# 438 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday April 6, 2009 12:06PM
EASTER is this coming Sunday, April 12. The
bunny is out hunting the jellybeans right
now!
Southern Bay Race Week EARLY BIRD ENTRY
deadline is only 11 days away, April 17, 2009. All Early
Bird skippers will receive 6 free regatta beverage tickets in their welcome bag
and each will have a chance in the drawing for the set (8) of embroidered SBRW
polo shirts. Only Early Bird skippers will be entered in the
drawing. Now is the time to enter - you will absolutely have a
great time. SBRW = 3 days of racing and 4 nights of parties!
For entry information and/or forms, please contact Lin McCarthy (757) 850-4225
or check the website, www.blacksealcup.com
CCV TUNE-UP RACES, Saturday, April 11, Hampton
Roads harbor, first warning at 1100. Two short races, weather
permitting. Courses will be around government marks, so bring your CCV
mark list (page 39 in the 2009 CCV Racing Guide) OPEN TO
ALL and FREE, but you must submit an ENTRY FORM. Order of
starts: PHRF non-Spin, and then PHRF Spinnaker (A,B,and C combined). Shake
off the rust, try out those new sails, get the crew ready. For info
contact John McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or mcbear@earthlink.net
Already the Hampton Yacht Club Wednesday Night racing is
underway and so is the Old Point Comfort Saturday Morning series. BBSA
Little Creek Wednesdays and Willoughby Racers Thursday nights open this
week.
The racing schedule begins in earnest on April
18-19. CCV SPRING SERIES opens on Sunday, April 19,
with Races #1 & #2. Up the Bay on the Rappahannock, Fishing Bay Yacht
Club will have their Opening Day and begin Spring Series, April 18-19.
These are all sanctioned races and require a 2009 valid rating from PHRF of the
Chesapeake, if racing in a PHRF fleet.
Racers already registered in the hunt for the 2009 CCV HIGH
POINT reflect a healthy fleet. To date, PHRF A shows 13 entered,
including Mike Nestor in Tell Tales, a Tayana
55. PHRF B has 13 listed including newcomer Jack Hall and
his J/30, Blew J. Daystar, Paul
Young's San Juan 24, ups the PHRF C fleet numbers to 12.
And, PHRF Non-Spin has 5 already entered for the season. The time
has come... finally! For information contact John McCarthy at (757)
850-4225.
Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge (July
19,20, and 21) is well into organizing for 2009. From event officials
comes word that 275 rooms at the headquarters hotel, Holiday Inn Select,
Solomons, have been blocked for Screwpile; to receive the special
Screwpile discount when you make your ressies, be sure to use Code
SC9. For entry info and details, go to the event websites at www.screwpile.net or www.splc.us
MURPHY'S LAW: The
Murphster is watching that bunny gathering the jellybeans. I'll let
him fill his bag before I "introduce" myself!
/S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle,
the sailing spirit in us all.
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