#238 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday February 28, 2005 10:44AM

IMPORTANT REMINDER:  If you intend to race in a PHRF fleet in 2005, you MUST have a 2005 VALID PHRF CERTIFICATE.  The 2004 version does not get it; even 2004 certificates issued late in that year expire prior to the start of the 2005 season in the southern Chesapeake.   Get your 2005 valid certificate NOW!  Time's a'wasting. 
 
2005 Black Seal - Southern Bay Race Week  CBYRA qualifier for US SAILING Offshore Championship:  Word comes from CBYRA US Sailing delegate Joe Krolak, that the 2005 BSC-SBRW Regatta will be a CBYRA qualifier event for  the very prestigious USSA Offshore Championship for the Lloyd Phoenix Trophy.  The finals for this competition among keel boat crews from each of the 10 US SAILING Areas will be held this year in Annapolis at the US Naval Academy.  Sledd Shelhorse and his crew from Promises won the whole darn shootin' match in  1983.  Most of the members of that crew are still with Sledd and sailing on Meridian (aka Scherherazade). 
 
Skip Amory has his J/105 registered and ready for the 2005 season.  Woof, whose graphics sport one of Murphy, The Racing Beagle's kindred, a Westie,  is a favorite of many racing graphic design  aficionados.
 
SPINSHEET Magazine  has signed on as a sponsor for the up coming USODA (OPTI) Nationals to be hosted this July by Norfolk Yacht and Country Club.  Racers can put one more notch in the area sponsor totem for SpinSheet.  They are a part of most notable regatta's in our area including the Little Creek Cup, Black Seal Cup - Southern Bay Race Week, and of course, one we have large contingent attending, Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge. SpinSheet has been and continues to be the Chesapeake Bay sailors', and especially racers', good friend.
 
Media Watch:  SCUTTLEBUTT (number 1783) readers no doubt saw the lead article about southern Bay homie Linda Lindquist-Bishop of Yorktown, Virginia,  who is the pit on Farr 40 World Champion, Barking Mad.  Kudos go to the  Daily Press  newspaper too, for having published the article about Lindquist-Bishop on February 15th.  You can read the whole article on the DP website at www.dailypress.com.  Too bad the website has the article under a big  "AUTORACING"  header.  Maybe, when you call to thank the DP for paying attention to a world class racer in our midst,  you could put in a reasoned word about the benefits to the paper of starting a "SAILING" sub-section on a regular basis in their sports section.
 
New to PHRF C and J24 Fleet 71:  Dave Taylor has his "previously owned" J/24 in Hampton and is getting her ready to go.  Dave is a computer literate kind of guy - he lists the name of the boat as  @#$%&!!!.
What's it mean, Dave, and can we say it in polite company?  Or, can we say it only in company of racers?  Enquiring minds want to know.  Dave used to race Insolvent in the PHRF non-spin fleet.
 
Blue Water Racers:  The 2005 Annapolis to Newport Race officials have posted the Notice of Race.  The NOR  calls for the first start to go at high noon, Friday, June 10.  There's lots of activity in Annapolis days prior to the race.  The race is 473 miles from Annapolis to Castle Hill Light House at the entrance of Newport Harbor.  Go on line to www.race.annapolisyc.org/newport05  for entry forms and info.  Deadline for entries is May 30, 2005.
 
Blue Water Wannabes - special opportunity to test your desire:  The 2005 Round DelMarVa 400 Cruising Rally is set for June 4-12.  The rally convenes and starts in Annapolis and goes south to Hampton and then goes counter clockwise around the Delmarva Peninsula, returning to Annapolis.  For info, contact Jim Favors at (410) 353-7770.  There already are 20 some boats registered and chomping at the bit. 
 
USSAILING Race Management Course:  Thirty-three folks attended the day long US SAILING Basic Race Management Course hosted by Rappahannock River Yacht Club in Irvington, VA, on Saturday.  Among those attending were sailors from Northern Neck and Gloucester clubs RRYC, Yankee Point YC, Fishing Bay YC, Ware River, and York River YC along with contingents from Norfolk Yacht & CC and Broad Bay Sailing Association (Virginia Beach).  John McCarthy was instructor assisted by Jerry Latell. 
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  The weather on the Bay is blowing a blue stink this morning.  As a racing beagle, I am serving notice on that darned Groundhog:  Pull another stunt like this, and you will learn the hard way  that I have not lost my other Beagle skills - this dog DOES hunt!   /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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