#236 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday February 14, 2005 09:34AM
TODAY IS VALENTINES
DAY! If you have not already, call the florist and hope he or she
will have sympathy for a racer whose brain simply froze up due to lack of use
during the off season!
When the Rolex Trans
Atlantic Race starts May 21st from Sandy Hook, there will be at
least 2 southern Bay homies on board one of the entries. Pat
Patterson, owner/skipper of Orion and Jim
Rogers, owner/skipper of Firebrand , will be on
the Stad Amsterdam, the Netherlands sail training vessel. The race
finishes in Cowes and the goal is to beat the Schooner Atlantic's race
record. Pat says that as of now, there are about 20 entries.
Plans are for Gary Jobson and a film crew to be along
too. Now, there's a happening!
This coming Friday, racing
at the St. Pete NOOD begins (Feb 18-20). Southern Bay boats,
Mirage, Christian Schaumloffel's Hobie 33, will be
there in the 8 boat Hobie 33 fleet and Dennis Hannick's Tripp
26, Radio Flyer, will be on the line for his class. This will be
the Mirage gang's first action since winning first overall in the Fort
Lauderdale to Key West Race in January.
When you fill out your
CCV Racing Membership application, you have to provide
information regarding which PHRF fleet you plan to race in.
In case you missed it, here are the NEW for 2005 (spinnaker) FLEET
SPLITS for Region 4 South: PHRF A - Up to
115; PHRF B - 116 to 166; PHRF C - 167 and up.
Yankee Point Yacht
Club packed 50-some folks into their clubhouse at Merry Point to hear a
SBRNYCU Racing Rules Seminar presented by John McCarthy on
Saturday. YPYC members made the event an all day affair, many using
the clear, but cold afternoon (temps hovered in the high 20s) to check
out their boats before attending the evening pot-luck supper gathering.
REMINDER: US SAILING
Basic Race Management Course - On Saturday, February
26, Rappahannock River Yacht Club in Irvington will
host this important day long program for southern Bay sailors and racers
interested in learning to run races the US SAILING way. John McCarthy will
return to the Northern Neck to lead the course along with assistance from Jerry
Latell and Blaine Liner. This course is OPEN TO ALL. The $15
registration fee includes lunch and refreshments during the
breaks. Also, this course meets the course requirement for US
SAILING Club Race Officer certification; the certification test
(optional) will be given at the end of the day for those who wish to take
it. To register or for additional information, please contact Lin
McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email at mcbear@earthlink.net. REGISTER NOW
- SPACES ARE FILLING FAST!
Here's a special incentive for
doing one of the 2005 NOOD regattas. The overall winner of each NOOD
regatta will receive accommodations for a team of six to Sunsail's Club Colonna,
Antigua, for the first ever NOOD Caribbean Rendezvous.
That's January 20-27, 2006.
Reminder:
NORTH U Sail Trim Course will be presented on Saturday, March 5,
at the Richmond area location. Those interested in attending are
encouraged to check out pricing and registration information at the NORTH U
website www.northu.com
MURPHY'S
LAW: Ever on the look out for racing dogs on the southern Bay, I
perked my ears at news of a newcomer up at Yankee Point (Corrotoman /
Rappahannock River area). I hear she is a lovely 1 year old
English Setter named, appropriately so, Merry of Merry Point. When
she gets off work from her boatyard and marina duties, she meanders down
to the Merry Point (cable) ferry and makes a roundtrip voyage just
for the fun of it. /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the
sailing spirit in us all.