# 411 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday September 15, 2008 05:58PM
2008 LASER MASTERS ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIP
REGATTA , hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club weekend before
last, was shortened to a one day event because of Tropical Storm
Hanna. Twenty-eight (28) Laser racers competed. Here are the top 5
finishers in the 3 race series: 1. Had
Brick (GM), Island Heights YC; 2. Mike Miller, FBYC;
3. Mike Schmidt, Magothy River SA; 4. Chris
Legg, Severn SA; and, 5. James Jacob,
FBYC. Race Chairman - David Hazlehurst
Does this sound familiar? "Coming about...watch the
boom!" "Oh...THAT boom!" Rex Morgan, M.D., is
getting a practice session under his belt in preparation for crewing in the
HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA, October 10-12, 2008,
hosted by Yankee Point Marina, Lancaster, Virginia. Racing is on the
Rappahannock River off Carter's Creek and the Corrotomon River.
Chesapeake Bay Magazine named the TURKEY SHOOT 2007 "Best of the Bay"
in the regatta category. Join the fun. Check out
www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
for details and entry info. This event is a member of the National Hospice
Regatta Alliance. And, you can follow Rex Morgan,
M.D.'s Hospice Regatta experience in the nationally syndicated comic
strip by Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan.
SEA STAR, COOL CHANGE,
FAT-DRUNK-STUPID, and VIRGINIA H
take wins on opening day of CCV Fall Series. With a SW
breeze that never dropped below 8 knots and changed direction at most by 10
degrees, the sun shining, and the air temps in the high 80 degrees, what's not
to like? A perfect day to open a fall series. Thirty-one (31)
skippers and crews got down to some real racing to kick-off the last major
series of the season on the southern Bay. The fleet got two races in, as
planned, and here is how the standings for the day look: RESULTS (over
2 races): PHRF A (8 boats) - 1.David
Eberwine, Sea Star; 2.Lloyd
Griffin, Cash Flow; 3.Bob
Mosby, Cyrano. PHRF B (10 boats) -
1.Rusty Burshell, Cool Change; 2.Bob
Archer, Bad Habit; 3.Larry Preddy, PF
Flyer. PHRF C (8 boats) - 1.AJ Piccillo/Scott
Batchelor, Fat, Drunk & Stupid; 2.Jonathan
Phillips, Fine; 3.Alan Bomar,
Roundabout. PHRF Non-Spin (5 boats) - 1.Andy
Armstrong, Virginia H; 2.Harry Tenney,
Margarita; 3.Tom Peddy,
Impulse.
PRO - John McCarthy Official
Scorer - John Ritter Mark Boats - Glenn Giles and Bill
Gibbings.
CCV FALL SERIES September
21 - Race 3 (single race day, using CCV fixed marks in the
harbor), will be scored also as part of the 2008 Chesapeake Bay Distance
Racing Series. First warning at 1030 / 10:30AM, in the Harbor.
OPEN TO ALL. Deadline for entries is 1300 / 1:00PM on Saturday,
September 20. Those with CCV Racing Memberships are automatically
entered in this Series. All races in
this Series will be sailed in Hampton Roads Harbor. Starts for all PHRF
fleets as well as a non-sanctioned Cruising fleet (one headsail
only) October 5 - races #4
& 5 You may enter all, one, or some of the races in this
Series - entries are due at 1300 the day before the day of the race.
For info contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.
2009 SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK officials have
announced that the
PhotoBoat.com on-the-water action photography
team will be at the regatta to record racers in action in
2009 (May 29-31, 2009) . They will be on site during post-race
parties to sell quality photos direct to racers. So, plan your
pre-season prep toward lookin' good for these pros of racing
photos.
MARK YOUR 2009 CALENDARS - These dates are set
in stone, already: (watch for details in
SBRNYCU)
Jan 24 SBRNYCU Murphy Rules Clinic,
special emphasis on rules changes for 2009-2012 - at Norfolk YCC (full
day)
Feb 14-15 US SAILING Basic Race Management Seminar-Hampton Yacht
Club - two half-day sessions (9am-1:30pm)
May 22 Down the Bay Race start - Annapolis to
Hampton - sponsored by Storm Trysail Club and Hampton YC
May 29-31 Southern Bay Race Week - sponsored by Hampton YC, CCV,
and Old Point Comfort YC
July 4-5 Norfolk's Harborfest
July 6-11 US SAILING Junior Women's National Doublehanded
Championships (Ida Lewis)-hosted by Hampton YC
July 19-21 Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge - hosted by Southern
Maryland Sailing Association
Aug 14 Plantation Light Race - sponsored by Hampton
Yacht Club
Aug 22-23 Cape Charles Cup - sponsored by Broad Bay
Sailing Association
Norfolk Academy Bulldogs choose new sailing coach.
The Norfolk school has selected well know southern Bay
racer Brendan Drinkwater as the head coach of their high
school sailing team. Congratulations to Brendan and to the NA
Bulldogs!
In the 2008 Serio Hampton One-Design Regatta at the
HOD "birth club", HYC, Mark Wheeler and Graham Garrenton took
1st place ([2] -2-1-1-1-1) and Charlie McCoy and Charles McCoy
III took 2nd (1-1-2-2-2-[3]) in the 4 boat fleet. Race Chairmen -
Malcolm and Kathy Brady.
Saturday, Midnight Mistress, Jake and Pat
Brodersen's C&C 35, looked like "The African
Queen" approaching the starting line at the Tri-Service Regatta.
When the engine exhaust system broke on the way to the event,
Jake did an on-the-move-temporary fix; let the exhaust exit through the
open cockpit locker and the cooling water run through the bilge pump. Got
that picture? Jake and Pat get an award for "folks you want with you
in your bunker"!
Yankee Point Yacht Club Fall Regatta 1. They raced
on Saturday up on the Rapp Rivah and here's how it went: PHRF Spinnaker
Fleet - 1.Dwight Timm, Silver Fox; 2.Sam
Marshall, Play it Again; 3.Mike McCartney,
Marijo. PHRF Non-Spin Fleet - 1.John
Henley, Brat; 2. Ruth and Ed Bush,
Ruthless; 3.Anker Madsen, Eva.
Old Point Comfort Yacht Club re-claims the Tri-Services
Cup at the annual showdown gathering among the three armed
services clubs, OPCYC (Army), Norfolk Naval Sailing Association, and Langley
Yacht Club (Air Force). Sixty boats, divided into two fleets contested the
Cup. Jake and Pat Brodersen, Midnight Mistress,
won the racing group of 20 boats and Seth Parkins,
Charisma, won the 40 boat cruising group, 33 of whom finished
.
Youth Sailing Update: The
Virginia Interscholastic Sailing Association (VISA) began the
fall season Saturday at host Norfolk Yacht and Country Club with 8 high
schools fielding 16 teams. Norfolk Collegiate, coached by
Chris Behm and led by Ian Stokes won the day,
followed by Christ Church and Smithfield. The VISA teams
tangle again this coming Saturday, again at NYCC.
Schooner VIRGINIA finishes 3rd in the 360 mile race around
Prince Edward Island. Capt. Hank
Moseley, brought VIRGINIA in behind Pride of
Baltimore II and first place finisher Spirit of Bermuda.
The Spirit of Bermuda has a cold molded hull, carbon spars, and
88 feet of deck length - she is "made to race" and appears to be a schooner
racing force with which to be reckoned.
MURPHY'S LAW: Yrs Truly, the
Racing Beagle, spent the weekend curled up watching coverage
of Hurricane Ike's devastation and being especially thankful for all we
have here on the southern Chesapeake. And, hoping folks in Texas and along
the Gulf Coast can somehow find the courage to deal with what has so tragically
beset them. /S/ Murphy
the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.