# 447 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday June 8, 2009 01:33PM

The Annapolis to Newport Race started Friday, June 5, and one of the boats,  Vela Veloce  grabbed up southern  Bay racer  Mark Wheeler at the last minute, when her regular navigator unexpectedly could not make the trip.  Vela Veloce is a brand new R/P Southern Cross 52 owned by Richard Oland (St, Johns, Canada).  The boat is like a TP 52, but  optimized  for IRC. It is hull #2.  Dr. Robert Razenbach, Vela's main navigator, was unable to make the trip due to professional responsibilities.   Seems there is more to it than "just turning left at Cape Charles!"
 
Familiar faces at regattas in the southern Bay are the Savage brothers, Doug and Tim.  They have teamed up, Doug as skipper and Tim as navigator, on Reprisal, their S2 10.3, in  the PHRF fleet for Annapolis-Newport.  Lawrence Cohen, who calls Gloucester, Virginia, his home is racing his Swan 48-2, Dawn Treader, in the Annapolis-Newport.
 
FISHING BAY CUT CHANNEL RACE is the second race of the FBYC Distance Series:  Eleven (11) boats took on the almost 25 mile long race Saturday.  The largest fleet, PHRF B/C combined, had 8 boats on the starting line and the top finishers were:  1.Last Boat III, Frank Murphy; 2.Shenanigan, Miles Booth; 3.Trilogy, Wayland RennieSam Mitchener's Double Eagle was the quicker of two racing in PHRF A, and Paul Cross, in Battlewagon, completed the course as a PHRF Non-Spin.  Principal Race Officer -  Brooks Zerkel.
 
 
FLAG DAY is this coming Sunday, June 14th.  Time to fly yours!
 
HOME TOWNE REGATTA:  FEATHER wins combined PHRF A/B Fleet,   BOWMOVEMENT is best in PHRF C, and TURBO's TUB tops PHRF Non-Spin.  TOM CAT cruises to first among Cruising Fleet.   Eighteen (18) raced in the 2009 Home Towne Regatta, sponsored by Portsmouth Boat Club on Saturday.  This is the race that usually coincides with the City of Norfolk's Harborfest Festival and the Portsmouth Seawall Festival.  Harborfest was a no-show this year, delayed until the July 4th weekend and the completion of the revitalization of Norfolk's Town Point Park.  Look for Harborfest and Home Towne Bank Regatta to be back on the same weekend in 2010!  RESULTS:  PHRF A/B (7 boats) - 1.Feather, Phil Briggs; 2.Bad Habit, Bob Archer; 3.Independence, Graham Field.  PHRF C (2 boats) - 1.Bowmovement, Martin Casey.  PHRF Non-Spin (5 boats) - 1.Turbo's Tub, MD Riley; 2.Slice, Doc Harbour; 3.T.L.Sea, Tony Thornton.  Cruising Fleet (4 boats) - 1.Tom Cat; Don Wade 2.Valcour.    PRO for the Home Towne Regatta - Larry Bryant.
 
HOSPICE REGATTA  XV, Saturday, June 13, 2009.  This marks the 15th time southern Bay racers have undertaken "The challenge of sailing for others".   Racing is in Hampton Roads harbor, multiple lap windward/leeward course.  Starts for  PHRF Fleets as well as a special Hospice Class.  Hospice Class entries are due by June 10 (Wednesday) to allow for assignment of Hospice Class ratings.  There will be a Skippers Meeting for Hospice Class skippers on June 12 at Hampton Yacht Club at 1900 hours.    This race is a qualifier for the National Invitational Championship Race to be held in 2010 by the National Hospice Regatta Alliance.    For info and entry, contact Glenn Giles at (757) 851-9690.   [Note:  The 2009 National Invitational, hosted by the Rochester Yacht Club in New York, concluded Sunday.  Steve Bowen, sailing out of York River Yacht Club as winner of the 2008 Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta, finished 18th overall.]
 
DOWN THE BAY  (DTB) was a "sea trial" for a few of the ANNAPOLIS-NEWPORT boats:  Four boats that did the Annapolis to Hampton 120 mile, non-stop DTB Memorial Day weekend, are racing in the Annapolis-Newport.  Donnybrook (Jim Muldoon), winner of line honors as well as first overall in the DTB, Dare-Dare (Paul Fenn),  Heron (Greg Leonard),  and Shinnecock (James Praley) will all have done the double.
 
Find progress and finishes of the Annapolis-Newport Race at http://www.visitbarbados.org   Barbados Tourism Authority sponsored the internet tracking of the boats.
 
US SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS CORNER:  Right up front on the slick color poster published by US SAILING  are a couple of items of interest to southern Bay racers.  First, the 2009 US JUNIOR WOMEN'S DOUBLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIP is all set for July 6 - 11  at  Hampton Yacht Club.   This is locally known as "The Ida Lewis" or in racer shorthand, simply as "The Ida".  The regatta is limited to 40  two-junior women (age 13 to 18)  teams, and registration is almost complete.  The competition will be fleet racing in Club 420s.   Event co-chairmen are Glenn and Carol Giles  - (757) 851-9690;  Principal Race Officer is John McCarthy - (757) 850-4225.                The US OFFSHORE SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP for the Lloyd Phoenix Trophy  will be Annapolis,  September 25-27, not on the west coast.  The format is fleet racing on a closed course, except for one distance race, in Navy 44s.  To compete, sailors must have competed in at least 5 regattas in IRC, IMS, PHRF, MORC, or Portsmouth Numbers during the current season.  Among past winners of the Lloyd Phoenix are the southern Bay's very own Sledd Shelhorse (1993) along with Roy Disney (1992), Charlie Scott (1990, 1989),  John White (1995), who sailed his Bene FC10, 999, in Southern Bay Race Week  this past weekend ,  and others.
 
When the  IDA LEWIS competitors arrive in Hampton Roads, there will be one who is certainly a familiar face in the area.  Missy Flowe, daughter of John and Cindy Flowe (currently Severna park, MD) began her junior career at Hampton Yacht Club prior to her family's move up the Bay to Annapolis.  Missy's grandfather is Marty Steffens  of Hampton.   Mary Ligon of Poquoson will be crewing with Missy and, as of now, they  represent one of two teams with a direct southern Bay attachment, Genevive Marquardt (daughter of Elizabeth Marquardt) and Christina Hudson (daughter of Lorri Conen) from Williamsburg, being the other.  John Yeigh who, along with Brett Harrison, sailed A Parent Tripp to a fleet winner spot (PHRF B1) in Southern Bay Race Week a week ago,   will be back in the area for Ida Lewis with his daughter,  Megan Yeigh.  The Yeighs make their home in Annapolis.  Cassie Todd will be crewing with Megan. 
 
Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) 2009 Spring National Championships: Sailed this past week in San Francisco, hosted by Stanford University and St. Francis Yacht Club.  Southern Bay collegiate teams finished among the top teams in this prestigious event:  In the Co-Ed Dinghy competition for the Henry A. Morse Trophy, Georgetown University took 3rd and Old Dominion University was 4th.  And, in the Team Racing Championships Georgetown's Bulldogs finished 3rd. ODU's women finished 4th in the Women's Nationals.  Kudos to both programs.   Complete results are available at www.collegesailing.org
 
COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!   The 22nd ANNUAL COCK ISLAND RACE is weekend after this coming - June 19-20.   Sponsored by the City of Portsmouth and administered by Portsmouth Boat Club, the actual race is on June 20 - the rest is party-eeee!  Principal Race Officer for the event is Larry Bryant.  For info on the event contact:  City of Portsmouth, Parks and Recreation, (757) 393-8481.
 
Also, coming up this weekend, Saturday, June 13, is the Yankee Point Yacht Club's Singlehanded Race.  
 
Norfolk Collegiate School has special reason to be especially proud of their varsity sailing team.  Norfolk Collegiate sailors, successfully  competing in a rugged qualifying system,  made it to BOTH  the Inter-Scholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) High School National Doublehanded Fleet Racing Championship for the Clifford D. Mallory Cup and the ISSA High School Team Racing Championship for the Toby Baker Cup.    And, the NCS team finished in the TOP 10 in the Nation in both. The competition for the Mallory Cup took place May 8-10, on Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg.  NCS finished 6th in the Nation in Fleet Racing.  Then, it was on to San Francisco Bay, Redwood City, California, for the Team Racing championships on May 22-24.  NCS  finished 5th in the Nation in Team Racing.  Kudos to the NCS program coaches and young racers.  Sailing for the Norfolk Collegiate School team are:  Seniors Gordon Wolcott (team captain) and Johnny Davenport; Juniors Cameron Barclift and Walker Lobree, Sophomores Kav Stokes, Andrew Prohaska, Teddy Stokes, and freshmen Ian Stokes  and Andy Granger.
 
HAMPTON ONE-DESIGN 75th ANNIVERSARY NATIONALS - August 14-16 will be hosted at Hampton Yacht Club, Hampton, VA.   This is a big year for the HOD Class.  In the "here today, gone tomorrow" world we currently live in, anything that lasts for 75 years earns the title of "a keeper"!  The HOD CLASS is hoping to draw to the 2009 National Championship all available former, current, and future HOD sailors.  They expect HOD faithful will come from near and far, all over the Chesapeake Bay and beyond.  There will be special attractions, including a special celebration on Saturday evening (Aug 15) at The Mariners' Museum (Newport News, VA) where the newly refurbished and authentically rigged Hampton One-Design Hull #1 will be unveiled.  For details and info on the event please contact David Chapman at (757) 726-9640 - home, or (757) 685-3161-cell, or email hod75th@verizon.net  
 
One more Southern Bay Race Week note of importance:  Crew and skippers who did SBRW owe it to themselves to check out the pictures posted on the PHOTOBOAT website at www.photoboatgallery.com   A gazillion photos await your feasting eyes, and there are packages and discounts there too.  Check 'em out - the best sailors on the southern Bay and beyond, in living color!    And, don't forget SBRW vendor CORAL REEF SAILING APPAREL has some mighty good looking, sailor-ly attire for all ages - www.coralreefsailing.net
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  There were some sweet action shots of Yrs Truly the Racing Beagle taken at SBRW.  The problem is that once word got around that the Murphster's likeness was on the web, demand overburdened and shutdown all the sites.  Oh, la.. .fame does have its occasional drawbacks!     /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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