# 309 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday August 28, 2006 10:12AM
92 BOATS COMPETE AT FBYC 67TH ANNUAL REGATTA:
9 classes of one design dinghies made for a busy weekend at Fishing
Bay. Flying Scots (22) and Lasers (20) had the most
boats. Two classes ended with ties for first place in points. In the
Flying Scot class David Neff won the tie breaker over
Harry Carpenter by virtue of 2 first place finishes. In
the Front Runner class Lee Farinholt won in a tie breaker over
Bill Spencer. Class Winners: Albacore (9
boats) - Barney Harris; Flying Scot (22 boats)
- David Neff; Front Runner (8 boats) -
Lee Farinholt; Hampton One Design (6 boats) -
Randy Stokes; Laser (20 boats)- Dan
Herlihy; Laser Radial (7 boats) - Dan
Kowalyshyn; Mobjack (5 boats) - Len
Guenther; 420 (3 boats) - Taylor
Jenkins; Optimist (12 boats) - Alex
Jacob. PRO - Allan Heyward.
CCV FOUNDERS RACE was a full day of
sailing in the Bay off Norfolk's Ocean View. Racing began around 1100
and the final finisher cleared the line just after 1530 ( 30 minutes
before expiration of the time limit). A furious flooding current caused a
number of boats over-early trouble during the starting sequence, but most
were able to redeem themselves with a respectable finish.
RESULTS: PHRF A (11 boats): 1.Meridian 2,
Sledd Shelhorse; 2.Sea Star, Bumps and David
Eberwine; 3.Kahuna, Sanford
Richardson. PHRF B (8 boats): 1.Virginia H,
Andy Armstrong; 2.Bad Habit, Bob
Archer; 3.Cool Change, Rusty Burshell.
PHRF C (7 boats): 1.Midmorning Buzz, David
Taylor; 2.Roundabout, Alan Bomar;
3.Callinectes, Ben Cuker. PHRF Non-Spin (9
boats): 1.Margarita, Harry Tenney; 2.Midnight
Mistress, Jake Brodersen; 3.Impulse, Tom
Peddy. PRO - John McCarthy; Official Timer/Scorer
- Dick Boykin; Mark Boats - Glenn Giles, Bill
Gibbings.
JADE WINS ADMIRAL'S CUP:
Barry Campbell's Pearson 30, Jade, sailing for York
River Yacht Club, won the 2006 Admiral's Cup. This was the tri-fecta for
Jade; now she has won three of the 10 Admiral's Cup titles.
Finishing 2nd in the non-spinnaker fleet behind Jade, was Bill
Strauss' Excalibur. In the combined PHRF A/B/C
spinnaker fleet Mike Austin, Movin' On, took 1st
and Chuck Eldred, Gail Force, finished
2nd. Seaford Yacht Club and York River Yacht Club team up each year
to bring the Admiral's Cup Regatta to the York River area racers.
OLD, BUT STILL GOOD: Phil Briggs
and Ron Lewis won their divisions in the annual
Tom Brady Master's Race Saturday and Ron Lewis was
overall winner in his pale blue O'Day 27, Incentive. Ten
boats filled with seasoned citizen sailors (55 years or older) sailed the 12
mile course. The race honors its founder, Tom Brady, a long time and long
treasured member of the Hampton Roads racing community.
Malcolm Brady, Tom's son, and Malcolm's wife,
Kathy, have kept the event going in Tom's memory.
RESULTS: Division I - 1.Feather, J36, Phil
Briggs; 2.Mirage, Hobie 33, Christian
Schaumloffel; 3.Treaty of Ghent, Hobie 33, Jim
Williams. Division 2 - 1.Incentive, O'Day 27,
Ron Lewis; 2.Whisper, Hunter 40, Larry
Bryant; 3.Spray, Olson 25, Bumps
Eberwine.
Race Chairmen: Malcolm and Kathy Brady
The winner of the non-spinnaker fleet in Sunday's CCV Founders
Race, Harry Tenney with his Roberts 43,
Margarita, is hardly a newcomer to the southern Bay
racing scene. In the late 1980's, Margarita tore up the non-spin
fleet on a regular basis. Good to see Harry and his boat back on the
course.
TYLER MOORE and JESSE FALSONE 4th at the 505
WORLDS. Tyler and Jesse finished 4th overall among 113
competitors at the 505 Worlds sailed weekend before this past at Hayling Island
Sailing Club in the UK. That's
in the W-O-R-L-D ! And, that was after having to
eat , as a throw-out, a DNF/114 finish in the 2nd race.
(1-[114/dnf]-16-3-6-7-9) Congrats to both.
Lydia Cuker has been named as coach of the
Maury High School (Norfolk) sailing team. Lydia's dad is southern bay
racer, Ben Cuker, skipper of Callinectes.
SBRNYCU "WHODAT"? MHS,
of course, is named for Matthew Fontaine Maury, a
southern Bay homie born in Fredericksburg, VA, in 1806. He is best known
for his contributions in the fields of navigation and meteorology. He
also procured ships for the Confederate Navy and was a member of the
faculty of Virginia Military Institute.
Two Governor's Cup class winners continued their winning ways
at the FBYC 67th Annual Regatta. Randy Stokes,
sailing his Hampton One Design, and Len Guenther,
sailing his Mobjack, each won his class both weekends.
Talk about being on a roll!
Shine on, shine on
[August ] moon, up in the sky... [slightly
modified lyrics of a well known oldie]
Moonlight Racing is available this coming
weekend. In Hampton Roads, plan to start Friday evening
and return sometime Saturday (or Sunday, or Monday, or..., since there is
NO time limit). August 18, Friday - the annual
HYC PLANTATION LIGHT RACE starts Friday evening (first warning
is at 1900 in Hampton Roads harbor), goes to Cape Charles City (on the Eastern
Shore) and back. This is a CBYRA sanctioned regatta for all PHRF
classes. Entries and fees are due no later than 1700 on Thursday, August
17. For info contact Bob Thomas at 898-9407. Hampton
Yacht Club presents the awards for this race at the annual awards night in
December.
Moonlight Racing in the Rivah area also this
coming weekend. August 19, Saturday, the
FBYC SMITH POINT RACE takes off from the mouth of the
Piankatank River and heads [eventually] to Smith Point Light (except the
MORC class) and back. The first warning is at 1400 hours. This is a
long distance race and is CBYRA sanctioned; open to all PHRF classes and
MORC. For info contact Brad Squires at (757) 229-3960. Race
awards will be presented at a brunch at the FBYC main clubhouse at 1000, Sunday,
August 20, providing all the boats have finished. There are time limits on
this race and anyone not finishing by 1400 hours on Sunday, will be scored Did
Not Finish.
ATTENTION! OLD LASER RACERS (OLR) -
To qualify as an OLR, you must be 35 years or older on the first day of
the regatta. The subject regatta is 25th ANNUAL CHESAPEAKE BAY LASER
MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP, hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club, September 9 -10,
2006. Bob Saltmarsh, considered the dean of Masters
racing, is the first past champion (1989) to commit to the regatta.
Contact Jon Deutsch at (804) 305-1244 for details. Enter on
or before September 4 and get a regatta hat!
The entry deadline for the Cape Charles
Cup, two day regatta, August 26 -27, is
1700, on Wednesday, August 23. This is a two race day event that
for most will involve a stay over at Cape Charles (on the Eastern Shore).
This is CBYRA sanctioned racing for all PHRF classes and non-sanctioned for a
Cruising Class. Saturday's course begins off Little Creek Inlet
and finishes at the Cape Charles entrance buoy. The course for
Sunday's race begins in the vicinity of the Cape Charles entrance buoy and
finishes near Ft Monroe/Thimble Shoal Light. There is a mandatory
skippers meeting on Friday, August 25th. For entry information and
details on accommodations at Bay Creek Marina (Cape Charles), contact Scott
Almond at (757) 471-2663. Hosted by Broad Bay Sailing
Association.
Spray, Olson 25, was especially well manned in
the Tom Brady Master's Race. Bumps Eberwine and
Jack Zanks brought sail #10 home, proving once again that
"...there is no substitute for experience."
Reminder to Flying Scot Racers:
Rappahannock River Yacht Club sponsors the Flying Scot Team Race Invitational.
Saturday, August 19th. For info contact RRYC Race Captain, Jerry
Latell at (804) 438-9011 or (804) 438-5875.
MURPHY'S LAW:
Macaroni
Mate: Back in the day, as in the late 18th century [and
beyond], English travelers, in order to avoid capture by the French or
impressment at sea by the British, often signed on American merchant
vessels as a "mate", even though they did not have the
required qualifications and received no pay. Think about it - could
these sailors have been the forerunners of today's "rail meat"? Should the
term be changed to "macaroni meat" or "pasta
pals"?
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us
all.