#263 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday August 29, 2005 01:13PM

Flying Scot, Front Runner, Laser, and Mobjack Fall Series at FBYC:  23 small boats took advantage of yesterday's racing conditions in the FBYC Fall Series competition.  Winners of the classes were:  Flying Scot - John Hubbard (with 4 bullets); Front Runner - Bill Spencer; Laser - Mark Saunders; Mobjack - Jerry Deservine
 
LABOR DAY WEEKEND SOUTHERN BAY RACING OPPORTUNITIES:  One day, two days, or all weekend long, racers will be racing!!
 
Saturday (Sept 3) Event in Hampton Roads:   Norfolk Yacht & Country Club is hosting the Annual Labor Day Regatta for "big boats" and folding into the race the competition for the Dink Vail Perpetual Trophy.  This is a CBYRA sanctioned event.  Racing takes place in the Harbor.  First warning signal is set for 1100 hours. There are starts for all PHRF classes as well as a Cruising class.  There will be a post race keg  tapping - cash bar at 1700 hours followed by a barbeque style dinner and awards presentation.   For info contact event chairman J.D. Scott at (757) 572-6830 . 
 
Saturday (Sept 3) - Sunday (Sept 4) Event at Fishing Bay (Deltaville):  Fishing Bay Yacht Club is hosting the 10th Annual Stingray Point Regatta.  This is a favorite weekend event for southern Bay racers that concludes on Sunday, leaving the holiday Monday open for return boat deliveries, etc.  CBYRA sanctioned racing for all PHRF fleets and MORC.  Racing is in the Bay at the mouth of the Piankatank River.  Plenty of socializing, eating and drinking, awards, and fun!  For info contact Lori Moyer at (804) 342-7404.
 
Saturday (Sept 3) thru Monday (Sept 5) Event in Annapolis:  CBYRA hosts the 39th Annual Annapolis Race Week.  This is heavy duty racing for the entire weekend.  All CBYRA sanctioned (of course) races, for all PHRF and several one-design classes.  Racing is just off Annapolis.  Major parties, festivities, and awards.  For info go to www.cbyra.org or call the CBYRA office at  (410) 269-1194 
 
For the rest of today, and beyond, most of us will be focused on New Orleans, the Mississippi / Alabama Gulf Coast, and the Florida Panhandle.  Chesapeake Bay sailors all remember Isabel (2003), and Hurricane Katrina is Isabel's REALLY BIG sister.  Thoughts and prayers to our Gulf area brethren. 
 
Racing Rules Quiz:  Is it necessary for the Race Committee to notify the boats of a changed course as they round the mark beginning the changed leg?
 
Yes, Virginia, there is wind on the Chesapeake Bay !  Plenty of racers took advantage of the opportunity to just go sailing yesterday.  And, a number of racers got in a team building, practice day too!  Fall is like a whole new season.  Dates on your calendar are closer than they appear!
 
 J/24 - Fleet 71 Summer Races:  What it was was... W-I-N-D !  And, it blew 10-12 out of the ESE steady as a rock once it settled in.  The Hampton Roads J/24s in Fleet 71 got in 5 great races yesterday afternoon.  No drifting, no sail flopping, no problem.  When all was said and done, Alan Bomar's Roundabout won the tie breaker (3-1-4-1-1) over Matt Haskell/Dave Taylor's @#$%&! (1-2-3-2-2).  Mike Veraldi and his crew finished third (4-3-1-4-3), when Chris Duer in Cavitation took an RAF (retired after finishing) in the last race (2-4-2-3-6).  New on the J/24 scene, the Doreen crew and skipper Jack Herbert sailed over from Portsmouth and flew their spinnaker for the first time in Sunday's races.  PRO: John McCarthy, Official Scorer: Dick Boykin; Mark Boat: Larry Bryant.
 
 
 
Tattoos in Norfolk (maybe):  Tattoos have been the trademark of sailors and seaman for centuries. Strange as it may seem, the city being the capitol of Navy sailors, the most tattooed segment of the population (before the NBA took it up), tattoo places are illegal in Norfolk.  That will probably change soon, the popularity of "body art" being what it is today. 
 
Southern Bay J29s at the North Americans, Sackets Harbor, New York:  Case Whittemore's Patriot finished 4th at the 2005 J29 North Americans weekend before last and Bob Wardwell's Killshot was 6th. John and Linda Edwards' (Solomons, MD) Rhumb Punch took second to the class champion Hustler (John Esposito).
 
There is talk that the new Bay Creek Marina at Cape Charles on Virginia's Eastern Shore is considering a full fledged weekend regatta for 2006. As of now, the idea is a one-day (Saturday) mid-distance race with parties and regatta festivities before and after.
 
Henry Amthor (HYC), John Hubbard (FBYC) and William Murphy (FBYC) are southern Bay homies already entered in the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championships, set to begin September 10 at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.  Check out www.fbyc.net  for complete info.
 
40 Already! There are already more than 40 boats (including crews, skippers, and racing groupies) signed up and bound for Fishing Bay for the annual Stingray Point Regatta.  Go to www.fbyc.net for info.  And, there are already 40 boats entered in the Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta (Sept 30 - Oct 2).  Go to www.yankeepointmarina.com
 
Coming Up in September (after Labor Day):
(NOTE:  September 10th Executive Cup has been cancelled for 2005, and the HYC 5o5 Fall Regatta has moved from September to November 12-13.)
Saturday, Sept 10          Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championships  www.fbyc.net
Saturday, Sept 17          FBYC Wolf Trap Race        Eric Powers,  cell 363-5553
Saturday, Sept 17          YPYC Fall Singlehand Race
Sep 17 - 23                   Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship (Annapolis)
Sunday, Sept 18            CCV Fall Series Race #1    John McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Sunday, Sept 24            YPYC Fall Regatta #2
Sat-Sun, Sept 24-25       Flying Scot AC and Capitol District Champs.  Debbie Cycotte (804) 776-7098
Sunday, Sept 25             CCV Fall Series Race #2    John McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Sunday, Sept 25             FBYC Fall Series 1            Eric Powers,  cell 363-5553
Friday, Sept 30              Deadline for entries for US Offshore Championship - Lloyd Phoenix Trophy
Fri-Sun, Sep 30-Oct 2     YPM/YPYC  Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta
Saturday, Oct 1              BBSA Neptune Atlantic      Jim Williams,  (757) 623-2628
Sunday, Oct 2                HYC Singlehand Race        Kathy Brady, (757) 723-3244
Sunday, Oct 2                FBYC Fall Series 2            Eric Powers,  cell 363-5553
 
Racing Rules Quiz Answer:  Absolutely.  RRS 33 requires the RC to fly Flag "C" and indicate the new bearing at the rounding mark that begins the changed leg.  Bonus info: The new mark need not yet be in position when the boats start the changed leg.  But, RCs, for the sake of your own blood pressure, it ought to be close.
 
MURPHY'S LAW: Tattoos.  I, The Murphster, am a proponent of tattoo-ing. I do believe, however,  that each tattoo should be useful. For example, a newbie crewbie could tattoo a sail trim guide or a set of racing signals in a visible spot for ready reference.  A racing skipper and crewmates would surely be impressed.   /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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