# 442 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday May 4, 2009 12:43PM
Remember, this coming Sunday (MAY 10) is
Mother's Day. Wine her and dine her and then... take her
sailing!
Fishing Bay Yacht Club Spring Series Leaders: After
3 days of series racing, the fleet leaders in the FBYC Spring Series are:
PHRF A - Brad Davis, Bladerunner; PHRF
B/C - Allan Heyward, La Maga; and PHRF
Non-Spin - Paul Cross, Battlewagon.
Race Officer for Spring Series Race Day 3 this past weekend was Dale
Chesser. FBYC will run their Spring Series Day 4 on this coming
Saturday, May 9.
RESERVE A SLIP FOR SOUTHERN BAY RACE
WEEK. Here are two options - make ressies
NOW!
Downtown Hampton's Piers
dockmaster, Greg Harrison at 1-866-556-9631. Slips are within
site of and a very brief walk from Hampton Yacht Club, SBRW Event
Headquarters. Greg says he'll take real good care of the racers who decide
to stay at his facility (located right next door to the Crowne Plaza waterfront
hotel (previously the Hampton Radisson), and... this year he guarantees no
"harassment" by pirates!!! The Hampton Annual Pirate Festival is the
weekend after SBRW this year and the good side of that is more el
primo slips available for SBRW racers.
Bluewater Yachting Center dockmaster, Ian
Bates at (757) 723-6774. Full service marina (and on-site
restaurant, boaters' "watering hole" and more). Bluewater
is within site of SBRW event headquarters at Hampton Yacht
Club. Four minutes through neighborhood by car, about the same by
boat, and certainly walkable. Excellent place to stash your
boat 'tween the finish of the Down the Bay Race (May 23) and throughout Southern
Bay Race Week (May 28 (check-in) 0 May 31).
For additional docking, accommodations, marine/racing
services, sailmaker contacts, directions, etc, go to www.blacksealcup.com,
or www.hamptonyc.com and
click on SBRW or DTB logo, or call Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or
email Lin at mcbear@earthlink.net.
CCV SPRING SERIES - It's a wrap! CASH
FLOW, ROCKETTE, SPRAY, and KINGFISHER
top fleets. Racers made the most of a break in the
weather yesterday to slide in two races and finish the 2009 Spring
Series. After a brief (half-hour) delay while waiting for the breeze to
arrive from up the James River, Race #4 was completed. The RC turned the
finishes over and got a short second race completed just in time for racers to
bust for the safety of the docks as a downpour and crummy weather hit the
Hampton Roads area. "Got all the wind there was to get and a free
wash-down at the docks," commented one post-race party attendee. SERIES
RESULTS: PHRF A (10 boats entered): 1. Cash Flow (1-1-1-2),
Lloyd Griffin; 2. Sea Star (2-3-3-1),
Dave Eberwine; 3. Voodoo 2 (4-2-2-3),
Leroi Lissenden; 4. Cyrano (3-4-4-5),
Bob Mosby. PHRF B (17 boats entered): 1.
Rockette (1-1-1-4), Chuck Monsees; 2. Bad
Habit (8-3-2-5), Bob Archer; 3. Cool Change
(9-6-3-1), Rusty Burshell; 4. Midnight Mistress
(3-4-7-8), Jake Brodersen. PHRF C (14 boats
entered): 1.Spray (6-2-2-1), Bumps Eberwine;
2. The Hunter (1-3-5-2.5), Justin Morris; 3.
Roundabout (15 dnc), 1-1- 2.5), Alan Bomar; 4.
Wiki Wiki (5-6-6-6), Rodney Paice. PHRF
Non-Spin (9 boats entered): 1. Kingfisher ((1-1-1-1), Dixon
Wilde; 2. Fins Up (3-4-3-3), Tom
Connors; 3. Sur Le Vent (4-5-4-4), Rick
Carroll. Principal Race Officer - John McCarthy; Official
Scorer - John Ritter; Mark Boats - Bill Gibbings and Tom and Jane
Fowler. Series Trophies will be presented at the annual CCV Awards
party in November.
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK ENTRIES HIT 50 - J105
One-Design Fleet Makes. SBRW 2009 entries have hit the 50
mark and the J105s will have at least the required 5 boats on the
line. With entries running comparable to 2008 at this point, event
organizers are looking forward to another great year at SBRW. For
information and entry forms check out the event website at
www.blacksealcup.com
or contact Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email to mcbear@earthlink.net
Race Boat Dance - the beat goes on! Two
southern Bay skippers have new rides this month: Louie Lewis and
wife Barb now have [formerly owned by Craig Olson] the
Olsen 30, INCENTIVE +, formerly known as
Namesake. Incentive + did some shakedown racing yesterday in the CCV Spring Series PHRF
Non-Spin Fleet. And, Dennis Hannick has a
Tripp 26, Goin', which he is bringin' to Southern Bay Race
Week. Dennis has put his el primo T750, LOLA, on the
block in Annapolis. Southern Bay racers remember Dennis brought his
previous Tripp 26, Radio Flyer, to SBRW a couple of years back and tore
up his fleet. Congratulations to both new
skipper/owners!
Cape Henry Cup Race is coming up Saturday, May
16. The Cape Henry Cup offers starts for all PHRF Fleets (PHRF NS
is limited to single headsail only) as well as a non-sanctioned Cruising
Fleet. This is a great race that has been around for a number of
years. For details and entry info, please contact Scott Almond at (757)
471-2663 or check out the Broad Bay Sailing Association website at www.broadbaysailling.org. And,
this race is part of the 2009 Chesapeake Bay Distance Racing Series.
SBRW wants YOU! Join
the Regatta Team for Southern Bay Race Week -
sign on as a volunteer.
Please do call Woody Woodcock at (757) 723-0818 to
help with raising and/or striking the event headquarters regatta
tent. If learning or refining bartending skills is up your
alley, contact Suzanne Hamilton at suzanneshamilton@gmail.com. And, contact Suzanne, too, if you want to help sell drink
and/or meal tickets in the big party tents - you'll meet and greet lots of
smiling racers' faces! Come on and get involved -
consider yourself invited to help! Be part of the
magic that makes tents appear and then disappear, facilitates feeding
and watering of hungry and thirsty racers, and/or helps with
serving the party libations. You can do any and/or all of the
three and still race and party your brains out!
Need to know how to crew on a racing sailboat?
CCV Classroom and On-the-Water sessions begin Tuesday, May 26.
For info contact Dave Taylor at (757) 344-5292.
Remember, this coming weekend, York River Yacht Club is
having a special blessing of the fleet festival, May 8 - May 9 (Friday and
Saturday), at Crown Pointe Marina to raise money for the Abington
Volunteer Fire Department. OPEN TO ALL boaters, watermen, and those
with an interest in the sea. The Festival opens at 4:30 on Friday, May 8
and a full day of activities begins with breakfast on Saturday, May 9.
Advance registration is required and tickets are limited. For more
information and to purchase tickets, visit www.yryc.org or
call 804/684-2492.
Also, up on the Rappahannock "Rivah", this coming weekend,
Rappahannock River YC and Yankee Point YC will be going head to
head in their Spring Regatta on Saturday, May 9. YPYC is the host
club for this RRYC-YPYC event. Their race is OPEN TO ALL. Point of
Contact is John Henley at (804) 435-6550.
MURPHY'S LAW: Getting
caught in Sunday's downpour was a lot like that time Yours Truly, the Racing
Beagle, having partaken of post-race party celebratory toasts,
inadvertently strolled through the car wash without my
foulies! It worked out ok , though -
made a clean getaway! /S/ Murphy the Racing
Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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