# 389 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday April 14, 2008 02:48PM
Fishing Bay Yacht Club opens their
sailing season and their Spring Series this coming weekend, April 19-20.
For details and to enter contact Mike Dale at (804)
347-7409. The FBYC Spring Series runs on weekends
through May 10.
Twenty (20) Southern Bay Teams Get Calibrated in
the CCV Tune-Up Races: Yesterday was perfect for a day of Spring
racing. Nineteen spinnaker and 1 non-spinnaker (Fins Up,
Tom Connors) finished two races in Hampton Roads
Harbor. Leading their fleets and looking to be in top form early
were: PHRF A - Sea Star, Dave Eberwine;
PHRF B - Wham Bam, Dave Taylor; PHRF C -
Incentive, Louie Lewis .
PRO - John McCarthy.
KUDOS to John Ritter for stepping up
to fill-in as official CCV scorer during Dick Boykin's recovery.
Last chance to get you name in the
hat! Only SBRW Early Bird Entries will have a chance to win
the set of 12 SBRW regatta polos. Southern Bay Race Week Early
Bird Entry deadline is this Wednesday, April 16. After dealing
with your income taxes, you DESERVE a chance at the set (12) of regatta
shirts and you NEED the 6 free drink
tickets! SBRW entry forms
available direct by email: just hit reply and say
"I want my SBRW entry form. It will come right to you!
For additional info, contact Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email mcbear@earthlink.net Event
website is www.blacksealcup.com
WOW! Check out the cover of the May issue of
Chesapeake Bay Magazine. There in all her glory is
Middle Ground Lighthouse, the star of the show in the HYC Middle Ground Annual
Regatta and the OPCYC 'Round the Lights Race. And, the star behind the
camera is Buddy DeRyder, a long time sailor on the southern Bay
racing scene. (Buddy and his wife, Dariene, currently cruise their
Beneteau 42, SurfRyder.)
To Fiddlers' Green: Maurice Burke Jackson, 88,
passed away in his home in Virginia Beach, April 5,
2008. Maury was past commodore of both the Broad Bay
Sailing Association (Virginia Beach) and the Rappahannock River Yacht Club
(Irvington). He was an active sailboat racer and raced his 34-foot sloop,
Nereus in the Chesapeake Bay for a long, long
time. He will be missed by many.
CCV SPRING SERIES OPENS, Sunday, April
20. CCV will run two races in the Harbor, with the first warning
scheduled for 1030. There will be starts for each PHRF Spinnaker
Fleet, PHRF Non-Spin, and a Cruising Fleet. Valid 2008 PHRF ratings are
required for all PHRF racers. OPEN TO ALL. Boats with CCV Racing
Memberships are automatically entered; all other racers must submit an entry
form and fees no later than the day before race day. For information,
contact John or Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225. So, the southern Bay
season begins - BRING IT!!
Christopher Newport Sailing Team qualified for the
America Trophy Regatta by virtue of their extraordinary team effort at
the Robert Paul Arrigan Memorial Regatta at Georgetown University a weekend
ago. Matt Lythgoe, Amy Pohemus, Kate McClintock, and Maxwell
Plarr sailed their butts off and brought home the berth in the America
Trophy Regatta. All four get the "Tuff Racer" award for their
effort. And, Kate McClintock, who sailed while battling a bronchial
infection that got progressively worse throughout the weekend, gets the "Tuff
Racer" medallion with crossed band-aids. Kudos to
these young sailors. (The CNU head coach is Dan Winters and
assistant coach is Jim White.)
Portsmouth Boat Club's Barnacle Series begins this
Friday evening. Contact Bob Old (757) 488-8083 or Jim Simpson (757)
238-2193.
AZALEA FESTIVAL REGATTA is back!
Norfolk Naval Sailing Association is sponsoring the rejuvenation of the
event to coincide with the Azalea Festival, a long time happening managed by the
City of Norfolk and the Navy to honor NATO. The Azalea Festival Regatta
will run on Saturday, April 19, in Hampton Roads Harbor (keelboats) and
Willoughby (aka Little) Bay (dinghies). First flag for the keelboats
will be 12:00 Noon; for the dinghies first flag will be 11:00 am.
Keelboat classes are: PHRF Non-Spin (one headsail); Cruising
(one headsail), and, if appropriate, one-design. For the dinghies
it's Laser, 420, and other classes with 3 or more . For info
and entry, contact Chess Harris at chess.harris@norfolknavalsailing.org Entry Deadline is this Wednesday, April 16.
From April 08, 2008 Scuttlebutt:
The Swedish
government has published its views on rules for a mandatory driver's
license for boaters in Sweden. The country has never before had any
mandatory license for driving a motorboat or sailing a
yacht. The license will be mandatory from April 1, 2011, according
to the proposal. Some 85 percent of Swedish boat club members already have
voluntarily licenses, which can probably be exchanged or migrated
according to the new rules during 2009. -- IBI Magazine, full report:
http://www.ibinews.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20080307120515ibinews.html SBRNYCU comment: Be careful what
you volunteer to do!
Crabtown Festival and 12th Annual Downtown Hampton
In-Water-Boat Show - April 26-27. Sailboats are included in the
boat show,and there will be marine supplies and plenty of seafood.
And, for your enjoyment, there will be live music including The Beachnuts,
Tailgate Down, and more! For boat show info call (757)
727-1271.
56 feet and 280 toes are now bare
naked! Twenty-eight (28) Langley Yacht Club-ers burned
their socks Saturday, with little or no regard for the impending doom
(thunder-boomers and wind gusts) predicted by the weather
experts.
MURPHY'S LAW: There's
a new personal tracker out called the SPOT Personal
Tracker@. It works through Google Earth and is about the size of a
cell phone. You can track and be tracked with this handy
device that costs around $170 plus $100 annual fee). Yrs Truly,
the Racing Beagle, sees it as the latest in party safety
devices for racers - lash one to the mast of the boat on which
you are bunking after the party; lash one to your favorite beer truck; lash
one to yourself, so your crew mates can find you in the morning!
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us
all.