# 414 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday October 6, 2008 01:29PM
MORNING LIGHT is coming. As a
preliminary piece, ESPN2 HD will air on October 8, Wednesday, at 8
PM, a 60 minute program on the tryouts and selection team leading
up to the movie which premieres later this month.
13th ANNUAL HOSPICE TURKEY SHOOT REGATTA is
counting down to this coming weekend, October 10-12 - on the Rappahannock
River off Carter's Creek and the Corrottoman River. This is a
full blown regatta, including welcoming Happy Hour with live music on
Friday, drop mark courses on Saturday, and a pursuit race (up the river
and back) on Sunday, pre-race breakfasting and post-race eating, drinking
and socializing, and, of course, grand awards. More than 106 boats
are already entered and more are expected this week.
Winner of the Lightning Division (PHRF racing) will be invited to
compete in the National Hospice Regatta in Spring of 2009. For info and to
enter, go to www.hospiceturkeyshootregatta.com
and/or call host Yankee Point Marina at (804)462-7018.
THE GREAT CHESAPEAKE BAY SCHOONER RACE starts
Thursday, October 16, within sight of the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge (Annapolis side) and finishes sometime Friday, October 17th, with the
grand schooners docking in host city Portsmouth, Virginia. This year there
are 53 schooners, including our own VIRGINIA, racing.
Sponsoring clubs are Broad Bay Sailing Association (Virginia Beach), Fells
Point Yacht Club (Baltimore), Portsmouth Boat Club (Portsmouth), and Town Point
Yacht Club (Norfolk). The October issue of SPINSHEET
MAGAZINE contains the Official Preview Program for the event and
is already available (and FREE) at the usual distribution
locations.
CCV FALL SERIES wrapped up with final two
races yesterday. The season ending series (5 races over three
weekends) was completed yesterday and preliminary results
have SEA STAR, COOL CHANGE, FAT,DUMB, &
STUPID, and VIRGINIA H. at the top
of their respective PHRF fleets. There is a protest pending in PHRF
A between Sea Star and Cash Flow, which is set to be
heard tonight. Trophies for the Series will be presented at the
CCV Annual Awards Presentation Party in early November. CCV Fall
Series (preliminary results): PHRF A (protest pends) (11 boats
racing): 1.Dave Eberwine, Sea Star, J/36;
2.Lloyd Griffin, Cash Flow, Hadley 40; 3.Leroi
Lissenden, Voodoo 2, Tripp 38. PHRF B (11 boats
racing): 1.Rusty Burshell, Cool Change,
J30. 2.Bob Archer, Bad Habit, Pearson Flyer;
3.Neal Garrett, Strega, S9.2. PHRF C
(13 boats racing): 1.AJ Piccillo, Fat, Dumb &
Stupid, J24; 2.Jonathan Phillips, Fine, Kirby
25; 3.Bumps Eberwine, Spray, Olson 25.
PHRF Non-Spinnaker (6 boats racing): 1.Andy
Armstrong, Virginia H, Soverel 30; 2.Tom
Peddy, Impulse, Catalina 34; 3.Harry
Tenney, Margarita, Roberts 40. Rick
Carroll in Sur Le Vent, Beneteau 36, sailed on contested in
the Cruising fleet. PRO - John McCarthy; Official Scorer -
John Ritter; Mark Boats - Bill Gibbings and Glenn Giles.
Congratulations to CAROLYN GRANT and JIM
MILLER - These two southern Bay racing notables, Carolyn,
until this past year, was head sailing coach of the Hampton University Sailing
Team, and Jim heads up the Doyle Sailing Loft in Hampton, both sailed on
teams in the 2008 One Design Worlds in San Francisco this past week
(September 28 - October 3). Carolyn was part of the Fishers Island
Team which took first place in the 8 race event. Kudos are due
and freely given!
October offers three "change of pace" events in the
southern Bay: Turkeys, Schooners, and
Lighthouses!
'ROUND THE LIGHTS RACE - October 25 - sponsored
by Old Point Comfort Yacht Club. This is a CBYRA sanctioned
event for PHRF boats and it counts in the Chesapeake Bay Distance Race
Series sponsored by Broad Bay Sailing Association. There is a Cruising
fleet for non-PHRF boats. All boats must meet the PHRF 4P equipment and
accommodations requirements. Don't miss the opportunity to save money ($5)
by entering before October 18th. This event features a pursuit
start and is unique in that each racer decides which lighthouse, either Middle
Ground Light or Thimble Shoal Light to round first. Be sure to study your
tide and current charts! Send your entries to OPCYC, c/o Dennis Miner, 205
Eric Nelson Run, Yorktown, VA 23693. Or, call Dennis at (757)
867-1028. This is a great event with a nice post-race
party and awards at the OPCYC clubhouse on Ft Monroe. Your entry fee
covers skipper as well as all crew.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR CELL PHONE
NUMBER!! Beginning last Wednesday, October 1,
2008, Cell Phone Numbers went public. That is to
say that all cell phone numbers were released to telemarketing
companies. You will start to receive sales calls and YOU WILL BE
CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS. To prevent this, call the following number from
your cell phone: 888 - 382-1222 - the National
DO NOT CALL list. This will block your number for five (5) years. You
must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. Or, go to
www.donotcall.gov
(Thanks to Kathleen Clancy Cooper for passing this info
along.)
WILLOUGHBY MEMORIAL
REGATTA hosts 20 boats in annual Willoughby Bay. This
is an annual event, run by Broad Bay Sailing Association, where
non-spinnaker boats do a pursuit race within the confines of Norfolk's
Willoughby Bay (aka Little Bay). The boats were broken in to 3 groups for
trophy and scoring purposes. Here's how the top finishers of each group
shook out: RESULTS: Fleet 1 (6 boats racing):
1.Bill Bounds, Summer Breeze, C&C 31;
2.Cliff Porter, Scoundrel, San Juan 24;
3.Richard "Doc" Foster, Bluejacket, Morgan 28.
Fleet 2 (8 boats racing): 1.Jonathan Phillips,
Fine, Kirby 25; 2.Wally Parolari, Makaira,
Catalina 320; 3.Dave Willis, Uhuru, Pearson 30.
Fleet 3 (6 boats racing): 1.Don DeLoatch,
Stingray, Soverel 27; 2.Dave Bettis, Boo
Nasty, Ranger 33; 3.Jay Wright, Glory Days, Cal
39. PRO - Scott Almond.
MURPHY'S LAW: Turkeys, Schooners, and Lighthouses, sounds like a title for a novel about the southern Chesapeake Bay. Yrs Truly, the Racing Beagle, envisions a significant, supporting role in the movie version for an especially sensitive and intelligent "fur person" who races on sailboats! My agent is standing by the phone. /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.