# 291 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday March 27, 2006 03:08PM
SUNDAY, APRIL 2 - DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
begins at 2AM - Spring ahead - set your clocks ahead one hour. You
lose one hour of sleep, but you gain one hour of daylight time to sail
!
2006 CCV RACING CLINIC and Racing Guide
Distribution: April 4, Tuesday, 6:30 pm, at The Mariners' Museum (Newport
News, Virginia). OPEN TO ALL and FREE. This is one
pre-season gathering southern Bay racers, skippers, crews, friends, family, and
curious sailors do not want to miss. John McCarthy, PRO for the CCV season
long, 15 race High Point Series, will hit the key points of the 2006 Sailing
Instruction from the racers' perspective . The Sailing Instructions,
which CCV as well as most southern Bay clubs use as the basis for their
racing events, are contained in the 2006 CCV Racing Guide, a must have
publication that is included with every CCV Membership and will be
distributed at this event.
Directions: Traveling in either direction on I-64,
take EXIT 258A (Rt 17 South / J. Clyde Morris Blvd) - On J. CLYDE
MORRIS / RT 17 SOUTH you will eventually pass Riverside Hospital
on the left - continue straight ahead through the
intersection of Warwick Boulevard and watch for The Mariners' Museum sign
that indicates a left turn to the Museum grounds. When you
get to the Museum building, bear right to the parking area and follow your
instincts and your fellow racers ( seemingly civilized folks wearing boat shoes
) to the CCV gathering. Let's get ready to
rumbl-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-le!
Get Ready to Dance to This Tune ! SOUTHERN
BAY RACE WEEK for the Black Seal Cup ( June 2-4, 2006) announces that
TowneBank Band (TBB) is the featured band for
the Saturday night (June 3) party. This is a favorite band around the
Bay area and racers danced themselves silly to TBB at last year's
event. Ya'll come on - 6 great races and 3 great parties!
SBRNYCU Rules Quiz: At the start,
the bowman is looking around the jib and his/her head is over the line at the
gun. Is the boat OCS? (Answer - further in this issue).
Who said that? "The sail, the play of its
pulse so like our own lives; so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when
it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective."
Henry David Thoreau said that. SAIL MAGAZINE (April
issue) ran the quote as one of Tammy Ruggles' collection of "salty
quotes".
Talk about a package! There's a awfully special one
on its way from Florida to John Ritger this morning.
John's son Ben, has bundled up his J/30 Blew J, and is
sending it up to John who lives in Virginia Beach and sails in the Southern
Chesapeake. The father-sons team of John, Ben and Lynn
Ritger plan to campaign Blew J in the southern
Bay this summer. John says the J/30 should arrive by truck
tomorrow. Meanwhile BCNU stands race ready and looking for
a new home. John has put his Morgan 27 (BCNU) on the market in
anticipation of Blew J's arrival.
Good Habits Being Formed: Bob Archer
and Chris Beahr's Pearson Flyer, Bad Habit team got
in an early pre-season practice yesterday in frigid conditions.
They lasted about an hour on the Bay, but got enough done to shake off some rust
(before they all turned to ice).
More SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK Early Bird
Entries: Seven more southern Bay boats are Early
Birds in SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK for the Black Seal
Cup: Rick Sills'
(Hampton) Windblown, Irwin
33; Jeff Rogers' (Hampton) Halaha,
Columbia 28-2; Jake Brodersen's (Newport News)
Midnight Mistress, C&C 35; Peter
Morrison's (Herndon), Liberty, J/109; J. Robert
DeJong's (Glen Allen), Temptress, Hunter 356;
Marty Steffens' (Hampton), Riptide, Colgate 26; and
Richard Payne's (Hampton) Flying Colors, J/105, are
all taking advantage of the Early Bird incentive - 10 free Regatta drink
tickets. Enter now before the early bird incentive deadline of April
15. Info: contact event organizer Leigh Morgan at (757)
726-9649 or check on the web site at www.blacksealcup.com
Ya'll come! 6 great races and 3 great parties!
Mark this date: April 15 - The SpinSheet
Magazine Crew Listing Party-SOUTH at Marker 20, downtown
Hampton. The crew - boat-skipper matching networking social goes from 6-8
PM. Marker 20 also plans to include a ceremonial sock burning. This
event is open to all sailors and is designed to get folks acquainted and
involved in the sport. If you have a boat anywhere in the southern Bay and
are looking for folks interested in crewing, here's and opportunity. If
you are a crewbie or wannabe crewbie, here's a chance to meet and sign on with a
skipper. Get on board the 2006 sizzling summer sailing season!
Rules Quiz Answer: Yes, OCS. Rule 29.1
tells us that a boat is OCS (On the Course Side) if, at the starting signal, any
part of her hull, crew, or equipment is on the course side of the starting
line. Penalty: Return to the pre-start side of
the line and try again. Warning - you have no rights once you turn back to
"clear". And, oh yes - Flog the bowman.
MURPHY'S LAW: The mascots
for the NCAA Final Four teams are the George Mason U. Patriot , the LSU Tiger,
the UCLA Bruin, and the Florida Gator. I admit my interest in watching has
waned, now that the UCONN Husky is no longer on the scene. Also,
my interest faded somewhat earlier when I realized that Uga,
the University of Georgia bulldog, my personal favorite, was not going to be
available for viewing. It really is time to go racing.
/S/ Murphy the Racing
Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.