#266 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Tuesday September 20, 2005 12:58PM

Chris Rouzie (Front Runner), John Hubbard (Flying Scot), Dan Herlihy (Laser) and Jerry Deservine (Mobjack), were all fleet winners yesterday at Fishing Bay YC Fall Series Day 2.
 
Remember the US SAILING Match Racing Championship Quarterfinals  sailed off Hampton Flats back in May?  HYC hosted the event and J/24 Fleet 71 provided the boats.  The winner, Marie Klok Crump, sailing with her husband Will Crump (Fishing Bay YC) and her brother Thomas Klok, has won her way to the National Finals.  That team will be competing this Wednesday through Saturday for the US Match Racing Championship for the Prince of Wales Trophy.  Karl Ziegler is the defending champion and has won his way back to the Championship round this year.  The winner this week will represent the United States in the Nations Cup Regatta in the U.S. Virgin Islands.   All champions come from somewhere -  no reason more can't come from the southern Bay!
 
SBRNYCU Rules Quiz:  If you bonk a mark while rounding, how can you exonerate yourself?
 
CCV FALL SERIES RACE # 1 - An Old Salt once said, "A lot of life happens when you just show up."  Case in point:  if you were on one of the 33 PHRF boats or the Hampton One Designs that showed up yesterday to sail in Hampton Roads, you enjoyed one of the best sailing days of the season.  The weather guys missed the call; they had it at 0-6 knots going to the dreaded light and variable.  The racers who went racing, regardless of the weather predictions, were treated to 10-12 knots out of the NE on flat water with perfect temperatures.  RESULTS:  PHRF A  - 1.Sledd Shelhorse, Meridian, Taylor 40;  2.Dave Eberwine, Sea Star, J/36; 3.Phil Briggs, Feather, J/36.  PHRF B - 1.Rusty Burshell, Cool Change, J/30; 2.Archer/Beahr, Bad Habit, Pearson Flyer; 3.Mike Austin, Movin' On, Bene F8.  PHRF C - 1.Ben Cuker, Callinectes, Cal 30.3; 2.John Blais, Stardancer, Pearson 30; 3.Alan Bomar, roundabout, J/24.  PHRF Non-Spin - 1.Andy Armstrong, Virginia H, Soverel 30; 2.Bill Peach, Surprise, Alerion Express 28; 3.Jim Williams, Checks in the Mail, Catalina 38.  PRO: John McCarthy; Official Scorer: Dick Boykin; Mark Boats: Glenn Giles, Bill Gibbings.
 
CCV FALL SERIES RACE # 2 - Sunday, September 25, Hampton Roads Harbor, First warning at 1100 hours, must have valid current PHRF Rating including Equipment Category 4P.  CCV Racing Members
are entered already;  all others must submit entry and fees no later than 1300 hours the day prior to the race.   For info contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225. Remember what The Old Salt said.
 
YIKES!  No. No. No.  It's US Merchant Marine Academy, not Maritime, as erroneously printed in issue #265 last week!  And, it's a darned good school too.  Go, Mariners!
 
The "friendly insurgents" at yesterday's CCV Fall Series race were the Impulse crew (Tom Peddy, Catalina 34) sporting their fancy gifts that Tom brought back from his recent Bahrain assignment.  The crew look very chic in their red and white checked with lace trim Arab head gear streaming in the wind.
 
Trevor Pardee and crew Rachel Blake won the 2005 Serio Hampton One Design Regatta yesterday.  Leigh Morgan and Dave Chapman finished 2nd.
 
Deadline for Entries for 2005 Neptune's Atlantic Regatta is Saturday, September 24th. Call Jim Williams at (757) 623-2628 for info.  CALL NOW!  The NAR is set for Saturday, October 1.
 
15th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA - Sep 30, Oct 1, and Oct 2.  This is a very special, well run, first class regatta hosted by Yankee Point Marina and Yankee Point Yacht Club.  The event usually draws more than 100 boats and this year looks to be no different.  The regatta is open to all classic design (the design is at least 25 years old, e.g. Catalina 30s, J/24s, and Flying Scots have reached that milestone) sailboats and boats made of wood at least 18 feet long.  Racing takes place Saturday and Sunday on the Rappahannock River.  The overall winner of the event qualifies for the National Hospice Regatta held in Annapolis in the Spring of 2006.  The social events are top notch and there are things for spectators and  race team groupies too. Go on line at www.hospiceturkeyshootregetta.com  for detailed info and entry procedures.  There is no better time of year to be sailing on the Chesapeake and this regatta is a celebration of just that!
 
Do NOT plan on going to the Strictly Sail Philadelphia this coming January - Sail America has moved the show back one year to January 18-21, 2007.  This is the show that used to be held in Atlantic City as Sail Expo.
 
BIG OUCH ! for the schooner Pride of Baltimore II - She lost her rig while sailing in a squall off France a week ago.  Our "schooner info-man", Captain Bill Johnson of Irvington, Virginia,  reported that repair folks are saying it will take at least a couple of months to fix The Pride.
 
 
OCTOBER RACERS' CALENDAR:  A bundle of racing opportunities!
Sep 30 - Oct 2      15th Annual Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta     www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com 
October 1     Saturday     BBSA Neptune's Atlantic Regatta     Jim Williams, (757) 623-2628
October 2     Sunday      FBYC Fall Series Race #2
October 2     Sunday       HYC Singlehand Race     Kathy Brady, (757) 723-3244
October 6 - 10               Annapolis Sailboat Show  (410) 267-6711
October 8     Saturday    RRYC Fall Regatta    Tom Norris,  ((804) 435-2882
Oct 8 - 9       Sat - Sun   FBYC  Indian Summer Regatta (dinghy OD)  Allan Heyward  (804) 282-1760
October 9     Sunday      CCV  Fall Series  Races # 3 and # 4     John McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Oct 13 - 14                    Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race  (757) 480-4402
October 14 - 16              FBYC J/29 Invitational  Case Whittemore, (804) 285-4632
October 15    Saturday    FBYC Fall Series  Race #3
Oct 16          Sunday      RRYC FS Fleet 185  Fall Series Day #3  Tom Richardson, (804) 438-5122
October 20    Thursday    Deadline for Early Bird Reservations of CCV Awards Party (Nov 11)
October 22    Saturday    OPCYC 'Round the Lights Race     Jeff Rogers, (757) 617-0947
Oct 22 - 23                     Rappahannock Cup Race  YPYC, (804) 462-7018
October 22    Saturday    FBYC Fall Series Race #4
October 23    Sunday      J/24 Fleet 71 Fall Regatta    Alan Bomar, 810-4518
October 27-30                USSAILING Lloyd Phoenix Offshore Championships
October 30    Sunday      HYC Frostbite Series Race #1     Dick Boykin, (757) 890-0093
 
SBRNYCU Rules Quiz Answer:  Rule 31.2 says that a boat that has hit a mark may immediately get well clear of all other boats and do a penalty turn consisting of one tack and one jibe.  NOTE 1: The boat commits another foul if any other boat is forced to change course to avoid her while she is doing her turn.  NOTE 2: Re-rounding the mark went out with "mast abeam".
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  OK - there are steps racers can or must take whenever they hit a mark.  But, what about this situation?  It seems to happen most often when the current is running particularly strong, you have spend an inordinate amount of time fighting foul current to the mark, and just as you hear that terrible sucking - gurgling sound, whamm-o, the mark hauls off and hits you!  The Murphster says consider hauling out the flare gun and deflating that sucker!  /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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