# 193 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday March 22, 2004 10:27AM
TODAY, March 22nd, is the
last opportunity to pre-register to GUARANTEE your Race Management
Book will be ready and waiting for you on this coming SATURDAY,
March 27th at the CCV-HYC Race Management Workshop.
Call (757) 850-4225 to pre-register. (Pre-registration
is optional.)
March 27, 2004, CCV-HYC
Race Management Workshop, Saturday, March 27, 9:00 am to 2:00
pm. This year the Workshop is being hosted at Hampton Yacht
Club; it is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Registration (donuts and coffee
will be available) begins at 9:00 am, with the workshop getting underway at 9:30
am sharp. For planning purposes, those expecting to attend may
pre-register by calling (757) 850-4225.
Pre-registration is suggested to guarantee receipt of a Race
Management Book the morning of the Workshop.
Members of the 2004 Workshop Team include Joe Hallissy, Dick Boykin, Glenn
Giles, John McCarthy, Ben Weeks, and Bob Thomas. For information regarding the Race
Management Workshop, contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.
CCV Racing Rules Seminar
on Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm at The Mariners' Museum
in Newport
News, Virginia. The CCV 2004 Racing Guide
will be available at the Seminar. The
seminar is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Tucker
Thompson, well known racer and clinician as well as associate
of West Marine, will present his session on tactics and strategy as related to
the Racing Rules. Also, there will be a brief briefing on the updates to
the General Sailing Instruction. For information and/or directions
contact: John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225. This is absolutely
the last time pre-season you will see all your southern Bay racing buddies in
one spot with all their clothes on!
The 2004 Screwpile
Lighthouse Challenge (July 18 - 20): The event
planning committee is well beyond planning and into the nitty-gritty organizing
stage. Racers will begin to receive entry forms and notices of race in
their home mailboxes any day now. If you like, you may get your
entry application and a copy of the NOR from the website www.screwpile.net Good idea to
act now, because lodging and dockage space are going like hotcakes!
Already a skippers', crew's, and racing team groupies' favorite event,
this year's Screwpile promises to be very special - the more
southern Bay racers, the better! Get on it now - entering only takes a
minute!
Boats Return Home: Friday was "Welcome
Home" day for a lot of the HYC slip holders. They had been "banished"
during the winter, while HYC installed an all new floating docks
complex.
When you pick up the
2004 Race Management Handbook this coming Saturday,
be aware that Glenn Giles is the man who pulls it together and
handles it's publication each year. Glenn is one of the Race Management
Workshop (March 27) presenters and his favorite afternoon beverage (along
with several other members of the workshop team) is Amber
Bock@.
Media Watch:
Feeling the need to get things tied up? See
T.F.Bartruff's ( of Norfolk) letter in the "Feedback"
section of the April issue of SAIL. T.J. is a member of the
International Guild of Knot Tyers and he gives a list of web sites that provide
info on marlinspike skills.
Bluewater Racers:
The deadline for submitting an Application for Entry for the
Newport Bermuda Race is a week from this coming Thursday,
April 1, 2004. You can go on line to get specific
instructions www.bermudarace.com
Three Clubs Jump
Into Non-sanctioned "Informal" Racing Early: Three southern
Bay clubs plan an early start on their 2004 non-sanctioned racing
programs: OPCYC starts their Saturday morning racing on
April 3 - contact Jeff Rogers at jeff@faceco.com Newcomers on the
scene, White Shoal Sailing Club, will run its 2nd race on
Sunday, April 4 - check that web site at http://wandling.net/whiteshoal
HYC's Wednesday Night racing begins April 7 - contact Tom
Ryan at (757) 426-7666 or HYC office at (757)
722-0711.
APRIL SCHEDULE -
LET THE RACING BEGIN!!
April
1 Thu Sailboat Racers' National
Holiday (aka April Fools' Day)
April
3 Sat OPCYC
Saturday racing begins
April
4 Sun DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
BEGINS
April
4 Sun White Shoal Sailing Club
racing
April
7 Wed HYC Wednesday Night racing
begins
April
15 Thu BBSA Willoughby Racers Thursday
Night racing begins
April
16 Fri PBC Barnacle Series racing
begins
April 17
Sat HYC Spring One-Design Regatta
April
16-18 J/29 Invitational at
FBYC
April 18
Sun CCV Tune Up Races
April 21
Wed YRYC Wednesday Night racing
begins
April 21
Wed BBSA Little Creek SA Wednesday Night racing
begins
April 24
Sat FBYC Spring Series 1
April
25 Sun CCV Spring Series Race
#1
April 25
Sun FBYC Spring Series 2
May
1 Sat
RRYC Spring Regatta
May
2 Sun
CCV Spring Series Race #2
May
2 Sun
FBYC Spring Series 3
May
4 Tue
CCV Crewing on a Raceboat Course begins
May
15 Sat YPYC
Spring Regatta
May
15 Sat J/24 Fleet 71
regatta
May
16 Sun CCV Spring Series
Race #3 and Race #4
May
16 Sun FBYC Spring Series
(3)
MURPHY'S LAW: Spring has
sprung! The grass has
rizz. I wonder where
the racers is! They're in the yards to paint and
scrape, And get themselves in racing shape. But, soon
they'll come as with the sun, To sail the course, To beat
and run. So, have good faith, Me racing
hearties, We'll soon be at those Screwpile parties!
Living to race, racing to live. /s/
Murphy the Racing Beagle
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