#215 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Tuesday September 7, 2004 03:02PM

Mike Austin and the Movin On Crew Win at Stingray Point Regatta:  Movin On won the PHRF B fleet and the overall regatta award, the Brent Halsey Jr. Memorial Trophy, with 3 bulletsPlenty of wind favored the race course both days, including a squally moment or two during Sunday's finale.  Host club Fishing Bay YC  gave 40 skippers and crews 3 great races Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend.  RESULTS:  PHRF A (5 boats):  1.Feather, Phil Briggs; 2.Voodoo Chile, Leroi Lissenden; 3.Wavelength, Rob Whittet.  PHRF B (8 boats):  1.Movin On, Mike Austin; 2.La Maga, Allan Hayward; 3.Shenanigan, Miles Booth.  MORC (7 boats): 1.Off Like, James Jacob; 2.Check Six, John Scott; 3.Thin Ice, Skip Hope.  J/29 Class (5 boats): 1.Patriot, Case Whittemore; 2.Rockette, Chuck Monsees; 3. Titillation, Paul Andersen.  J/105 Class (5 boats): 1.Polar Express, Pam Burdett; 2.Loose Cannon, Strother Scott; 3.Corryvreckan, David Clark.  PHRF Non-Spin (10 boats): 1.Rancho Deluxe, John Rheem; 2.Temptress, John DeJong; 3.Tatiana, Charles Parrott.   PRO:  David Lee.    Stingray Point Regatta is a long time, Labor Day, southern Bay favorite and its casual and hospitable southern flavor continues to endure.
22 ANNUAL EXECUTIVE CUP SAILBOAT RACE, THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th.  This event is held in conjunction with Hampton's Bay Days Festival and in support of the Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation.  CNSF donates the funds to the CNU collegiate sailing team effort.  For info contact  John Hanna at (757) 898-5077 or Dick Boykin at (757) 890-0093.   Do it NOW!  To get you official race T-shirt, you must enter by Thursday, September 9th.  Mandatory skippers meeting is Thursday, September 9th, 7:30 pm at Hampton YC.  Starts for all PHRF classes as well as a special Cruising class start.
 
EDDIE WOLCOTT and crew CORRIE CLEMENT are 2004  HOD National Champions.  Eddie Wolcott and Corrie Clement went to the Hampton One Design Nationals, hosted by Tred Avon Yacht Club, and brought home the championship title to Norfolk Yacht and Country Club .  Second place went to Latane Montague and Dorothy Ballard, sailing for the Potomac River Sailing Association, and third to Kevin and Kennon Hanna of Hampton Yacht Club.  Completing the top 5 were two more from NY&CC: 4th - Randy Stokes, and 5th - Charlie McCoy.
 
Norfolk Yacht & CC Labor Day Race:  NY&CC offered a one day event over the Labor Day Weekend for Hampton Roads "stay at homies" and visitors.   On Saturday,  14 entries raced in the sanctioned classes and a small non-sanctioned cruising class group.  Frank Stewart was the race committee chairman.  RESULTS:  PHRF A/B (4 boats): 1..J30 090, Dave McConaughy; 2.Wave Dancer, John Hardy.  PHRF C (2 boats): 1.Stardancer, John Blais.  PHRF Non-Spin (5 boats): 1.Margarita, Harry Tenney; 2.Whisper, Larry Bryant; 3.Prevail, Mark Shaw.  Cruising (3 boats): 1.Obsession, Bill Ripley; 2.Red Star, Tom Lira.  NYCC is developing a good offering here for Hampton Roads southern Bay folks who cannot give up the entire final weekend of summer to racing.  A  fairly new event on the annual calendar, this looks like a sticker.
 
The coveted Mariners' Cup, donated by The Mariners' Museum, will be awarded this year to the winner of the 505 Mid-Atlantic Championship regatta (October 2 and 3) - a two day regatta to be sailed in conjunction with the HYC Trapeze Regatta (October 2).  For additional event info, contact Leigh Morgan at (757) 726-9640.
 
Potts Trophy Retained by HYC:  The HYC team of Feather (PHRF A - Phil Briggs), Independence (PHRF B - Graham Field), and Check 6 (MORC-John Scott) kept the Potts Trophy, a team trophy awarded at the annual Stingray Point Regatta. 
 
Hanging Chads? Fixed Drawings?  At one Labor Day regatta, inspired by the quality of the post race party givaways, a skipper tried to fix the drawing by soaking his entry slip in his rum drink before adding it to the drawing box.  His efforts were to no avail, however - the rum dissolved the print on the entry slip!
 
Kudos for service:  Larry Bryant, skipper of Whisper (PHRF NS), is serving as chairman of the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race in mid-October.
 
Up the Bay on Labor Day CBYRA Annapolis Race Week    While the folks in the southern Bay were tightening halyards and dropping chutes "very carefully" in hefty winds, the 190+ boats at ARW were fighting the drifties on opening day.  After Saturday,  it was "Katy, bar the door!", with wild and wooly wind on Sunday and prefect, moderate (12-15 knots) breezes on Monday.  There was a dearth of southern Bay boats represented on the race course, but southern Bay homies Dan Tramell and John McCarthy served on the regatta jury.  During the racing Dan served as tactician on the Naval Academy's entry, Pursuit, and  John was with the Tred Avon YC race committee for two days and the Storm Trysail team on the final day.   John Dodge, CBYRA president and event chairman, hails from down south (FBYC, Richmond) as well.  Regatta results are available at the CBYRA regatta web site  www.cbyra.org
 
OPTI-POPS and OPTI-MOMS and OPTI-GRANDS and OPTI-BOYS and GIRLS:  With the new school year beginning, don't lose sight of the Optimist  Atlantic  Coasts Championships on October 9 and 10, 2004, at Fishing Bay Yacht Club near the mouth of the Rappahannock River and Deltaville, Virginia.  Check out the FBYC regatta web site at www.fbyc.net   In the meantime, good luck at school  this year!
 
Hurricane Charley victim Admiral's Cup Regatta is combined with the Seaford Yacht Club Trans-Bay Race, Saturday, September 11th.  Contact:  Carl Early at (757) 890-2743 for entry and other info.
 
Yankee Point Yacht Club Women's Race, Saturday, September 11, 2004:  It's a round-the-buoy race to be sailed on the Rappahannock River above the high bridge at White Stone and downstream of Towels Point.   Use a CBYRA entry form, available at the CBYRA web site  www.cbyra.org    to enter.  Race Instruction is available at the Yankee Point web site  www.ypyc.org     Awards will be presented after the race at  1800, Cocktails and Men's Night Dinner. 
 
News of Southern Bay Young'uns:  Quentin Jenkins (FBYC) sailing with Bryan Stout of SSA won the 420s class at the Midget Championships hosted at Brigantine YC in late August.  This is a middle Atlantic championship for 14 and unders.
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  While checking out my racing T-shirt collection, I came across this one:  Sail naked!  It brings color to your cheeks!   Never have worn it.  Most of the time I do  sail naked and the color stays the same, brown, tan, white and furry.  I am a beagle, you know.  Living to race, racing to live.  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all
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