#239 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday March 7, 2005 11:45PM

Don't be caught with your PHRF cert down!  You must have a valid 2005 PHRF rating certificate to race in sanctioned (as well as many other) events.  Check the expiration date on any special or provisional rating you may have obtained late in the 2004 season; chances are it will not cover you for the 2005 season.
 
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK 2005:  The organizing committee is hard at work on this year's rendition of this great event set for June 3-4-5.  2005 Event Chairman Leigh Morgan says the "big boat" fleet can expect the venues to remain in the same locations as last year - the PHRF A, B and C Spinnaker fleets and One-Design classes will race off Ocean View (Willoughby Bank), and the PHRF Non-Spinnaker and Cruising classes will sail off the Buckroe Beach area.  
 
Acura Miami Race Week 2005 opens this coming Thursday, March 10.  And, there will be some southern Bay homies there.  Frank Silver along with Ken Saylor, will have the JS9000, A Lil 'Tipsy, on the line. Reliable sources say Fred Sage will be on a Palm Beach J/24, Pick Up Styx, and Les Crane, a southern Bay expatriate who grew up in Hampton, will be on one of the Etchells, John Deere, from Slocum, RI.  Early registrants from the Tarheel State include J/105 Rum at Six (Harris/Baggett/Brown - Beaufort), another Etchells, USA 1299 (White/Fulp - Oriental), and J/80 Sweet Baby J (Team Robin - Beaufort).  And, sailing out of Richmond, VA, there is Melges 24 Carloan.com (Travis Weisleder).  Go get'em!
 
Last Reminder:  Fishing Bay Yacht Club is hosting this coming Saturday, March 12,  in RICHMOND,  two separate half-day seminars, "Racing Rules Made Easy"  and "Race Management Techniques" both presentations by John McCarthy.   The Racing Rules seminar will be the morning session followed by the Race Management session after lunch.  The $15 registration fee includes lunch and break refreshments.  Contact Sharon Bauer at (804) 769-4293 or  email sharon.bauer@wachovia.com   Registration is available on line at   www.fbyc.net  The seminars (either or both) are OPEN TO ALL. 
 
"Out of the Blocks" Dates: Try this - put 25 marbles in a glass jar,  one for each day before the beginning of "big boat" racing on the southern Bay. Take one marble out each morning. YIKES!  Here are the "who is starting when" dates:
    April 2    Saturday       OPCYC Saturday Races
    April 6    Wednesday   HYC Wednesday Night Races
    April 10  Sunday         CCV Tune Up Races
    April 13  Wednesday   BBSA Little Creek Wednesday Night Races
    April 14  Thursday       BBSA Willoughby Racers Thursday Night Races
    April 20  Wednesday   YRYC Wednesday Night Races
    April 23  Saturday       FBYC Opening Day Races
    April 30  Saturday       RRYC Spring Regatta 1
    May 6    Friday           PBC Barnacle Friday Night Races
    May 7    Saturday       YPYC Spring Regatta
   
Multihull-ers take note of a new addition to TMM's International Small Craft Center: It's a Windrider 16.  It is a multicolored, rotomolded polyethylene and aluminum trimaran designed by Jim Brown of Foster, Virginia. It was built at the Confluence Watersports factory near High Point, North Carolina.
 
 On Friday, March 25, Gary Jobson to speak at the University of Richmond.  His 7:00pm talk will be in the Moot Courtroom of the T.C. Williams School of Law. If you have ever enjoyed one of Gary Jobson's appearances, you know that his sailing topics know no boundaries.  No matter how many others attend, you will feel like he is a friend stopping by your digs for a friendly chat about sailing.   For tickets ( and price info) call the Leukemia Society in Richmond, (804) 627-0400, ext 15, or (800) 766-0797.  All proceeds will benefit the Leukemia Society. 
 
PRINCE OF WALES MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIP INFO:  Those interested should go to the US SAILING website at www.ussailing.org now for the latest official info.  The NOR for the area ABC South Quarter Finals (hosted by Hampton Yacht Club in May 21-22) as well as the other two ABC area Quarter Final events (Newport, RI, and Larchmont, NY) and the Semi Finals (Annapolis) is posted.  This is the official NOR which reflects final decisions on team numbers, etc. at each event.  Also, the deadline for teams who wish to apply for selection to compete is  April 2.    If you have questions or concerns contact matchracing@ussailing.net   If you want to be considered for an invitation to race in this event, you must submit a team resume. 
 
This past weekend, The Mariners' Museum, presented a first class, weekend long program recognizing the anniversary of the Civil War naval Battle of Hampton Roads.  This coming Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 8th and 9th, mark the actual anniversary (1862) of the appearance of the ironclads, the USS Monitor and the Merrimack (CSS Virginia) in Hampton Roads.  They did battle right where today most southern Bay racers see action of a different nature under the watchful eyes of some even grander "ironclads" stationed at the Norfolk Naval Station.  
 
CCV and HYC will co-sponsor their annual Race Management Workshop on Saturday, April 2, at Hampton Yacht Club.   Check-in is at 8:30am and the workshop runs from 9:00am to 1:00pm.  This workshop does not confer USSA race officer certification, but is an excellent presentation for anyone interested in race management and race committee work.  John McCarthy will lead the workshop along with Dick Boykin and Glenn Giles.  Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.  Pre- register by calling (757) 850-4225.  The workshop is FREE and OPEN TO ALL.  (Pre-registered participants are guaranteed the 2005 CCV Race Management Handbook at check-in.)
 
Quotable Quotes: "The real reasons George Washington stood [in the bow of the boat while crossing the Delaware] were: one, the thwarts were wet, [and] two, someone might have handed him an oar."  From Bill Johnson, up on the Rivah.
 
Land Cruise:  The organizers of the Cape Charles Race (July 23-24) have organized a pre-season land cruise  (bus trip) on Saturday, March 12, to Bay Creek in Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore for racers who may be interested in the event. Bus departs from Norfolk's Bay Point Marina (on Little Creek) at 6:00PM this coming Saturday and returns around 11:30PM.  Dinner, drinks, dance (live music). For info and ressies call (757) 286-7500.
 
The best suggestion yet for Dave Taylor's J/24, which he has named  @#$%&!!!, comes from a SBRNYCU reader who suggest  Punctuation  as a  " for use in polite circles " name.  Otherwise, That  @#$%&!!!  Boat, will do!
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  Seeing that list of all the starting dates for racing activity in the southern Bay, along with the marble jar idea, brings to mind this warning for us racers:   Better get that  fine racing platform ready to go before you lose all your marbles!   /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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