CLUB RACING EVENT SCHEDULERS - RAISE YOUR HANDS!   Tom Roberts has taken on the task of coordinating the One-Design (dinghy) Region 4 and Bay-Wide schedule and the Region 4 North Division "big boats" schedule for CBYRA.  Please, if you are the person who is responsible for your club's schedule (or if you know who is), contact Tom immediately at (804) 843-2682  or email him at  Mobjack@crosslink.net.  The scheduling dance is about to begin - get in the loop now!

2004 Racing Officials Elected:   Randy Alley has been elected the Offshore Division Commander for FBYC for 2004;  Richard Bauer, Jr, will head up FBYC's One Design Division and Noel Clinard the Juniors.

OLYMPIC TRIALS FOR HUNT AND RUSSELL BEGIN THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH AND RUN THROUGH NOVEMBER 16:  Cross your fingers and toes.  Do your best Olympic Games dance.  Polish up your karma.  Do whatever ya gotta do to help pull our Olympic Hopeful Homies, Steven Hunt and Eben Russell, to victory in the 470 fleet!  Now, we are down to it!

FROSTBITE #2:  Feather, Titillation, Callinectes, Impulse, and Aria win fleets in Frostbite Race #2.  The weather was balmy - no sign of any frost - and even though the air was light, the fleet got in the second of 4 races in the series.  Paul Andersen's Titillation arrived in Hampton Roads from Fishing Bay and cleaned up in the B Fleet, finishing first in the water and first on corrected time.  RESULTS:  PHRF A - 1.Phil Briggs, Feather, J/36; 2.Skip Amory, Woof, J/105.  PHRF B: 1.Paul Andersen, Titillation, J/29; 2.Bill Gibbings, Jonathan, NY36; 3.Neal Garrett, Strega, S2 9.1. PHRF C: 1.Ben Cuker, Callinectes, Cal 30-3; 2.Karl Petersen, Valkyrie, Rogers 28; 3.Bob Archer, About Time, Capri 25.  PHRF NS(2): 1.Pam Burdett, Aria, Tartan 34.  PHRF NS(1): 1.Tom Peddy, Impulse, Catalina 32.   PRO: John McCarthy; Signal boat skipper: Jack Pope.

LIGHTNING FLING (November 8 and 9) and HYC ONE DESIGN REGATTA (November 8 only)  are this coming weekend - both hosted by Hampton Yacht Club.  Contact Leigh Morgan for info at (757) 726-9640. Check out the HYC web site too for additional info -  www.hamptonyc.com   The One Design Regatta is open to Lasers, 420s, sailboards, and Vanguards.  And, racers are invited to an Oyster Roast at a nearby private home after racing on Saturday!

 The CCV mega soiree is HERE - CCV Awards Party,  THIS FRIDAY! November 7, 2003 -  Awards presentations, food, drink, dancing to the music of The Remainders!  You just finished a 2003 racing season - let's par-teeeeeeeeeeeee! Contact Dave Bouchard's office staff for info and to make reservations: (757) 484-8388

Caribbean 1500 boats "drifted off " toward Tortola yesterday, marking the start of the 14th annual rally/race to the Caribbean.  A total of 34 boats, the slowest 7 of which left Saturday, departed from Thimble Shoal in light air and swift current.  Marty Steffens in Tidewater did the RC honors for the fleet which spent most of last week at Bluewater Yachting Center in Hampton preparing for the passage.

Don't forget - PHRF Meeting Wednesday night, November 5, (7-9pm) at the Hampton Public Library, Main Branch (Victoria Boulevard).  This is the southern Bay racers' chance to voice suggestions, ideas, proposals, and concerns.  Be active - be there!  2004 fleet splits will be discussed.  For info contact Randy Pugh at (757) 301-2859.

Great Flying Scots in Fishing Bay?  Word is that Fishing Bay Yacht Club may be hosting the 2004 Flying Scot Capitol District Championships in September.

Just for the heck of it, mark your December calendar:  December 26th is the start of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.  The Tasman Sea awaits.

Cheyenne, a.k.a. PlayStation watchers:  Word is the mega cat will be leaving the friendly confines of Hampton Roads , bound for Europe, probably France, within a few days.  Recently she has been "residing" at Norfolk Yacht & CC hoping for the appropriate weather conditions to appear off our coast in which she might set a new 24 hour sail speed record.  Seems the time for that possibility has passed.

When you are at the CCV Awards Party Friday night, dancing up a storm to the music of The Remainders, say "hello" to lead singer Suzi Taylor.  She is one of us - Suzi has logged sailing time on the West Coast.

Andy and Virginia Armstrong, had their family racer-cruiser out Sunday with unusual crew aboard - 2 of the family Labs.  Unexpectedly, one, the lesser experienced,  took an unscheduled dive into the drink, unbeknownst to skipper and mate.  However, good crew work by the other Lab drew attention to the missing crewbie, and the Armstrongs retrieved the overly zealous crew.  Yeah, doggie life jackets were in use!  Happy ending to the story.

MURPHY'S LAW:    Unscheduled dive?!  Says who?  Just testing MOD ... errrr, DOB, recovery techniques.  Hey, us racing dogs gotta  keep our racers straight.   Living to race, racing to live.  /s/Murphy the Racing Beagle

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