#199 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday May 3, 2004 08:39AM

Fishing Bay Spring Series racers take a break this coming weekend with Mike Karn, Insatiable, sitting atop the MORC division, Rob Whittet, Wavelength, leading the PHRF A fleet, and Allan Heyward, La Maga, out front in PHRF B.  Brad Miller, Schiehallion, is in first place among the PHRF Non-Spin racers.  PRO:  Bill Spencer.    Fishing Bay YC Series racers will be off this coming weekend and pick up with the 4th race day on May 16.
 
The 2004 Screwpile Lighthouse Regatta Sailing Instructions are now posted on the Screwpile website  www.screwpile.com   The number of entries continues to mushroom -  58 have already done their entry duties for 2004 (there were 9 entered this time last year). 
NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 9 is MOTHERS DAY -  Take Mom Sailing!
 
CCV Spring Series Race #2 - Scherherazade, Cool Change, Movin' On, and Checks in the Mail took first in fleets yesterday and in at least two cases tightened a grip on the Series lead.  Movin' On, Mike Austin, made the weekend roundtrip from Wormley Creek (York River) and won for the second consecutive week in PHRF C.  Jim Williams, Checks in the Mail, ruled the PHRF Non-Spin group this week too.  RESULTS:  PHRF A:  1.  Sledd Shelhorse, Scherherazade;  2.  David Eberwine, Sea Star;  3.  Bob Mosby, Cyrano.  PHRF B:  1. Rusty Burshell, Cool Change;  2.  Ben Weeks, Cheryl Lea;  3.  Bill Chandler, Rhumb Line.  PHRF C:  1.  Mike Austin, Movin' On;  2.  Bob Archer, About Time;  3.  Bill Peach,  Surprise.  PHRF Non-Spin:  1.  Jim Williams, Checks in the Mail;  2.  Jake Brodersen,  Midnight Mistress;  3.  Ed Andrews, No Problem.   PRO:  John McCarthy;  RC Boat Captain:  Dick Boykin;   Mark Boat:  Bill Gibbings.
 
Remember:  The CCV Spring Series resumes May 16 after a weekend off.  It will be a 2 race day and racing gets underway an hour earlier - Warning at 1000.  .
 
 
NOOD-ers in Naptown:  The Annapolis National Offshore One Design Regatta was sailed this past weekend.  Here's how southern Bay racers did in their one design fleets:  Racing in the 13 boat J/30 fleet, Dave McConaughy's USA 90 finished 3rd  with a string of  14-3-3-1-2-1-1.  The 14th in the first race was an OCS.  Dennis Hannick, Radio Flyer, suffered 2 miscues (a DSQ and a DNF) during the three days that put him 7th among 8 boats racing in the Tripp 26 fleet.    In the 6 boat  J/27 fleet, Mike Dale's Juggernaut  finished 4th.  The NOOD doubled as the J/27s North American Regatta.  Rob Walthenbaugh crewed with Mike and the  Juggernaut  gang in stiff competition.  The Pearson 30 fleet mustered 4 boats on the race course and Stardancer, John Blais,  finished 2nd among the four.  Scott Batchelor, finished 6th, among the 78  J/22s racing !  Alexander finished 46th in the same huge fleet. 
 
Yesterday was the second week for the J/24s racing under their new PHRF rating of 171.  The boats took a 3 sec hit week before last which moved them from their old rating of 174.  The J/24 ODR (PHRF one design rating; i.e., sailing under class configuration, etc.) is also 171.
 
Good Samaritans foiled:  Picture this - the CCV race committee boat was blowing horns and waving flags while announcing a course change to boats rounding the leeward mark Sunday, when out of nowhere came a big, double-decker cruiser, bent on taking the RC under tow.  "Wait! What do you want?" was the hail from the RC boat.  "We thought you were in trouble and we came to help," came back the reply.   (It is a comfort to know, though, that those kind of kind folks are on the Bay.)
 
Congratulations to John McCarthy for earning  Regional Race Officer certification.  John joins two others  from the southern Bay who hold USSA advanced race management certifications - Joe Hallissy (national) and Taran Teague (regional).    Congrats also to Kathy Brady for receiving the USSA basic club level race management certification.  Kathy joins USSA certified club race officers Glenn Giles, Dick Boykin, David Lee, Bill Mellen, Randy Pugh and Bob Thomas from the southern Bay.
 
Raceboat Pedigree TidbitsJohn White, who is a well known grassroots sailor, particularly in the northern Bay area, has moved to J/24s and finished 14th out of 74 boat J/24 Nationals regatta  held two weeks ago in Annapolis.  Here's the southern Bay connection:  Before his current J/24,  John prepared and raced extremely successfully two boats that now compete in the southern Bay fleet:  Bob Archer's Capri 25, About Time, and Dave McConaughy's J/30, USA 090. 
 
Rappahannock River Yacht Club Spring Regatta:  In the Rappahannock River area, racers are still on the rebound from the massive blow struck by Hurricane Isabel last fall. A handful made it out for the RRYC spring regatta, though, and here are the names of the top three in the combined spinnaker class:
1.  Dwight Timm, Silver Fox;  2.  Norm Smith, Flounder;  3.  Anker Madsen, Stephanie. 
 
Skipper/owner of The Hunter (Hunter 26.5), Justin Morris, turned up AWOL Sunday.  Seems Justin suffered from a bug bite - a Lightning bug bite, that is.  He was up on the Potomac racing the family Lightning in a dinghy one-design regatta!   Justin is the CCV Board member who sees that all goes well with arrangements for the CCV racing trophies, including the daily post-race party silverware.  Tom Peddy filled in for him this weekend.
 
The hearty band of racers in the newly formed White Shoal Sailing Club (James River) enjoyed yesterday's great sailing conditions with winds out of the southwest cookin' at 20 knots and gusting to 26.  John Edwards, Recover, Hunter 30, won the day.
 
Red Hat on eBay:   There is a listing on eBay offering a brand new Mount Gay 2003 Annapolis Race Week 300 year hat.  So, if you get it now, you can have it appropriately faded by mid summer and be ready to look  "real"  by the time you hit the prime time regattas this season.
 
Buk Lawrence's beautiful blue Islander 36, Slowdance, is moving from Hampton Creek to Willoughby where her new owners will keep her.  Slowdance was an "optical" favorite on the lower Bay whether racing or cruising.  The new owners do not plan to change her name and indicate they do not think any other name could be appropriate.
 
If you plan to visit the Rappahannock River area of the southern Bay this season and want to do some racing while there, the best points of contact are Rappahannock River YC race captain Tom Norris at (804) 435-2882 and/or Yankee Point YC racing captain Dwight Timm at (804) 462-7119.
 
J/22 Worlds coming to Annapolis (May 18-21):  Southern Bay homie, Steven Hunt (finished 4th in 470s for the 2004 Olympic berth on the USA sailing team), is listed as a strong contender in this upcoming event.  Registration deadline is Friday, May 7.
 
Jack Herbert says sailors can obtain info regarding the Portsmouth Boat Club Merrimac Memorial Regatta for boats under 22 feet long (Saturday, May 29), by checking out the web site at http://portsmouthboatclub.org/Merrimac   This is the regatta that is held at Portsmouth City Park on the river and includes a family-style picnic.
 
 MURPHY'S LAW:  We racers already have burned our socks.  Most have shed the long poly, latex, spandex, mildew proof, tougher than nails underwear.  Next to go will be the smelly foulies. Soon, very soon, we'll be dressed lighter than air and as free as the birds.  Hang in there!  Living to race, racing to live.  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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