CCV-HYC RACE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR:  Saturday, March 15, Hampton Library, (Main Branch - Victoria Boulevard), 9:30 am - 1:30 pm.  Open to all.  Each participant will receive a 2003 Race Committee Manual.  Coffee and donuts provided.  There is no charge for this seminar.  For information and to pre-register (optional), contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email at  mcbear@earthlink.net Topics covered will include:  Signal Boat Operations, Course Selection and Considerations, Mark Boat Operations, Flags and Signals, Starting Situations, RC Options During the Race, Finishing, Scoring, Paperwork, Publicity, Handling Protests, and a Flag and Signal Demonstration.  Chief clinicians include, Dick Boykin, Glenn Giles, John McCarthy, and Joe Hallissy.  The new CD available for race scoring will be included in the topics.

Pick up cash by sailing!!??  Mike Worrell, Worrell 1000 race director and event founder, has announced that next year (2004), the 22nd running of the "beach cat" dash will offer a One Million Dollar purse.  The first place winner will receive $400,000.  In the meantime, to tune-up, you can enter this year's event.  The 2003 Worrell 1000 starts Sunday, May 4 in South Beach, Florida, and finishes in Virginia Beach, on Saturday, May 17, 2003.   For info go to http://www.worrell1000.com  or call Mike Worrell at (757) 422-1000.

There's a new racer on the southern Bay - Andrew Jackson Montague weighed in on February 12th at 8lbs, 8oz, and 22 inches long.  Reports say he's doing just fine and so are Mom and Dad, Patricia and Latane Montague.

MEDIA WATCH:  There they are, two southern Bay 505 sailors in all their photographic glory on page 18 of the March (current) issue of SAILING magazine.  That's Hampton homies Henry Amthor and Steve Sparkman sailing in the 505 Worlds in Australia.  The article is "Appointment with The Doctor" in the Splashes section.  Photographer Steve Arkley took the shot.

Race Schedule Expands:  Norfolk Yacht and Country Club has added a Saturday (August 30)
of Labor Day Weekend race to the big boat region schedule.  Both this race and the Dink Vail Regatta (September 13) are sponsored by NYCC. Both races will be CBYRA sanctioned events and will include all PHRF classes as well as a Cruising Fleet.  For info contact:  Bill Wheary, at (757) 423-2820.

And, now there will be at least three "big red boats" racing in the southern Bay in 2003.  In addition to Restless (Sonny Smith), and Wham Bam (Bill Bounds) mentioned last week, Sanford Richardson's Kahuna will continue racing in Chesapeake waters this coming season. Sanford says previous plans to leave the area have changed, so Kahuna sits in Cobb's Boat yard ready and waiting for spring.  By the way, Kahuna and crewman Bryce Barrett are in the 2003 Harken catalog.

2003 Southern Chesapeake Volvo Leukemia Cup Regatta ( July 12) is now taking early registrations/entries.  Event officials have also published a regatta newsletter that gives insider and "how to" info on the many regatta related events.  To register or to get the newsletter, contact Sandy Thurston at (800) 766-0797 or (804) 627-0400.

REMINDER:  The 2003 CCV Racing Guide is very near the printer's deadline.  This is the southern Bay racers' book of race circulars, member listings, sailing instructions, racing entry forms, race courses and marks, information sources, etc.  Copies will be available at the CCV Racing Rules Clinic, Tuesday, April 1, at The Mariners' Museum.  Guest clinician will be Steve Hunt, US SAILING Team #1  470 skipper and Olympic hopeful. Watch future issues of SBRNYCU for details.

Getting ready to race:  Forty-two more racers brushed up on Racing Rules of Sailing, Saturday at John McCarthy's "The Start Comes First" presentation given as part of  Old Point Comfort Yacht Club's sailing seminars program. Jeff Rogers, 2003 OPCYC commodore, is honcho of the OPCYC workshops.

LASER-GRAM!   2003 LASER MIDWINTERS EAST REGATTA begins this Thursday, February 27, in Clearwater, Florida, and runs through Sunday, March 2.  You can still get there.  Clearwater YC is hosting and provides and encourages you to register on line.  Check out the site at   www.clwyc.org/LaserMidwintersEast03/     The 2003 District 11 Laser Championships will be hosted by Hampton Yacht Club, Hampton, Virginia, May 31-June 1, 2003.  Contact George Panayides at   gpanayid@wrsystems.com   or Leigh Morgan at  leigh.morgan2@verizon.net   for detailed info.

MARCH 2003 CALENDAR: Mark it down - let the good times roll!
March 15        CCV-HYC  Race Management Seminar
March 22        HYC Spring One-Design Regatta
March 30        J/24 Fleet Regatta
April 1            CCV Racing Rules Seminar

MURPHY'S LAW: The race committee for the America's Cup has re-defined and simplified the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force.There are only two  levels (instead of 12) on the new scale: Force 1: Both boats are in the race area, but wind is too light or too heavy or too shifty or too steady to guarantee a Team New Zealand win; therefore, it is impossible to race.  Force 2 : Alinghi sank on the way to the course, so racing is "full on" and the RC might even run two!  Living to race, racing to live. /s/ Murphy the Racing Beagle

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