# 365 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Tuesday October 16, 2007 11:48AM
Virgina Beats
The Pride! Schooner VIRGINIA Flies Down the
Bay in GCBSR! The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race started for
Virginia at 1340 on Thursday and Virginia was home in
Hampton Roads at 12:58:52, Friday morning! Along the way, she set a record
for fastest time down the Bay (11 hours 18 minutes 53 seconds), took line honors
at the Thimble Shoal finish line, and, to the pleasure of southern Bay sailors
and citizens, she beat The Pride of Baltimore. Always a
gentleman in this grand competition, Jan Miles, skipper of
The Pride, was the first to congratulate Virginia's skipper,
Nicholas Alley, and crew, on their win. Miles
radioed Virginia from up the course immediately after she
crossed the finish line.
SEA STAR, WHITE BOAT, ROUNDABOUT,
and MARGARITA win CCV FALL SERIES. It
could not have been a better day for final showdowns for CCV
Racing. The third and final day of Fall Series racing, which
also marked the end of the season long (12 CCV races this year) CCV High Point
competition, was race perfect. A sunny, cool day, with steady breezes in
the low teens. Racing was tight on the course with several "by a bowman's
nose" finishes, equipment and people failures were at a minimum, and the
post-race hotdogs and brewskis were as tasty as ever! CCV FALL SERIES
RESULTS: PHRF A: 1.Sea Star (2-2-1-2.5-1-2 = 10.5),
David Eberwine; 2.Cash Flow (1-1-4-2.5-2-1 = 11.5),
Lloyd Griffin; 3.Feather (4-5-6-4-3-3 = 25,
Phil Briggs. PHRF B: 1.White Boat
(2-1-1-2-3-1 = 10), Dave McConaughy; 2.Cool Change
(3-2-6-1-1-2 = 15), Rusty Burshell; 3.Bad Habit
(1-4-4-3-2-3 = 17), Bob Archer. PHRF C:
1.Roundabout (1-1-1-3-1-1 = 8), Alan Bomar;
2.Spray (3-4-2-5-2-2 = 18), Bumps Eberwine;
3.Incentive (6-3-3-1-4-3 = 20), Louie Lewis.
PHRF Non-Spin: 1.Margarita (2-1-3-2-1-1 = 10), Harry
Tenney; 2.Wiki Wiki (1-3-1-1-3-2 = 11), Rodney
Paice; 3.Impulse (3-2-2-3-2-3 = 15), Tom
Peddy. PRO - John McCarthy; Official Timer/Scorer - Dick
Boykin; Series Mark Boats - Bill Gibbings, Glenn Giles, and Dave
Hamilton.
'Round the Lights Race set for Saturday, October
20. This is a "chase start" race, commonly know as a pursuit
race, where the slower boats start first. Theoretically, all
the boats will finish around about the same time. This is a CBYRA sanctioned
race and counts in the Chesapeake Bay Distance Racing Series
(administered by Broad Bay Sailing Association). It's a great event hosted
by Old Point Comfort Yacht Club. Plenty of post-race party and plenty of
challenge on the race course. Hint: Study the currents . .
.before you get out there! For details and entry info,
contact Dennis Miner at (757) 867-1028.
Anna Tunnicliffe is on her way to
China! Anna, former Old Dominion University All American, sewed
up her trip at the US Olympic Team Trials that
concluded in Newport, RI, yesterday. Anna finished first with room to
spare and will represent the USA in Laser Radials. Anna sailed
against 21 of the best of the best. Get 'em, Anna!
Also sailing especially well in the US Olympic Team
Trials (at the Southern California venue), was Geoff
Ewenson who finished 2nd in the 16 boat Finn Class. Geoff
is husband to Mary Ewenson, publisher of SpinSheet and
PropTalk magazines and very good friend of southern Bay sailors
and sailing organizations.
Sign-up for Frostbite Series. Racing
begins Sunday, October 28, and goes for 5 straight Sundays through
November. For info and to enter contact Dick Boykin at (757)
890-0093. This series is hosted by Hampton Yacht Club.
Racing is around CCV marks in the Hampton Roads harbor.
CCV Awards Party and Year End Bash
coordinator, Karl Petersen, says racers and friends can get a reservation form
and up-to-date info about the November 9th gathering at web address www.ccvracing.org/2007/CCVParty.pdf
. Save $5 per person by making ressies before October 20 (THIS COMING
SATURDAY). Contact Karl at (757) 271-2869. Call now
and reserve a Crew Table! This is going to be a fun
evening! Friday, November 9, cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres
(complimentary wine and keg beer, along with cash bar) 7-8:30pm;
awards and then dancing and partying with The Phun Doctors
until midnight. Dig out your high heel sneakers!
Yesterday, a professional baseball great look-alike appeared
on Rodney Paice's Wiki Wiki. First-name Robert wore a yellow
jacket and a Red Sox cap and looks a lot like Jonathan
Pappelbaum, well-known closer on the Boston Red Sox pitching staff. If
he can trim a sail as well as JP can throw a fastball, he's gonna do fine in
sailboat racing!
Eric Matherne had a full weekend of helping
the racing community. He spend Friday and Saturday helping dock 37 of the
tall ships in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race and then on Sunday was on
the race committee team for the CCV Fall Series.
MURPHY'S LAW: Good Golly,
Miss Molly! Nicholas Alley and the crew of schooner
Virginia must have been wearing seat belts all the way down the
Bay from Annapolis! That was one fast trip! Not totally unexpected,
though. Virginia is named for the original pilot schooner what
worked the Virginia Capes back in her day. She had to be fast in order to
beat those other pilots to the incoming ships that contracted for guidance up
the Bay and into Hampton Roads. Here's a big Bow-WOW! from the
Murphster! /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in
us all.
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