#214 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday August 30, 2004 01:55PM
La Maga takes Spinnaker Class and
Nereid Non-Spin in FBYC Smith Point Night Race. Up on
the Rivah, Rappahannock area night timers did a long turn on a
beautiful evening. The Spinnaker boats went 58.6 miles and the
Non-Spins 42.6. Starting Saturday, mid afternoon and finishing
at the mouth of Jackson Creek in the wee hours of Sunday morning, the dozen
racers saw a constant breeze of 11 - 15 knots throughout. Moonlight
and an ideal racing wind - it gets no better! RESULTS: Combined
A/B PHRF Spinnaker: 1. La Maga, Allan
Heyward; 2. Loose Cannon, Strother
Scott; 3. Shamrock, Bob Rock.
PHRF Non-Spin: 1. Nereid, Eric Powers; 2.
Temptress, John DeJong; 3.
Schiehallion, Brad Miller. RC Chair: Judy
Buis
Old Dominion University grad and sailing standout
Charlie Ogletree won the Olympic Silver Medal for the USA in the Tornado
Class sailing with teammate John Lovell.
It was NOT dark (bright moonlight), and it was NOT
stormy (moderate to light winds all the way) and 29 (of 31
starters) boats finished the overnight Plantation Light
Race in the lower Chesapeake Bay. PHRF A and B fleets covered
57.80 miles and C and Non-Spin went 44.90 nm. PRELIMINARY RESULTS
(elapsed time): PHRF A: 1. Kahuna, Sanford
Richardson (08:21:20); 2. Battlewagon, John
Hanna (10:32:44); 3. Namesake, Craig
Olsen (10:52:14). PHRF B: 1. Smoke, Dan
Smoker (11:05:55); 2. Sea Ya, Frank
Silver (11:32:58). 3. Cool Change, Rusty
Burshell (12:19:23). PHRF C: 1. Nuance,
Jim Brodeaux (08:17:14); 2. Amarylyn,
Dana Dillon (08:28:02); 3. Bow Movement,
Martin Casey (09:00:53). PHRF Non-Spin
(Protests pend in Non-Spin Fleet): 1. Virginia H, Andy
Armstrong (08:00:53); 2. Midnight Mistress, Jake
Brodersen, (08:02:51); 3. The Hunter, Justin
Morris (09:01:37). PRO: Bob Thomas
Now is the time to
begin your GO AWAY HURRICANE FRANCES procedures (dances,
chants, dockline buys, etc.), so you can consider some Labor Day Weekend
racing opportunities:
Stingray Point
Regatta (PHRF and MORC) - racing Saturday and Sunday
Norfolk Yacht and Country
Club Race (PHRF) - racing Saturday
CBYRA Annapolis Race
Week (PHRF and One-Design (keel boat, COD) - racing Sat
thru Mon
Sailboat Racing Leads to B & E:
Occasionally, a racer will let an entry deadline slip up on
him or her and will have to do some "carry by hand" work to get the forms and
fees to the proper race official by the deadline. Here's one:
Deadline day the racer remembers he has forgotten to enter. He is on the
west coast on business. Said racer gets a friend at home to pay
his entry fee, but he must fax a personally signed entry form. Entry
deadline is Eastern Daylight Time, but, remember, he is on the west coast;
as "the final hour nears", everything out west is still locked up tight,
including the high tech hotel business (FAX) machine center. He
enlists the aid of a retired Alaskan fisherman turned security person and the
two of them commit a B & E. What a picture: Man in deck shoes and
sailing shorts with crusty accomplice break into and enter a business center and
overpower a fancy fax machine. The names are not mentioned to protect the
guilty.
Hampton's Bay Days and the 22nd ANNUAL EXECUTIVE CUP
SAILBOAT RACE are September 11th, the weekend after Labor Day.
This is a fund raiser presented by the Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation
for support of the Christopher Newport University Sailing Team. The race
is open to all PHRF Classes as well as a Cruising Class. Entry deadline
is Thursday, September 9th. Registration and check-in (pick up entry
packet including free T-Shirt and attend mandatory skippers meeting) is
September 9th, 6:30 pm, Hampton Yacht Club. Mail entry (standard CBYRA)
form and $35 donation to: John Hanna, 102 Harbor Crescent,
Seaford, VA 23696, or turn in at registration. Post race trophy
presentation (3 - 5 pm), followed by Bay Days festival fireworks (9:45 pm),
makes for a good, full day in Hampton Roads.
Talk about making good use of sailing
time! After crewing on Sanford Richardson's Kahuna in
the overnight Plantation Light Race (Kahuna crossed the finish
line at 0326, Saturday) Buddy DeRyder caught just a couple of
winks of sleep on his own boat, SurfRyder - Beneteau 423,
before he and wife Dariene headed out for a cruise up the Bay. "Then
we heard about the hurricane coming and thought we better get on back home!"
Buddy said. Race - Snooze - Cruise - Return Home: all that in less
than 48 hours!
With 3 of 4 races completed in the Fishing Bay YC Distance
Race Series, Allan Heyward's La Maga has three
bullets in PHRF B - in this case, B is for Bullets.
Retiring from a race BEFORE crossing the finish
line? Be sure to let the Race Committee know. Otherwise,
time that could be spent preparing results, etc., is spent waiting for you
at the finish line, or worse, needlessly alarming others by trying to locate a
"missing" boat.
The Flying Scots are coming!
Flying Scot Fleet #103 is hosting the 2004 Capitol District
Championship on September 11-12, 2004, on the
Piankatank River/Fishing Bay. There will be food, awards, socializing, and
racing, racing, racing! Contact event chairman Debbie Cycotte at (804)
776-7098.
Gobble! Gobble! The 9th Annual
Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta (October 8,9,10, 2004) has put up their
regatta web site. This event has become the 2nd largest Hospice Regatta in
the country, drawing over 100 boats to the Rappahannock River (Yankee Point
Marina). The event caters to classic (design at least
25 years old) sailboats. Check out the website at www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
Yankee Point Yacht
Club Women's Race, Saturday, September 11, 2004: This looks to be
a really neat event. It's a round-the-buoy race to be sailed on the
Rappahannock River above the high bridge at White Stone and downstream of Towels
Point. Scoring will be based on PHRF corrected times. Use a CBYRA
entry form, available at the CBYRA web site www.cbyra.org to enter. Race Instruction is available at the
Yankee Point web site www.ypyc.org Skippers meeting is 0845
on race day at the YPYC Clubhouse where breakfast will be served at
0800. Awards will be presented after the race at 1800, Cocktails and
Men's Night Dinner. Don't want to miss the post race cocktails and dinner
- please RSVP Diane Wilson at (804) 453-4137 by September 6,
2004
FALL SERIES START
SOON: In the middle of all the great racing that goes on in
the Fall in the southern Bay area come the two Fall
Series: CCV FALL SERIES - 4 races on
three consecutive Sundays, Sept 26, Oct 3, and Oct 10 (2 race day) - for info
contact John McCarthy (757)
850-4225. FBYC FALL SERIES - Sept
18, Sept 26, Oct 3, and Oct 17 - for info contact Randy Alley nralley@comcast.net These are
all sanctioned races. Get the crew ready, tweak the boat, break out the
foulies, and, if possible, bust the budget for the new sail(s). It
is nitty-gritty time for high point competitions and rough and tumble
racing. Let's roll!
MURPHY'S LAW: At
night, in the middle of the Bay, a salty racing beagle's imagination can run
wild. The flogging sail became a vampire's cape and the raggedy sailing
glove on the rail beside me became a werewolf's hairy palm. What to
do?! Drive a winch handle through the pointy-tooth vampire's heart?
Zap the hairy-palmed werewolf with McLube spray? Then, dawn arrived,
exposing the truth. Living to race, racing to live. Murphy the
Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all