# 312 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Tuesday September 5, 2006 10:27AM

CASH FLOW,  LA MAGA,  and SMALL POTATO  crush Stingray Point Regatta PHRF  spinnaker fleets and NO FEAR takes non-spin.   BLADE RUNNER,  KOBAYASHI MARU win in the one-design classes.  Ernesto the Pest-o, was unable to deter 32 of the 41 registered entries from the 12th Annual Stingray Point Regatta hosted by Fishing Bay Yacht Club this past weekend.  Regatta officials delayed the start of racing until Saturday afternoon in order for competitors to reach Deltaville in the wake of Ernesto's Friday appearance.  RESULTS:  PHRF A: 1.Cash Flow, Lloyd Griffin; 2.CARLOAN.com, Travis Weisleder; 3.Feather, Phil Briggs.  PHRF B: 1.La Maga, Allan Heyward; 2.Shenanigan, Miles Booth; 3.Trilogy, Wayland Rennie.  PHRF C: 1.Small Potato, Butch Patterson; 2. Schiehallion, Brad Miller.  J105: 1.Blade Runner, Brad Davis; 2.Corryvreckan, David Clark.  J24: 1.Kobayashi Maru, Collins/Dennison; 2.Gray Ghost, Davidson.  PHRF Non-Spin: 1.No Fear, Rob Slotnik; 2.Tartan, Will Vest; 3.Turbos Tub, MD Riley.  Event Chairman:  Allan Heyward;  PRO:  Brooks Zerkel.
 
25th ANNUAL CHESAPEAKE BAY LASER MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP, September 9-10, Fishing Bay Yacht Club.  What racer 35 years or older has not had at least one memorable encounter with a Laser?  And, plenty of racers have had a lifetime affair.   For info contact event chairman Jon Deutsch at (804) 305-1244, or check the FBYC website at http://www.fbyc.net.  Hurry!  This will be a happening of special note that you do not want to miss. 
 
Brad Davis, Blade Runner,  throttled the  J105 class at Stingray Point with a bullet in each of the 5 races, thus earning the Brent Halsey Jr. Memorial Trophy.
 
The FBYC team of Voodoo Chile (Leroi Lissenden), Carloan.com (Travis Weisleder), and Loose Cannon (Strother Scott) secured the POTTS TROPHY  for another year.  Credit must go also to the HYC team of Feather (Phil Briggs), Mirage (Christian Schaumloffel), and Flying Colors (Richard Payne), all of whom sailed to Fishing Bay on Saturday morning and were on the starting line for race 1 that afternoon.
 
Race for the Hanbury Cup (spinnaker boats) or the Executive Cup (non-spinnaker boats) this coming weekend.  Saturday, September 9 - THE EXECUTIVE CUP REGATTA - sponsored by the Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation - proceeds go to the  CNU sailing team.  Hampton Yacht Club hosts the event.  Open to all PHRF fleets and a non-spinnaker Cruising Class.  Entry fee is $35, due no later than Thursday, Sept 7.   For information and to enter contact Jim White at  (757) 249-8758 or PRO Dick Boykin at (757) 890-0093.  This race coincides with the Hampton Bay Days Festival -  race, eat and drink, then boogie!
 
BAD HABIT  Winner of DINK VAIL CUP.   The 2006 Dink Vail Regatta racers were first out on Hampton Roads waters after the whipping-up delivered by Hurricane - Tropical Storm - Tropical Depression  Ernesto.  Breezy winds (20+) and choppy-lumpy waters made for an invigorating day of racing in the vicinity of Craney Island and Middle Ground Light.  Of the 20 entries, 16 finished the race; broken gear was the main problem  for the non-finishers.  Bob Archer and Chris Beahr's Pearson Flyer, Bad Habit, trounced the PHRF B Fleet by the greatest margin (3:31 minutes corrected) and claimed the Dink Vail Cup.  RESULTS:  PHRF B: 1. Archer/Beahr, Bad Habit;  2. Neal Garrett, Strega;  3.Andy Armstrong, Virginia H.  PHRF C: 1. Louie Lewis, Incentive; 2.Dave Taylor, Mid Morning Buzz.  PHRF Non-Spin: 1.Rodney Paice, Wiki-Wiki;  2.Mark Shaw/John Scott, Prevail;  3.Larry Bryant, Whisper.  CRUISING: 1.Chris Coffing, Contender; 2. Tom Lira, Quid Pro Quo.  Event Chairman - JD Scott;  PRO - John McCarthy;  Official Scorer/Timer - Dick Boykin; RC Boat - Vance Hull;  Mark Boats: Dick Waters and Jim Forrester.
 
Former ODU sailing team All American, Anna Tunnicliffe, finished 4th in the Laser radial Class at The Good Luck Beijing 2006 Quingdo International Regatta.
 
Psycho Killer, the new Esse 850 Pam Burdett has ordered, is in route. PK should arrive sometime early next week.  Pam hopes to have her up, rated, and race ready for the CCV Fall Series.
 
Devon Sweeney, a familiar face around the southern Bay in racing circles, will compete in the US SAILING Match Racing Championships in early October in Fort Worth, Texas.  This is the Prince of Wales Cup, a quarterfinals for which HYC hosted in 2005.
 
Please be patient - CBYRA is working at a major problem with listing some of the race results on the website.  A number of people are working at a solution.  So, hold your horses, hang in there, and in the meantime, check for results locally, i.e. the club sponsoring the race, or, of course on Monday, your Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use.
 
NYCC LABOR DAY REGATTA (small boats):  Thirty-five skippers and crew competed in 21 races Saturday in the mouth of the Lafayette River.  The day was gray at the start, but the undaunted dinghy racers handled the conditions with aplomb.  The water was much warmer than the air!  RESULTS:  420: 1. Mitch Brindley.  Flying Junior: 1.Michael Collins; 2.Kyle Rogacheiko; 3.Michael Brown.  Hampton One Design: 1.Randy Stokes; 2.Mark Wheeler; Eddie Wolcott.  Laser: 1.Tyler Moore; 2.Henry Amthor; 3.John Shockey.  PRO: Bryant McGann. 
 
Mark Wheeler and Ian Stokes won the Tim Walsh Jr Memorial Trophy Sunday, sailing Hampton One Designs at Norfolk Yacht and Country Club.  Gordie Stokes and Cav Stokes finished 2nd and Charlie McCoy and John McCoy were third.
 
MURPHY'S LAW:    Let me say Ernesto did NOT blow this dog off the chain!  Made two great parties - Dink Vail and Stingray Point - and toasted Ernie's departure.   /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
 
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