#250 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy 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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