# 311 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday August 28, 2006 10:17AM

LABOR DAY WEEKEND IS UPON US! 
Pick a regatta and go racing!
 
12TH ANNUAL STINGRAY POINT REGATTA, Saturday and Sunday, September 2 - 3.  Entry deadline is 1800,  Wednesday, August 30 for the CBYRA sanctioned racing for PHRF, MORC, and, if sufficient interest, one-design.  Contact:  Event Chairman  Allan Heyward at (804) 690-1070  Hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club.  Full weekend of racing and socializing and leaves Monday for the delivery home.  This is a favorite holiday event for racing fanatics.  The Potts (team) Trophy will be presented as well as individual trophies.
DINK VAIL REGATTA , Saturday, September 2.   CBYRA sanctioned race for PHRF classes as well as a non-sanctioned Cruising class.    Contact  Event Chairman J.D. Scott at (757) 572-6830 or PRO John McCarthy at  (757) 850-4225.  Hosted by Norfolk Yacht and Country Club.  Terrific bang for your buck, a terrific post-race soiree, and great for holiday "family time considerations", since the racing only takes one day of the holiday weekend.   The first warning is set for 1100 and the post-race party keg gets tapped at 1700. Dinner begins at 1800. This is a great opportunity to enjoy racing while paying tribute to one of the Bay's best racers of the past, Dink Vail.  Get registered and get racing!
 
The King of Cape Charles is  THE HUNTER,  winner of the 2006 CAPE CHARLES CUP, sponsored by Broad Bay Sailing Association.  Justin Morris and his family, wife Elizabeth, daughter Stephanie, and son Brandon sailed their 18 year old Hunter 26.5 into the winner's circle.  The Hunter  had the lowest  elapsed (corrected) time for the two race event and thereby won the 2006 Cape Charles Cup. The Morrises raced in the PHRF C spinnaker class.  The fleet of 56 boats enjoyed fair winds both days, except that each day just before the finish someone turned off the wind machine.  As expected the post-race parties on Saturday at Bay Creek Marina  (Cape Charles) and on Sunday at Bay Point Marina (Norfolk) were A+.  RESULTS:  PHRF A (4 boats): Rafiki (1-2), Jan Brandt;   Treaty of Ghent (3-1) Jim Williams and Will Roberts.  PHRF B (4 boats):  Charis (1-1), Ryan McCrillis;  Graceful (2-2), Rob Beck.  PHRF C (8 boats):  The Hunter (3-2), Justin Morris;  Bow Movement (1-6), Martin Casey;  Callinectes (6-1), Ben Cuker.  PHRF Non-Spin (20 boats):  Black Widow (2-2), Leo Wardrup;  Margarita (3-3), Harry Tenney;   Puff Card (5-1),  Walter Boatwright;   Wiki Wiki (1-9), Rodney Paice;  Restless ((4-6), Sonny Smith.  Cruising (20 boats):  Mariah (5-1), Doug Rose; Scoundrel (2-4), Cliff Porter; Thrillseeker (3-3), Andy Shanks; Life is Good (1-6), Sergio Diehl;  Gregarious (7-2), Greg Peterman.  PRO: Bill Mellen.
 
Mike Veraldi and the Quicky team will be racing in Annapolis in the J24 one design fleet at CBYRA-Annapolis Race Week during the Labor Day Weekend.
 
You Can So Go Home Again!   And, Pat Patterson's, Taylor 41, Orion is proving it.  Pat says Orion's  former owner has bought her back and will now bring her back to her original home, Marblehead, Massachusetts.
 
Dink Vail sailing stories abound.  An  SBRNYCU Reliable Source  tells one involving a "delivery" from Norfolk to Hampton to race.  It seems Jack, Dink's older brother, was driving and hit an immovable (underwater)  object.  Dink who had been standing on the side in a harness, was thrown around the forestay and against the other side of the sail.  And, that is only the beginning of the story.  Surely the rest of the tale will be made public at the DINK VAIL REGATTA post-race party on Saturday.
 
Please be patient - CBYRA is working at a major problem with listing some of the race results on the website.  A number of people are working at a solution.  So, hold your horses, hang in there, and in the meantime, check for results locally, i.e. the club sponsoring the race, or, of course on Monday, your Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use.
 
Bob Rock, currently skipper of Shamrock, J105, expects to see a very special old friend at this coming weekend at the STINGRAY POINT REGATTA.  Turbo's Tub, the Morgan 35 currently owned by M.D. Riley, at one point belonged to Bob Rock.  Bob said that Bumps Eberwine, Sea Star, owned and skippered the Morgan before he had her. Oh, the stories this boat could tell! 
 
Remember to use the PORTS system provided by NOAA at no charge.  You can dial  (866) 247-6787  and get real time wind and tide/water  level info.  There are many meteorological stations around the southern Bay and, CBYRA vice president for Region 4, Tom Roberts,  says word is that there will be a station added at Stingray Point next year.
 
LASER LOVERS:   The weekend after Labor Day (Sept 9-10) is the 25th ANNUAL CHESAPEAKE BAY LASER MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP at Fishing Bay Yacht Club (Deltaville, Virginia).  Laser Master and Chef Supreme Alain Vincey will prepare a delightful repast that has been described  as "the best Yacht Club food in the Nation."   For details and entry info, contact Jon Deutsch at (804) 305-1244.
 
Bluewater Racers:  The next Newport Bermuda Race has picked a date and has begun planning.  Mark your calendar - June 20, 2008.
 
Broad Bay Sailing Association seems to have a Vise -Grip@ on the Mobjack National Championship.  The 2005 national champion team was BBSA's Trey Smith and Jordan Winteringham and,  in this year, also from BBSA, Mark Arnold and crew Matt Frank are the 2006 Mobjack National Champions.  The number one team had one 2nd and won all the rest of the races.  The regatta was hosted at the new Lewes Yacht Club (Delaware) clubhouse near the mouth of the Delaware Bay.  Arnold and Frank sailed out of Broad Bay Sailing Association (Virginia Beach).  Other southern Bay sailors who finished well were Len and Josh Guenther, who finished third, and  Meg and Tom Roberts, who finished 4th out of 17 competitors.  Both the Guenther and Roberts teams sail out of Fishing Bay YC. 
 
Race for the Hanbury Cup or the Executive Cup the weekend  AFTER  Labor Day:  Saturday, September 9 - THE EXECUTIVE CUP REGATTA - sponsored by the Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation, proceeds go to the  CNU sailing team.  Hampton Yacht Club hosts the event.  Open to all PHRF fleets and a non-spinnaker Cruising Class.  Entry fee is $35, due no later than Thursday, Sept 7.   For information and to enter contact Jim White at  (757) 249-8758 or PRO Dick Boykin at (757) 890-0093.  This race coincides with the Hampton Bay Days Festival.
 
SEPTEMBER SAILING FOR SOUTHERN BAY RACERS:
Sept  2             DINK VAIL REGATTA - NY&CC ,  JD Scott (757) 572-6830  or  John McCarthy (757) 850-4225
Sept  2 -3        STINGRAY POINT REGATTA - FBYC,  Allan Heyward  (804) 690-1070
Sept  2-3-4     CBYRA ANNAPOLIS RACE WEEK - CBYRA / AYC,  www.cbyra.org 
Sept  9 - 10    25th Annual Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship,  Jon Deutsch  (804) 305-1244
Sept  9             The Executive Cup - Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation
Sept  9              Women's race - YPYC
Sept 16            Wolf Trap - FBYC, Brooks Zerkel  (804) 272-7846)
Sept 16            Fall Singlehand race - YPYC
Sept 17            CCV Fall Series Races #1 &  #2,  John McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Sept 24            CCV Fall Series Races #3 &  #4,  John McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Sept 24            Fall Series #1 - FBYC, Alain Vincey,  (804) 233-4015
Sept 30            Commodore's Cup - RRYC, Tom Norris, (757) 435-2882
Sept 30            Fall Series #2 - FBYC, Tom Roberts (804) 843-2682
Sept 30            Neptune's Atlantic Regatta - BBSA, Scott Almond, (757) 471-2663
Sept 30-Oct 1 J24 Invitational - FBYC, Will Angus (804) 355-6747
Oct 1                Singlehand Race - HYC, Malcolm or Kathy Brady, (757) 723-3244
 
MURPHY'S LAW:   Labor Day is this coming Monday.  Anyone caught  "laboring", as opposed to sailing, on this national holiday will be keel-hauled from an Opti and forced to eat weevil-ly biscuits...  and NO GROG for 24 hours!   /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
NOTE:  SBRNYCU issue #312 will publish, Tuesday, September 5, 2006. 
 
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