#266 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Tuesday September 20, 2005 12:58PM
Chris Rouzie (Front Runner), John
Hubbard (Flying Scot), Dan Herlihy (Laser) and
Jerry Deservine (Mobjack), were all fleet winners yesterday at
Fishing Bay YC Fall Series Day 2.
Remember the US SAILING Match Racing Championship
Quarterfinals sailed off Hampton Flats back in May? HYC hosted
the event and J/24 Fleet 71 provided the boats. The winner, Marie
Klok Crump, sailing with her husband Will Crump
(Fishing Bay YC) and her brother Thomas Klok, has won her way
to the National Finals. That team will be competing this Wednesday
through Saturday for the US Match Racing Championship for the Prince of Wales
Trophy. Karl Ziegler is the defending champion and has won his way
back to the Championship round this year. The winner this week will
represent the United States in the Nations Cup Regatta in the U.S. Virgin
Islands. All champions come from somewhere - no
reason more can't come from the southern Bay!
SBRNYCU Rules Quiz: If you
bonk a mark while rounding, how can you exonerate yourself?
CCV FALL SERIES RACE
# 1 - An Old Salt once said, "A lot of life happens when you
just show up." Case in point: if
you were on one of the 33 PHRF boats or the Hampton One Designs that showed up
yesterday to sail in Hampton Roads, you enjoyed one of the best sailing
days of the season. The weather guys missed the call; they had it at 0-6
knots going to the dreaded light and variable. The racers who went racing,
regardless of the weather predictions, were treated to 10-12 knots out of the NE
on flat water with perfect temperatures. RESULTS: PHRF
A - 1.Sledd Shelhorse, Meridian, Taylor
40; 2.Dave Eberwine, Sea Star, J/36;
3.Phil Briggs, Feather, J/36. PHRF
B - 1.Rusty Burshell, Cool Change, J/30;
2.Archer/Beahr, Bad Habit, Pearson Flyer;
3.Mike Austin, Movin' On, Bene F8. PHRF C
- 1.Ben Cuker, Callinectes, Cal 30.3;
2.John Blais, Stardancer, Pearson 30; 3.Alan
Bomar, roundabout, J/24. PHRF Non-Spin -
1.Andy Armstrong, Virginia H, Soverel 30;
2.Bill Peach, Surprise, Alerion Express 28;
3.Jim Williams, Checks in the Mail, Catalina 38.
PRO: John McCarthy; Official Scorer: Dick Boykin; Mark Boats: Glenn Giles, Bill
Gibbings.
CCV FALL SERIES RACE # 2 - Sunday,
September 25, Hampton Roads Harbor, First warning at 1100 hours, must have
valid current PHRF Rating including Equipment Category 4P. CCV
Racing Members
are entered already; all others must submit entry and
fees no later than 1300 hours the day prior to the race. For info
contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225. Remember what The Old Salt
said.
YIKES! No. No. No. It's
US Merchant Marine Academy, not Maritime, as
erroneously printed in issue #265 last week! And, it's a darned good
school too. Go, Mariners!
The "friendly insurgents" at yesterday's CCV Fall Series race
were the Impulse crew (Tom Peddy, Catalina 34)
sporting their fancy gifts that Tom brought back from his recent Bahrain
assignment. The crew look very chic in their red and
white checked with lace trim Arab head gear streaming in the
wind.
Trevor Pardee and crew Rachel Blake won the
2005 Serio Hampton One Design Regatta yesterday.
Leigh Morgan and Dave Chapman finished 2nd.
Deadline for Entries for 2005 Neptune's Atlantic
Regatta is Saturday, September 24th. Call Jim Williams at (757)
623-2628 for info. CALL NOW! The NAR is set for Saturday, October
1.
15th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA - Sep 30, Oct
1, and Oct 2. This is a very special, well run, first class
regatta hosted by Yankee Point Marina and Yankee Point Yacht
Club. The event usually draws more than 100 boats and this year looks
to be no different. The regatta is open to all classic design (the
design is at least 25 years old, e.g. Catalina 30s, J/24s, and Flying
Scots have reached that milestone) sailboats and boats made of
wood at least 18 feet long. Racing takes place Saturday and
Sunday on the Rappahannock River. The overall winner of the event
qualifies for the National Hospice Regatta held in Annapolis in the Spring of
2006. The social events are top notch and there are things for spectators
and race team groupies too. Go on line at www.hospiceturkeyshootregetta.com
for detailed info and entry procedures. There is no better time of year to
be sailing on the Chesapeake and this regatta is a celebration of just
that!
Do NOT plan on going to the Strictly Sail Philadelphia
this coming January - Sail America has moved the show back one year to
January 18-21, 2007. This is the show that used to be held in Atlantic
City as Sail Expo.
BIG OUCH ! for the schooner
Pride of Baltimore II - She lost her rig while sailing
in a squall off France a week ago. Our "schooner info-man",
Captain Bill Johnson of Irvington,
Virginia, reported that repair folks are saying it will take at least
a couple of months to fix The Pride.
OCTOBER RACERS' CALENDAR: A bundle of racing
opportunities!
Sep 30 - Oct 2 15th Annual
Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
October 1
Saturday BBSA Neptune's Atlantic
Regatta Jim Williams, (757) 623-2628
October 2
Sunday FBYC Fall Series Race #2
October 2
Sunday HYC Singlehand
Race Kathy Brady, (757) 723-3244
October 6 -
10 Annapolis
Sailboat Show (410) 267-6711
October 8 Saturday
RRYC Fall Regatta Tom Norris, ((804)
435-2882
Oct 8 - 9 Sat -
Sun FBYC Indian Summer Regatta (dinghy OD) Allan
Heyward (804) 282-1760
October 9
Sunday CCV Fall Series Races # 3
and # 4 John McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Oct 13 -
14
Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race (757) 480-4402
October 14 -
16
FBYC J/29 Invitational Case Whittemore, (804) 285-4632
October 15 Saturday FBYC
Fall Series Race #3
Oct 16
Sunday RRYC FS Fleet 185 Fall Series Day
#3 Tom Richardson, (804) 438-5122
October 20 Thursday
Deadline for Early Bird Reservations of CCV Awards Party (Nov 11)
October 22
Saturday OPCYC 'Round the Lights
Race Jeff Rogers, (757) 617-0947
Oct 22 -
23
Rappahannock Cup Race YPYC, (804) 462-7018
October 22 Saturday FBYC
Fall Series Race #4
October 23
Sunday J/24 Fleet 71 Fall
Regatta Alan Bomar, 810-4518
October
27-30
USSAILING Lloyd Phoenix Offshore Championships
October
30 Sunday HYC Frostbite
Series Race #1 Dick Boykin, (757) 890-0093
SBRNYCU Rules Quiz Answer:
Rule 31.2 says that a boat that has hit a mark may immediately get well clear of
all other boats and do a penalty turn consisting of one tack and one jibe.
NOTE 1: The boat commits another foul if any other boat is forced to
change course to avoid her while she is doing her turn. NOTE 2:
Re-rounding the mark went out with "mast abeam".
MURPHY'S LAW: OK
- there are steps racers can or must take whenever they hit a
mark. But, what about this situation? It
seems to happen most often when the current is running particularly strong,
you have spend an inordinate amount of time fighting foul current to the mark,
and just as you hear that terrible sucking - gurgling sound, whamm-o,
the mark hauls off and hits you! The Murphster says consider
hauling out the flare gun and deflating that sucker!
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing
spirit in us all.
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