with corn on the cob in the regatta tent on the waterfront at Harbour Court. Today will determine the outcome of the Qualifying Series. The day dawns with continued northwest wind, cloudless skies and zero humidity, in a sailing paradise.
Live ICQS Racing
Jon Deutsch on Friday September 10, 2010 11:41AM
From roughly 11-3 racing will be live at the NYYC Invitational Cup Qualifying Series
FBYC Makes Cut to Championship Round
Jon Deutsch on Thursday September 9, 2010 05:54PM
Fishing Bay Yacht Club is among the top 12 teams that have qualified for the Championship Series at the 2010 NYYC Invitational Cup Qualifying Series. After completing fourteen races in 2 days in both Sonars and J22s, the team advances on to two days of championship racing on Thursday and Friday in Sonars at New York Yacht Club in Newport.
The team began the day sailing the J22 with a bullet in the first race. They followed that with a 6 and a 2 before switching to the Sonar for the final 3 races. After posting solid mid-fleet finishes with one race left, the team had an 8 point cushion for making it into the championship fleet.
In the final race of the day the FBYC had a great start. In fact it was too good. They were OCS and had to return to the starting line to clear themselves. While the rest of the fleet sailed on starboard to the left side the course, the FBYC boat headed out on port to the right. 4 legs later the team of Travis Weisleder, Rob Whittemore, Lud Kimbrough and Ben Buhl clawed their way back to a 9th place finish.
Indian Harbor was the 7th place boat 8 points behind FBYC and had gotten a bullet in the final race. But Rochester finished behind FBYC knocking Rochester out of the top 6 and allowing FBYC and Indian Harbor to claim the final two places in the group to go on to the championship series.
Invitational Cup Qualifying Series Day 1
Jon Deutsch on Thursday September 9, 2010 09:30AM
Wednesday was the first day of racing at the NYYC Invitational Cup Qualifying Series. Our Team of Travis Weisleder, Rob Whittemore, Ben Buhl and Lud Kimbrough were sailing against some very tough competition which included past Sonar North American Champions and Olympic sailors.
The 24 teams are divided into 2 groups with one group sailing Sonars and the other J22 in the morning. Then in the afternoon they switch boats. They will do this for racing Wednesday and Thursday, then starting Friday, the top 12 teams will sail in Sonars and the bottom half in J22.
Conditions to start the regatta on Wednesday were very windy. Initially the race committee forbid the boats from flying spinnakers for the first two races. The wind abated a little bit allowing spinnakers to be used for the remaining races.
After 8 races the team is currently in 7th place (results) in their group. One point out of the final transfer spot to the big show on Friday. Thursday is the final day of qualifying. Real-time updates and pictures are being posted on the teams Facebook Page and racing can be watched live via kattack. There's also an official NYYC Blog being updated during racing.
Good luck today FBYC!
Photo by Armory Ross
Team Practice Video
R. Noel Clinard on Tuesday September 7, 2010 11:36PM
Travis, Rob, Ben & Lud on Narraganset Bay in heavy air with a spinnaker on a J-22.
The FBYC team finished a brutal day of practice in 20 to 30 knot winds in the less familiar J-22 in Newport Harbor, including a screaming downwind run featured in the attached video shot from the coach boat, followed by two near broaches and man overboards. After nursing their wounds and resting for a few hours, the team and its supporters attended a splendid reception on the lawn at NYYC's Harbour Court, where they were welcomed by Commodore Elwell as representatives of 24 of the nation's "preeminent yacht clubs." As one entered the reception, beneath the awning, the FBYC Burgee hung over the entry with 24 other burgees.
Tomorrow, the team will start at 1100 in the Red Fleet in Sonars in the first qualifying round with forecasted winds of 20 knots.
They posted "So the winds came in in the afternoon and we put in a second practice session from 1600 to 1830. Sea breeze at 10-14k. We had to change crew assignments for the J-22 due to the shift in layout, and after 20-30 tacks and gybes we got our 22 rhythm. Bora Gulari's team sparred with us. We feel great, and look forward to weigh in tomorrow morning and 4 practice races afterward." on the team's Facebook Page
Kattack will provide live tracking in Newport next week
R. Noel Clinard on Thursday September 2, 2010 12:42PM
Today our team departs for Newport to participate in the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup U.S. Qualifying Series. Racing begins Wednesday September 8. The NYYC has announced that Kattack will provide live, online tracking of the boats in the 2010 U.S. Qualifying Series. Supporters and members of the invited clubs, and the general public, can access the live tracking through the New York Yacht Club Event web site: http://nyyc.org/2010USICQualifying/
The New York Yacht Club will also post on its web site a daily blog, written by Brad Dellenbaugh, daily photographs and will post throughout the day the preliminary race results. Also, the FBYC Team will be updating their Facebook Page throughout the day.
The NYYC has also issued a press release Whos Who at U.S. Qualifying Series for Next Weeks New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup . The press release mentions that Will and Marie Crump are event co-chairs, and that we should expect stiff competition - including a Sonar World Champion, and an Olympic Competitor in the Finn class.
Best of luck to our team in Newport.
FBYC/NYYC Campaign Practicing in Earnest
R. Noel Clinard on Monday June 7, 2010 08:49AM
For the last two weekends, the club members participating in the campaign for the 2010 New York Yacht Club Qualifying Series Campaign have been ramping up their practice schedule. For several hours, four out of the last five weekend days, a dozen sailors have practiced in the campaign Sonar and two Colgate 26s generously provided by Jim Snowa and Den Roberts. The sailors have rotated through the three boats and various positions to hone their skills in each position and give those with the weighty responsibility for ultimate crew selection an opportunity to assess their talents and team work. Although temperatures have been hot, the winds have been unusually good in speed and direction. Yesterday, while landlubbers suffered excruciating temperatures ashore, the campaigners enjoyed 12 to 18 knot winds steadily from the south as they practiced offshore of Stove Point under blue skys. The practices included dozens of starts and close mark roundings. All participants are getting the benefit of sailing among the best of FBYC in intense college practice type environment. Everyone is impressed with the maneuverability, acceleration, comfort, and straight-line boat speed of the Sonar, and long term interest is growing in building a fleet at FBYC. Soon, the campaign will be adding the tonic of professional coaching to the mix, and retrieving a chartered Sonar from Shumway Marine, the exclusive distributor in Rochester, New York This will help give the Sonar crews the fun of racing in more evenly matched boats.
View Photos of this weekend's practice here.
The Fishing Bay Yacht Club Campaign 2010
Lud H. Kimbrough on Wednesday June 2, 2010 02:36PM
To many observers and sailing veterans, the event dramatically superseded the America’s Cup as the world’s foremost international yachting competition. Ladies and gentlemen, FBYC is going to this party and we won’t be leaning against the wall when we get there. To make this happen our team needs your support.
The 2009 Invitational Cup saw teams from Japan, Germany, Finland, Spain, Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand, England, Italy, France and the United States, including the host and eventual winner, the NYYC. Numerous yacht clubs throughout the U.S. sought to participate in the 2011 Invitational Cup, leading NYYC to establish the 2010 Qualifying Series in Sonars and J-22s to select three U.S. teams to race in the 2011 event. NYYC extended Qualifier invitations to only 26 U.S. yacht clubs, truly a who’s who of great competition, including our regional rival, Annapolis YC.
My Odyssey with the Estimated Prophet
R. Noel Clinard on Monday April 26, 2010 03:27PM
Last week, I drove to Marblehead, MA, to acquire a Sonar, the one-design to be sailed in September in Newport, RI in the New York Yacht Clubs Qualifying Series for the 2011 Invitational Cup. That Sonar (No. 725) is now parked in the one-design area at FBYC with a banner saying FBYC/NYYC Qualifying Campaign. More detail on the Series and the Clubs campaign are provided in last months Log and Lud Kimbroughs article in the next Log, so I dont dwell on those details. Instead, I focus on a lighter hearted aspect of my Odyssey.
Campaign for the NYYC Qualifying Series
R. Noel Clinard on Friday March 19, 2010 01:55PM
As mentioned in a recent Commodore Tabbs Quarterdeck Column, FBYC is one of 26 "pre-eminent American yacht Club's" invited by the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) to participate in the U.S. Qualifying Series for the next NYYC Invitational Cup. The Qualifying Series will be sailed in Newport, Rhode Island, September 8-13, 2010, and the actual Invitational Cup will be September 10-17, 2011. The Qualifying Series will feature fleet racing in Sonars and J/22s in historic Newport, R.I. on the same waters that the NYYC conducted the America's Cup from 1958-1983. This will be the only opportunity for domestic yacht clubs to earn a place in the 2011 Invitational Cup. The top three U.S. teams from the Qualifying Series will receive invitations to the Invitational Cup, where they will join the top six teams from 2009: New York, Royal Canadian, Japan Sailing Federation, Nyländska Jaktklubben of Finland; Royal Cork of Ireland and Royal Bermuda, plus at least 10 other international teams, to be invited in the spring of 2011. The ultimate Cup will be sailed in NYYC Swan 42s.
"We wanted to respond to requests for places in our Invitational Cup, an international competition for Corinthian sailors," said NYYC Commodore Elwell. "Creating this new event will give more American clubs the opportunity to share the stage with visitors from overseas. I am pleased we are expanding competitive opportunities for the event."
This is an extraordinary opportunity for FBYC to excel on the national stage, so all reasonable efforts will be exerted to make a competitive showing for the Club within the Corinthian spirit of the event. Travis Weisleder will lead the FBYC campaign and serve as Skipper for training and for the event, with assistance from: Noel Clinard, who will serve as team logistical coordinator and reporter; Lud Kimbrough, who will integrate the campaign into the fabric of FBYCs Long Range Plan objectives; Frances Kimbrough, who will serve as campaign treasurer; Jay Buhl, who will help coordinate training; and perhaps many others. The funding of the campaign will be provided entirely by the participants and by voluntary donations of generous interested members - which will be solicited and welcomed.
NYYC invites FBYC to participate in the next NYYC Invitational Cup
R. Strother Scott on Friday January 15, 2010 01:10PM
Commodore David K. Elwell Jr. announced that the club has invited 26 pre-eminent American yacht clubs to compete for places in the second New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, which will be sailed in Newport, R.I., September 10-17, 2011. Commodore Elwell explained that a number of yacht clubs in the United States had expressed interest in competing in the inaugural event, held in September of 2009. “This invitation for a U.S. Qualifying Series is in response to that interest,” he said. The Qualifying Series will be held in Newport on September 8-11, 2010.
The invited American yacht clubs are American in Rye, N.Y.; Annapolis; Bayview in Detroit and Little Traverse in Harbor Springs, Mich.; Boston and Eastern in Marblehead, Mass.; Carolina in Charleston, S.C.; Chicago; Fishing Bay in Deltaville, Va; Fort Worth Boat Club; Houston; Ida Lewis in Newport, R.I.; Indian Harbor, Pequot and Stamford in Connecticut; Larchmont, Rochester and Seawanhaka Corinthian, also in New York; Long Beach, Newport Harbor and San Diego in Southern California; St. Francis and San Francisco in Northern California; Southern in New Orleans, La.; St. Petersburg in Florida; and Seattle.
Note: See http://www.nyyc.org/2010USICQualifying/ for more information about this event.