# 305 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Wednesday July 19, 2006 12:25PM

Posted Late!

Flying Scots Get Slammed at Marblehead 2006 North American Championships:  Late Tuesday afternoon of what was to be a week long regatta, Mother Nature threw a major hissy-fit,  in the form of a micro-burst tornado, at host Corinthian Yacht Club and Marblehead (Massachusetts) Harbor.   Boats were flipped, rigs mangled, and docks tortured.  As far as the Rappahannock River area contingent, damages ran the gambit from "not too bad"  to  "a total mess".  Luckily  the communication from the shore support people to the RC folks on the water was excellent and when the damaging cell (a micro-burst tornado)  popped up on the weather radar, the racers were sent / towed in.  All the boats were either on the moorings or at the floating docks and the racers were in the clubhouse,  when the sheets of rain, hail, and tree toppling wind scored a direct hit.  The regatta was aborted and the clean up began the following morning.  Kudos to CYC and neighboring Eastern YC and Boston YC for working 24/7 to get  the racers upright and headed home.  Expectations are that it will be around two weeks before CYC is again operational for its members.  Southern Bay folks at the scene of the micro-burst tornado were racers Len and Josh Guenther, John Hubbard with crew Mike and Amy Miller, and, Ric and Sharon Bauer.  Also there was John McCarthy, PRO for the 2007  event  which will be hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club.   Ric and Sharon, whose boat sustained significant, but fixable, damage, summed  it up:  "We look forward to a great and less eventful regatta next year!"
 SCREWPILE - Day 1 Update:  Plenty of wind and plenty of action  Sunday at Solomons.  Racers had wind piping around 18 knots in the morning for Race 1 and breezes stayed pretty much in the low teens until the latter part of Race 3 when it began to drop out, getting in the 5-6 knots range at the end of the day.  After 3 races, a number of southern Bay boats are at or near the top of their fleets:  In PHRF 1, Sledd Shelhorse's Meridian 2 and Sanford Richardson's Kahuna are tied for 2nd, each with 9 points.  The first place boat in that fleet, Ben Corson's Narrow Escape has three bullets. Lloyd Griffin's Cash Flow is in 3rd place in PHRF 2, 4 points ahead of the next boat.  In PHRF 4, Bumps and David Eberwine are leading the pack in Sea Star, with 3 bullets. Phil Briggs and the Feather team are in 3rd place in the same fleet. In the J/30 Fleet, Rusty Burshell, Cool Change,  is leading the 6 boat one-design class with 2 bullets and a 2nd for the day.  And, in PHRF Non-Spin, Jake Brodersen's Midnight Mistress is in 2nd place after 3 races, while Tom Peddy, Impulse, and Robert DeJong, Temptress, are tied for 5th.  Two more days of racing yet to come - wish all our southern Bay boats good breezes, smart tactics and, of course, a little bit of luck! 
 
LITTLE BAY CHALLENGE:  The 14th Annual Little Bay Challenge took place Saturday in typical mid-summer light air, in Norfolk's Little Bay (aka Willoughby Bay).  When all was said and done, the Hampton Yacht Club boats came out on top in the single-headsail-only team competition scoring.  Local Hampton Roads clubs are scored based on a low-scoring tally (think cross-country scoring) of their member boats competing in the regatta.  Broad Bay Sailing Association's (BBSA) Willoughby Racers finished 2nd and Old Point Comfort Yacht Club's boats took 3rd as a team.   Individual awards were presented in each of the 5 fleets; the winners of those fleets were:  Fleet 1 (8 boats racing):  Jim Williams/Will Roberts, Treaty of Ghent ;  Fleet 2 (10 boats racing): Andy Armstrong, Virginia H;   Fleet 3 (11 boats racing): Dave Bettis, Boo Nasty;   Fleet 4 (9 boats racing): Justin Morris, The Hunter;   Fleet 5 (8 boats racing) Jeff Rogers, Halaha.  BBSA and Portsmouth Boat Club are the co-sponsors of this non-sanctioned event.
 
 
Frank Stewart's RESURGENCE Finished 1st in Class in the Newport to Bermuda:  Just in case you missed the final results of the Newport to Bermuda Race - Resurgence, Frank Stewart's Beneteau First 405, with her all-Norfolk Yacht & Country Club crew, won her class of  24 competitors in this prestigious event.  The NY&CC team brought home the Argentine Trophy for best corrected time in Class 14 (Cruiser Division).  Conrad Hall, of NY&CC,  sailed his Shearwater, Morris 40, to 3rd in the 11 boat Class 13, also in the Cruiser Division.  In the St. David's Lighthouse Division,  Pat Patterson (HYC) and the Orion team brought the beautiful Taylor 41 in 5th of 22 boats in Class 3 and Larry Cohen (FBYC) and his crew finished 4th in the 25 boat Class 7.   Kudos to all 4 entries who represented the southern Bay so very, very well.
 
When asked about his attendance at the Little Bay Challenge, racer George Trieber said, "When we were considering whether to enter or not, we thought,  Little Bay Challenge - been there and done that... and it was fun - let's do it again!"  There were 45 other skippers and crew that agreed with George.  Event organizer Scott Almond said that the turnout was the best  in the most recent  four or five  years.
 
Rumor has it that a recently gone boatless skipper in the southern Bay PHRF A fleet is considering an Esse 850 to bring to the game.  Consideration has reached the point of scheduling a test sail of the 28 footer in Zurich.
 
True Corinthian Spirit:  Don Wade, skipper of Tom Cat sailing out of Portsmouth Boat Club, almost missed a mandatory skippers meeting Saturday because he towed a fellow racer (whose engine was not up to the task) the length of the Elizabeth River to Little Bay. 
 
NOT Smith Point Race, Sunday, July 30:  This is a mid-summer favorite for southern Bay racers.  The intent is to stage a middle distance race around southern Bay race marks.  It is part of the CCV High Point race program and counts in the CBYRA high point tally too. For info contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.   OPEN TO ALL.  Starts for all PHRF classes. First warning set for 0900.  Must have a valid PHRF rating certificate, including 4P Equipment and Accommodations category.  Deadline for entries is 1300 hours, Saturday, July 29.  Traditional CCV social (free hot dogs, soda, and brewskies) and awards presentation following the race.  The starting area is in the Bay off Buckroe.  [NOTE:  Those with 2006 CCV Racing Memberships are entered automatically and fees pre-paid.]
 
Dixon Wilde sailed his C&C 99 Kingfisher in the PHRF A class at the Southern Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta and finished 4th overall in his class with  finishes of  4-3-3  in three of the four races (did not sail in fourth and final race.)  Looks like Dixon's plan to break-in to the Hampton Roads fleet in non-spin and then move on up is coming together well.
 
Richard B. Johnston Memorial Regatta - Saturday, July 22, hosted by Broad Bay SA at the ODU Sailing Center.  Open to any small boats.  Fleets with less than 3 participants will be accommodated by an open class scored under the Portsmouth handicap rating system.  For info contact Jerry Pattenaude at (757) 543-3029.  Skippers meeting at 0930, first warning at 1100.
 
Early Entry Price Break Deadline is THIS Friday, July 21,  to  SAVE $10 off entry fees for 42nd ANNUAL VIRGINIA GOVERNOR'S CUP ONE DESIGN  REGATTA,   Saturday - Sunday, August 5-6, at Ware River Yacht Club (Gloucester, VA).  Expect Albacore, Hampton One Design, Mobjack, Laser and other classes that apply with a minimum of 5 boats.  Usually junior classes for Laser and 420 make at this traditionally great regatta.  Regatta Chairman is Clayton James (757) 952-1815.  For registration and/or general information contact Rick Klein at (804) 693-5629.
 
Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta:  Fishing Bay YC and York River YC pulled together to support this event in its first time as a 2-day  ("big boat") regatta.  A total of 75 boats entered the charity-driven event that offered CBYRA sanctioned racing for PHRF racers along with cruising class and special class divisions.  PHRF A (8 boats racing): 1.Garth Hitchens, First 10r; 2.Leroi Lissenden, Voodoo Chile; 3.Jim Mitchner, Double Eagle.   PHRF B and C (12 boats racing): 1.Jerry Latell, Old School; 2.Mac Butler, Jaguar; 3.Allan Heyward, La Maga.   PHRF Non-Spin (7 boats racing): 1.Robert DeJong, Temptress; 2.Smith, Checko; 3.Chris Schott, Kyknos.  Special Divisions Winners:  Classic Full Keel - Frank Murphy, Touch of Gray;  Cruising Class - Schott, Obsession;  Multihull - Doug Lyle, Triday.   PRO: David Lee
 
MURPHY'S LAW:  The Wizard of Oz and Mother Nature need to stay in Kansas!  Neither Flying Scots nor floating docks are made to be tossed 10 feet in the air like several at Marblehead were last Tuesday.  I, Your Racing Beagle, for one, being endowed with perfectly designed and aerodynamically sound, championship level beagle ears,  would probably have ended up near Cape Horn.  I'll leave that kind of travel to The Gnome and Toto!   /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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