CCV  FALL SERIES CHAMPS:  SEA STAR (PHRF A);  COOL CHANGE (PHRF B);  QUICKY (PHRF C); and VIRGINIA H (PHRF Non-Spin).  Yesterday in moderate, shifty, winds CCV racing for the season wrapped up with the final two races of the five-race Fall Series.  Thirty-Two (32) boats raced in pleasant conditions in Hampton Roads.  SERIES STANDINGS:  PHRF A (11 boats) - 1. Dave Eberwine, Sea Star (1-1-2-1-1);  2.Christian Schaumloffel, Mirage (4-2-1-2-4);  3.Phil Briggs, Feather (3-4-4-3-3).   PHRF B (13 boats) NOTE: Protest pends - 1.Rusty Burshell, Cool Change (1-2-1-2-3);  2.Dave Taylor, Wham Bam (4-1-6-4-1);  3.Ben Weeks, Rumble (3-6-5-1-2) in a tie breaker over  4. Bob Archer, Bad Habit (2-4-2-5-4).  PHRF C (15 boats) - 1.Mike Veraldi, Quicky (2-1-2-2-2);  2.Pete Wallio, Not So Blue (1-4-1-4-5) in a tie breaker over 3.Justin Morris, The Hunter (4-2-3-3-3).   PHRF Non-Spin (10 boats) - 1.Andy Armstrong, Virginia H (1-1-1-1-1);  2.Leo Wardrup, Black Widow (2-2-dnc/11-2-2);  3.Louie Lewis,Incentive+ (11/dnc, 11/dnc, 2-3-3).   Principal Race Officer - John McCarthy;  Mark Boats - Bill and Dave Gibbings;  Dave Hamilton and Tripp Behm; Scoring-John Ritter.

TYLER MOORE and GEOFF EWENSON win 2011 International 5O5 North American Championship!  Tyler, who sails out of Hampton, and Geoff, who is based in Annapolis, teamed up to win the 32 team fleet this past weekend in Rye, New York, at American Yacht Club.  Also sailing in the event from the southern Chesapeake were Henry Amthor and Dustin Romey (6th overall) and the father-son team of Christian (dad) and Thomas (son) Rasmussen (26th overall). 

Thirty-six (36)  35-years-and-older Laser racers held forth Saturday and Sunday at the Chesapeake Bay Laser  Masters Championships hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club.   Racers came from New Jersey, Texas,  Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia.  When all was said and done (3 races on Saturday and 4 on Sunday), Mike Schmidt from Magothy River Sailing Association was first overall by one point over Keith Davis (Mission Bay Yacht Club).  David Schoene of Severn Sailing Association was third overall.  Both Schmidt and Schoene sailed in the Masters age group (45-54), and Keith Davis in the Apprentice (35-44) category.   Southern Bay  Laser racers at the CBLMC were:  10 - Alain Vincey; 12 - Michael Moore; 13 - Len Guenther; 15 - Ron Thompson; 16 - Robert Suhay; 27 - Mike Toms; 29- Brad Squires; 34 - Richard Biggs.  The first Great Grand Master (65+)  (5th overall) was Newton Wattis from Surf City YC, and the first Grand Master (55-64) (9th overall) was Jacques Kerrest from Potomac River Sailing Association.  Event Chairman - Jon Deutsch;   Principal Race Officer - Rick Klein.   These people are proof positive that sailboat racing IS a lifetime sport!

RACERS AND THE RULES QUIZ:   In your club annual bragging rights regatta, you believe you are grievously fouled at a mark by THEM .  You holler "Protest" and fly your red flag immediately.  Now, you are back at the dock and you are getting ready to file your written protest.  The time limit to file is close to expiring and you do not have a actual protest form, so you scribble down where and when the incident occurred and who you are protesting on an empty SubWay bag and hand it to the proper authority.  Is your protest going to be heard?  (Answer follows in this issue of SBRNYCU.)

It was  WINDY Saturday and the Rappahannock Cup Regatta was canceled.  However,  so as not to let good wind go to waste, RRYC racers decided to reef mains and hold a two-race non-spinnaker regatta.  Six boats were on the starting line in strong winds and lumpy seas.  Sam Marshall, Play It Again, won the day with 1-1; Lew Thatcher in Catitude was second with a 3-2; and, third place went to Tom Asch in Moya, by winning a tie breaker with Pete Knight, Salute.  Tom Chapman and Dwight Timm  filled in the fleet.  Gary Hooper and friends did the race committee-ing.

J24 Racers - ECC soon and not so far away!   Oct 28-30 - J/24 East Coast Championship - Severn Sailing Association, Annapolis, MD  Hook up the trailer and get on up there.

Southern Bay club racing officials have begun work on the 2012 schedule.  If you have comments or suggestions now is the time to make them to your club fleet captain, racing commodore, sailing guru, etc. 

COMING UP THIS WEEKEND (Oct 22-23):

**The 'Round the Lights Race" sponsored by OPCYC, October 22  Here's  a pursuit race (slower boats start first) and racers get to round the lighthouses (Thimble and Middle Ground) in whatever order and from whatever direction they decide.  So, get out your charts, find a current table, check the wind predictions, and, get on out there!  To enter or for more details on the race, contact Steve Ritz (757) 218-2775) or Jeff Rogers (757) 449-2931. 

**Flying Scots are invited!!!!  Flying Scot Fleet 185 Annual Invitational at Rappahannock River Yacht Club, October 22nd.   Made to appeal to Scots - there is $0 entry fee for this event.  It's a one day affair.  Entries (you do have to enter, but there is no fee) are due no later than Wednesday, October 19th.  Check-in and Launch is from 0900-1000, then racing, then lunch on the water, then racing, then a casual dinner at  1730 (5:30 pm).  For details and to enter, please contact Fleet Captain  Burke Johnson at (757) 812-9635.  

**FBYC Fall Series continues.  Go to www.fbyc.net  for info and to enter.

Your dancin' shoes are somewhere in the trunk of your car - better find 'em!  CCV Awards Party and Bash  is Saturday, November 5, 2011, at the Virginia Beach oceanfront at the Wyndam Oceanfront Hotel.   Awards presentations, cocktails, heavy hors d'oeuvres, free wine and beer (as long as the supply lasts), cash bar, dancing and partying until midnight.  Call the Wyndham at 1-800-365-3032 to make room ressies.  To make party ressies contact Steve Taylor at (757) 722-7861.  Remember, if you took a 2011 CCV Racing Membership, you already have one party ticket included in your membership. 

Answer to RR Quiz Question:   Yep, you are going to be heard.  The protest committee will first determine the validity of the protest - did you hail, fly your flag, make proper notification, etc. In this case we are saying the SI did not require the protest be submitted on a specific form (most do not).  RRS 61.2  lists what is required for the written protest.  You have included the where and when of the incident, and the protestor and the protestee.   Other factors, i.e. the rule you believe was broken and the name of your representative can be provided before or during the hearing.   So, put your brain in gear as to what you believe happened during the incident so you can explain it in the room, decide if there are credible witnesses to the incident you wish to call during the hearing, and head on in.  Upholding the rules of the game is on the competitors; the protest system is helpful to everyone.

Broad Bay Sailing Association Willoughby Racers held their single headsail only  Willoughby Memorial Regatta  Saturday in Norfolk's Willoughby Bay, aka Little Bay.  RESULTS:  Fleet 1:  1.Bill Bounds, Some Beach;  2.Jack Hall/Ben Ritger, Blew J; 3.Jack Clayton, Melantho.  Fleet 2:  1.John Edwards, Recovery;  2.John Wandling, Eclipse;  3.Curt Hauger, Arbitrage.  Fleet 3:  1.Roy Weisert, Arete; 2.Fred Scarlott / Steve Waters, Scarlott Waters; 3.Richard Bayse, Miss B Haven.  Principal Race Officer - Dave Hughes.

Portsmouth Boat Club wrapped up their  Fall Barnacle Series:  Fleet winners  were Rodney Paice, Chop Chop and Ralph Edwards in Sorrellina.

Tim Savage, Tantrum (2nd) and Frank Lira, Spanky (3rd) followed Rodney.  Donnie Wilfong, Plumb Crazy (2nd) and Dave Washbourne, Valcour (3rd) earned awards behind Ralph in their fleet.  Jonathan Romero administered the series.

18 schooners raced down the Bay at the end of the week in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race.  Several more either did not start or started but did not finish the race.  Portsmouth is where the visiting schooners are and they certainly are worth a lunchtime stroll around the city docks.  America took line honors.  Sadly, missing this year from the race were Virginia, she lays in semi-mothball status at the Nauticus (Norfolk) pier, and The Pride of Baltimore, now owned by a private concern and "earning her keep" on an assignment north of the Bay.

PHRF of the Chesapeake annual Board of Delegates Meeting, Saturday, November 12 - Fredericksburg, Virginia,  at the Hilton Garden Inn.  The meeting is OPEN TO ALL CURRENT MEMBERS OF PHRF.   Go to the www.phrfchesbay.com  and click on the meeting notice to see the meeting agenda.  If you plan to attend the meeting, PHRF asks that you contact the Stew Buckler, Executive Secretary, at (410-414-3270), so that appropriate accommodations can be made for the number of attendees expected.    The proposed class splits for Region 4 (Southern Bay) are the same as the 2011 splits.

MURPHY'S LAW:  Yrs Truly, the Racing Beagle,  is advising on early searches through the trunk of your car for those foulies you "stored"  last Spring.  The water temps are already in the 60's and the cool to cold air is coming as sure as ants to a picnic.  And, if you care about your fellow crewbies, you might apply some of that scented mildew remover to your gear.  Racing Beagles aren't the only ones with super sensitive olfactory  nerves.  /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.