French Bay Yacht Club

Matt & Hamish second in JB Nationals

thomgus — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:13:24 +0000

Congratulations to FBYC’s J88 crew who took out a convincing
second at the Jolly boat nationals held at Maraetai over three days
and 9 races in mainly fresh conditions. Matt and Hamish revelled in
the breezy and choppy seaway putting in very strong performances on
the beats, leading several times round the top mark, and then having
to ward off the lighter crewed boats and single-handers on the
downwind legs. A brilliant effort particularly when considering
Matt’s lack of “boat” time this season due to his efforts with the
junior sailing….well done guys!!!

The regatta was one for the Marks, with the two handed section being
won again by Mark and Daniel Orams from Torbay with a very slick and
convincing performance, and with wily local Mark Winters (Maraetai)
stealing the single handed title once again; also noteworthy in that
Mark is confined to a wheel chair when on dry land!

FBYC had a good showing in the team stakes with Matt & Hamish, Paddy,
Rene’, Don McBeth and myself making up the team, only to have Maraetai
win the team “Bust” trophy in the end. Bringing this trophy to its rightful home
at FBYC will thus have to wait for next year.

As on occasions just getting to the start line upright was an
exhilarating challenge, Rene’ is to be congratulated again on his
Handicap win and managing to complete all races in a gruelling three
day regatta for his first JB nationals. No mean achievement!

Don McBeth also deserves special mention for his endurance in the
conditions as a relative new comer to the fleet. Don’s tenacity in
sticking at it when younger sailors had thrown in the towel is
testament to his effort.

It was great to also see Paddy out there and being competitive and
“threatening” too. We crossed tacks numerous times on the beats with
Paddy getting home first, and with credible top 10 placing, on
occasions. Unfortunately Paddy’s schedule did not allow him to
complete the regatta on Sunday.

I think all of the FBYC team, myself particularly, learned a lot from
sailing in the bigger fleet, with the Finn’s on a course alongside us, in the
planing conditions, and from studying the set-up of the other Jollyboats. A
thoroughly great regatta with our team putting in an enthusiastic and
promising performance.

Well done.

North Sails Opti tuning guide

frenchbay — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:08:32 +0000

http://onedesign.com/tuningguide/pdf/north-optimist-tuningguide-low.pdf

Junior Race Results 21 Feb 2010

frenchbay — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:23:09 +0000

Wow, what a day that was. Perhaps the best conditions yet this summer.

Great to see so many learn to sail helmspeople out with Peter, hopefully soon some of you can try a hand in the racing fleet.

Race 1 was won by Hamish very closely followed by Max and Logan.

The wind got up a bit for Race 2 and Megan shot to the front again followed by Max, and Anton (whose birthday it was today !! Happy Birthday Anton !!)

Good starts in both races (sorry the hooter was late for race 2, we were talking to port tack offenders). Remember being on port at the start is only asking for trouble and penalty turns, better to sail down the line on starboard if you are early.

Sailor of the day has to be Logan, who sailed the best race of his season to come in 3rd in Race 1. And in race two stayed cool as his boat turned into a submarine again. When water starts coming over the front of your Opti it’s time to move back in the boat a bit. Check this video for how to use your body weight to bounce the opti over waves going upwind : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPdCOmpGl8c

Thanks to Brendan and Andrew for their running of the races and totally excellent course laying. And to the shore team for all the food and Ross, Phil and Don for manning the rescue boats.

See you next week.

Division: Optimist (15 boats)

Pos	Sail	Boat	Skipper	17	18	Total Points	Pos
1	3734	Swift	Hamish	1	4	37.00	1
2	3752	Marooned Lemon	Max	2	2	38.00	2
3	0		Megan	5	1	42.00	3
4	2646	Black Attack	Anton	[6]	3	44.00	4
5	3956	Cheetah	Logan	3	10/DNF	80.00	5
6	2182	Minnie Me	Thomas	4	5	99.00	6
7	?		Whetu	7	7	127.00	7
8	CLUB 2		Alexander	8	6	128.00	8
9	3634	Pink Panther	Marion	10/DNF	8	153.00	9
10	CLUB 5		Ben	16/DNC	16/DNC	165.00	10
11	3026	Blu Tack	Oliver	16/DNC	16/DNC	178.00	11
12	CLUB 4		Dan	16/DNC	16/DNC	184.00	12
13		CLUB 7	Sean	16/DNC	16/DNC	201.00	13
14	CLUB 6		Joe	16/DNC	16/DNC	203.00	14
15	CLUB 1		Rupert	16/DNC	16/DNC	220.00	15

Notes

⁽¹⁾	Scoring System is ISAF Low Point 2005-2008
⁽²⁾	Finishes in [brackets] denote throwouts

Junior Race Results 14 Feb 2010

frenchbay — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:33:48 +0000

Great racing today, and well done to all for keeping it close. Starts were good under the flag system which you all got the hang of quickly … and there was a thrilling finish to race 3 between Max, Anton and Megan.

It was Max’s day scoring two wins, well done there Max.

Logan was on good form, particularly on the first legs with good starts.

Joe, Alex and Sean you all did great today. Just remember to keep your boat moving fast at all times, especially upwind to the top mark. Keep the mainsheet in and the power in the sail. We’ll try some tacking drills next week to help you work on this.

Here are the results from today + the points. Just four points now between the top four !

America’s Cup history may be made tonight : coverage starts at midnight !

See you next week.

Division: Optimist

Pos	Sail	Boat	Skipper	15	16	Total Points	Pos
1	3734	Swift	Hamish	3	6	32.00	1
2	3752	Marooned Lemon	Max	1	1	34.00	2
3	0		Megan	2	3	36.00	3
4	2646	Black Attack	Anton	5	2	36.00	4
5	3956	Cheetah	Logan	6	4	67.00	5
6	2182	Minnie Me	Thomas	4	8	90.00	6
7	?		Whetu	9	9	113.00	7
8	CLUB 2		Alexander	8	12/DNF	114.00	8
9	CLUB 5		Ben	16/DNC	16/DNC	133.00	9
10	3634	Pink Panther	Marion	16/DNC	16/DNC	135.00	10
11	3026	Blu Tack	Oliver	7	5	146.00	11
12	CLUB 4		Dan	16/DNC	16/DNC	152.00	12
13		CLUB 7	Sean	10	7	169.00	13
14	CLUB 6		Joe	11	10	171.00	14
15	CLUB 1		Rupert	16/DNC	16/DNC	188.00	15

Notes

⁽¹⁾	Scoring System is ISAF Low Point 2005-2008
⁽²⁾	Finishes in [brackets] denote throwouts

Maraetai Centreboard Regatta : Sat 27 Mar

frenchbay — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:01:04 +0000

Saturday 27th (lay day being Sunday 28th)

MSC Sailing Regatta 1b Low Res

Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta

frenchbay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:14:02 +0000

Monday February 1st.

www.regatta.org.nz

J14s, Sunburst and Opti Green sailing at Northcote/Birkenhead, easy launching and great spectator viewing from the wharf.

Lasers sailing at Tamaki.

Junior Sailing : 6th December

frenchbay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:22:09 +0000

These are provisional results with one discard allowed every 5 races since the season start. In the previous result tables there was only an allowance for a single discard, shown in [square brackets] … and as not everyone has sailed every race and everyone has had at least a couple of bad races it seemed fair to up the allowable number of discards to two.

This makes is very close between the top 4 as with one more race everyone gets to drop a 3rd worst result.

Last race day of 2009 : Sunday 20th 12:30 start
Sunday the 20th will be a fun day, we have some surprises planned … any fun races we hold will not be counted towards the series points and you must bring to the beach a water pistol, christmas decorations for your boat and be prepared to get wet. Mum or Dad should be prepared to get wet too.

Pos	Sail	Boat	Skipper	12	13	14	Total Points	Pos
1	3734	Swift	Hamish	1	1	3	29.00	1
2	2646	Black Attack	Anton	2	2	2	34.00	2
3	3752	Marooned Lemon	Max	3	3	1	41.00	3
4			Megan	[16/DNC]	[16/DNC]	16/DNC	47.00	4
5	3956	Cheetah	Logan	6	4	5	73.00	5
6	2182	Minnie Me	Thomas	8	7	4	94.00	6
7	CLUB 2		Alexander	4	5	10	110.00	7
8			Whetu	7	8	7	111.00	8
9	CLUB 5		Ben	9	9	9	117.00	9
10	3634	Pink Panther	Marion	11	11	8	119.00	10
11	CLUB 4		Dan	16/DNC	16/DNC	16/DNC	136.00	11
12	3026	Blu Tack	Oliver	5	6	6	150.00	12
13	CLUB 6		Joe	10	10	12/DNF	166.00	13
14		CLUB 7	Sean	16/DNC	16/DNC	16/DNC	168.00	14
15	CLUB 1		Rupert	16/DNC	16/DNC	16/DNC	172.00	15

Wakatere Junior Regatta Sat 12 December

frenchbay — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:37:43 +0000

This weekend there is an open meeting for Optis and Starlings :

http://www.wakatere.org.nz/

Wakatere Junior Regatta 2009 NOR

Supercity NOR April 2010

frenchbay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:09:15 +0000

P class, Starling, Splash, Laser Radial, 420, 29er, Techno and RSX classes

Supercity 2010 NOR : Download here

New Year Day Regatta NOR

frenchbay — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:20:36 +0000

You are all invited to the Clarks Beach New Year Day Regatta … Entry Form and NOR here