# 474 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday January 4, 2010 05:48PM
Key West Race Week (KWRW) (Jan
18-22, 2010) - The fleet is building and one of the first from the
southern Bay to enter is Travis Weisleder's J105, Lucky
Dog. LD sails out of Fishing Bay and will compete in
the J105 one-design class. The Lucky Dog team is skipper
Travis Weisleder and John and Sharon Wake,
Rob Whittemore and
Clark
Dennison.
Teamwork, Robin Team's J/122 comes to KWRW out
of Beaufort, North Carolina, and will sail in the IRC class. Also,
from North Carolina, Kent Mitchell's (Bald Head Island) Cape
Fear 38, My Velocity, is entered in the PHRF Class. Ken
Saylor of North Sails Hampton will be tactician on
L'Outrage (Bruce Gardner, Annapolis). L'Outrage
will be doing both Fort Lauderdale to Key West and KWRW. Vela Veloce
(Richard Orland, Saint John, Canada- IRC class) will have
Mark Wheeler aboard as tactician in both Fort Lauderdale to Key
West and KWRW. From Beaufort, NC, a well known and appreciated
southern Bay expatriate, Steve Hunt, will be at KWRW racing in
the Melges 24 class as tactician on Alan Field's WTF from Marina
del Rey, California.
LASER RACERS - Jon Deutsch
appointed "Leader of the Pack" - Jon, whose home club is Fishing Bay
Yacht Club, is the new US Singlehanded Championships Area C Committee
Representative. The committee consists of the 14 area reps plus a member
at large. The committee makes decisions and ensures that the US
Singlehanded Championships are held each year and that each of the areas
holds elimination events and qualifies a sailor for the Championship. Jon
will serve a 3-year term. Jon said, " We'll be
having our Area C elimination event on April 24-25 at Severn Sailing Association
in Annapolis. The event is open to any US Sailing member in Area C over
the age of 16 who wants a chance to be among the 24 sailors competing for the
championship in Pensacola Florida in late July. This will also be the
first year there will be separate men's and women's events. The
elimination will be held in Laser standards for the men, and radials for the
women. Hopefully we'll have some good participation and represent the
southern Chesapeake Bay well!" CONGRATULATIONS! to
Jon.
HAPPY 2010!!! May you race well,
race often, and race happy!
Dana Dillon New Year's Madness Race:
"If you are sailing on the first day of the new year, it's bound to be
a good year," Bill Gibbings said Friday on his way to crew on one of 14
race boats, the crews of which subscribed to the same belief. A downhill
start out Hampton River and a nice breeze, although chilly, carried the racers
around the harbor and then to the finish line at Mill Creek. Doing that
qualified everyone for hot "Buck's Chili" and plenty of champagne at the
post-race gathering at Old Point Comfort Yacht Club, co-host of the event with
Hampton Yacht Club. RESULTS by fleet ;[ overall place] :
Spin A (4 boats): 1.John Blais,
Stardancer [1] ; 2.Dixon Wilde,
Kingfisher [2]; 3.Phil Briggs, Feather [3];
4.Richard Payne, Flying Colors [6]. Spin B (2
boats): 1.David Taylor, Wham Bam [4];
2.Ben Cuker, Callinectes [8]. Spin C (2
boats): 1.Brendan Drinkwater, Number Two [5];
2.Steve Ritz, Excelsior [10].
Non-Spin(2 boats): 1.Jerry Lotz, Faith [9];
2.Dave Lively, Lively Lady [11] 3.Craig
Olsen, Loki [dnf]. Cruising (3 boats):
1.Jim Forrester, Anjalei [7]; 2.Roy
Tate, Aquarius [12]; 3. Bob Gumpwright,
Molly Rose [dnf]. Event Chairman:
Dennis Miner. Starting Line: John McCarthy; Finish Line: Bob
Williamson.
The 2010 Southern Bay Big Boat Schedule is
available now. You can get a copy by email from Southern
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MURPHY RACING SEMINAR
2010 - Rules Around the Race Course
February 20, 2010. The seminar will be a tour of the
course, looking at key rules concepts that come up along the way.
You do not need to bring your rule book (RRS), since we'll be
talking concepts, not rule numbers! MURPHY 2010 will be an
entertaining and informative examination of how the rules apply at key points
during the race. We'll have a good time and understand why knowing
the rules concepts makes you a better racer. Mark your calendar for
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 9am-3:30pm, for the annual
MURPHY RACING SEMINAR. MURPHY 2010 will be
hosted by Norfolk Yacht & Country
Club. The MURPHY 2010 registration fee
remains the same as 2009 - $40 per person ($35 for immediate family member of
attendee). The fee will include coffee and pastries at
registration, lunch, and break refreshments, and all seminar
materials. MURPHY 2010 is great for skippers AND crew.
To PRE-REGISTER BY
E-MAIL, send your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address
to mcbear@earthlink.net Be sure to put MURPHY RACING-2010 on the subject line of
your email. You can also PRE-REGISTER BY PHONE by calling
(757) 850-4225. Questions? Call (757) 850-4225. Smarter racers
race smart - that's a good thing!
The Laser Guys know why you go to Florida in
January ! Here's Sunday's notice to Laser Frostbiters in
Maryland:
"The gale warning has been extended to late this evening. The
sustained winds are around 30kts, with gusts to 40. Wind chill is 4
degrees. I think everyone agrees that when the wind speed exceeds the air
temperature it is not a safe day for Laser sailing.... " Dorian
Haldeman
Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race (January 13
start) - This is the 35th running of this dash down the East coast of
Florida. Meridian 2, Sledd Shelhorse's
Farr 36 and Mirage, Christian Schaumloffel's
Hobie 33, both of whom make their homes in Virginia Beach and sail out of
Hampton, are in this one. Sailing on Meridian 2 are skipper
Sledd Shelhorse, Ron McLean, Jahn Tihansky, Jim Miller (of
Doyle Sails, Hampton), Beau Warren, Graham Garrenton, Jimmy Haines, and
Ric Bushey. The Mirage team will
include skipper Christian Schaumloffel and Matt Smith, Mark Kawa,
Whitney Bates, Jorge Ortiz, and Christoph Leeman. Neither
Meridian nor Mirage plan to stay for Key West Race Week.
Robin Team's J/122, Teamwork will be in this
race. Teamwork's home port is Lexington, North Carolina.
Entries close Friday, January 8th.
DON'T MISS GARY JOBSON!
Sailing: Speed and Passion
- An Evening with Gary Jobson
January 21,
2010 7:30 P.M. Huntington Room at The Mariners'
Museum $15 for Mariners’ Museum Members, $20 for
non-members. Gary Jobson, President of US
SAILING, world class sailor, television commentator and author,
has written 16 sailing books and is Editor at Large of Sailing
World and Cruising World magazines. He has won many championships
in one design classes, the America's Cup with Ted Turner in 1977, the infamous
Fastnet Race and many of the world's ocean races. This award-winning
sailor has been ESPN's sailing commentator since 1985. Gary is also the National
Chairman of The Leukemia Cup Regatta, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's
sailing program. Doors open at 6:30 P.M., light reception to follow
lecture. For more information contact Bryan Hill at bhill@MarinersMuseum.org or
757-591-7749. FOR TICKETS CALL TMM Gift Shop (Wed - Sun) at
757-591-7792. Better get your tickets now -
there is a finite number of seats.
For those who visit Annapolis by
boat, the following December press announcement was not good
news: "Fawcett Boat Supplies announced today that it will be moving from
its downtown Annapolis Store to a new location at 919 Bay Ridge Road,
Annapolis." The move happens this month, January 2010. To quote
southern Bay racer Buddy DeRyder (SurfRyder), "BUMMER!"
About that boat, Spray,
that Bumps Eberwine races in the PHRF C fleet in the southern
Bay: You can read why the Olson 25 is such a
good boat to race in the January issue of SAILING Magazine.
Please note: There is no chicken or the egg question here - Bumps
knew about the Olson 25 long before SAILING picked up on
it!!
Three generations of Tates sail
in the Dana Dillon Memorial New Years Madness Race: Racing
Aquarius, their restored Pearson 22, Roy Tate,
Roy's son Michael Tate, and Mike's son Liam Tate,
finished 2nd in their fleet. The Tate-ers had a great
day to start 2010!
Don't do a YUPPIE
911! It is becoming all too common for rescue
people to be put at risk by someone who is "just uncomfortable or didn't plan or
prepare properly" according to Matt Scharper, the head of
California's search and rescue operations. There are horror
stories of hikers pushing their GPS panic button (which initiates a full
scale rescue op with helicopters,search teams, etc.) to get someone to let
family know they would be late for dinner, or, in another case, because
the water "tasted salty". A Yuppie 911 caller is
usually incompetent and/or lazy. The Yuppie 911 caller says, "If I
push the "Save Me" button, someone will arrive and eliminate my
discomfort." Bill Schanen, SAILING Magazine Editor
and Publisher, writes a monthly column entitled "Full and BY". In
his January column Mr. Schanan addresses the dearth of self-reliance in our
society brought on in part by massive dependence on personal
electronic devices. He tells about YUPPIE 911 calls and says,
to our credit, most sailors are not of that mindset. Bill Schanan thinks
sailing is inhabited by people who seek to be self-reliant and independent, and
that we need to preserve that characteristic. At the end of the
piece the sailor-author says, speaking to sailors who want to see the sport
grow, " Maybe our slogan should be, Try sailing - it's not
easy."
MURPHY'S LAW: It's true;
Santa Claus brought one of my cousins a set (i.e. 2 pair) of RUFF WEAR
BARK'N BOOTS@ for Christmas. Seems she is of the cruising
persuasion and the teak decks were scuffin' up her nails. Yrs Truly,
the Racing Beagle, still favors the sockless style employed
by real racers! Think Spring! /S/ Murphy the
Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.