#208 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday July 12, 2004 03:04PM

2004 LEUKEMIA CUP REGATTA WINNERS: 66 boats took to the water Saturday on behalf of the Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup. The event garnered more than $150,000, the preliminary amount reported.  Here are the racers who won their fleets: PHRF A:  Rob Whittemore, Patriot. PHRF B: Dan Smoker, Smoke. PHRF Non-Spin: Mac Butler, Jaguar.  Cruising: Booty Baker, Klimax. Classics: Buddy Petzinger, Shinola; Russ Seltzer, Joie de Vie, Sandy Bottom;  and Ric Bauer, Desperado, in their respective classic categories.  Race chairman for the racer course, Case Whittemore, and for the classics and cruisers course, Mike Mastracci.
SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE CHALLENGE 2004  -  JULY 18, 19, 20  -  3 days of knock down, drag out, sailboat racing!    Record number of "big boats" are headed for 2004 Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge:  174 boats are registered for the showdown on the Bay.  Eight clubs have qualified to compete for the Battle of the Chesapeake trophy:  AYC, BCYA, EYC, FBYC, HYC, PYRC, SMSA, and WRSC. For info contact regatta chairman LG Raley at (301) 862-3100 or go to the web at  www.screwpile.com 
 
 
Six More Southern Bay Racers Head for SCREWPILE:  Four of the six are southern Chesapeake Bay boats:  Sea Star, Bumps and Dave Eberwine (HYC); Blade Runner, Brad Davis (FBYC);  Cool Change, Rusty Burshell (HYC), Stardancer, John Blais(HYC).  Two are from North Carolina:  Phantom, Frank Silver (CYC;  Wairere, Peter Hunter (PSC).  These bring to 34 the total number of boats from Virginia and south of the Virginia-Carolina boarder - all Screwpile bound!
 
Recover early from Screwpile, 'cause the CCV Not Smith Point Race is the following Sunday, July 25, 2004.  This one counts for the CCV High Point Championship as well as CBYRA High Point Awards.  The starting line is in the Bay near CCV Mark "Z" and the race is designed to be a middle distance race around fixed CCV marks.  In addition, CCV offers, for this race, a Cruising class (1 headsail only) start.  This race also is one of the 5 qualifying races for the Chesapeake Bay Distance Racing Series.   For info, contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.
 
Polar Express, aka Patriot, , Pam Burdett's "new"  (hull # 484) J/105,  has joined the southern Bay fleet (PHRF A).  She debuted in the HYC Wednesday night races.   Pam raced briefly  her Tartan 34C,  Aria, sail number 501,  in the PHRF B fleet, before doing a numeric turnabout (501 to 105).  Polar Express hails from the fresh water environs of Cleveland.  Pam is searching for a new owner for Aria, so interested parties may contact her directly. 
 
Gremellyn's (Greg Cutter, C&C 30 XL) skipper and crew spotted out yesterday  - tuning up for Screwpile, no doubt.  Lookin' good!
 
Onion Patch standoutPat Patterson's Orion finished 5th overall in the 29 boat IMS Class 1.  That included a first in class in the Newport to Bermuda Race, which was part of the OP Series.  Awesome! 
 
Henry and Barb Amthor are back together, sailing on the same boat that is, and they didn't do half bad.  The dynamic duo, sailing together again in a regatta for the first time in 7 years, finished 5th in the US East Coast 5o5 Championships.  Barb was named  by several upper echelon 5o5 racers the "Best Woman Crew in North America'! 
 
2004 Little Bay Challenge - If you cannot make it to Screwpile this coming weekend, consider Saturday's Little Bay Challenge  on Saturday,  July 17.  This race is not sanctioned and is for non-spinnaker, single headsail racers only.  First flag is at 1300 in Norfolk's Willoughby (aka Little) Bay.  For info contact Scott Almond at (757) 471-2663 or by email at   AnejoShot@aol.com   If you enter before Friday at 1700, there is no entry fee - the price is right!
 
More Notes from the Newport to Bermuda RaceDan Tramell, chief judge for the upcoming Screwpile Regatta,  was Officer in Charge of the Navy 44, Lively.  Lively won  IMS Class 2.  Tramell is no neophyte when it comes to racing to Bermuda.  He has done 5 Newport to Bermudas and 3 Annapolis to Bermudas, 2 of which he won.   CBYRA prez John Dodge was on Donnybrook;  Donnybrook finished 2nd in the IMS Class 8.
 
The FBYC Moonlight Regatta, part of the FBYC Offshore Long Distance Series, offered more than trophies to award winners.  Run on the evening of July 3rd, the fleet got to see great fireworks from all over the middle peninsula.  Fleet Winners:  PHRF A: Bob Rock, Shamrock;  PHRF B: Allan Heyward, La Maga;  MORC: Russ Collins, Morningtide; PHRF Non-Spin:  Eric Powers, Nereid.
 
Henry Amthor Wins Dragon Award at North Carolina Laser Masters Regatta:  The Oriental (NC) Dinghy Club and the Oriental Laser Fleet hosted the 8th Annual North Carolina Masters Championship.  Laser racers sailed in the Neuse River off Oriental.  Southern Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina award winners were:  Henry Amthor (Hampton, VA) - 1st overall and 1st Master;  Martin Willard (Wrightsville Beach, NC) - 2nd Master;  Alain Vincey (Richmond, VA) 3rd Master;  Chris Kakavas (Burlington, NC) - 2nd Grand Master;  George Sechrist (Oriental, NC) - 3rd Grand Master;  Ken Hopkins (Statesville, NC) - 1st Great Grand Master;  Ken King (Oriental, NC) - 2nd Great Grand Master.
 
BBSA SMALL BOAT REGATTA - Saturday, July 31 - venue is the Old Dominion University Sailing Center - for info contact Jean Pattenaude at (757) 543-3029
 
OPTI News -  Norfolk Yacht and Country Club has been chosen by United States Optimist Dinghy Association (USODA) to host the 2005 Opti National Championship Regatta.  This is the second time  in 5 years (1999 Opti Nats where hosted by Hampton YC at Strawberry Banks) this prestigious event has come to the southern Chesapeake Bay.  Kudos to the NY&CC team for taking up the challenge.
 
Sailing Rules Update:  ISAF has published (web) their version of the new (effective Jan 2005) rules of racing, so that national organizations, US SAILING for us, can begin to write their prescriptions.  Expectations are that all will be ready for the January 2005 date.
 
Race for the GUV's CUP -  the 40th Virginia Governor's Cup Regatta - August 7-8, 2004.  In a nutshell, here's the nitty-gritty:  Albacore, Hampton One Design, Laser, Mobjack, Moth, Buccaneer, Skipjack and PHRF classes are invited.  Ware River Yacht Club in Gloucester is the host club.  One design classes race on the Ware River and PHRF on Mobjack Bay.  This is a great event - food, social, racing, racing, racing.  For general information contact:  Bob Marble at (804) 693-2932  and check out the host club web site at www.wareriveryachtclub.com   
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  Right now, delivery strategies are on everyone's mind - leave for Screwpile in time to catch the bubble, stop over or sail straight through, etc.  One skipper, who cannot go to Screwpile this year, but is staying in Hampton Roads and doing the Little Bay Challenge, has his float plan in place already:  leave Hampton the day before the race, stop over at Ft Wool (adjacent to the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel) and catch the next day early morning flood into Willoughby Bay. Racing - ya gotta love it!  Living to race, racing to live.  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all
 
On the way to Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge, so...  no SBRNYCU Monday, July 19th.  Look for issue #209, Monday, July 26, 2004.
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