Here is the NOR for our regatta in Newport. It should be a great regatta and we hope you can all make it and help us to get another local event up and running. Should be great sailing and a variety of compeitition.Â
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Category: FD News
2011 Spin Pole Regatta and updates
Hey everyone. We are still working on getting all of the baots up and running, We have two boats rigged, and the third is nearly ready. Rigging the fourth will take some time, and we will post plenty of information and questions here to make sure we rig her as best a classic boat can be rigged, but we hope to have her done for the Cazenovia regattas. We will add some pictures soon.
In more exciting news, I would like to remind everyone to save the date for our Spin Pole regatta in Newport, the 17 and 18th of september. Since the North Americans will be in Canada in August, and the HPDO on long island sound in October, we will work out storage for boats between events as needed. Please make the time to come down and help us get another local event on the calander. Official NOR is coming soon… Hope to see you there.
Noroton FD Nationals
Lin Robson along with GBR crew Richard Philips showed he would not be denied a return to leader of the pack at Flying Dutchman National Championships, hosted by Noroton Yacht Club. Long Island Sound delivered a three day event that had pretty much every condition, although without the 20 plus conditions of the last Noroton event. Strategy, cool heads and perseverence paid off as generally lighter conditions with local breezes but also persistent shifts combined with a variety of current conditions to challenge the competitors the entire regatta.
DWI- July 17th-22nd
Hi there!
I’d like to add Dinghies Whidbey Island to the race calendar up here; it fixes to be the premier event for sailing in the PNW. Last year was the first year of dinghy racing, and this year we’d like to have 7-10 boats on the line.
Whidbey Island is a ferryboat ride away from Seattle, and is well- known as “summer camp for grownups”, with bands, volleyball tournaments, alcoholic beverages, and comisserating with other sailors.Â
The racing will be July 17th-22nd, and should be very well run by the race committee. The website for the racing is here.
Davis Island Regatta Results
March came in with some vigor (at least for one day) as the FD fleet joined other classes at the Davis Island Yacht Club recently for their Midwinter regatta.
The event actually started as the Fireball Midwinters, but over the years other classes have been invited to join. The regatta is now known as Fireballs and Friends. DIYC is a very active, sailing oriented club that hosts many noted regattas each year.
Davis Island
We are trying again this year to participate in the Fireball & Friends Regatta at the Davis Island Yacht Club. This is a good venue on the other side of Tampa Bay NE of MacDill AFB. The location tends to provide better wind this time of year and Davis Island YC has an active racing community and race management group. We would like to make this a regular deal.
2011 Midwinter Championship
FD teams from as far away as California, the Northeast and Ohio converged on the St. Petersburg Yacht Club for a three day weekend of sailing and get togethers. We shared the bay Saturday and Sunday with the Snipe fleet.
Conditions ranged from 2nd grommet for a lighter team on Friday, to lighter the rest of the series, but in the end seven races had been ably run by the SPYC race commitee. There were the usual current and particulars of a north breeze that St. Pete is famous for, with dividends being paid to those selecting the correct (usually left) orientation to the strong flood current upwind.
NY400 Recap
With challenging winds, current and local traffic, part 1 of the NY400 FD Championship completed after two days of racing. The third day of racing for the first regatta was canceled on Thursday due to 30+kt winds on New York Harbor. This resulted in first place for the van der Pol brothers, Bas and Marc of the Netherlands.
President’s Note
Welcome to the new USA Flying Dutchman website! We are pleased how it has turned out visually. But more importantly, the entire site is filled with features that will hopefully involve all class members, as well as friends of the FD class. We thought long and hard about this project before starting. Just coming up with a bright shiny and new website would be nice, but hardly worth the effort. We have very specific goals with this new design which are:
- Help fleets grow with an integrated set of organizing tools
- Foster a community with dynamic information and idea sharing
- Build an extensive, search-able body of FD knowledge on many subjects over time
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2011 FD Nationals Announced
Noroton Yacht Club has announced sponsorship of the 2011 Flying Dutchman National Championship, to be held over Memorial Day weekend. NYC, home club to Job Sandberg, former North American Commodore, was also the site of the 2006 Nationals that provided great Long Island Sound conditions and was immortalized in some of the great photography by Kevin McCabe. Notice of Race and associated information to be published soon.