# 307 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday July 31, 2006 11:11AM

DOUBLE-BARREL WEEKEND REGATTAS FOR ONE-DESIGNERS:  Spend some quality time at two special events !
42nd ANNUAL VIRGINIA GOVERNOR'S CUP ONE DESIGN  REGATTA:  Saturday - Sunday, August 5-6, at Ware River Yacht Club (Gloucester, VA).  Expect Albacore, Hampton One Design, Mobjack, Laser and other classes that apply with a minimum of 5 boats.  Usually junior classes for Laser and 420 make at this traditionally great regatta.  Regatta Chairman is Clayton James (757) 952-1815.  For registration and/or general information contact Rick Klein at (804) 693-5629.  
And, after you do the Gov's Cup regatta, get the boat on the trailer, hitch up, and run just up the road a piece to the....
FBYC 67th ANNUAL ONE-DESIGN REGATTA:  Saturday-Sunday, August 12-13, at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.  Classes are 420, Albacore, Hampton One Design, Flying Scot, Front Runner, Laser, Laser Radial, Mobjack and Optimist.  Registration is Friday, August 12.  For info contact Allan Heyward at (804) 747-4500.   This Fishing Bay Yacht Club event is a must do regatta for small boat racers.  The location so close to the site of the Governor's Cup makes the two weekends a special summer happening. 
 
AUGUST is hot...  what better time for southern Bay racers to SAIL HOT!!
 
NOT Smith Point Race was not  a typical NSP,  as all 39 boats finished in moderate breezes with time to spare.  This summertime favorite more often than not, according to local lore, ends up in a drifter, followed by a malicious thunder boomer on the way back to the dock, well after the time limit has expired.  Not so yesterday.  Chessie offered up a 9 to 12 knot breeze just in time for the early morning (0900) start of the lower Bay fixed marks race.   Christian Schaumloffel and the crew of  his Hobie 33, Mirage, corrected to first in the large PHRF A fleet (15 boats).  Dave McConaughy, won PHRF B in his J/30, White Boat, and Ben Cuker, Callinectes, Cal 30-3, led PHRF C.  In the 10 boat PHRF Non-Spin fleet, Jake Brodersen, Midnight Mistress, C&C 35, took first and continued his Screwpile winning ways.  RESULTS:  PHRF A (15 boats):  1.Mirage, Hobie 33, Christian Schaumloffel; 2.Sea Star, J36, Bumps and David Eberwine; 3.Namesake, Olson 30, Craig Olsen.    PHRF B ( 8 boats):  1.White Boat, J30, Dave McConaughy;  2.Virginia H, Soverel 30, Andy Armstrong; 3.PF Flyer, Pearson Flyer, Larry Preddy.    PHRF C (6 boats):  1.Callinectes, Columbia 30-3, Ben Cuker; 2.Midmorning Buzz, J/24, David Taylor;  3.Incentive, O'Day 27, Louie Lewis.  PHRF Non-Spin (10 boats):  1.Midnight Mistress, C&C 35, Jake Brodersen;  2.Faith, Seahorse 34, Jerry Lotz;  3.Wiki-Wiki, Pearson 26, Rodney Paice.    PRO: John McCarthy; Official Scorer: Dick Boykin.    NOTE:  The next CCV event is the CCV Founders Race, Sunday, August 13.
 
Stand-in skipper on Sea Star, Bumps and David Eberwine's J/36, for the CCV Not Smith Point Race yesterday was Brian McCauley, who, up until a few years ago,  used to drive his own blue hull hottie, Conspiracy, in PHRF A.
 
Polar Express,  the J105 formerly owned and raced by Pam Burdett, has gone North to its new owner in Annapolis.  Pam, after having sail tested an Esse 850, has purchase one and expects to take delivery in September.  Look for the 28 footer that looks like an "America's Cup boat", but can be sailed by 3 people.  Pam says during the sail test   " 2 of us handled her with chute up in 20 knots!"
 
Special SBRNYCU SORI (Source of Reliable Info) on the schooner VIRGINIA,  retired Virginia Pilot  Capt. Bill Johnson,  reports that Friday a heavy squall messed with our beloved Virginia, causing some damage to her foregaff and the jib clew to fail. 
 
This morning former ODU champion sailor, Anna Tunnicliff, is at Santa Monica Bay, tied for 1st place after two races at the 2006 Laser Radial Worlds.  Anna is currently ranked 2nd in the world.  This championship event will run for 6 days.  Keep your fingers and toes crossed for Anna.
 
FLOAT YOUR BOAT THIS COMING WEEKEND: 
 
2006 LITTLE CREEK REGATTA -  August 5 (Saturday).  This is a non-sanctioned event sponsored by BBSA, the proceeds of which are donated to  support of St. Judes Children's Research Hospital.  The race is open to  spinnaker, non-spinnaker (single headsail only), and cruising classes along with cruising catamaran, performance multihull, and beach cat classes.    There is a mandatory skippers meeting at 1930 hours, Friday, August 4, at Bay Point Marina on Little Creek in Norfolk.  Note:  Deadline for entries is August 1.  For info contact Bill Mellen or Mary Moore at (757) 362-4819.  "Sailing for a Cure"
HOSPICE REGATTA XII - August 6  (Sunday).  This is a CBYRA sanctioned event, sponsored by HYC.  The overall winner of this event is eligible to represent the Hampton Roads area in the National Hospice Regatta Invitational Championship in spring of 2007. The proceeds from this race are donated to Hospice Regatta of Greater Hampton Roads.   There are starts for all PHRF classes as well as for a special Hospice (Cruising) Class.  Hospice class entries are due August 2 (to allow for time to assign special Hospice ratings); PHRF class entries are due before the race committee boat leaves the dock (approximately 0900 on race day).  For information contact Glenn Giles at (757) 851-9690.  "The Challenge of Sailing for Others"
 
2007 DATES CARVED IN STONE:  Events of special interest to southern Bay racers have announced dates for next year.  Go ahead and write these on your calendar:
January 15 - 19, 2007    Key West Race Week 
March 8 - 11, 2007          Miami Race Week
June 1 - 3, 2007              SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK  (Opening Night party and registration - Thursday, May 31)
 
If you have ever wanted to just "put to sea" here's a nice way to go - join the crew of the schooner Virginia.  There are currently opportunities for crew positions of mate, deckhands, and engineer (thru December 2006).  Applications also are being accepted for the Spring 2007 crew (deckhands, mates, cooks, and engineers).  Call (757) 627-7400 or mail your resume to Virginia Marine Heritage Foundation, 5000 World Trade Center, Norfolk, VA 23510.
 
By the way, speaking of  HOSPICE REGATTAS (see SBRNYCU  #306) available to southern Bay racers, there is yet another:  The 4th Annual Pamlico Cup Hospice Regatta is set for October 13-15 in Bath, North Carolina.  Southern Bay racer, Chuck Monsees, has won the Pamlico Cup twice in his J29 Rockette.   And, Pete Hunter, Wairere,  and Lloyd Griffin, Cash Flow, both have a 2nd place finish in this event.
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  Yrs Truly, The Murphster,  like a lot of southern Bay racers, knows all about the schooner Virginia, having followed her construction every step of the way and put a paw print on her innards when she was a mere outline of her current self.   If I were to hire on as ship's Sailing Dawg and Racing Advisor, I would have to have as a condition of my contract a hand, ooops - paw, in the selection of the cook!     /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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