#230 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday January 3, 2005 11:50AM
HAPPY NEW
YEAR! Race full on
into 2005!
Kudos to
Southern Bay Junior Programs: Just nice to note that the southern
Bay is hosting significant USODA (Opti) events. How about this: The
second USODA National Championship in the southern Chesapeake
will be hosted this coming July at Norfolk Yacht and Country Club. The
first was hosted by Hampton Yacht Club when the 1999 Opti Nationals were sailed
right off Strawberry Banks. And, Fishing Bay Yacht Club, just this past
October, hosted the Atlantic Coast Championships for the
Optis. Three major events in 6 years - not bad! Kudos to all those
parents, friends and hard working volunteers who are steering our southern Bay
junior programs and to the kids that are learning to sail and doing it
right!
The Key West Race
people may call A Lil' Tipsy's appearance there a debut, but the
actual debut for the JS 9000 happened Saturday in the OPCYC-HYC New Years
Madness Race. A Lil'Tipsy, owned by Frank Silver
and Melissa McAllister and sailing out of Colington
Harbor YC (North Carolina), was first overall in the 2005 annual January 1st
event. Tipsy beat the 28 other participants, overtaking everyone
in the pursuit race and capturing 2nd place overall finisher
Namesake, Craig Olsen's Olson 30, with time to
spare. RESULTS: Spinnaker 1: 1. A Lil'Tipsy,
Melissa McAllister; 2.Namesake, Craig
Olsen; Spinnaker 2: 1.Callinectes, Ben
Cuker (3rd overall); 2.Amarylyn, Dana Dillon
(8th overall); 3.Miss Anne Thrope, Richard Payne (12th
overall); Non-Spin
1: 1.Faith, Jerry Lotz (5th overall);
2.Excelsior, Steve Ritz (9th overall);
3.Destiny, Barry Wise (10th overall).
Non-Spin 2: 1.Sea Slipper, Bob Wagner (4th
overall); 2.Braker, Rick Griffin (6th overall);
3.Egia, Jack Clayton (7th overall). First in the Cruising 1 class,
Ali-Ru, John Jones (14th overall) and in the
Cruising 2 class, Playtime, James Van Dyke
(19th overall). Event Chairman: Jeff Rogers.
Last Frost Bites on
the southern Bay. Four SeaSons captures first
place! The last big boats frost biting in the southern Bay were
the York River Yacht Club racers. The YRYC fleet
started their series on October 3rd and finished on December 19, one race
per Sunday, windward/leewards in the York just east of the Coleman Bridge.
There were 12 races and 15 boats entered in the series.
RESULTS: 1. Mike Mastracci, Four Seasons;
2.Steve Bowen, Dream On; 3.Bill
Strauss; Excalibur. Special
kudos to Bill Strauss, who did every single race! We are
talkin' serious frost biter here!
COCK ISLAND RACE alive and
kickin'. Portsmouth Boat Club has stepped up and teamed up with
the City of Portsmouth to keep this annual sailing brouhaha alive.
The regatta's regular weekend of June 24-25 is on the "near final" draft of the
2005 CBYRA Region 4 calendar.
Racing Rules Seminar - Saturday, January 29,
2005 - 9:00am - 3:00pm - at Norfolk Yacht & Country Club, Hampton Boulevard,
Norfolk, VA. OPEN TO ALL. This seminar is designed around
the teaching of concepts rather than memorization of rules. Skippers
and crew of all ability levels are welcome and will benefit from the interactive
discussion. John McCarthy is the lead instructor. John is a US
SAILING Approved Course Instructor as well as a Certified Judge and Advanced
Race Management Officer. Cost:
$15 includes lunch and refreshments during registration and morning
and afternoon breaks. (Registration opens at 8:15am.)
Make checks payable to the host club, NYCC, and mail to: NY&CC
[ATTN: Shannon], 7001 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23505. For additional
information please contact: John or Lin at (757) 850-4225.
Register now to ensure you get a seat.
Send with check to: NYCC, 7001 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk, VA
23505 [ATTN: Shannon]
Racing Rules Seminar, January 29, 2005
Name:
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The new Racing Rules of Sailing
2005-2008 will be available at the seminar for purchase at the cover price
($15.) or you can bring your own.
Plans are for Kahuna crew, Chris
Connors and Bryce Barritt, to leave Charleston
today taking Sanford Richardson's Big Red Boat
to Ft Lauderdale for the race to Key West which begins January 12 and gets the
boats to southern Florida for Key West Race Week (Jan 17-21). Buddy
DeRyder will be crewing on Kahuna for the Lauderdale-Key West
Race too and says offshore weather "looks good" now. He is hopeful of
one more week of good attitude from Momma Nature. Also, among boats in the
near 300 boat fleet at KWRW will be the McAllister/Silver Js 9000, A
Lil'Tipsy. Tipsy will make the trip from Hampton by land!
Word from US SAILING TEAM homie STEVE HUNT:
Steve is settled into a "regular" life that includes a home in one
place (San Diego) and a j-o-b that pays the bills of life. He is still
doing a lot of sailing and is very successful in major events around the
country. In Vanguard 15s Steve captured first in the Southern California
Midwinter Championship, first in the Spring Gold Cup, and second in the Vanguard
15 Nationals in New Orleans, sailing all three with Tracey
Treaccar. And, Steve was on the winning
match racing team in San Francisco Challenge Regatta, where Steve, sailing
with Bill Hardesty, beat (3-1) Paul
Cayard in J/105s. As for Steve in future Olympic competitions, he
says maybe. If he does, he'll more likely go for the Laser or 49 class -
says he has gained 20 pounds!
New players for 2005 - Another Pearson Flyer
expected in PHRF B: Bob Archer and Chris
Beahr have bought BAD HABIT (previously owned, but not raced
in 2004, by Martin Holland) and intend to race her in PHRF B in 2005.
Archer and Beahr have raced together on Archer's Capri 25 About
Time in PHRF C for a number of years. Another Flyer, Larry
Preddy's PF Flyer, is a very familiar presence on the southern
Bay race circuit.
KWRW - Southern Bay Connections in the fleet -
As of New Year's Eve, there were 296 boats entered in Key West
Race Week. Here are 11 that most southern Bay racers know. Five of
the 13 J/29s that came to Hampton for the class' North American
Championships this past October will be at KWRW: Rhumb Punch
(John and Linda Edwards), Phone (Jay
Weaver), Hustler (John and Tony Esposito),
Wallbanger (Brian and Kristen Robinson), and
Killshot (Bob Wardwell). Then there is
Lloyd Griffin's (Elizabeth City, NC) Hadley 40, Cash
Flow, with some of the crew from Mike Austin's
Movin' On expected on board. Peter Hunter's
Thompson 30, Wairere, from Kill Devil Hills, NC,
has raced in several Bay events and Mike Karn's
G&S 27, Insatiable, from Richmond/Deltaville, is a familiar
homie. Dame Blanche, Othmar von Blumencron's
Beneteau 40.7, sails out of Annapolis, but claims Great Falls, Virginia, as
hometown. And, as mentioned in other notes in this SBRNYCU,
Sanford Richardson's Kahuna and the
McAllister/Silver JS 9000 will be there.
The College of William and Mary sailing team
is sponsoring "An Evening with US Olympic Head Sailing Coach Gary
Bodie" February 5, 7:00 pm, at The Mariners' Museum (Newport News).
It's going to be a gala, i.e. silent auction, etc. For info email sailin@wm.edu. W&M was chartered in
1693 (that's not a typo) - 'bout time they got that sailing team thing
going!
Bill Dougherty Memorial Service will be
held Saturday, January 15, at St John's Church in Hampton, Virginia. The
service will begin at 11:00 am and will be followed by a reception at Hampton
Yacht Club.
2005 RACING RULES and
RACE MANAGEMENT SEMINARS, CLINICS, and WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED FOR THE SOUTHERN
BAY:
January 29
Racing Rules Seminar Norfolk, VA hosted by Norfolk
Yacht & CC
Southern Bay Racing News Seminar
$15
includes lunch and break refreshments - OPEN TO ALL - one
day
February 12 Racing Rules Seminar
Lancaster, VA hosted by Yankee Point YC
Southern Bay Racing News Seminar
$10
includes lunch and break refreshments - OPEN TO ALL - one
day
February
26 US SAILING Basic Race Management Course
Irvington, VA
hosted by Rappahannock River
YC - OPEN TO ALL - one day,
meets
requirement for USSA Certified Club Race Officer - test
(optional),
lunch, and break refreshments included in fee
($15).
March
12 Racing Rules and Race Management
Seminar Richmond, VA hosted by
Fishing Bay YC Southern Bay Racing
News Seminar
$15
includes lunch and break refreshments - OPEN TO ALL -
2 separate half- day sessions
April 2
CCV - HYC Race Management Workshop Hampton, VA
hosted by
Hampton YC FREE - OPEN TO ALL - half
day
April TBA
CCV Racing Rules Clinic location
TBA
FREE - OPEN TO ALL - evening - (also, distribution of 2005
CCV Racing Guide)
Reminder:
US Sailing has already mailed members' their
copies of the 2005-2008 Racing Rules of Sailing.
Be sure you take it with you to any seminar, workshop, or clinic
you attend.
MURPHY'S
LAW: During the off season, The Racing
Beagle is on constant lookout for race related eating and drinking opportunities
to fill those post-race party gaps! Several seminars include break
snacks and lunch in their fees. A great chance to maintain your
racing brain and your body in one fell
swoop! /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the
sailing spirit in us all.