# 291 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday March 27, 2006 03:08PM

SUNDAY, APRIL 2 - DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME  begins at 2AM - Spring ahead - set your clocks ahead one hour.  You lose one hour of sleep, but you gain one hour of daylight time to sail !
 
2006  CCV RACING CLINIC and Racing Guide Distribution:  April 4, Tuesday, 6:30 pm, at The Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Virginia).  OPEN TO ALL and FREE.  This is one pre-season gathering southern Bay racers, skippers, crews, friends, family, and curious sailors do not want to miss.  John McCarthy, PRO for the CCV season long, 15 race High Point Series, will hit the key points of the 2006 Sailing Instruction from the racers' perspective . The Sailing Instructions, which CCV as well as most southern Bay clubs use as the basis for their racing events, are contained in the 2006 CCV Racing Guide, a must have publication that is included with every CCV Membership and will be distributed at this event. 
Directions:  Traveling in either direction on I-64, take EXIT 258A  (Rt 17 South / J. Clyde Morris Blvd) -  On J. CLYDE MORRIS / RT 17 SOUTH  you will eventually pass Riverside Hospital on the left - continue straight ahead through the intersection of Warwick Boulevard and watch for The Mariners' Museum sign that indicates a left turn to the Museum grounds.   When you get to the Museum building, bear right to the parking area and follow your instincts and your fellow racers ( seemingly civilized folks wearing boat shoes ) to the CCV gathering.  Let's get ready to rumbl-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-le!
 
Get Ready to Dance to This Tune !  SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK for the Black Seal Cup ( June 2-4, 2006) announces that TowneBank Band (TBB)  is the featured band for the Saturday night (June 3) party.  This is a favorite band around the Bay area and racers danced themselves silly to TBB at last year's event.  Ya'll come on - 6 great races and 3 great parties! 
 
SBRNYCU Rules Quiz:  At the start, the bowman is looking around the jib and his/her head is over the line at the gun.  Is the boat OCS?  (Answer - further in this issue).
 
Who said that?   "The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives; so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective."   Henry David Thoreau said that.  SAIL MAGAZINE  (April issue) ran the quote as one of Tammy Ruggles' collection of  "salty quotes".
 
Talk about a package!  There's a awfully special one on its way from Florida to John Ritger this morning.  John's son Ben, has bundled up his J/30 Blew J, and is sending it up to John who lives in Virginia Beach and sails in the Southern Chesapeake.  The father-sons team of John, Ben and Lynn Ritger plan to campaign Blew J in the southern Bay this summer.  John  says the J/30 should arrive by truck tomorrow.   Meanwhile BCNU stands race ready and looking for a new home.  John has put his Morgan 27 (BCNU) on the market in anticipation of Blew J's arrival. 
 
Good Habits Being Formed  Bob Archer and Chris Beahr's Pearson Flyer, Bad Habit  team got in an early pre-season practice yesterday in frigid conditions.    They lasted about an hour on the Bay, but got enough done to shake off some rust (before they all turned to ice).
  
More SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK Early Bird Entries:  Seven more southern Bay boats are Early Birds in SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK for the Black Seal Cup:   Rick Sills' (Hampton) Windblown, Irwin 33;   Jeff Rogers' (Hampton) Halaha, Columbia 28-2;  Jake Brodersen's (Newport News)  Midnight Mistress, C&C 35;  Peter Morrison's (Herndon), Liberty, J/109;  J. Robert DeJong's (Glen Allen), Temptress, Hunter 356;  Marty Steffens' (Hampton), Riptide, Colgate 26; and Richard Payne's (Hampton) Flying Colors, J/105, are all taking advantage of the Early Bird incentive - 10 free Regatta drink tickets.  Enter now before the early bird incentive deadline of April 15.   Info: contact event organizer Leigh Morgan at  (757) 726-9649 or check on the web site at www.blacksealcup.com    Ya'll come!  6 great races and 3 great parties!
 
Mark this date:  April 15 -  The SpinSheet Magazine Crew Listing Party-SOUTH  at Marker 20, downtown Hampton.  The crew - boat-skipper matching networking social goes from 6-8 PM.  Marker 20 also plans to include a ceremonial sock burning.  This event is open to all sailors and is designed to get folks acquainted and involved in the sport.  If you have a boat anywhere in the southern Bay and are looking for folks interested in crewing, here's and opportunity.  If you are a crewbie or wannabe crewbie, here's a chance to meet and sign on with a skipper.  Get on board the 2006 sizzling summer sailing season!
 
Rules Quiz  Answer:  Yes, OCS.  Rule 29.1 tells us that a boat is OCS (On the Course Side) if, at the starting signal, any part of her hull, crew, or equipment is on the course side of the starting line.    Penalty:  Return to the pre-start side of the line and try again.  Warning - you have no rights once you turn back to "clear".  And, oh yes -  Flog the bowman.
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  The mascots for the NCAA Final Four teams are the George Mason U. Patriot , the LSU Tiger, the UCLA Bruin, and the Florida Gator.  I admit my interest in watching has waned, now that the UCONN Husky is no longer on the scene.  Also,  my interest  faded somewhat earlier  when I realized that Uga, the University of Georgia bulldog, my personal favorite, was not going to be available for viewing.   It really is time to go racing.     /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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