# 288 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Tuesday March 7, 2006 09:29AM
Big News for Southern Bay J/24 Racers:
Fleet 71 Captain, Alan Bomar, has announced the move
of Fleet 71 (Hampton Roads) to USJCA District 6. That means the
southern-most Bay Js will join FBYC Fleet 107, Annapolis Fleet 8, and Havre de
Grace Fleet 15. And, even more significant, it means SOUTHERN BAY RACE
WEEK (for the Black Seal Cup) will be part of a series for the
District 6 World Qualifier. SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK (June
2-4) will join CBYRA Annapolis Race Week (Sep 2-4) and Havre de
Grace's Pink Moon Regatta (April 22-23) as the qualifier series
events.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: If you do not yet have your 2006 PHRF
Rating Certificate, you are gettin' late - take care of it now. For details
check out PHRF of the Chesapeake website at
www.PHRFchesbay.com
Another "A" Boat in SOUTHERN BAY RACE
WEEK: Treaty of Ghent, Jim
Williams' Hobie 33, will be in the PHRF A fleet at 2006 SBRW. The
early entry earns the TOG folks the Early Bird Entry incentive of
10 FREE SBRW Regatta Drink Tickets - proving once more that racing sailors don't
fall off no turnip truck! For info and entry forms check out the SBRW web
site at www.blacksealcup.com
Blue Water Racers Prepare for the 2006
Centennial Bermuda Race: There are already 160 applications
for entry for the 100th running of this grand event. This is an
invitational event . Start is set for June 16, from Newport,
RI. Word is there are at least 3 southern Bay area boats
planning to go: Pat Patterson's Orion (
Taylor 41) and Frank Stewart's Resurgence (Beneteau
First) are on the list already. Pat, sailing out of HYC, has 3 previous
races under his belt. Resurgence will be making her first trip in
this event, sailing out of NYCC. Word is that Conrad
Hall, also from NYCC, is planning to
enter Shearwater, his Morris 40, for a second go in the
event; he went in 2002.
The MaxZ86 Morning Glory came
into Ocean Marine for a short visit last
week. This is the boat with the canting keel that set a new record and won
the last Transpac. If you want to "sneak a peek" better call Ocean
Marine before you go to check whether she is still there.
When Frank Stewart's Resurgence
crosses the starting line for the Newport to Bermuda on June 16, she will
be crewed by Norfolk Yacht &CC sailors all: Navigator -
JD Scott; Sailmaster - Harry Tenney; Starboard
Watch Captain - Jim Forrester; Port Watch Captain -
Bill Dister; Foredeck - Kenny Jordan; and
Doctor - Joe Dilustro.
Southern Bay to SCREWPILE 2006: There
are already 12 southern Bay boats headed to Screwpile (July 16-18).
Filling out the first dozen from the south are Sanford
Richardson's Kahuna (Farr 395), Bob Old's
Jezebel (J/30), and Greg Cutter's Elliott 770,
Gremelyn. Join the Southern Bay Brigade - get entered, get
your bow number, and get your accommodations ressies.
Bermuda Could Be Crowded in June: The
2006 Grog and Gruel Bermuda Ocean Race leaves from Annapolis on
June 9th. Skippers and crew planning to go are busy completing race entry
training seminars and pre-race requirements right now. So far,
17 boats are entered. A couple of southern Bay boats are mulling it over,
but nothing official yet.
Acura Miami Race Week Starts this coming Thursday and
runs through next Monday: Southern Bay [and beyond] links to this
regatta include Tripp 33 partners in Voodoo Chile,
Leroi Lissenden and Bob Krushelnisky, who will
be crewing on Jeff Rubin's (Miami) Tripptease, racing in the PHRF 3
class, and from Beaufort, North Carolina, racing one-design, Worth
Harris' J/105, Rum at Six. Two Etchells
racers from Oriental, NC, Jud Smith (Oriental
Express) and Randall White (USA 1299) will be
there too. Jud was in Hampton last fall talking Etchells racing to
southern Bay racers.
Ray Nugent is back home from sailing (and
socializin' ) at the J/24 Mid Winters in Tampa (Davis Island YC).
Ray sailed with Britt Drake, AMF, a southern Bay
expatriate living in Panama City. Ray said they won all the parties!
And, Britt and Ray were not the only J/24-ers from our area in Tampa.
Skip Hope, Thin Ice, of Edenton, North Carolina,
sailing out of Fishing Bay YC was there, too.
SpinSheet Magazine Crew Listing Party -
South: SpinSheet Magazine plans
to sponsor a special Crew Listing Event for southern Bay racers. The event
will be modeled on the famous Annapolis version and local organizers are
shooting for Saturday, April 15th as the date. The SSCLP-South likely will
be hosted at a downtown Hampton eatery-watering hole. Stay tuned for
confirmation and details. Save a pair of burnable socks to offer the
racing gods at the gathering.
Mark your calendar - April 4, Tuesday evening, at
6:30 - Annual CCV Racing Rules Clinic and 2006 CCV Racing
Guide distribution. The clinic topic will be the 2006
General Sailing Instruction (in the CCV Guide) from the racers'
perspective. The presentation also will be helpful to race committee
members in southern Bay clubs, since most use all or part of the CCV GSI for
their events. The clinic will be held at The Mariners'
Museum, Newport News, Virginia. It is FREE and OPEN TO ALL.
Sailing shoes, no socks, is not only acceptable attire, but expected!
ODU to Benefit from TPYC Support: Town Point
Yacht Club (Norfolk) is holding a weekend long sailboat engine course, the
entire benefits of which will be donated to the Old Dominion University Sailing
Program. "Care and Feeding of the Sailboat Auxiliary Engine" will be held
April 8 and 9 at the ODU Sailing Center. For info contact Mike
Monteith,TPYC vice-commodore, at (757) 676-3376.
MURPHY'S LAW: Yours Truly,
The Murphster, noticed that the Newport to
Bermuda Race organizers have set up a special fleet called the
Demonstration Division - great big, very fast boats in the Demo Division.
Organizers used to call classes like this Exhibition Divisions, but the
likelihood today of individuals misunderstanding the
terminology was just too great. Exhibition to many
could mean high diving from spreaders (while racing), keel hauling
the skipper (the equivalent of dragging a truck load of kelp on the keel),
calling for pizza delivery for the eating contest (again, while
racing), sprinkling brewsky cans like bread crumbs in the Gulf Stream for
the return trip, ... you get the picture. /S/ Murphy the
Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE, Lin McCarthy, Editor