#254 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday June 20, 2005 03:38PM
Fishing Bay Yacht Club and Hampton Yacht Club are the first
southern Bay clubs to qualify to challenge for the BATTLE OF THE
CHESAPEAKE TROPHY at Screwpile 2005. In order to be eligible to
wrest the coveted trophy from last year's winner, Annapolis YC, a club must have
at least 5 boats entered in the Screwpile Light House Challenge. In
addition to HYC (7 entries) and FBYC (6 entries), there are four more southern
Bay clubs with completed entries; they are: CCV (1); DYC (2); OBSA (1); BBSA
(1). The more boats racing, the better your club's chances of bringing
back the BOC Trophy. Get you buddies together. Round 'em up and head 'em
out for Screwpile and the BOC!
COCK ISLAND RACE #18 cometh this weekend - June
24-25! You should be entered by now, but... for info contact:
Portsmouth Community Relations and Services at (757) 393-8481. And, dig
out that Parrothead shirt! The schooner Virginia will be
dockside at Cock Island. If you have not prowled her decks yet, this will
be a good time!
Sea Star, Bad Habit, Defiant, Miss Anne
Thrope, and Virginia H post fleet wins in HYC Annual
Regatta: The 21 boat fleet had to delay for half-an-hour for
enough wind to start, but got going as a light breeze appeared and
built to about 8 knots while the race was underway.
RESULTS: PHRF A (4 boats) 1.Sea Star, David
Eberwine; 2.Feather, Phil Briggs.
PHRF B (5 boats): 1.Bad Habit, Bob Archer;
2.White, Dave McConaughy; 3.Strega,
Neal Garrett. PHRF C: (2 boats) 1.Miss Anne
Thrope, Richard Payne. J24 (4 boats)
1.Defiant, Bill Derr; 2.Cavitation,
Chris Duer. PHRF Non-Spin; (6 boats)
1.Virginia H, Andy Armstrong; 2.Checks in the
Mail, Jim Williams; 3.The Hunter, Justin
Morris. Race Chairmen: Kathy and Malcolm Brady; Official Timer
and Scorer: Dick Boykin.
SUMMER SOLSTICE 2:46 A.M. (EDT) - Tuesday,
June 21. It's official! Just in case you had not noticed
the sunny and warm conditions! Oh, and school's out! Lots of young
crewbies just came available - take a youngster racing. Pass your sport
on!
Congratulations are in order for southern Bay homies
Kenny Saylor and Bryce Barritt. They sailed in the Annapolis
to Newport Race aboard Lawrence Bulman's Yellow Jacket - Kenny as
tactician and Bryce on the coffee grinders. Yellow Jacket
finished 2nd in the IRC I fleet (10 boats). Dan Trammell,
who makes his home in Springfield,
Virginia, sailed as OIC (Officer in Charge) on the 5th place
finisher in IRC I, the US Naval Academy's
Hellcat. John
Dodge, whose roots are in the southern Bay, was on Jim Muldoon's
Donnybrook (3rd in IRC I). Mike Nestor's
Glory Days finished 6th in the PHRF II fleet (11
starters).
Block Island Race Week (July 19-25) started
today. If you are not there, think (now) about going next
year. Expand your horizons!
Kick Off Independence Day Weekend by racing in the
DINK VAIL REGATTA (Saturday, July 2) - hosted by Norfolk Yacht
& CC. CBYRA sanctioned regatta (#412). All PHRF classes plus a
non-sanctioned cruising class. Racing around drop marks in Hampton
Roads harbor. Awards and great post-race buffet dinner / awards /
party at NY&CC! Entry deadline is next week, Wednesday,
July 29. For info contact Event Chairman J.D. Scott ((757) 572-6830, or
Principal Race Officer John McCarthy (757) 850-4225. To have your
boat, aka racing machine, at NYCC, Friday or Saturday, contact NYCC
dockmaster, Dino, at (757) 286-1752, to make arrangements.
According to York River Yacht Club's Steve Bowen (Dream
On, S2), there are now 3 Nightwind 35's on the York.
There is, of course, THE Nightwind 35, Smoke, raced by Dan
Smoker. Dave Georgianna's Bay
Key, newly crowned winner of the 2005 York River Cup, is terrorizing
the non-spinny fleet on the York. The 3rd Nightwind belongs to
Dave Crossett. Dave is not racing his....
yet!
COMING UP THIS WEEKEND: June 25-26,
2005
18th Annual Cock Island Race: Fri. -
Sat, June 24-25; (757) 393-8481
Broad Bay Sailing Association Regatta (small
boats): Sat., June 25 J. Pattenaude
757-543-3029
Wolcott Memorial (rescheduled):
Sun., June 26 E. Wolcott wolcott@wolriv.com
Marty Steffens, former racer and long time
supporter of the racing scene on the Chesapeake, has put his beautiful Bristol
38.8, Tidewater, on the market. Marty says he is thinking
of going to a smaller, daysailer-racer boat that will be good for knockin'
about the creek and the beer-can racing circuit.
Southern Bay crewbies on the "far side of the pond" -
Giuseppe Scarfi, who raced on Bill Barnes' "old" Trouble,
is doing great on the race circuit at home in Genoa. From Bill comes word
that Giuseppe raced in the Genoa to Corsica Regatta and won both legs in
his 38 foot Beneteau.
Could it be...? There's a Soverel 26 on
the used boat market. Word is it was recently advertised in the classified
section of the Virginian Pilot. There are not many Soverel
26s around. Could this be the Chesapeake Bay' s very own Orange
Blossom Special, aka OBS? The very same OBS that
Sledd Shelhorse and crew tore up the southern Bay in, winning
championship upon championship back in the early 1980s?
The Christopher Newport University Sailing
Team has high hopes for next Fall. They will return every member
of the team except one, Paula Davis. Head coach
Dan Winter's words, when asked by an underclassman who would
replace Davis as team captain and more, allowed as how "No one
[could replace Davis]... it will take three." She has been the
heart and soul of CNU Sailing .
CBYRA 2005 Red Book , The Directory of Junior
Events, is on the street. If you are involved as a racer or
as the "adult who belongs to a young racer", you need this publication.
Randy Stokes is the southern Bay junior program
coordinator. Contact him at (757) 423-5131. Get CBYRA
registered, get your Red Book, and get racing!
JULY SOUTHERN BAY RACING
CALENDAR: All caps means CBYRA sanctioned
("big boat") regatta.
DINK VAIL MEMORIAL
REGATTA
July 2 (Saturday) , J.D.Scott (757) 572-6830
INDEPENDENCE
DAY Holiday Monday - July 4th !!!
SOUTHERN BAY LEUKEMIA
CUP
July 9 (Saturday), Judy Buis (804) 358-9475
Bay Open Championships and Jr Olympic
Festival July 9-10, FBYC www.fbyc.net
Little Bay Challenge [Non-Spin (1 hs)
only]
July 16 (Sat), Scott Almond ((757) 471-2663)
SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE
CHALLENGE July
17-19, L.G. Raley (301) 862-3100
CAPE CHARLES
CUP
July 23-24, Bill Barnes (757) 313-7500
USODA National Championship
Regatta July
24-29 , www.norfolkyacht.com
Johnston
Memorial Regatta July
30 , Jerry Pattenaude (757) 543-3029
CCV NOT SMITH
POINT
July 31 , John McCarthy (757) 850-4225
Racers from New York to Florida and everywhere in the
Chesapeake Bay are already entered in the SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE CHALLENGE
2005 (July 17, 18, 19). As of last week, 95+ had their paperwork
in and complete. Remember, to beat the $50 late fee, you must have your
entry in no later than Wednesday, June 29th. For info call L.G. Raley at
(301) 862-3100.
Dinghy racers - take note: The Broad
Bay Sailing Association's Richard B. Johnston Memorial
Regatta, set for July 30th, has changed the venue for this year to
Broad Bay (Virginia Beach). For specifics, contact Jerry Pattenaude at
(757) 543-3029.