# 287 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday February 27, 2006 09:50PM
CBYRA Region 4 Awards Dinner: 50+
racers and friends attended the Annual Region 4 Awards Presentation Dinner
hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club Saturday evening. CBYRA
Vice-President for Region 4, Tom Roberts, presented silverware to
a bunch of lasagna-filled racers for their 2005 accomplishments.
Toting home silverware were: Leroi Lissenden
and Bob Krushelnisky, Voodoo Chile (1st PHRF Spin,
North); Stephen Radcliffe, Entreprise (1st, PHRF
Non-Spin, North). Bob Archer (Archer/Beahr), Bad
Habit, (2nd PHRF B, South); Ben Cuker,
Callinectes, (1st PHRF C, South); Lew and Barb
Lewis, Incentive (2nd PHRF C, South); Jim and
Barbara Williams, Checks in the Mail (2nd PHRF Non-Spin,
South). Mike Dale, Juggernaut, was
the top PHRF B boat in the combined North Spin Fleet. Mark boat
Emperor Supreme, Blackwell Nottingham, and big boat
and dinghy racer, Jerry Desverine, handled the
bartending duties with aplomb - the male equivalent of Coyote Ugly, but minus
dancing on the bar. David Lee assisted with hospitality
duties and Fishing Bay's Commodore, Lud Kimbrough, personally
served the special dessert of pastry swans. (Note: Thanks to Bird-Word researcher, Mike Dale, a bunch of swans
are properly termed a bevy, ballet, herd or
whiteness. Ahh, the answer to one of the many thought provoking,
burning questions posed at the soiree!)
YIKES! Spring is just around the corner.
Official Arbiter of Time, Jimmie Mock, says there are 33 days remaining
before the April 1st opening day of the racing season. Time to get
ready.
Play It Again, Sam ! From The Rivah
(Rappahannock River area), comes word that Sam Marshall,
skippered J29 Night Music, has taken delivery on a "new to him" S2 7.9
in Irvington. Watch for Sam to be racing Play It Again out
of Rappahannock River Yacht Club in the coming season.
When Chuck Monsees' Rockette team
headed for the St. Pete NOODs last week, they already had one regatta
championship under their belt - they were coming off just having won the
J29 2006 Midwinters at Davis Island Yacht Club. From now on the
Florida state troopers will probably issue a formal BOLO (be on look out) for
the big yellow and red truck coming from the Chesapeake Bay. (Note:
In addition to winning the Mids, Rockette tied for the St. Pete NOOD
class trophy, but was awarded 2nd because they lost the tie-breaker).
Two More [PHRF] B's Check in for SOUTHERN BAY RACE
WEEK: Bad Habit, Bob Archer and Chris
Beahr, Pearson 30, and Jezebel, Bob Old,
J30, have signed on the dotted line of their SBRW entry forms, thereby
earning the Early Bird Entry incentive - 10 FREE
Regatta Drink tickets! SBRW = 6 great races and 3 great
parties. Ya'll come! Need details? see
www.blacksealcup.com
Found, but never actually lost! With
the Centennial Bermuda Race to start June 16th in Newport,
Rhode Island, race officials began to poke around for the original trophy.
They found Sir Thomas Lipton's unique piece of silverware, won in 1906 by
Tamerlane, a 38 foot yawl, in the safekeeping of The Mariners'
Museum in Newport News. The March issue of Sail Magazine
(page 32) reports the discovery and has a small photo.
New J24 joining Fleet 71: David
Taylor made the trip to pick up his "new-to-him" J24 this past
weekend. Dave expects to have Midmorning Buzz on the
starting line for the first J24 regatta on April 1st !
CBYRA One Design High Point Champion:
Trey Smith's (BBSA) winning of the 2005 baywide
title for the Mobjack Class was announced at the CBYRA Region 4 Awards
Dinner hosted at Fishing Bay YC this past Saturday.
Flying Scot Mid Winters: Look out
! The class Mid-Winters are set for March 5-10, at St.
Petersburg Yacht Club. Len and Barb Guenther, long time
Mobjack racers and current Flying Scot racers, are planning to go. Go git
'em, Guenthers!
MOTH-ers Head South:
The Moth migration to Florida continues. Frank
Shipley and Greg Duncan, Classic Moth racers who
sail out of Pasquotank River Yacht Club, are expected to be among the
traveling mothboaters headed for Davis Island YC, March 4-5.
Oh, well --- It was Henry
Amthor, not his wife Barb (whose email he was using), who finished 2nd
with brother Doug at the 505 Midwinters weekend before
last. Maybe Barb will be on the water next year!
CBYRA Opti Racers: Out of
42 qualifiers for the CBYRA Opti High Point Championship, 5 southern Bay
(Region 4) youngsters, all from Norfolk Yacht & Country Club, finished
in the top 11: 3rd - Sam Stokes (NYCC); 4th - Kavanaugh
Stokes (NYCC); 7th - Teddy Stokes (NYCC); 8th - Graham Landy (NYCC)
and 11th - Ian Stokes (NYCC). And, John Stokes and
Chris Klevan, also from NYCC, topped the Club 420 High
Point list of 10 qualifiers.
2005 CBYRA Clyde Winters RC Of the Year Award
went to Norfolk Yacht & Country Club for the USODA National
Championships and Girls' Nationals. Kudos !!
New Equipment Possibilities: There are
at least two new "big boat" models on the market that have a really cool, crew
friendly, boom. Both the J/65 and the Tartan 34 offer a carbon fiber
boom that has a trough that catches the mainsail when it is doused.
Racers who have had to douse and store a mainsail on a windy day can see how
this would really help with folding and storing chores.
MURPHY'S
LAW: Yours Truly is thinking there are other
uses that boom trough (see above) will have - a great place to store worn
out sailing gloves, protest flags, contraband brewskies,...
you follow my drift! /S/ Murphy the Racing
Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.