#214 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy 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
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