#242 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday March 28, 2005 10:23AM
This coming Friday, APRIL 1st, is
National Sailboat Racers Day, aka April Fool's Day! Get foolish - go
sailing!
Last Reminder: CCV - HYC
Race Management Workshop, Saturday, April 2, at Hampton Yacht Club, check-in at
0830, start at 0900. No charge, OPEN TO ALL. Pre-registration
guarantees you a 2005 CCV Race Management
Manual. To pre-register, just call (757) 850-4225. If
you have your RRS 2005-2008 (current rule book), bring it. There
will be rule books for sale at the workshop for those who need
them.
Mark your calendars: SOUTHERN BAY
RACE WEEK, June 3-5: Southern Bay Race Week is in countdown
mode. Event Chairman Leigh Morgan promises great racing, great music,
great parties, and great awards. The entry form already is available at
the website (www.hamptonyc.com
click on the SBRW logo at the top of the homepage). Go ahead and
enter now - you know you plan to be on the line at the southern Bay's best
racing event, to boogie like a wild person, and to get into the grog!
SBRW = 6 great races + 3 great parties!
Southern Bay homie to the big
pond: Next month, JD Scott, co-owner of
Prevail with Mark Shaw, will be traveling
to South Africa to join Global Challenge yacht
Pindar, for the Cape Town to Boston leg. JD expects to
get to "Beantown" sometime in early June. Follow Pindar and
JD at www.GlobalChallenge2004.com
PHRF B Boats are gittin' ready! Fevered
activity in the boatyards: Cool Change (Rusty
Burshell, J/30) got some TLC this past weekend while waiting for good
weather for her bottom job. Mike Austin and the boys of
Movin' On (2004 C Fleet champions elevated to B fleet when Region 4
PHRF changed the splits last fall) are getting her back together after some
cosmetic primping. And, Bad Habit, Bob Archer's
new- to-him Pearson Flyer , is already out of the yard - Bob and his crew worked
out Saturday.
2005 CCV Racing Guide will be distributed at
the annual CCV Racing Rules Clinic, Tuesday, April 5, 6:30 pm, at The
Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. OPEN TO ALL, at no charge.
Proper attire includes boat shoes of any kind - socks are
optional.
Wannabe racers: CCV offers a
day-long, classroom and on-the-water, in your own boat, basic racing clinic for
(non-spinnaker) beginners. Skippers who want to start racing will
get a brief session on the essential rules and paperwork, a lunch, and two hours
on the water for drills and mini races. A "seasoned" skipper will
accompany the participant as he drives his own boat during the on-the-water
session. CCV Learn to Race YOUR Sailboat Clinic. This event is set
for Saturday, April 30. Cost is $15 for each skipper and $10
for each crew he or she brings. For info contact: Ben Cuker
at (757) 727-5884 or email benjamin.cuker@hamptonu.edu
One-Design classes (keel boats) take
note: It only takes a handful - 5 boats entered
from your class gets you a separate start and a set of class trophies at
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK. Round up your buddies and come
on. Contact Event Chairman Leigh Morgan at (757) 726-9640 or PRO John
McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 for info. The J/24s already have a
spot. What about those J/30s, J/29s, Catalina 30s, and Catalina 27s
in the southern Bay area and beyond?
New to the race
course: Here comes Tom Conners in newly
acquired Fins Up, a 1976 Pearson 26. Tom
says Annette Williams, a fellow crewbie on
Stardancer (Blais, PHRF C) , will be his first mate on Fins
Up and they will be breaking in on the HYC Wednesday Night series.
They were out practicing in mid-March.
Hampton University's sailing
team was practicing yesterday in their newly acquired FJs. They
looked like Easter eggs on the Bay, doing racing drills off Strawberry Banks
within view of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel.
MURPHY'S
LAW: Ever since experiencing my first racing
Rabbit Start, I've felt a special kinship with rabbits. An annual Easter
rabbit romp is part of my pre-season shape-up. But... what is
this thing my Bunny friend has with the eggs? The endless cycle of
collecting, hiding, collecting, hiding? Where's he going with this?
Does it relate to a racing trophy obsession? /S/ Murphy
the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.