#215 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Tuesday September 7, 2004 03:02PM
Mike Austin and the
Movin On Crew Win at Stingray Point Regatta: Movin
On won the PHRF B fleet and the overall regatta award, the Brent Halsey Jr.
Memorial Trophy, with 3 bullets. Plenty of wind favored
the race course both days, including a squally moment or two during Sunday's
finale. Host club Fishing Bay YC gave 40 skippers and crews 3 great
races Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend. RESULTS: PHRF A
(5 boats): 1.Feather, Phil Briggs;
2.Voodoo Chile, Leroi Lissenden;
3.Wavelength, Rob Whittet. PHRF B (8
boats): 1.Movin On, Mike Austin;
2.La Maga, Allan Hayward; 3.Shenanigan,
Miles Booth. MORC (7 boats): 1.Off
Like, James Jacob; 2.Check Six, John
Scott; 3.Thin Ice, Skip Hope.
J/29 Class (5 boats): 1.Patriot, Case
Whittemore; 2.Rockette, Chuck Monsees; 3.
Titillation, Paul Andersen. J/105 Class (5
boats): 1.Polar Express, Pam Burdett;
2.Loose Cannon, Strother Scott; 3.Corryvreckan,
David Clark. PHRF Non-Spin (10 boats):
1.Rancho Deluxe, John Rheem; 2.Temptress,
John DeJong; 3.Tatiana, Charles
Parrott. PRO: David Lee. Stingray
Point Regatta is a long time, Labor Day, southern Bay favorite and its
casual and hospitable southern flavor continues to endure.
22 ANNUAL EXECUTIVE CUP
SAILBOAT RACE, THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th. This event is held
in conjunction with Hampton's Bay Days Festival and in support of the
Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation. CNSF donates the funds to the CNU
collegiate sailing team effort. For info contact John Hanna at
(757) 898-5077 or Dick Boykin at (757) 890-0093. Do it
NOW! To get you official race T-shirt, you must enter by Thursday,
September 9th. Mandatory skippers meeting is Thursday, September 9th, 7:30
pm at Hampton YC. Starts for all PHRF classes as well as a special
Cruising class start.
EDDIE WOLCOTT and crew
CORRIE CLEMENT are 2004 HOD National Champions. Eddie
Wolcott and Corrie Clement went to the Hampton One Design Nationals, hosted by
Tred Avon Yacht Club, and brought home the championship title to Norfolk Yacht
and Country Club . Second place went to Latane Montague and
Dorothy Ballard, sailing for the Potomac River Sailing Association, and
third to Kevin and Kennon Hanna of Hampton Yacht Club.
Completing the top 5 were two more from NY&CC: 4th - Randy
Stokes, and 5th - Charlie McCoy.
Norfolk Yacht & CC
Labor Day Race: NY&CC offered a one day event over the Labor
Day Weekend for Hampton Roads "stay at homies" and visitors. On
Saturday, 14 entries raced in the sanctioned classes and a small
non-sanctioned cruising class group. Frank Stewart was
the race committee chairman. RESULTS: PHRF A/B (4 boats):
1..J30 090, Dave McConaughy; 2.Wave Dancer,
John Hardy. PHRF C (2 boats):
1.Stardancer, John Blais. PHRF Non-Spin (5
boats): 1.Margarita, Harry Tenney;
2.Whisper, Larry Bryant; 3.Prevail,
Mark Shaw. Cruising (3 boats):
1.Obsession, Bill Ripley; 2.Red Star,
Tom Lira. NYCC is developing a good offering here
for Hampton Roads southern Bay folks who cannot give up
the entire final weekend of summer to racing. A fairly new
event on the annual calendar, this looks like a sticker.
The coveted
Mariners' Cup, donated by The Mariners' Museum, will be awarded
this year to the winner of the 505 Mid-Atlantic Championship regatta (October 2
and 3) - a two day regatta to be sailed in conjunction with the HYC Trapeze
Regatta (October 2). For additional event info, contact Leigh Morgan at
(757) 726-9640.
Potts Trophy Retained by
HYC: The HYC team of Feather (PHRF A - Phil
Briggs), Independence (PHRF B - Graham
Field), and Check 6 (MORC-John Scott) kept
the Potts Trophy, a team trophy awarded at the annual Stingray Point
Regatta.
Hanging Chads? Fixed
Drawings? At one Labor Day regatta, inspired by the quality of
the post race party givaways, a skipper tried to fix the drawing by soaking his
entry slip in his rum drink before adding it to the drawing box. His
efforts were to no avail, however - the rum dissolved the print on the entry
slip!
Kudos for service:
Larry Bryant, skipper of Whisper (PHRF NS), is serving as
chairman of the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race in
mid-October.
Up the Bay on Labor
Day: CBYRA Annapolis Race Week
While the folks in the southern Bay were tightening halyards and dropping chutes
"very carefully" in hefty winds, the 190+ boats at ARW were fighting the
drifties on opening day. After Saturday, it was "Katy, bar the
door!", with wild and wooly wind on Sunday and prefect, moderate (12-15 knots)
breezes on Monday. There was a dearth of southern Bay boats represented on
the race course, but southern Bay homies Dan Tramell and
John McCarthy served on the regatta jury. During the
racing Dan served as tactician on the Naval Academy's entry, Pursuit,
and John was with the Tred Avon YC race committee for two days and the
Storm Trysail team on the final day. John Dodge,
CBYRA president and event chairman, hails from down south (FBYC, Richmond) as
well. Regatta results are available at the CBYRA regatta web site www.cbyra.org
OPTI-POPS and
OPTI-MOMS and OPTI-GRANDS and OPTI-BOYS and GIRLS: With the new
school year beginning, don't lose sight of the Optimist
Atlantic Coasts Championships on October 9 and 10, 2004, at
Fishing Bay Yacht Club near the mouth of the Rappahannock River and Deltaville,
Virginia. Check out the FBYC regatta web site at www.fbyc.net In the meantime, good luck at school this
year!
Hurricane Charley victim
Admiral's Cup Regatta is combined with the Seaford
Yacht Club Trans-Bay Race, Saturday, September 11th.
Contact: Carl Early at (757) 890-2743 for entry and other
info.
Yankee Point Yacht Club
Women's Race, Saturday, September 11, 2004: 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. 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 Awards will
be presented after the race at 1800, Cocktails and Men's Night
Dinner.
News of Southern Bay
Young'uns: Quentin Jenkins (FBYC) sailing
with Bryan Stout of SSA won the 420s class at the Midget Championships hosted at
Brigantine YC in late August. This is a middle Atlantic championship for
14 and unders.
MURPHY'S LAW: While
checking out my racing T-shirt collection, I came across this one:
Sail naked! It brings color to your cheeks!
Never have worn it. Most of the time I do
sail naked and the color stays the same, brown, tan, white and furry.
I am a beagle, you know. Living to race, racing to live.
Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all