#512 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday October 11, 2010 03:28PM
Hospice Turkey Shoot Results are not
finalized in time for publication this morning, but soon will be available at
the Turkey Shoot website http://www.turkeyshootregatta.com
Old Laser Racers, defined as anyone over the
age of 35, get together this coming weekend for the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship to be held at
Fishing Bay Yacht Club, October 16-17. This annual regatta, in its
29th year, regularly attracts some of the best masters sailors from around the
area and along the east coast. Go to the host club's website, www.fbyc.net for
info and to register on line.
COLUMBUS DAY! What better reason to slip out of
work and GO SAILING to honor Chris?
CCV Wraps Up Fall Series and 2010. "We
were lucky to have gotten in one race today (Sunday)," was a sentiment shared by
most of the 31 crews and skippers who finished the CCV Fall Series and the 2010
CCV High Point in light, dwindling air. Although two races were hoped for,
and early in the day the wind ratcheted from 5 to 6 knots, the breeze did not
stay very long after lunchtime. With Blackberries@ reporting 2 and 3
knots in the surrounding area, the fleet dropped sail around 1330 and
retired to the libations on the dock. CCV FALL SERIES
RESULTS: PHRF A (8 boats): 1. David Eberwine w/
Brian McCauley as stand-in skipper, Sea Star (1-1-1-1);
2.John Blais, Stardancer (3-3-2-2);
3.Phil Briggs, Feather (2-4-4-5). PHRF
B (12 boats): 1.Dave McConaughy, White Boat
(1-3-1-2); 2.Greg Cutter, Gremlin
(5-1-7-1); 3.Dave Taylor, Wham Bam
(4-2-5-4). PHRF C (11 boats): 1.Alan Bomar, Roundabout (3-1-1-1);
2.Brendan Drinkwater, Number Two (2-4-2-3);
3.Michael Klopf, Swamp Rat (1-3-3-7). PHRF
Non-Spin (6 boats): 1.Andy Armstrong, Virginia
H (1-2-2-1); 2. Leo Wardrup, Black Widow
(3-3-2-3); 3. CT Tiller, Boogity
(4-4-4-4). Principal Race Officer - John McCarthy; Mark Boats -
Bill Gibbings and Tom Fowler.
CCV High Point Standings will be announced and plenty of
trophies presented at the CCV AWARDS PARTY AND YEAR END BASH,
Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 7pm at the Bay Breeze Community Center, aka
the old officers club on Fort Monroe. Cocktails, heavy hors
d'oeuvres, free wine and beer while it lasts, cash bar, awards, partying, and
dancing until 11pm. See all your racing friends with their clothes
on! Cost is $40 at the door. For information and for ressies
please contact Steve and or Jenn Taylor at (757)722-7861. This season
ending, racing soiree is OPEN TO ALL. Come toast your friends and share in
another fun side of racing. And, those who have CCV Racing
Memberships already have one paid admission that was included in your
membership fee.
Tyler Moore and Geoff Ewenson Win 505 Class
at Heineken High Performance Dinghy Open in New
York. Tyler Moore (Hampton) and Geoff
Ewenson (Annapolis) teamed up to win the 17 boat 505 Class at the Heineken HPDO
this past weekend. When your throw out is a 2, you figure you did pretty
darn good! Moore and Ewenson finished 5 points ahead of the 2nd place
finishers. The winning string was 1-1-2-1-1-[2]-1-1 = 8.
Chris Rasmussen was also at the Heineken and finished 13th in
the 505s.
RACERS AND THE RULES QUIZ:
(Answer follows in this issue of SBRNYCU.) During a
race, a boat notices that it is breaking a rule of Part 4 - Other
Requirements When Racing. Such a violation might involve setting and
sheeting sails, use of spinnaker and whisker poles, limitations on crew and
equipment, etc. Can this boat exonerate herself by doing turns?
Round off the Fall by rounding the lighthouses in the
annual 'Round the Lights Race, Saturday, October
23. OPEN TO ALL. Starts for PHRF A, B, and
C, PHRF Non-Spin (double headsails allowed), and Cruising
classes. For info and to enter, please check out the host club's, Old Point
Comfort Yacht Club, website: www.opcyc.org. Warning signal will be 0955,
Saturday, October 23d. The start and finish line: Between the orange flag
on the OPC Marina dock and G"3" Phoebus Channel mark. The Course: Around both
Thimble Shoals and Middle Ground Lighthouses, in any order, and in any
direction. The Round The Lights race is sanctioned event number 430 for
2010 CBYRA High Point awards. Please contact John Lones (483-7901) or Mark
Wolfe (989-5064), if you have any questions. So, you don't have to
decide yet what YOUR COURSE will be, but you do have to enter.
Get on it! This is a great race with a different twist!
Answer to RR Quiz Question: Not
unless the Sailing Instruction specifically permits it. Rule 44.1
provides that a boat may take a Two-Turns Penalty for breaking a rule of
Part 2 - When Boats Meet, (i.e. right-of-way rules) or a One-Turn
Penalty for breaking Rule 31 (hitting a mark). Other than that, a
boat's only option if she breaks a rule is to retire.
Schooner Watch - The Great Chesapeake Bay
Schooner Race will be starting just below the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on
Thursday, October 14, at 1330 hours. So. . . be on the lookout for
these beauties on Friday as they head for the finish line at Thimble Shoal
Light and Windmill Point (for the smaller schooners) and proceed from there to
Portsmouth to dock. Check out http://www.schoonerrace.org for
info.
Collegiate Update: Collegiate racing on
the Potomac River was like almost everywhere else this past weekend - light and
shifty. Georgetown University won their Tom Curtis Regatta.
Here's how the southern Bay teams did among the 16 teams there:
UVA -5th; ODU-6th, CNU-7th, Hampton U-12th, and W&M-16th.
MURPHY'S LAW: It
was only yesterday that Yrs Truly, the Racing Beagle, was
discussing the above Rules Quiz question (when Penalty Turns are
ok) with my friend Boo Boo Wilkins. Boo Boo races on
Brendan Drinkwater's Sonar, Number Two, in the PHRF C fleet; he is a
Jack Russell Terrier. Boo Boo does approximately 1, 215 turns while
on the boat racing. I advised him to retire before he reaches the
dizzy-and-falling-down stage . . . which happens anyway at the party.
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing
spirit in us all.
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