#233 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday January 24, 2005 12:44PM
CBYRA Region 4 High Point Awards Ceremony is
all set for Saturday, February 5, 5:00 PM at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.
This is a great event - a chance to socialize, enjoy the sunset by the
FBYC fireplaces, and share in honoring southern Bay racers who excelled in their
fleet in 2004. Skippers, crew, friends, and family are all welcome.
Refreshments at 5PM, dinner at 6PM, and the awards presentation begins at
6:45PM. All inclusive cost is $15 @ person. Contact Region
4 Vice President Tom Roberts at (804) 843-2782 or email at Mobjack@crosslink.net - or even better - Register on line at
Sign Up for CBYRA and Bermuda High
Do it now
- the deadline for reservations is February 2nd.
KWRW Started Wild and Woolly: Conditions for the 295
entries at the 2005 Key West Race Week featured
challenging winds and seas the first couple of days. The McAllister/Silver
JS9000, A Lil' Tipsy (Colington Harbor), suffered a broken mast
before the actual racing began according to team followers and did not make it
to the starting line during the event. Here's how our southern Bay
(and beyond) boats did in fleets overall standings: PHRF 2 (10
boats): Sanford Richardson's Farr 395, Kahuna
(Hampton) finished 6th. PHRF 3 (12
boats): Peter Hunter's Thompson 30, Wairere
(Kill Devil Hills) took 3rd and Walter Kennedy's Henderson 30,
Savannah (Charlotte) was 7th. PHRF 4 (9
boats):Othmar von Blumencron's Beneteau 40.7, Dame
Blanche (Great Falls, VA), took 2nd while Lloyd Griffin's
Hadley 40, Cash Flow (Elizabeth City) finished 7th. PHRF 7 (10
boats): Mike Karn (Deltaville) brought
Insatiable, G&S 27, in 4th. PHRF 8 (12 boats):
Dan Ledbetter's J/24 Gladiator (Charlotte) was
10th. J/80 One Design (16 boats): Robin
Team's Sweet Baby J (Beaufort, NC), was 11th. And, in
the 40 boat J/105 One Design Fleet: Worth
Harris' Rum at Six (Beaufort, NC) finished
17th. Complete results for 2005 KWRW are posted at
www.premiere-racing.com
This coming
Saturday, January 29, at Norfolk Yacht &CC, Racing Rules Seminar.
The price is right ($15 includes lunch and all break
refreshments), you can get a leg up on your fellow competitors by understanding
the rules of racing, and it will be fun to see your racing buddies in their
winter garb and hear all the hot stove gab! Registration opens at 8:15 am
(come then for coffee and goodies) - seminar starts promptly at 9:00am.
John McCarthy will lead the lively and interactive seminar. To
register you can contact Shannon at NYCC at (757) 423-4500 or Lin Mc
at (757) 850-4225, mcbear@earthlink.net
Get a good seat - call today!
Good Grief - one of the
most active and best sailed J/30s in the southern Bay is Bill and Lynn
Chandler's Rhumb Line! (RL was inadvertently left out of
the J/30 info in issue #232 mention of southern Bay J/30s.) That makes the
core of the J/30 fleet down here 7 boats!
Lookin' to NOOD at St.
Pete: No, this is not about NFL player Randy Moss.
The St. Petersburg National Offshore
One Design Regatta (NOOD)
opens February 18 and goes through February 20. Chuck
Monsees plans to have his J/29 Rockette at the St. Pete NOOD
and recent Lauderdale to Key West Race winner Christian
Schaumloffel says he will have Mirage, Hobie 33, there
too. Neither boat saw action at KWRW.
Speaking of J/30s
and Rhumb Line and Brian Gregory's
newly arrived Hull #22 in particular. Seems like
they have met before. Hull #22's name, up until now, was
J-Moose. Bill Chandler says Rhumb
Line and J-Moose raced against one another for 3 years in
Charleston. Could be a renewal of a good rivalry in the future
here on the southern Bay.
Reach out and exchange nuptials: Buddy
DeRyder, who crewed on Kahuna, reports that in the Lauderdale
to KW Race (the epitome of a reaching course), there was a wedding aboard one of
the competing boats, a Tartan 33 named Meantime. During the race,
a pause was declared on board, tuxedos and gowns were donned and vows said
before a Notary Public. Took about 15 minutes. Then, all things
being in the proper perspective, the racers raced on! Buddy added that the
bride is the manager of the Deerfield Beach West Marine store. Is the ceremony,
therefore, deductible as a business expense??
Want to be in the running for 2005 CBYRA or CCV High Point
Championships? Sure you do. So, you need to be a member of both
of these organizations. CCV Racing has already sent out renewal
application forms for 2005 and so has CBYRA. For a CCV application call
Tom Peddy at (757) 651-6804, and for a CBYRA form call the CBYRA office at (410)
269-1194. Do it now; you want to be in the hunt from the very
beginning.
On the first day of racing, which was very windy, at
KWRW Scuttlebutt 1756 mentioned that Bill
Hardesty, sailing a Pegasus 575 (zippy sportboat), suffered a mid-race T-bone at
the first leeward gate. Scuttlebutt said that Hardesty won
the race "...despite sustaining minor damage
when T-boned..." Murphy the Racing Beagle said, "T-bone damage is a lot
like brain surgery - it's only minor when it's not yours!"
NORTH U sailing seminars in the Southern
Bay: North U will bring two seminars to The Mariners' Museum
(Newport News) in mid-February: "Weather for Sailors" on
February 12th, instructor Pat Healy ($200) and "Cruising and Seamanship" on
February 13th, instructor John Rousmaniere ($160). In early March in
Richmond: "Racing Trim" on March 5th ($160). The prices
shown are basic prices, including course book and CD. Lunch for each
day-long seminar is an additional $10. North U. offers a number of
price discounts and interested sailors should go to the web site
for discount details www.northu.com
Pat Healy (see item above) is a Chesapeake
Bay sailor who is also a trained meteorologist and has served on the coaching
staff and as a weather consultant for the Canadian Olympic Team. He was
chief judge of the 2004 CBYRA Annapolis Race Week Regatta and is recognized
nationally as one of the leading experts on the nuances of Rule 42 (the
Propulsion rule).
US-IRC Handbook coming out
soon: Sailing World is publishing the US IRC Handbook
for the 2005 season and it will be distributed with the February issue to the
magazine's subscribers. IRC is a new rating system that its supporters
and officials bill as user friendly and relatively low in cost. More than
7,000 racers in 30 different countries already race under this system. It
is being tried at several notable US regattas (Block Island Race Week, SFYC Big
Boat Series, and others) Note: There are two main types of
rating certificates; at the top end of "high tech, big money, go fast" is the
weigh and measure, etc. requirement. Most handicap racers' boats would
fall in the "send in the measurements and receive your certificate"
group. There is excitement about this and a lot to think about - watch for
info.
Enjoy "An Evening with US Olympic
Sailing Head Coach Gary Bodie" sponsored by the College of William
and Mary Sailing Team at The Mariners' Museum, Saturday, February 5th, at 7:00
PM. ($20 admission - $5 discount for students, faculty
and TMM members). The event is to raise moolah for new FJs for the Tribe
team. For additional info, to RSVP, or to donate items for the silent
auction, please email sailin@wm.edu
To Fiddlers Green: Andy and Virginia
Armstrong, who sail their Soverel 30, Virginia H, in the PHRF fleet,
have lost Andy's father, Dr. Robert Harman Armstrong, Jr. Dr.
Armstrong was a long time member of CCV and Virginia said that he and the
Armstrong Boys sailed against many a southern Bay racer. Condolences to
the Armstrong family.
FEBRUARY CALENDAR FOR SOUTHERN BAY
RACERS:
Feb 2 Groundhog Day - keep your GH happy and
fear-free!
Feb 5 CBYRA Region 4 Awards Ceremony and
Dinner - T. Roberts at mobjack@comcast.net
Feb 5 College of William and Mary
fundraiser featuring Gary Bodie at The Mariners' Museum
Feb 12 Yankee Point YC host Racing Rules
Seminar ($10) - register by
Feb 12 North U "Weather for Sailors Seminar"
($200) - register at www.northu.com
Feb 13 North U "Cruising and Seamanship
Seminar ($160) - register at www.northu.com
Feb 14 VALENTINE's DAY - Concentrate on your
"main squeeze"!
Feb 18 St Pete NOOD opens
Feb 21 HOLIDAY - Presidents' Day
Feb 22 Deadline for ads and race circulars
(NORs) for 2005 CCV Racing Guide - Lin at (757)
850-4225
Feb 22 George Washington's
Birthday
Feb 26 US SAILING Basic Race
Management Course ($15) hosted by Rappahannock
River YC-
call
Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email to mcbear@earthlink.net
MURPHY'S
LAW: There are good "four letter words" and bad "four
letter words". At the top of the bad list is W-O-R-K, especially when it
gets in the way of the best four letter word, R-A-C-E, followed by
S-A-I-L. Other good four letter racing words on a long, long
list include B-E-E-R, F-O-O-D, and O-V-E-R! /S/ Murphy the
Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.