# 288 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy 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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