#183 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday January 12, 2004 08:58AM

CBYRA REGION 4 DINNER AND AWARDS PRESENTATION:  Saturday, January 31 - Hampton Yacht Club.  5:30 - 6:30 pm social hour with complimentary beer and light snacks (and cash bar);  6:30 pm buffet dinner (menu includes salad, assorted vegetables and potatoes, slow roasted London broil, baked Grouper filet, southern fried chicken and assorted desserts.  Presentation of awards follows dinner.  Cost is $20 per person.  To make dinner arrangements call HYC at (757) 722-0711.  For additional info contact Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.  CBYRA High Point Awards for PHRF (all classes) Region 4, Mobjack Class bay-wide, and Hampton One Design bay-wide will be presented.  Everyone is welcome - racers, non-racers, crew, family, friends, supporters, and any others interested in good food and sailing community socializing!  After all, next to actually sailing, socializing with others of the sailing persuasion is one of the best things we do!
 
The "Gotta Have" Regatta Bag:  Screwpile Challenge organizers have come up with a nice incentive to register early, really early, for the 2004 event (July 18 - 20).  Submit your entry form and fees on or before February 29th, and you'll get the official regatta bag with skipper's name and boat name embroidered under the regatta logo.   There are 10 boats already registered for the 2004 Screwpile Challenge.  Get entry forms and check out Screwpile info at  www.screwpile.com
Boat Yard Birds:  Part of getting ready to race involves the boat yard visit.  A number of the southern Chesapeake Bay fleet already are perched in the yards, ready to receive TLC.  Here's the down and dirty, actually up and dry, skinny.  Jim Williams' Checks in the Mail is guarding the entrance to Cobbs in Norfolk.  Also there is Scherherazade (Sledd Shelhorse) and a still out of the water (for a number of years now) Chesapeake.  And, at Norfolk Boat Works,  About Time (Bob Archer) and Slowdance (Buk Lawrence).  Meanwhile, across Hampton Roads harbor gathered at  the Bluewater Yachting Center yard  are Cheryl Lea (Ben Weeks), Bumps and Dave Eberwine's Sea Star, Roy Tate's Sunrise, and Richard Payne's Miss Anne Thrope.   Over on the Peninsula, Mike Austin's Movin' On inhabits the slip beside the lift ramp at Wormley Creek Marina  while 5 others form the jack stand brigade.  High and dry looking over Wormley Creek are  Cool Change (Rusty Burshell), Strega (Neal Garrett), Nuance (Jim Bordeaux), Calamity (Roger Worthen) and Excelsior (Steve Ritz).
ATLANTIC SAIL EXPO, January 15-18, at Atlantic City Convention Center.  Call 800-817-SAIL for info seminar schedules, and show info.
 
Up the [James] River without a race?  John Wandling (Rebecca J), who now lives at Gatling Pointe (Smithfield), would like to hear from skippers in that area whose competitive juices are drying because of  a dearth of "big" boat racing in the area above the James River Bridge (Pagan River - James River).   John and some friends have put together a group called the White Shoal Sailing Club and hope to remedy the localized symptoms of racelessitis.  Contact John Wandling at  (757) 357-9799.
 
CCV Officers and Board will meet tonight to plan for the 2004 season.  Input from racers has been solicited.  You can email your comments to ccv@ccvracing.org or go directly to a Board member.  Keep in mind, rating issues and rating certificate policy concerns and comments should go to your PHRF delegate and/or handicapper (not CCV).  Check your 2003 CCV Racing Guide for a copy of the General Sailing Instructions and/or the CCV (specific) Race Instructions. 
 
But, have you seen the schooner Virginia lately?  Among others, more than 1,500 school kids have visited her, touched her, and learned about her.  600 more youngsters from the Chesapeake school system are set for a special visit in February.  Word is the craftsmanship going into Virginia is absolutely beautiful.  Now, is the time - go see our schooner.  Regular visiting hours are every Saturday, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.
 
York River Yacht Club initiated their Annual New Year's Day Race event on January 1, 2004.  Top 3 finishers were:  1. Steve Bowen, Dream On, S2 7.9;  2. Jim Bordeaux, Nuance, Ranger 30;  3. Mike Mastracci, Four Seasons, J/30. 
 
Join Up Time is here:  Watch for next week's SBRNYCU (issue #184) for listing and capsule explanation of organizations/sub-groups the function of which racers need to understand - i.e.  CCV, CBYRA, PHRF, COD, OD and US SAILING.
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  It's easy to identify racers headed for Key West Race Week. They're the ones wearing boat shoes instead of mukluks and sailing gloves instead of mittens. And, oh yeah, BIG smiles!  Living to race, racing to live.  /s/ Murphy the Racing Beagle
 
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