#250 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday May 23, 2005 04:37PM
US National Match Racing Championship Area ABC (South)
Quarterfinals (for the Prince of Wales Cup): International match
racer Marie Klok Crump came from 4th place after Saturday's
double round robin stage, to win the event. She won 6 straight matches
(the last two of the second round robin), 2 in the best of 3 in both
the Knock-out Series and in the Finals on Sunday. Both Crump
and second place finisher Daniel Wittig
(Annapolis) earned berths in the semi-finals to be sailed
in Annapolis later this summer. The National Finals will be sailed in
Newport Beach, California, in September. Team Crump is a family affair
- sailing with Marie is her husband, Will Crump, a
noted racer in his own right from Fishing Bay YC, and her brother Thomas
Klok. Marie and Will make their home in Harwich,
Massachusetts.
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK - June 3-4-5 - Early entry
discount deadline is this coming Friday, May 27 (save $$$ - get your entry in
now) - SBRW scratch list will be posted to the web site later this
week. Entry forms and additional information are available at the web site
- www.hamptonyc.com click on
the SBRW logo. Contact event chairman Leigh Morgan at (757)
726-9640. This event has everything - racing, parties, T-shirts, live
music, food and hospitality, a pirate festival (City of Hampton Blackbeard
Festival) just steps away for race headquarters at Hampton Yacht Club, fireworks
Saturday night and more and more. Southern Bay Race Week is more than
a regatta - it's an experience!
POLAR EXPRESS, GANAR, IMPULSE, and MARIAH
win their fleets in the CAPE HENRY CUP: The burning
question up until early Saturday morning, after two days of building
seas, northeast winds, extreme tides with accompanying monster currents, and
generally unpleasant weather, to BBSA race chairman Scott
Almond was, "Will we be inside or outside?" Scott
made the call to take the race outside the harbor area and the fleets ran the
long courses with PHRF A and B going beyond the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge-Tunnel Complex (27.4 nm) while PHRF C, Non-Spin, and Cruising did the
18.5nm course to Back River entrance. RESULTS: PHRF A (7
boats competing): 1. Polar Express (J105), Pan
Burdett; 2.Namesake (Olson 30), Craig Olsen;
3. Feather (J36), Phil Briggs. PHRF B (3
boats competing): 1.Ganar! (Santana 35), Dave
Bouchard. PHRF C (4 boats competing): 1.Callinectes
(Cal 30), Ben Cuker; 2.Bowmovement (Catalina 27),
Martin Casey. PHRF Non-Spin (11 boats
competing): 1.Impulse (Catalina 34), Tom
Peddy; 2.Black Widow (Irwin 38), Leo Wardrup;
3.Turbo's Tub (Morgan 35), MD Riley. Cruising
(2 boats competing): 1.Mariah, (Cal 39); Doug
Rose. Polar Express, Pam Burdett,
awarded the Cape Henry Cup. PRO: Scott
Almond
Mirage (Christian Schaumloffel's
Hobie 33) lost her rudder Saturday in the Cape Henry Cup while sailing at speeds
up to 17 knots. The crew rigged their spinnaker pole over the stern as a
makeshift rudder, and sailed the remaining 12 miles home. When they pulled
the boat, all that was left to see, where a rudder used to be, was 4 inches of
the stainless steel rudder shaft. As Christian said, "Now the race
starts to get a replacement ..." ready for Southern Bay Race
Week (June 3,4,5).
Here comes Memorial Day
Weekend! Race your boat, too! Saturday (May 28th)
J/24 One Design Spring races; Saturday (May 28th) PBC Merrimac Memorial
Day Regatta; Saturday (May 28th) FBYC to Urbanna - Rosegill, and Sunday
(May 29th) Rappahannock River YC River races; and, Saturday (May 28th) Wolcott
Memorial HOD Regatta, NY&CC.
CBYRA 2005 Yearbook is "on the
street": The Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association 2005
Yearbook, the handbook of sanctioned racing on the Bay, is available
now! Whether you race a dinghy, a keelboat, in a one-design or cruising
one-design class, PHRF or MORC, junior, or... you need this
book. Kudos go to former CBYRA President Joe
Krolak for an excellent editorial job. To get the
Yearbook, contact CBYRA Administrative Director Amy Chalmers
at (410) 269-1194.
That's the southern Bay lean, green, racing machine,
Meridian, in full color, front and center on
the 2005 SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE CHALLENGE notice of race and
entry form that reached racers' mailboxes this past weekend. SPLC is set
for July 17, 18, & 19; not as far away as you think.
Now is the time to enter, get your team's accommodations reservations made, and
start getting ready to go to Solomons for the best Bay-wide showdown of the
racing season. The Battle of the Chesapeake Trophy is up
for grabs again along with daily awards, overall fleet awards, great
parties, great food, great racing, and an entire sailing
town given over to sailboat racers for intense fun, on and off the
water. For info contact event honcho L.G. Raley at
(301) 862-3100 or check out the web sites at www.splc.us or www.screwpile.com
Weekend before this past 10 505 skippers
and crew gathered at the HYC Annual One-Design Trapeze
Regatta. The top two boats in the two day regatta were way ahead of
the other 8. The Falsone/Martin team finished 2nd (19
points) to the winners, Sparkman/Moore (17 points). In
the tradition of the class, the crews name is listed first and the skipper
second in 505 results. In the same regatta, but sailing on Saturday only,
Charles McCoy in Calamity Jane topped two other Hampton One
Design (HOD) participants.
Update on TowneBank HomeTowne Regatta: This is
important info, if you plan to do this CBYRA sanctioned event, June 11,
2005. Race organizers say questions and entry forms and
fees should be directed to Larry Bryant, 5048 Bay Circle, Suffolk, VA
23435, (757) 484-4966 or email ldbwhisper@hotmail.com
This is a change to information already published.
JUNE CALENDAR for Southern Bay Racing Events:
June 3 - 4 - 5 is SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK - Leigh Morgan, (757)
726-9640
June 11 Hometowne Regatta -
Larry Bryant, (757)484-4966
June 11 York River Cup - Steve
Bowen, (804) 642-4746
June 11-12 Women's Dinghy Sailing Clinic -
Carolyn Grant, (757) 377-5504
June 18 Yankee Point Yc
Singlehand Race
June 18 HYC Big Boat Annual -
Kathy Brady (757) 723-3244
June 25 18th Annual Race to
Cock Island - (757) 393-8481
June 25-26 Intermediate Co-ed Clinic - Carolyn
Grant, (757) 377-5504
July 2 Dink
Vail Annual Regatta - JD Scott (757) 572-6830
MURPHY'S LAW: That match racing
looked like a lot of fun to me. Picture this - matched racing beagles,
"bones in their teeth", "fur flying", and "full and by"! A work of art
suitable for framing.
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in
us all.
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