#208 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday July 12, 2004 03:04PM
2004 LEUKEMIA CUP REGATTA WINNERS: 66
boats took to the water Saturday on behalf of the Southern Chesapeake
Leukemia Cup. The event garnered more than $150,000, the preliminary
amount reported. Here are the racers who won their
fleets: PHRF A: Rob Whittemore,
Patriot. PHRF B: Dan Smoker, Smoke.
PHRF Non-Spin: Mac Butler, Jaguar.
Cruising: Booty Baker, Klimax. Classics:
Buddy Petzinger, Shinola; Russ
Seltzer, Joie de Vie, Sandy Bottom; and Ric
Bauer, Desperado, in their respective classic
categories. Race chairman for the racer course, Case Whittemore,
and for the classics and cruisers course, Mike Mastracci.
SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE
CHALLENGE 2004 - JULY 18, 19, 20 - 3 days of knock down,
drag out, sailboat racing!
Record
number of "big boats" are headed for 2004 Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge:
174 boats are registered for the showdown on the Bay.
Eight clubs have qualified to compete for the Battle of the
Chesapeake trophy: AYC, BCYA, EYC, FBYC, HYC, PYRC, SMSA, and WRSC. For
info contact regatta chairman LG Raley at (301) 862-3100 or go to the web
at www.screwpile.com
Six More Southern
Bay Racers Head for SCREWPILE: Four of the six are
southern Chesapeake Bay boats: Sea Star, Bumps and
Dave Eberwine (HYC); Blade Runner, Brad Davis
(FBYC); Cool Change, Rusty Burshell
(HYC), Stardancer, John Blais(HYC). Two are
from North Carolina: Phantom, Frank Silver
(CYC; Wairere, Peter Hunter (PSC). These
bring to 34 the total number of boats from Virginia and south of the
Virginia-Carolina boarder - all Screwpile bound!
Recover early from Screwpile,
'cause the CCV Not Smith Point Race is the following Sunday,
July 25, 2004. This one counts for the CCV High Point Championship as
well as CBYRA High Point Awards. The starting line is in the Bay near CCV
Mark "Z" and the race is designed to be a middle distance race around
fixed CCV marks. In addition, CCV offers, for this race, a Cruising class
(1 headsail only) start. This race also is one of the 5 qualifying races
for the Chesapeake Bay Distance Racing Series. For info, contact
John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.
Polar Express,
aka Patriot, , Pam Burdett's "new" (hull #
484) J/105, has joined the southern Bay fleet (PHRF A). She debuted
in the HYC Wednesday night races. Pam raced briefly her
Tartan 34C, Aria, sail number 501, in the PHRF B fleet,
before doing a numeric turnabout (501 to 105). Polar Express
hails from the fresh water environs of Cleveland. Pam is searching for a
new owner for Aria, so interested parties may contact her
directly.
Gremellyn's (Greg
Cutter, C&C 30 XL) skipper and crew spotted out yesterday -
tuning up for Screwpile, no doubt. Lookin' good!
Onion Patch
standout: Pat Patterson's Orion
finished 5th overall in the 29 boat IMS Class 1. That included a first
in class in the Newport to Bermuda Race, which was part of the OP
Series. Awesome!
Henry and Barb Amthor are back together,
sailing on the same boat that is, and they didn't do half bad. The dynamic
duo, sailing together again in a regatta for the first time in
7 years, finished 5th in the US East Coast 5o5 Championships.
Barb was named by several upper echelon 5o5 racers the "Best
Woman Crew in North America'!
2004 Little Bay
Challenge - If you cannot make it to Screwpile this coming weekend,
consider Saturday's Little Bay Challenge on Saturday, July
17. This race is not sanctioned and is for non-spinnaker, single
headsail racers only. First flag is at 1300 in Norfolk's Willoughby
(aka Little) Bay. For info contact Scott Almond at (757) 471-2663 or by
email at AnejoShot@aol.com If you enter before
Friday at 1700, there is no entry fee - the price is right!
More Notes from the
Newport to Bermuda Race: Dan Tramell, chief
judge for the upcoming Screwpile Regatta, was Officer in Charge of the
Navy 44, Lively. Lively won IMS Class 2. Tramell is
no neophyte when it comes to racing to Bermuda. He has done 5 Newport to
Bermudas and 3 Annapolis to Bermudas, 2 of which he won. CBYRA
prez John Dodge was on Donnybrook; Donnybrook finished
2nd in the IMS Class 8.
The FBYC Moonlight
Regatta, part of the FBYC Offshore Long Distance Series, offered more
than trophies to award winners. Run on the evening of July 3rd, the fleet
got to see great fireworks from all over the middle peninsula. Fleet
Winners: PHRF A: Bob Rock,
Shamrock; PHRF B: Allan Heyward, La
Maga; MORC: Russ Collins,
Morningtide; PHRF Non-Spin: Eric Powers,
Nereid.
Henry Amthor Wins Dragon
Award at North Carolina Laser Masters Regatta: The Oriental (NC)
Dinghy Club and the Oriental Laser Fleet hosted the 8th Annual North Carolina
Masters Championship. Laser racers sailed in the Neuse River off
Oriental. Southern Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina award winners
were: Henry Amthor (Hampton, VA) - 1st overall and
1st Master; Martin Willard (Wrightsville Beach,
NC) - 2nd Master; Alain Vincey (Richmond, VA)
3rd Master; Chris Kakavas (Burlington, NC) - 2nd Grand
Master; George Sechrist (Oriental, NC) - 3rd Grand
Master; Ken Hopkins (Statesville, NC) - 1st Great Grand
Master; Ken King (Oriental, NC) - 2nd Great Grand
Master.
BBSA SMALL BOAT REGATTA -
Saturday, July 31 - venue is the Old Dominion University Sailing Center - for
info contact Jean Pattenaude at (757) 543-3029
OPTI News - Norfolk
Yacht and Country Club has been chosen by United States Optimist Dinghy
Association (USODA) to host the 2005 Opti National Championship Regatta.
This is the second time in 5 years (1999 Opti Nats where hosted
by Hampton YC at Strawberry Banks) this prestigious event has come to the
southern Chesapeake Bay. Kudos to the NY&CC team for
taking up the challenge.
Sailing Rules
Update: ISAF has published (web) their version of the new
(effective Jan 2005) rules of racing, so that national organizations,
US SAILING for us, can begin to write their prescriptions. Expectations
are that all will be ready for the January 2005 date.
Race for the GUV's CUP
- the 40th Virginia Governor's Cup Regatta - August 7-8, 2004.
In a nutshell, here's the nitty-gritty: Albacore, Hampton One
Design, Laser, Mobjack, Moth, Buccaneer, Skipjack and PHRF classes are
invited. Ware River Yacht Club in Gloucester is the host club.
One design classes race on the Ware River and PHRF on Mobjack Bay. This is
a great event - food, social, racing, racing, racing. For general
information contact: Bob Marble at (804) 693-2932 and check out the
host club web site at www.wareriveryachtclub.com
MURPHY'S LAW: Right
now, delivery strategies are on everyone's mind -
leave for Screwpile in time to catch the bubble, stop over or sail straight
through, etc. One skipper, who cannot go to Screwpile this year,
but is staying in Hampton Roads and doing the Little Bay Challenge, has his
float plan in place already: leave Hampton the day before the race, stop
over at Ft Wool (adjacent to the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel) and catch the next
day early morning flood into Willoughby Bay. Racing - ya gotta love
it! Living to race, racing to live. Murphy the Racing Beagle,
the sailing spirit in us all
On the way to Screwpile
Lighthouse Challenge, so... no SBRNYCU Monday, July 19th. Look for
issue #209, Monday, July 26, 2004.
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