# 365 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Tuesday October 16, 2007 11:48AM

Virgina Beats The Pride!  Schooner VIRGINIA Flies Down the Bay in GCBSR!  The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race started for Virginia at 1340 on Thursday and Virginia was home in Hampton Roads at 12:58:52, Friday morning!  Along the way, she set a record for fastest time down the Bay (11 hours 18 minutes 53 seconds), took line honors at the Thimble Shoal finish line, and, to the pleasure of southern Bay sailors and citizens, she beat The Pride of Baltimore.   Always a gentleman in this grand competition, Jan Miles, skipper of The Pride, was the first to congratulate Virginia's skipper, Nicholas Alley, and crew, on their win.  Miles radioed  Virginia  from up the course immediately after she crossed the finish line.
SEA STAR,  WHITE BOAT,  ROUNDABOUT, and  MARGARITA  win CCV FALL SERIES.  It could not have been a better day for final showdowns for CCV Racing.   The third and final day of Fall Series racing, which also marked the end of the season long (12 CCV races this year) CCV High Point competition, was race perfect.  A sunny, cool day, with steady breezes in the low teens.  Racing was tight on the course with several "by a bowman's nose" finishes, equipment and people failures were at a minimum, and the post-race hotdogs and brewskis were as tasty as ever!  CCV FALL SERIES RESULTS:  PHRF A: 1.Sea Star (2-2-1-2.5-1-2 = 10.5), David Eberwine; 2.Cash Flow (1-1-4-2.5-2-1 = 11.5), Lloyd Griffin; 3.Feather (4-5-6-4-3-3 = 25, Phil Briggs.  PHRF B: 1.White Boat (2-1-1-2-3-1 = 10), Dave McConaughy; 2.Cool Change (3-2-6-1-1-2 = 15), Rusty Burshell; 3.Bad Habit (1-4-4-3-2-3 = 17), Bob Archer.  PHRF C: 1.Roundabout (1-1-1-3-1-1 = 8), Alan Bomar; 2.Spray (3-4-2-5-2-2 = 18), Bumps Eberwine; 3.Incentive (6-3-3-1-4-3 = 20), Louie Lewis.  PHRF Non-Spin: 1.Margarita (2-1-3-2-1-1 = 10), Harry Tenney; 2.Wiki Wiki (1-3-1-1-3-2 = 11), Rodney Paice; 3.Impulse (3-2-2-3-2-3 = 15), Tom Peddy.  PRO - John McCarthy;  Official Timer/Scorer - Dick Boykin;  Series Mark Boats - Bill Gibbings, Glenn Giles, and Dave Hamilton.
 
 
'Round the Lights Race set for Saturday, October 20.  This is a "chase start" race, commonly know as a pursuit race, where the slower boats start first.  Theoretically,  all the boats will finish around about the same time. This is a CBYRA sanctioned race and counts in the Chesapeake Bay Distance Racing Series (administered by Broad Bay Sailing Association).  It's a great event hosted by Old Point Comfort Yacht Club.  Plenty of post-race party and plenty of challenge on the race course.  Hint: Study the currents . . .before you get out there!    For details and entry info, contact Dennis Miner at (757) 867-1028.
 
Anna Tunnicliffe is on her way to China!  Anna, former Old Dominion University All American, sewed up her trip at the US Olympic Team Trials that concluded in Newport, RI, yesterday.  Anna finished first with room to spare and will represent the USA in Laser Radials.  Anna sailed against  21 of the best of the best.  Get 'em, Anna!
 
Also sailing especially well in the US Olympic Team Trials (at the Southern California venue), was Geoff Ewenson who finished 2nd in the 16 boat Finn Class.  Geoff  is husband to Mary Ewenson, publisher of SpinSheet and PropTalk magazines and very good friend of southern Bay sailors and sailing organizations.
 
Sign-up for Frostbite Series.  Racing begins Sunday, October 28, and goes for 5 straight Sundays through November.  For info and to enter contact Dick Boykin at (757) 890-0093.   This series is hosted by Hampton Yacht Club.  Racing is around CCV marks in the Hampton Roads harbor.
 
CCV Awards Party and Year End Bash coordinator, Karl Petersen, says racers and friends can get a reservation form and up-to-date info about the November 9th gathering at web address  www.ccvracing.org/2007/CCVParty.pdf   .  Save $5 per person by making ressies before October 20 (THIS COMING SATURDAY).  Contact Karl at (757) 271-2869.  Call now and reserve a Crew Table!  This is going to be a fun evening!   Friday, November 9, cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres (complimentary  wine and keg beer, along with cash bar) 7-8:30pm; awards and then dancing and partying with The Phun Doctors until midnight.  Dig out your high heel sneakers!
 
Yesterday, a professional baseball great look-alike appeared on Rodney Paice's Wiki Wiki.  First-name Robert wore a yellow jacket and a Red Sox cap and  looks a lot like  Jonathan Pappelbaum, well-known closer on the Boston Red Sox pitching staff.  If he can trim a sail as well as JP can throw a fastball, he's gonna do fine in sailboat racing!
 
Eric Matherne had a full weekend of helping the racing community.  He spend Friday and Saturday helping dock 37 of the tall ships in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race and then on Sunday was on the race committee team for the CCV Fall Series.
 
MURPHY'S LAW: Good Golly, Miss Molly!  Nicholas Alley and the crew of schooner Virginia  must have been wearing seat belts all the way down the Bay from Annapolis!  That was one fast trip!  Not totally unexpected, though.  Virginia is named for the original pilot schooner what worked the Virginia Capes back in her day.  She had to be fast in order to beat those other pilots to the incoming ships that contracted for guidance up the Bay and into Hampton Roads.  Here's a big Bow-WOW! from the Murphster!  /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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