# 414 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday October 6, 2008 01:29PM

MORNING LIGHT is coming.  As a preliminary piece, ESPN2 HD will air on October 8, Wednesday, at 8 PM,  a 60 minute program on the tryouts and selection team leading up to the movie which premieres later this month.
 
13th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA is counting down to this coming weekend, October 10-12 - on the Rappahannock River off Carter's Creek and the Corrottoman River.  This is a full blown regatta, including welcoming Happy Hour with live music on Friday, drop mark  courses on Saturday, and a pursuit race (up the river and back) on Sunday,  pre-race breakfasting and post-race eating, drinking and socializing, and, of course, grand awards.  More than 106 boats are already entered and more are expected this week.   Winner of the Lightning Division (PHRF racing)  will be invited to compete in the National Hospice Regatta in Spring of 2009.  For info and to enter, go to www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com and/or call host Yankee Point Marina at (804)462-7018
 
THE GREAT CHESAPEAKE BAY SCHOONER RACE starts Thursday, October 16, within sight of the Chesapeake Bay  Bridge (Annapolis side) and finishes sometime Friday, October 17th, with the grand schooners docking in host city Portsmouth, Virginia.  This year there are 53 schooners, including our own VIRGINIA, racing.  Sponsoring clubs are Broad Bay Sailing Association (Virginia Beach), Fells Point Yacht Club (Baltimore), Portsmouth Boat Club (Portsmouth), and Town Point Yacht Club (Norfolk).   The October issue of SPINSHEET MAGAZINE contains the Official Preview Program for the event and is already available (and FREE) at  the usual distribution locations.
 
CCV FALL SERIES wrapped up  with final two races yesterday.  The season ending series (5 races over three weekends) was completed yesterday and preliminary results  have  SEA STAR, COOL CHANGE,  FAT,DUMB, & STUPID,  and VIRGINIA H.   at the top of their respective PHRF fleets.  There is a protest pending in PHRF A  between Sea Star and Cash Flow, which is set to be heard tonight.  Trophies for the Series will be  presented at the CCV Annual Awards Presentation Party in early November.  CCV Fall Series (preliminary results):  PHRF A (protest pends) (11 boats racing):  1.Dave Eberwine, Sea Star, J/36; 2.Lloyd Griffin, Cash Flow, Hadley 40; 3.Leroi Lissenden, Voodoo 2, Tripp 38.  PHRF B (11 boats racing):  1.Rusty Burshell, Cool Change, J30.  2.Bob Archer, Bad Habit, Pearson Flyer; 3.Neal Garrett, Strega, S9.2.   PHRF C (13 boats racing):  1.AJ Piccillo, Fat, Dumb & Stupid, J24; 2.Jonathan Phillips, Fine, Kirby 25; 3.Bumps Eberwine, Spray, Olson 25.  PHRF Non-Spinnaker (6 boats racing):  1.Andy Armstrong, Virginia H, Soverel 30;  2.Tom Peddy, Impulse, Catalina 34;  3.Harry Tenney, Margarita, Roberts 40.   Rick Carroll in Sur Le Vent, Beneteau 36, sailed on contested in the Cruising fleet.   PRO - John McCarthy;  Official Scorer - John Ritter;  Mark Boats - Bill Gibbings and Glenn Giles.
 
Congratulations to CAROLYN GRANT and JIM MILLER -  These two southern Bay racing notables, Carolyn, until this past year, was head sailing coach of the Hampton University Sailing Team, and Jim heads  up the Doyle Sailing Loft in Hampton, both sailed on teams in the 2008 One Design Worlds in San Francisco this past week (September 28 - October 3).  Carolyn was part of the Fishers Island Team which took first place in the 8 race event.  Kudos are due and freely given!
 
October offers three "change of pace" events in the southern Bay:   Turkeys, Schooners, and Lighthouses!
 
'ROUND THE LIGHTS RACE - October 25 - sponsored by Old Point Comfort Yacht Club.   This is a CBYRA sanctioned event  for PHRF boats and it counts in the Chesapeake Bay Distance Race Series sponsored by Broad Bay Sailing Association.  There is a Cruising fleet for non-PHRF boats.  All boats must meet the PHRF 4P equipment and accommodations requirements.  Don't miss the opportunity to save money ($5) by entering before October 18th.    This event features a pursuit start and is unique in that each racer decides which lighthouse, either Middle Ground Light or Thimble Shoal Light to round first.  Be sure to study your tide and current charts!  Send your entries to OPCYC, c/o Dennis Miner, 205 Eric Nelson Run, Yorktown, VA 23693.  Or, call Dennis at (757) 867-1028.   This is a great event with a nice post-race party and awards at the OPCYC clubhouse on Ft Monroe.  Your entry fee covers skipper as well as all crew.
 
TAKE CARE OF YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER!!   Beginning last  Wednesday, October 1, 2008, Cell Phone Numbers went public.  That is to say that all cell phone numbers were released to telemarketing companies.  You will start to receive sales calls and YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS.  To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:  888 - 382-1222 -  the National DO NOT CALL list. This will block your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. Or, go to www.donotcall.gov    (Thanks to Kathleen Clancy Cooper for passing this info along.)
 
WILLOUGHBY MEMORIAL REGATTA hosts 20 boats  in annual Willoughby Bay.  This is an annual event,  run by Broad Bay Sailing Association, where non-spinnaker boats do a pursuit race within  the confines of Norfolk's Willoughby Bay (aka Little Bay).  The boats were broken in to 3 groups for trophy and scoring purposes.  Here's how the top finishers of each group shook out:  RESULTS:  Fleet 1 (6 boats racing):  1.Bill Bounds, Summer Breeze, C&C 31; 2.Cliff Porter, Scoundrel, San Juan 24; 3.Richard "Doc" Foster, Bluejacket, Morgan 28.  Fleet 2 (8 boats racing):  1.Jonathan Phillips, Fine, Kirby 25; 2.Wally Parolari, Makaira, Catalina 320; 3.Dave Willis, Uhuru, Pearson 30.  Fleet 3 (6 boats racing): 1.Don DeLoatch, Stingray, Soverel 27; 2.Dave Bettis, Boo Nasty, Ranger 33; 3.Jay Wright, Glory Days, Cal 39.  PRO - Scott Almond.

MURPHY'S LAW:  Turkeys, Schooners, and Lighthouses, sounds like a title for a novel about the southern Chesapeake Bay.  Yrs Truly, the Racing Beagle, envisions a significant, supporting role in the movie version for an especially sensitive and intelligent  "fur person" who races on sailboats!  My agent is standing by the phone.   /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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