#210 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy 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 SaylorKim McConaughy, Glenn Gates, Bryce BarrittAdam SammisChris 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 CUPThe 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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