#522 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday January 3, 2011 12:42PM
FORT LAUDERDALE TO KEY WEST
RACE. A week from this Wednesday, on January 12th,
three boats with southern Bay and beyond attachments will be racing from
Fort Lauderdale to Key West. Christian Schaumloffel
(HYC, Virginia Beach), will be taking his Hobie 33, Mirage, and
Glenn Doncaster (FBYC, Raleigh, NC) will be racing his Sabre
426, Nanuq. Richard Oland, with southern Bay racer Mark
Wheeler in the crew, will race Vela Veloce, a Southern Cross
52, to Key West and will stay over for KWRW (see below). All of the
Lauderdale to Key West crews hope and pray for a very fast reach down the coast
of Florida without, of course, any "bumps in the night".
KEY WEST RACE WEEK - January 17-21,
2011. Already entered are southern bay and beyond
boats LUCKY DOG, Travis Weislander (Richmond,
VA) in the J/105 one-design fleet, and JUBILEE,
Carl Huge's (Summerville, SC) A40RC who finished 2nd
in the PHRF A1 fleet at SBRW 2010. Former J29
owners John and Linda Edwards (California, MD) will race
RHUMB PUNCH, their Farr 30, in the KWRW one-design fleet and
Mark Wheeler will be on board VELA VELOCE (Richard
Oland's Southern Cross 52) racing in the IRC 2 fleet. You can follow the
entries and the racing at www.Premiere-Racing.com
.
2011 racing gets off on the right
foot. Racers at Seaford and in Hampton Roads were blessed by
the Mild Temps and Moderate Winds Weather Gods. No better place to be
than racing on the first day of the New Year. At Seaford
Yacht Club Dan Smoker (Smoke), Chuck
Eldred (Gail Force) close behind, led the fleet
around. Meanwhile in Hampton Roads, Hampton Yacht Club and Old
Point Comfort YC hooked up for the 2011 Dana Dillon New
Year's Madness Race. Phil Briggs, Feather, was
overall winner of the 17 boat fleet, 5 of whom
encountered skinny water and spent some time aground between the start in
Hampton Creek and the finish in Mill Creek (5+ miles). Ben Cuker,
Callinectes was the fastest B fleet boat, Steve
Taylor, Insolvent in C Fleet, and Dixon Wilde,
Kingfisher in Non-Spin. Jim
Forrester brought his Catalina 387, Anjalei, home first among
the Cruising boats. Finishing 2nd in their fleets were:
A-John Blais (Stardancer); B-David
Taylor (Wham Bam); Non-Spin-Roy and Mike
Tate (Aquarius); and Cru- Jim Beaudry
(Black Dog). Mark Wolfe did double duty, serving
as event chairman and racing, too.
Southern Bay Racer
Sighting. Former owner and racer of S2 Frequent
Flyer, Tim Driscoll, was spotted at a hockey game in
Norfolk recently. Tim had been "...sailing the Scandinavian
countries. . . this past summer and then did a trip around the Horn on a
square rigger before returning home", according to an SBRNYCU
reliable source. Tim was an active racer in the BBSA Willoughby Racers
Thursday Nights for a number of years (circa 1980-1995). His shoreside
residence is in Virginia Beach.
Shadowfax on the
mend! Remember last spring when Denis
Bessette's boat barn collapsed on his boat, Shadowfax, because
of the blizzard? Denis borrowed a friend's boat, Audrey, also a
Merit 25, who did the Down the Bay Race, and stayed around to race at Southern
Bay Race Week. Well, Denis says the Shadowfax [major]
repair ". . . is practically finished
now. Just some touchup work like adding trim to the hatch cover and
painting the hatch cover rails so they look pretty. " He sent photos
of the new mast, which he built. So, Shadowfax, the boat
that was almost crushed by her own barn, will be re-commissioned this
Spring - good as new. Watch for her on the Bay. Denis sails
Shadowfax out of Dahlgren Yacht Club.
Speaking of Merit 25s, Audrey
and Shadowfax are two of 8 or 9 that live on the Chesapeake,
one of which is Figaro, which is raced by Kathy and
Mike Barber in the Hampton Roads area. The Merit 25
rates out in PHRF at around 180, solidly in PHRF C in either Division of the
southern Bay.
Hopes are high that a significant number of
OPSAIL 2012 tall ships will stop in our southern Bay
waters in June of 2012. Since the event, which commemorates the
War of 1812, is 18 months away, there is time to bone up on US
history of the period (1812-1815) of the War. Two southern Bay racers
who better be on top of their history trivia game are Jim
Williams and Will Roberts; they named their Hobie
33, Treaty of Ghent. The actual Treaty of
Ghent ended the war and dictated that both countries be returned to " . .
. status quo ante bellum, the state of affairs as it existed
before the hostilities broke out," according to Sea History 133, winter
2010-2011.
Not heading for Key West Race Week? Head north
for this fun - On January 13th Cunard's new
Queen Elizabeth, on her inaugural tour to North America,
will depart New York Harbor with the sister ships Queen
Victoria and Queen Mary. The World
Yacht Duchess will cruise out with the ships and the National
Maritime Historical Society is organizing the evening on board the
Duchess. Early-bird fare is $160 each and includes 4 hour open
bar, sumptuous dinner and dessert buffet, entertainment and information
(not to mention the fireworks in NY Harbor and the Statue of
Liberty). Call 1-800-221-6647 for details and info.
Most know that Pete
Wallio (Island Time) finished 2nd in his
class in the Caribbean1500. Here's the rest of the
story: After a couple of days in Tortola Pete headed south with
Jackie Gaskins and Jim Rice as crew and made a
three day passage to Grenada. They weathered one squall on the second day of the
three day trip, which stressed out their hydraulic steering and damaged a
spreader, but with makeshift repairs, they made it in safely. After
several days of enjoying Grenada while waiting for parts to arrive by FedEx,
they are on their way again, island hopping north.
Dave and Phil Alexander, who race (Don't
be Blue - J22) and sail with Pete Wallio, went down
to help with repairs to Island Time . Because the needed
parts had to be shipped in, Dave and Phil got in a lot of sightseeing and
fishing (the other passion). Along the way, Dave dislocated his
shoulder (fishing) and they discovered an island rum factory - the Rivers Rum
operation on Grenada, where the
rum is hand dipped from the “bonding” tank and then poured through filter
cloth over an Igloo@ cooler. You fill the bottles by hand and
they are capped and boxed for shipment! Dave owned up, saying, "Not
all made it to the box!" Dave has
written a delightful, detailed report of the trip to the islands,
Mon, which includes great illustrative pictures. Ask him
about it.
Workshops and clinics - some dates to
remember:
* "Racing Rules Made Easy" - February 5, 2011
- Neuse Yacht Racing Association, New Bern, North Carolina
* "US SAILING Race Management Seminar" -
February 19, 2011 - Hampton Yacht Club, Hampton, VA
* "Murphy Rules - All You Never Thought You Could
Know About the Racing Rules" - March 26, 2011 - Rappahannock River Yacht
Club
2011 SCHEDULE FOR SOUTHERN BAY
"BIG BOAT" RACING: It is available for
distribution. Contact club racing officials or click on
"reply" to this issue of SBRNYCU and on the subject line
put, "Send my 2011 schedule, please" and it
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SBRNYCU.
MURPHY'S
LAW: Help! Racing Beagle down! Went
sledding during the snow storm. Got frozen paws. Licked one.
Got tongue struck to paw. Need emergency hot, medicinal rum to melt
ice on paw and tongue! Ya never can find a Saint Bernard when ya
need one! /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing
spirit in us all.
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