#241 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday March 28, 2005 10:20AM

DO NOT BE AN APRIL FOOL - Get your PHRF 2005 certificate now!  Racing starts early in April.  If you do not have your 2005 PHRF certificate, you will not be able to do a sanctioned race.  Once April arrives, all the Johnny-Come-Latelies will slow down the system.   Send in your certificate application/renewal form today.
 
Last Reminder:  On Friday, March 25, Gary Jobson will 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. 
 
Cock Island Race #18 (June 24-25) is alive and kicking (a lot of people thought that #17 would be the last) and organizers have named the music makers for the parties.  The Friday Night Rendezvous and Check-in will feature old friends to the event Bill Deal's Original Rhondels, and on Saturday night racers can enjoy Island Boy at the post race party and awards presentation.
 
Update on TowneBank HomeTowne Regatta:  This is important info, if you plan to do this CBYRA sanctioned event, June 11, 2005.  Race organizers say questions and entry forms and fees should be directed to Larry Bryant,  5048 Bay Circle, Suffolk, VA 23435,  (757) 484-4966  or email  ldbwhisper@hotmail.com   This is a change to information already published.
 
Sailing Trivia Question:  How many books has Gary Jobson written on sailing?  The not so trivial answer:  14 !
 
Speaking of racers and authors:  Allan Heyward, who races La Maga in the PHRF fleet, also has a Flying Scot named mehitabel.  mehitabel, of course is the famous cat about whom archy, a cockroach, wrote (by hopping from key to key on the typewriter) - archy and mehitabel by Don Marquis, copyright 1916. 
 
APRIL RACING CALENDAR:  April - when Spring has sprung and racing has begun!
April 2                   CCV - HYC Race Management Workshop,  pre-register at (757) 850-4225
April 2                   OPCYC Saturday races begin
April 3                  DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS
April 5                   CCV Racing Rules Clinic,  Dave McConaughy  (757) 595-3547
April 6                   HYC Wednesday Night Races begin
April 10                 CCV Tune Up Races,  John McCarthy (757) 850-4225
April 13                 BBSA/Little Creek Wednesday Nights begin
April 14                 BBSA/Willoughby Racers Thursday Nights begin
April 15-17            National Hospice Championship (Annapolis)    www.hospiceregattas.org
April 16                 HYC Spring One Design (small boats) Regatta  Tyler & Jane Moore (757) 726-2130
April 17                 CCV Spring Series Race #1,   John McCarthy  (757) 850-4225
April 17                 RRYC Flying Scot Fleet 185 Spring Series Day 1, Tom Richardson (804) 435-1181
April 20                 YRYC Wednesday Nights begin  Steve Bowen (804) 642-4746
April 23                 FBYC Opening Day, Brooks Zerkel  (804) 272-7846
April 24                 FBYC Spring Series 1, Brooks Zerkel  (804) 272-7846
April 24                 CCV Spring Series Race #2,   John McCarthy  (757) 850-4225 
April 26           Deadline for registration for CCV Learn to Race YOUR Sailboat Clinic,  (757) 727-5884
Apr 29 - May 1     Annapolis NOOD  www.sailingworld.com
April 30                 CCV Learn to Race YOUR Sailboat Clinic ,   Ben Cuker  (757) 727-5884
April 30                 FBYC One Design Spring 1, Scott Collins  (804) 282-1165
May 1                    RRYC Flying Scot Fleet 185 Spring Series Day 2,  Tom Richardson (804) 435-1181
May 1                     FBYC Spring Series 2,  Ric Bauer (804) 644-0049 
 
Recently a spinnaker PHRF class racer reported that he received top-notch support from PHRF of the Chesapeake.  He submitted his PHRF Certificate Renewal form and had the 2005 valid certificate back in his hand 4 days later.  The entire gyration was done through the US Postal Service.  Kudos to Stew Buckler, Executive Secretary of PHRF.
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  I know of archy and of mehitabel.  And, as soon as Purina makes a small enough milkbone, I intend to use it to punch out a novel on my ipod about  my sailboat racing canine friends!  Your Murphster will not  be upstaged by a cat and a bug!   /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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