# 389 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE

Lin Mccarthy on Monday April 14, 2008 02:48PM

Fishing Bay Yacht Club opens their sailing season and their Spring Series this coming weekend, April 19-20.  For details and to enter contact Mike Dale at  (804) 347-7409.    The FBYC Spring Series runs  on weekends through May 10.
 
 
Twenty (20) Southern Bay Teams Get Calibrated in the CCV Tune-Up Races:  Yesterday was perfect for a day of Spring racing.  Nineteen spinnaker and 1 non-spinnaker (Fins Up, Tom Connors) finished two races in Hampton Roads Harbor.  Leading their fleets and looking to be in top form early were:  PHRF A - Sea Star, Dave Eberwine; PHRF B - Wham Bam, Dave Taylor; PHRF C - Incentive, Louie Lewis .  PRO - John McCarthy.
 
KUDOS to John Ritter for stepping up to fill-in as official CCV scorer during Dick Boykin's recovery. 
 
Last chance to get you name in the hat!  Only SBRW Early Bird Entries will have a chance to win the set of 12 SBRW regatta polos.  Southern Bay Race Week Early Bird Entry deadline is this Wednesday, April 16.  After dealing with your income taxes, you DESERVE a chance at the set (12) of regatta shirts and you  NEED  the 6 free drink tickets!    SBRW entry forms available direct by email:  just hit reply and say "I want my SBRW entry form.  It will come right to you!  For additional info, contact Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email mcbear@earthlink.net   Event website is www.blacksealcup.com
 
WOW!  Check out the cover of the May issue of Chesapeake Bay Magazine.  There in all her glory is Middle Ground Lighthouse, the star of the show in the HYC Middle Ground Annual Regatta and the OPCYC 'Round the Lights Race.  And, the star behind the camera is Buddy DeRyder, a long time sailor on the southern Bay racing scene.   (Buddy and his wife, Dariene, currently cruise their Beneteau 42, SurfRyder.)
 
To Fiddlers' Green:   Maurice Burke Jackson, 88, passed away in his home  in Virginia Beach, April 5, 2008. Maury was past commodore of both the Broad Bay Sailing Association (Virginia Beach) and the Rappahannock River Yacht Club (Irvington). He was an active sailboat racer and raced his 34-foot sloop, Nereus in the Chesapeake Bay for a long, long  time.  He will be missed by many.  
 
CCV SPRING SERIES OPENS, Sunday, April 20.  CCV will run two races in the Harbor, with the first warning scheduled for 1030.   There will be starts for each PHRF Spinnaker Fleet, PHRF Non-Spin, and a Cruising Fleet.  Valid 2008 PHRF ratings are required for all PHRF racers.  OPEN TO ALL. Boats with CCV Racing Memberships are automatically entered; all other racers must submit an entry form and fees no later than the day before race day.  For information, contact John or Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225.  So, the southern Bay season begins - BRING IT!!
 
Christopher Newport Sailing Team qualified for the America Trophy Regatta by virtue of their extraordinary team effort at the Robert Paul Arrigan Memorial Regatta at Georgetown University a weekend ago.  Matt Lythgoe, Amy Pohemus, Kate McClintock, and Maxwell Plarr sailed their butts off and brought home the berth in the America Trophy Regatta.  All four get the "Tuff Racer" award for their effort.  And, Kate McClintock, who sailed while battling a bronchial infection that got progressively worse throughout the weekend, gets the "Tuff Racer" medallion with crossed band-aids.  Kudos  to these young sailors.  (The CNU head coach is Dan Winters  and assistant coach is Jim White.)
 
Portsmouth Boat Club's Barnacle Series begins this Friday evening.  Contact Bob Old (757) 488-8083 or Jim Simpson (757) 238-2193.
 
AZALEA FESTIVAL REGATTA is back!  Norfolk Naval Sailing Association is sponsoring the rejuvenation of the event to coincide with the Azalea Festival, a long time happening managed by the City of Norfolk and the Navy to honor NATO.  The Azalea Festival Regatta will run on Saturday, April 19, in Hampton Roads Harbor (keelboats) and Willoughby (aka Little) Bay (dinghies).  First flag for the keelboats will be 12:00 Noon; for the dinghies first flag will be 11:00 am.  Keelboat classes are: PHRF Non-Spin (one headsail); Cruising (one headsail), and, if appropriate, one-design.  For the dinghies it's Laser, 420, and other classes with 3 or more .  For info and entry, contact  Chess Harris at chess.harris@norfolknavalsailing.org  Entry Deadline is this Wednesday, April 16. 
 
From April 08, 2008 Scuttlebutt:
 The Swedish government has published its views on rules for a mandatory driver's license for boaters in Sweden. The country has never before had any mandatory license for driving a motorboat or sailing a yacht. The license will be mandatory from April 1, 2011, according to the proposal. Some 85 percent of Swedish boat club members already have voluntarily licenses, which can probably be exchanged or migrated according to the new rules during  2009. -- IBI Magazine, full report: http://www.ibinews.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20080307120515ibinews.html    SBRNYCU comment:   Be careful what you volunteer to do!
 
Crabtown Festival and 12th Annual Downtown Hampton In-Water-Boat Show - April 26-27.  Sailboats are included in the boat show,and  there will be marine supplies and plenty of seafood.  And, for your enjoyment, there will be live music including The Beachnuts, Tailgate Down, and more!  For boat show info call (757) 727-1271.
 
56 feet and 280 toes are now bare naked!  Twenty-eight (28) Langley Yacht Club-ers burned their socks Saturday, with little or no regard for the impending doom (thunder-boomers and wind gusts) predicted by the weather experts.  
 
MURPHY'S LAW:   There's a new personal tracker out called the  SPOT Personal Tracker@.  It works through Google Earth and is about the size of a cell phone.    You can track and be tracked with this handy device that costs around $170 plus $100 annual fee).   Yrs Truly, the Racing Beagle, sees it as the latest in party safety devices  for racers - lash one to the mast of the boat  on which you are bunking after the party; lash one to your favorite beer truck; lash one to yourself, so your crew mates can find you in the morning!   /S/  Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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