#496 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday June 7, 2010 01:22PM
RUMBLE Takes SBRW BLACK SEAL
CUP! Ben Weeks and Michele
Cochran of Yorktown, Virginia, stormed Southern
Bay Race Week in their J29, RUMBLE. Sailing in the highly
competitive PHRF B-1 fleet with a crew of friends from Yorktown, Seaford, and
Hampton, the long time J29 racers put together a string of 6 bullets
in 7 races over three days of varying conditions.
Rumble turned in a string over 3 days of racing of
1-1-1-1-1-1-2. Five other boats along with Rumble had
outstanding performances during the regatta that earned them BOAT OF
THE DAY awards: Day 1 (sponsored by Winters
Sailmakers) - (East Course) Rumble, Weeks &
Cochran; (West Course) Horizon, Bob
Fleck. Day 2 (sponsored by North Sails, Hampton) -
(East Course) Jubilee, Cal Huge; (West Course)
Midnight Mistress, Jake and Pat Brodersen.
Day 3 (sponsored by Doyle Sails, Hampton) - (East
Course) Afterthought, Craig
Wright; (West Course) Whisper,
Larry Bryant. Final results at www.blacksealcup.com
If you fly a
Scot, the Flying Scot Capitol District
Championships will
be June 19-20 at Rappahannock River Yacht Club in Irvington,
Virginia. Event Chairperson is Debbie
Cycotte. Event organizers expect between 20 and 30 Flying
Scots. For information and points of contact, please call Burke Johnson
at (757) 812-9635 (cell). Do it now -
this event is weekend after this coming.
Crewing on Black Seal Cup winner,
RUMBLE, was a special friend of racing on the
Chesapeake Bay, John Hanna, of Seaford, VA. Cap'n Hanna,
as many of his friends know him, owned and skippered his beloved Pearson
BATTLEWAGON, for many races and put all that experience to work for
Rumble this past weekend.
When racers come to Southern Bay Race Week, they know
they very likely are going to have to deal with a variety of racing
conditions. And SBRW 2010 was exactly that. Friday's racing required
perseverance in light and fluky winds until the beloved sea breeze came
in, the course was spun 180 degrees, and 10 knots seemed like a
wonderful gale. Day 2 brought perfect sailing conditions - 10-15 knots all
day from WSW . If that didn't suit, pull out the golf
clubs! The third and final day of the regatta started out blustery and
tested a different set of racing skills and equipment standards.
Eventually on the East Course gusts over 30 were noted and one report
had one gust at 38 knots. Racing was stopped during the second
race. The West Course was able to complete two races in less severe
conditions, but in significantly more than moderate wind. SBRW 2010
racers got a panorama of Chessie's best efforts.
Jennifer McCullough and Richard Winters,
crewing on Bob Mosby's Cyrano, did have their wedding
Saturday at SBRW, and, dressed in wedding attire, accepted their daily
racing award and honored the racer's chant of "KISS, KISS!" in the party
tent.
SBRW 2010 Fleet winners. Of the 77
entries, here are the top dogs of the 10 fleets: PHRF A-1 -
Sledd Shelhorse, Meridian (Farr 36), 4-1-1-1-2-2-3 (14). PHRF
A-1 - David Eberwine, Sea Star (J36 ), 1-1-3-3-3-1-3 (15). PHRF B-1
- Ben Weeks & Michele Cochran, Rumble (J29), 1-1-1-1-1-1-2 (8). PHRF
B-2 - Mike Austin, Moving On (Beneteau F8), 1-1-2-2-1-3-1 (11). J/24 One
Design - Mick Veraldi, Quicky, 3-1-1-1-2-1-1 (10). PHRF C-1 - Bob
Fleck, Horizon (S2 7.9) 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 (8). PHRF C-2 - Brendan
Drinkwater, Number 2 (Sonar 23) 3-2-1-1-1-1-2-1 (12). PHRF NS2 -
Jake and Pat Brodersen, Midnight Mistress (C&C 35-3), 1-1-2-1-1-1-3-5
(15). PHRF NS1 - Walter Boatwright, Puff Card (Tartan 37-2),
7-5-7-2-2-1-1-1 (26). Cruising - Larry Bryant, Whisper (Hunter 40),
1-1-2-1-2-1-1-1 (10). Principal Race Officer and East Course:
John McCarthy; Race Officer West Course: Brian Deibler. Mark Boat
Captains (East Course) - Bill Gibbings; Dave Hamilton; Rick
Klein/Mike Dale. Mark Boat Captains (West Course) - Tom
Fowler; Jim Babcock. Event Chairman - Jack
Pope. Final results at www.blacksealcup.com
They do more than Fife and Drum in the historic area!
Racers from the Yorktown area put the grab on the B fleets at SBRW
2010. Mike Austin's Moving On took home top
honors in B-2 and, of course, Rumble dominated B-1.
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK 2011 - Friday, June 3 -
Saturday, June 4 - Sunday, June 5, 2011. Y'all come
racing!
CONGRATULATIONS TO SCREWPILE LIGHTHOUSE
CHALLENGE, elected as Chesapeake Magazine's "Best on the
Bay" ! Make your arrangements now to be at Screwpile
2010, July 18-20, Solomons, MD Info and entry forms at www.splc.us
If ya go to SCREWPILE, ya gotta
dance!!! The bands are lined up The 25th Hour,
Screwpilers and Around Mid-Night. There
will be a open house at the SMSA club house starting at 5:30 on Saturday night
following the skippers meeting (5pm in the regatta headquarters
tent).
Mike Worrell passed away Saturday morning.
Most folks knew of Mike because he ran the Worrell
1000. In it's early days it was a race of two-man beach
cats, non-stop from Lauderdale to Virginia Beach, with beach touches only long
enough for rotation of one of the crew for the up coming leg. It later
evolved to a race with much more sophisticated boats and overnight
stops. As one racer put it, ". . . folks had mixed feelings
about him, [but] Mike did a lot for local beach cat sailing" as
well as focusing a brief, but bright spotlight on "big time" cat racing in
the US.
HARBORFEST HOMETOWNE REGATTA (this coming
Saturday, June 12). Harborfest Hometowne is hosted by
Portsmouth Boat Club and is sailed on the same weekend as Norfolk's
mega-summer festival, Harborfest. This year Harborfest is tangentially
involved in recognizing the participants of the regatta.
"Harborfest will call the award winners of the regatta up on the big
Harborfest stage on Saturday night and their names will be on the Nauticus big
screen for all to see," explained principal race officer Larry
Bryant. The awards presentation and cook-out dinner will be
at the PBC clubhouse on Elm Street in Portsmouth (5pm-7pm), leaving plenty of
time for a ride over to Harborfest (by ferry, car, or cardboard raft) and
the special recognition there. Make no mistake, PBC is the organizer of
this race and continues to do all the heavy lifting. It is nice to see the
regatta mentioned on the Harborfest schedule, but it remains in the wonderful
HOMETOWNE REGATTA format that PBC has had in place since
Harborfest dropped the old Michelob Challenge/Parade of Sail event years
ago. Entries are due no later than 5pm, Monday, June 7.
For entry forms, regatta info, click on www.portsmouthboatclub.org
or contact Larry Bryant at (757) 472-5969 Go race, enjoy PBC
hospitality, and do the festival - a full day!
MURPHY'S LAW: WOW! At
SBRW the Murphster danced all four legs off, went swimming
twice (intentionally on Day 1), met and made more racing
friends than you can wag a tail at, learned to mix a Dark 'n' Stormy, and
raced my brains out! Please pass one more Alka-Seltzer@ and
turn down the volume one more notch. Yrs truly the Racing
Beagle is in a blissful recovery state! /S/
Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.