#210 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Thursday August 5, 2004 01:26PM
After the Virginia Governor's Cup, one-design racers will want
to head over to Fishing Bay Yacht Club to the 65th ANNUAL ONE-DESIGN
REGATTA, Saturday and Sunday, August 14th and 15th. Here's
another two day, multiple race series for FrontRunner, Mobjack, Flying Scot,
Hampton, Albacore, Laser, Laser Radial, 420, Byte and Optimist. Three
separate race courses. What's not to like???! So, head for the
Little Sue on the outskirts of Deltaville and follow Stove Point Road to
FBYC. For info contact: Lori Moyer at (804)
342-7404. Yes, camping is allowed. Yes, on Saturday there
will be dinner and music; you provide the dancin' !
Southern hospitality! FBYC invites racers to
park the dinghy 'tween weekend events. Fishing Bay YC
says participants in the Virginia Governor's Cup and/or the Fishing Bay Annual
One-Design Regatta are more than welcome to leave their boats at FBYC for
the interim. The invite is good for Hamptons, Albacores, and Mobjacks
racing at Ware River as well as Mobjacks planning to stay around for the
Mobjack Nationals hosted by FBYC a week
later.
McConaughy wins J30
North American Championship! Dave McConaughy and his crew
went to Barrington Yacht Club (Rhode Island) and came away with the coveted J/30
NA Championship title. The southern Bay homies sailed 8 races and won the
regatta by one point. Our gang finished higher than the 2nd place boat in
5 of the 8 races, including two bullets. The only other boat in the fleet
of 15 with a real chance at 1st place was defending champion
Scott Tonguis' Zephyr. Zephyr had four 1st and two 6th
place finishes, but had to eat one of two DSQs. Competitors were able to
throw-out one of eight race scores. Sailing with Dave
on White Boat, aka #090, aka Kimber, were
Kenny Saylor, Kim McConaughy,
Glenn Gates, Bryce Barritt, Adam
Sammis, Chris Connors, and Henry
Mccray. Congratulations to all! NOTE: Trophy viewings
are held daily at the North Sail loft on Bridge Street, Hampton,
VA.
SEA STAR, RUMBLE,
HAYWIRE, and BLACK WIDOW FIND CCV FOUNDERS RACE
WINS: Amid T-storm warnings, low pressure threats, and
high pressure points battles, CCV got the 2004 Founders Race in the books
yesterday. Sailing off Willoughby Bank (Ocean View), CCV had 38 boats turn
out in the face of the weather channel "doomed, doomed" tone. The RC got a
favorable weather window and squeezed the race in for 38 boats:
RESULTS: PHRF A: 1.Bumps and Dave Eberwine,
Sea Star, J/36; 2.Christian Schaumloffel,
Mirage, Hobie 33; 3.Phil Briggs,
Feather, J/36. PHRF B: 1.Ben Weeks,
Rumble, J/29; 2.Rusty Burshell, Cool
Change, J/30; 3.Neal Garrett, Strega,
S2. PHRF C: 1.Tripp Behm, Haywire,
J/24; 2.Mike Austin, Movin' On, Beneteau FC
8; 3.Alan Bomar, Roundabout, J/24.
PHRF NS: 1.Leo Wardrup, Black Widow, Irwin
38; 2.Jake Brodersen, Midnight Mistress, C&C
33; 3.Justin Morris, The Hunter, Hunter
26.5. PRO: John McCarthy; Mark Boat Skippers: Glenn Giles, Bill
Gibbings.
Screwpile Photos by Dave
Gendell (SpinSheet Magazine) are posted on the web and they
are great. Think super gift opportunity. The web site is
http://savvyoutlook.com/photoGray/2004/screwPile
HOSPICE
CUP X - SUNDAY, AUG 8th HOSPICE CUP X - SUNDAY,
AUG 8th
This coming Sunday, CBYRA
sanctioned event (counts toward CBYRA High Point awards). Venue is in
Hampton Roads Harbor (rendezvous at "R" 20 Hampton Flats). Starts for all
PHRF fleets as well as for a non-sanctioned Hospice (cruising) Class.
For info contact: Glenn Giles (757) 851-9690 or (757)
380-3066. The overall winner of this regatta qualifies to
compete in the Hospice National Invitational Championship Race this coming
spring (2005). Good racing for a good cause. Hurry, enter now.
Racing is this coming Sunday!
Langley Yacht Club's 2004 VETERANS
CUP Goes to Bobby Burnell's Solas: This annual event had
the good fortune of enough wind on a hot and humid day to get the PHRF Non-Spin
Fleet around the 9 mile course laid out north of the Buckroe Beach area
Saturday. RESULTS: 1.Bobby Burnell,
Solas; 2. Bob Rogowski, Rogue; 3.
Larry Bryant, Whisper. PRO: Glenn
Giles.
It ain't all luck! Squeezing a high points race in
between weather events and warnings is not an easy task - Sunday's CCV
Founders Race was an example of the effort involved. Between the time the
RC signal boat anchored and the warning flag for the first fleet was flown,
before making the decision to stay out in the Bay and race, the race committee
sought and received input and real time weather information from the
following: a huge HYUNDAI container ship coming in
the Bay via the Thimble Shoal Channel, the PORTS WEATHER
SYSTEM, and Bill Rice, manager of Hampton YC.
The container ship radio operator provided to the RC an up to the
minute radar report on each of the surrounding T-storms. The PORTS
WEATHER SYSTEM provided the real time actual readings from a number of
weather buoy locations in the area. And, Bill Rice stayed in cell
phone contact with the RC reporting television weather channel radar
reports on advancing storms, wind velocity, lightning strikes and, whether the
TV radar was showing dark green or the dreaded orange for the
individual cells. Thanks to all!
2004 Little Bay Challenge
Fleet Winners: Here are the winners of the four fleets in this
southern Bay club competition won by The Willoughby Racers.
Red: Checks in the Mail, Jim
Williams; White: About Time, Bob
Archer; Blue: Fresh Air (aka
Miranda), John Williams; Yellow:
Halaha, Jeff Rogers. All fleets were single
headsail, non-spinnaker.
2004 LITTLE CREEK REGATTA
- August 6-7. This is a non-sanctioned race, the proceeds of
which go to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. There is
a mandatory skippers meeting Friday, Aug 6, at 1930 hours, at Bay
Point Marina. Event activities center at Bay Point on Norfolk's Little
Creek, just inside the south span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
Complex. Racing takes place on Saturday. For information
contact: Bill Mellen or Mary Moore at (757) 362-4819 or call Little Creek
Regatta at (866) 605-0548.
SAIL FOR THE GUV'S
CUP: The 40th Virginia Governor's Cup - This coming
Saturday and Sunday, Aug 7 - 8, 2004. Albacores, Hampton One Designs,
Lasers, Mobjacks, Moths, Buccaneers, Skipjacks, and PHRF classes.
Hosted in their usual fine fashion by the Ware River Yacht Club on the
Ware River (Gloucester County) and, for the PHRF racers, on Mobjack Bay.
For info contact: Bob Marble at (804) 693-2932.
MURPHY'S LAW: So,
Russell Coutts and Ernesto Bertarelli are splits city. Bertarelli
officially fired Coutts from Team Alinghi early last
week. And, it looks like Coutts will be prevented from helming any
other boat in the next America's Cup. I expect my phone to ring as soon as
Ernesto realizes I am done with my duties at the Tour de France where I was the
chief heel-nipper for Lance Armstrong and US Postal. The
Murphster at the wheel of an AC boat, ears flappin' - just picture
it! Living to race, racing to live. Murphy the Racing Beagle,
the sailing spirit in us all
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