# 307 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday July 31, 2006 11:11AM
DOUBLE-BARREL WEEKEND REGATTAS FOR
ONE-DESIGNERS: Spend some quality time at two special events
!
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.
And, after you do the Gov's Cup regatta, get the
boat on the trailer, hitch up, and run just up the road a piece to
the....
FBYC 67th ANNUAL ONE-DESIGN REGATTA:
Saturday-Sunday, August 12-13, at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. Classes
are 420, Albacore, Hampton One Design, Flying Scot, Front Runner, Laser, Laser
Radial, Mobjack and Optimist. Registration is Friday, August 12.
For info contact Allan Heyward at (804) 747-4500. This
Fishing Bay Yacht Club event is a must do regatta for small boat racers.
The location so close to the site of the Governor's Cup makes the two weekends a
special summer happening.
AUGUST is hot... what better time for southern
Bay racers to SAIL HOT!!
NOT Smith Point Race was
not a typical NSP, as all 39 boats finished in moderate
breezes with time to spare. This summertime favorite more often than
not, according to local lore, ends up in a drifter, followed by a malicious
thunder boomer on the way back to the dock, well after the time limit has
expired. Not so yesterday. Chessie offered up a 9 to 12 knot breeze
just in time for the early morning (0900) start of the lower Bay fixed marks
race. Christian Schaumloffel and the crew
of his Hobie 33, Mirage, corrected to first in the large PHRF A
fleet (15 boats). Dave McConaughy, won PHRF B in his
J/30, White Boat, and Ben Cuker, Callinectes,
Cal 30-3, led PHRF C. In the 10 boat PHRF Non-Spin fleet, Jake
Brodersen, Midnight Mistress, C&C 35, took first and
continued his Screwpile winning ways. RESULTS: PHRF A (15
boats): 1.Mirage, Hobie 33, Christian
Schaumloffel; 2.Sea Star, J36, Bumps and David
Eberwine; 3.Namesake, Olson 30, Craig
Olsen. PHRF B ( 8 boats): 1.White
Boat, J30, Dave McConaughy; 2.Virginia H,
Soverel 30, Andy Armstrong; 3.PF Flyer, Pearson Flyer,
Larry Preddy. PHRF C (6 boats):
1.Callinectes, Columbia 30-3, Ben Cuker;
2.Midmorning Buzz, J/24, David Taylor;
3.Incentive, O'Day 27, Louie Lewis. PHRF
Non-Spin (10 boats): 1.Midnight Mistress, C&C 35,
Jake Brodersen; 2.Faith, Seahorse 34,
Jerry Lotz; 3.Wiki-Wiki, Pearson 26,
Rodney Paice. PRO: John McCarthy; Official Scorer:
Dick Boykin. NOTE: The next CCV event is the CCV
Founders Race, Sunday, August 13.
Stand-in skipper on Sea Star, Bumps
and David Eberwine's J/36, for the CCV Not Smith Point Race yesterday was
Brian McCauley, who, up until a few years ago, used to
drive his own blue hull hottie, Conspiracy, in PHRF A.
Polar Express, the J105 formerly owned and
raced by Pam Burdett, has gone North to its new owner in
Annapolis. Pam, after having sail tested an Esse 850, has purchase one and
expects to take delivery in September. Look for the 28 footer that looks
like an "America's Cup boat", but can be sailed by 3 people. Pam says
during the sail test " 2 of us handled her with chute up in 20
knots!"
Special SBRNYCU SORI (Source of Reliable Info)
on the schooner VIRGINIA, retired
Virginia Pilot Capt. Bill Johnson, reports that
Friday a heavy squall messed with our beloved Virginia, causing some
damage to her foregaff and the jib clew to fail.
This morning former ODU champion sailor, Anna
Tunnicliff, is at Santa Monica Bay, tied for 1st place after two races
at the 2006 Laser Radial Worlds. Anna is currently ranked
2nd in the world. This championship event will run for 6 days. Keep
your fingers and toes crossed for Anna.
FLOAT YOUR BOAT THIS COMING
WEEKEND:
2006 LITTLE CREEK REGATTA -
August 5 (Saturday). This is a non-sanctioned event sponsored by
BBSA, the proceeds of which are donated to support of St. Judes Children's
Research Hospital. The race is open to spinnaker, non-spinnaker
(single headsail only), and cruising classes along with cruising catamaran,
performance multihull, and beach cat classes. There is a mandatory
skippers meeting at 1930 hours, Friday, August 4, at Bay Point Marina on Little
Creek in Norfolk. Note: Deadline for entries is August
1. For info contact Bill Mellen or Mary Moore at (757)
362-4819. "Sailing for a Cure"
HOSPICE REGATTA XII - August 6
(Sunday). This is a CBYRA sanctioned event, sponsored by
HYC. The overall winner of this event is eligible to represent the
Hampton Roads area in the National Hospice Regatta Invitational Championship
in spring of 2007. The proceeds from this race are donated to Hospice
Regatta of Greater Hampton Roads. There are starts for all PHRF
classes as well as for a special Hospice (Cruising) Class. Hospice class
entries are due August 2 (to allow for time to assign special Hospice ratings);
PHRF class entries are due before the race committee boat leaves the dock
(approximately 0900 on race day). For information contact Glenn Giles
at (757) 851-9690. "The Challenge of Sailing for
Others"
2007 DATES CARVED IN STONE: Events
of special interest to southern Bay racers have announced dates for next
year. Go ahead and write these on your calendar:
January 15 - 19, 2007 Key West Race
Week
March 8 - 11,
2007 Miami Race
Week
June 1 - 3,
2007 SOUTHERN
BAY RACE WEEK (Opening Night party and
registration - Thursday, May 31)
If you have ever wanted to just "put to sea" here's a
nice way to go - join the crew of the schooner
Virginia. There are currently opportunities for
crew positions of mate, deckhands, and engineer (thru December 2006).
Applications also are being accepted for the Spring 2007 crew (deckhands, mates,
cooks, and engineers). Call (757) 627-7400 or mail your resume to
Virginia Marine Heritage Foundation, 5000 World Trade Center, Norfolk, VA
23510.
By the way, speaking of HOSPICE
REGATTAS (see SBRNYCU #306) available to southern Bay
racers, there is yet another: The 4th Annual Pamlico Cup Hospice
Regatta is set for October 13-15 in Bath, North Carolina. Southern Bay
racer, Chuck Monsees, has won the Pamlico Cup twice in his J29
Rockette. And, Pete Hunter,
Wairere, and Lloyd Griffin, Cash
Flow, both have a 2nd place finish in this event.
MURPHY'S LAW: Yrs
Truly, The Murphster, like a lot of southern Bay racers, knows all
about the schooner Virginia, having followed her construction every
step of the way and put a paw print on her innards when she was a mere
outline of her current self. If I were to hire on as ship's
Sailing Dawg and Racing Advisor, I would have to have as a condition of my
contract a hand, ooops - paw, in the selection of the cook!
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us
all.
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