#242 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy 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.
 
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