# 287 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy 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 71David 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 ChampionTrey 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.
 
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