#486 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday March 29, 2010 01:53PM
This Thursday is APRIL Fools'
DAY. Have some fun - call your best sailing friend
and say in an urgent tone, "I'm at your boat. Where do you keep your
big sump pump!!??" After all, that's what friends do on April Fool's
Day.
John and Linda Dodge have organized
Project Sails to Save Haiti, a donation program designed
to get as many used sails (the bigger the better but they will take anything) as
well as spinnaker poles, lines, and anything else one might think
of to construct shelter in an effort to help the over
600,000 Haitians who have no cover due to the January 12th
earthquake that killed over 230,000. With the rain season now upon them, time is
of the essence. The Dodge's focus is to involve fellow sailors of the
Chesapeake Bay in the effort. All donations will be shipped to Haiti
for distribution to the homeless. North Sails Chesapeake in Annapolis has agreed
to act as a drop off point for local sailors in that area. For
more information email or call John at dodger8385@aol.com or
804-334-6950. A great time to clean out sail lockers, trailers,storage
sheds, and help thousands of men,women, and children in the
process.
A number of southern Bay and beyond boats will be racing in
Charleston Race Week (April 9-11). Familiar names
include: Ron Medlin, BASH (J/24); Martin Casey
,BOWMOVEMENT(Catalina 27); Travis Weisleder, LAYLINE (Melges
24); Jim Baldwin, PTEROBYTE (Evelyn 32-2); Tim Savage, TANTRUM
(T10); Dennis Hannick, GOIN' (Tripp 26), and Chris
Jankowski, #2918 (J/24).
THIS COMING SATURDAY
- SpinSheet Crew Listing Party -
South, on Saturday, April 3, (5pm - 7pm) at Marker 20, a
racers' restaurant/bar/grill, in downtown Hampton.
This event is OPEN TO ALL. Here is a golden opportunity for crewbies to
find skippers and vice versa. Find your ride or find your
crew for the 2010 season. Check out crew and check out skippers!
Racers, experienced and newbie, also will be able to look at offerings of
various southern Bay yacht clubs and sailing organizations which will have
representatives at the party. All you have to do is show up - no
sign-up required. OH, and wear socks you can burn! If you
have attended a sock burning already, it's ok; racers may attend multiple
sock burnings and make numerous sacrifices to the "Racing
Gods"! SpinSheet Magazine is the organizer of this
event. For specific information please contact event
liaison Dave Taylor at (757) 344-5292.
NEXT MONDAY - CCV Rules Clinic and
2010 Racing Guide distribution. Monday, April 5 (6:30
pm) at The Mariners Museum, Newport News. OPEN TO ALL. CCV
members can pick up their 2010 Racing Guides, non-members
may join ($25 annual) and receive the Guide as part of the
membership package. Brush up on the rules and see your fellow racers in
"real clothes" one last time before the season gets underway. For
additional info contact Jake Brodersen at (757)
875-9797.
Vela Veloce (Southern Bay racer Mark
Wheeler is navigator) won the IRC St Thomas Rolex Regatta. Moving
right along, the Vela crew, including Mark, head for the BVIs
next week. Well, someone has to do it!
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK update: Get out
your dancin' flip-flops and your race party T-shirts. Entertainment
at SBRW 2010 will be live and lively! Friday night's band is PHOEBUS RIO - A
Rock, Folk, Jazz, Celtic, Blues, Polka, Irish, Pop, Band! Recipient
of the 2009 MEONA award for Best Americana Band. Six versatile and talented
musicians on fiddle, mandolin, accordion, washboard, harp, guitar. upright bass,
and drums. They play anything and everything and get
everyone movin' to the beat! And, on Saturday night racer and
friends will listen and boogie to L F Edwards Band. At the Thursday
night check-in and skippers meeting racers will be entertained by DJ Eric
Emerson and on Sunday night DJ Dino Seretis will dish tunes during
the regatta wrap-up and awards presentation.
Walter Boatwright of Newport News will be
returning to SBRW 2010 with his Tartan 37, Puff
Card, to race in the PHRF Non-Spin 1. The PHRF Non-Spin 1 fleet is
designed for racers who for prefer not to fly spinnakers or double
headsails, but still want to do some real handicap racing. There is also a
non-spinnaker fleet for PHRF double-headsail racers and one for Cruisers
(non-PHRF Cruising, single headsail only). Plus, of course all the PHRF
spinnaker fleets as well as one-design fleets with 5 or more
entries.
If you are a racer, ya gotta have a current Rule
Book. The Racing Rules of Sailing for 2009 - 2012
is available at retail locations, at www.Amazon.com
books, and at www.ussailing.org (click on
store). You can download the whole thing, if you do not want to buy
the book itself, from the US SAILING website. And, now, US SAILING
offers the rules for your iPhone or iPod
Touch - this is the only app
approved by US SAILING. Getting the book is not magic -
actually reading and understanding it will do the most good.
DONNYBROOK, Jim Muldoon's winner of
the 2009 Down the Bay Race for the Virginia Cruising
Cup, has entered the 2010 dash down the Bay.
Donnybrook will defend her title in the 120+ mile dash non-stop
from Annapolis to Hampton. Southern Bay racers entered in the
2010 DTB include: Jim Forrester, Anjalei;
Leo Wardrup, Black Widow; Martin
Casey, Bowmovement; Hank Giffin,
Coeur d'Alene; Robert Howell,
CYMRU; Stefan Leader, Diva II;
Dixon Wilde, Kingfisher; Joe
Laun, Lady Grey; Sledd Shelhorse,
Meridian 2; John Blais, Stardancer; and
Christian Schaumloffel, Mirage. The start is
Friday, May 28th. For additional info and to enter go to www.hamptonyc.com and click on the Down the
Bay logo. Graham Garrenton is co-chairman of the 2010 DTB and may be
contacted at (757) 478-2994.
Seventy (70) racing skippers and crew from sailing clubs in
the Alexandria/Fairfax area of Virginia spent Saturday twisting and untwisting
their brains at MURPHY 2010 "Rules Around the Race Course".
Daingerfield Island Sailing Club hosted the seminar in cooperation
with Mount Vernon Yacht Club. Patrick Williams and Richard
Knab from DISC and Gary Rehe from Mount Vernon did the
heavy lifting making arrangements for the event. John
McCarthy led the seminar, which included emphasis on rules related
to special circumstances which occur in the Potomac racing areas; e.g. race
areas between narrow river shores, tour boats, etc.
A PLETHORA OF CLUB MID-WEEK SERIES OPEN IN
APRIL: Starting with Wednesday, April 7, when the
granddaddy of Wednesday night series opens at Hampton Yacht Club, and
continuing until there is mid-week and Saturday morning racing going full
steam in every part of the southern Bay. These series are always fun and
especially great for crew development, skill-wise and team-wise. Get those
boats out of the slips during the week, too. Here's keelboat racing
that's available - call the organizing club for details:
April 7 Hampton Yacht
Club Wednesday Night
Series
Hampton Roads Harbor
April 7 BBSA Little Creek
SA Wednesday Night
Series
Mouth of Little Creek - East Beach
April 8 BBSA Willoughby
Racers Thursday Night
Series Willoughby
Bay (Norfolk) - Willoughby Spit
April 10 Old Point Comfort
YC Saturday Yankee Station
Series Off Buckroe Beach Area
April 14 York River Yacht
Club Wednesday Night
Series
York River below Coleman Bridge
April 16 Portsmouth Boat
Club Friday Night Barnacle
Series Elizabeth River
April 23 Norfolk Yacht &
CC Friday Night
Races
Elizabeth River
Collegiate Notes: Eleven (11) teams
competed this past blustery weekend at the MAISA/SAISA Intersectional Regatta
hosted by Hampton University. Charleston dominated the regatta, followed
by Old Dominion, South Florida, and US Naval Academy, all tied for the second
place spot. HU finished 7th and CNU 10th.
MURPHY'S LAW: Yrs Truly, the
Racing Beagle, is multi-faceted when it comes to interests, although none
surpasses sailboat racing. The current March Madness National Collegiate
Basketball Tournament has caught the Murphster's eye. In the
Final Four there are some Blue Devils (Duke), some Mountaineers (West
Virginia), some Spartans (Michigan State), and, the obvious sure winners, some
BULLDOGS (Butler). The Murphster dated a bulldog once. .
. . /S/ Murphy the
Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.