#531 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Monday March 7, 2011 03:55PM
Try sailing - it's NOT easy! -
Bill Schanen, SAILING
Magazine
This coming Sunday, March 13th,
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS (at 0200, 2am)! You give up one hour
of sleep so you can spend more waking moments in the daylight!
STREGA, the S2 that
Neil Garrett raced for many years prior to his passing in 2010, has a
new owner and a new home. Jerry Latell, who is Ullman
Sails in Deltaville-Irvington, is Strega's new owner. Sunday
a week ago Jerry moved her to her new home in Deltaville. Jerry will
be fulfilling racing commitments he has with other boats at larger regattas
(including SBRW), but expects to race Strega in various
regattas near his home during the coming season.
J105 is the first one-design class to make for
Southern Bay Race Week 2011. There are
already five J105 entries for SBRW 2011, the minimum required to
assure a one design fleet. Leading the way for their fleet are
David Clark, Corryvreckan, Richard
Payne, Flying Colors, Strother Scott,
Loose Cannon, Mike Karn, Inevitable, and
Marty Hublitz and Eddie Hornick, Veloce.
Y'all come racing! www.blacksealcup.com
There are plenty of southern Bay junior
sailors who did well racing on the Bay in 2010. Three in
particular captured first place in season long CBYRA standings:
Alexander Hanna, sailing for Fishing Bay Yacht Club,
finished first overall in Optimist, and first in the Opti Red
Fleet. Alex Jacob, Fishing Bay Yacht Club, finished
first in Laser Radials, and Kendall Swenson,
Fishing Bay Yacht Club, was first in Optimist Girls. KUDOS to all
three.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the BATTLE OF HAMPTON
ROADS - March 8, 1862. This famous battle took place in the very
waters most Southern Bay racers have raced in, swum through, paraded
over, or, at least, traversed during their own time. Think about
it.
To Fiddler's Green: Ronald
Dooley, 63, passed from us unexpectedly last week. A
resident of Portsmouth, Ronnie raced on a number of southern Bay boats,
including Sea Star. A racing friend expressed the
regard in which Ronnie was held: "Ronnie ("Dooley Man") was a dear, good
friend who had an amazing way of making you feel special and at ease; he never
spoke badly of anyone and ALWAYS, ALWAYS was such a pleasure to be around.
We shall miss him more than words can say! "
It's a new Farr400 being built in
Dubai. That is the replacement racing platform that is on
it's way to Sledd Shelhorse and the crew of Meridian
2. Meridian 2 will be doing Down the Bay and
SBRW 2011 while the all carbon Farr 40 footer is being
completed and shipped. Needless to say, it's arrival will mark the
beginning of new horizons for this special group of southern
Bay racers.
CBYRA REGION 4 high point awards,
including the LaBrot Trophy presentation to Sea Star (David Eberwine
and crew), will be made on Sunday, March 13th, 4:00pm at the Hampton
Yacht Club Dockside Lounge. Nibbies and cash bar. For
information contact Randy Pugh, CBYRA VP for Region 4, at
(757)301-2858.
MORC? Rumors stir interest in the class
rebirth. Rumblings around the internet and some on the
docks around the southern Bay have caused some head scratching and
chin rubbing. MORC, the MIDGET OCEAN RACING CLUB, at one
time had a presence on the southern Chesapeake Bay (Station #16 and Station #70
). MORC came into being in 1954 on the Long Island Sound. It was a
club that used a measuring system of handicapping boats up to just under
30 feet; they sailed in the MORC fleet/class. At one time
MORC enjoyed a coast-to-coast presence and beyond into
Canada. There are a number of racers on the southern Bay who raced
and held office in the MORC organization: Mike Karn, Elizabeth Peabody,
Ben Weeks, Roy Tate, Bill Spencer, Roger French, and Bob Kates, to name
only a few. Now, Don Deloatch Stingrayracing1@yahoo.com or 757-285-0929 and Dave
Taylor (757) 344-5292 are stepping up to explore the
interest in this area regarding being part of a rebirth of the MORC
class. If you think you may be interested in attending a gathering
later this month to noodle and chew over the topic, please let Don or Dave
know.
SBRW 2011 Fleet Update:
Phil Briggs' J36, Feather, returns to SBRW 2011
in PHRF A and Greg Cutter is bringing Gremlin to sail
in the Elliott 770 one-design fleet or PHRF B. And, entered in the newly
designed SBRW Cruising Fleet is John Moore's CS 36,
Lamour. www.blacksealcup.com
The collegiate racers are out
there! Sixteen (16) "institutions of higher learning" had
varsity sailing teams on the water this past weekend at the Old Dominion Open,
hosted by Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The host team finished 2nd
behind Georgetown, and from the southern Bay area, UVA was 6th, and Hampton
University was 8th. Just missing the top 10, Christopher Newport
University finished in 11th place ahead of University of Maryland,
Salisbury, Drexel, William and Mary, and Princeton in that
order.
A Spectator Boat for the CNU Icefree Regatta. March
12-13. George Tatum from James River Marina is going to have
a 43 foot house boat on the water for the CNU Icefree Regatta on March 12th and
13th. This will be a great opportunity to see the CNU team and a college regatta
up close. If you plan to "spectate" this wonderful regatta,
please let Coach Dan Winters know in advance - like now!
cnusailing@aol.com
BB&T Wealth Management Division
has joined SBRW 2011 as a key sponsor of the
event. The sponsors that support SBRW 2011 are a large part of
the effort of event officials to keep cost down for the racers while providing
a first class, racer-friendly regatta. By the way, one of
BB&T's good guys is a southern Bay racer - Justin Morris
races his Hunter 26.5, THE HUNTER, in just about every meaningful event
in the area.
SBRW 2011 sponsors include: GOSLING'S
BLACK SEAL RUM - CROWNE PLAZA (downtown waterfront Hampton)
- SPINSHEET MAGAZINE - NORTH SAILS (Hampton- Ken
Saylor) - DAN WINTERS SAILMAKER (Hampton-Dan, Sam, and Bret
Winters) - DOYLE SAILS (Hampton-Jim Miller and Eddie Williams)
- ULLMAN SAILS (Irvington-Jerry Latell) - BAXTER SAILMAKERS,
LTD (Norfolk, Dave Baxter) - SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN
USE - CORAL REEF SAILING APPAREL - PHOTOBOAT
- DANDY HAVEN MARINA (Hampton-Leslie and Andy Gurkin) - PAXTON
COMPANY - RITE IN THE RAIN - HAMPTON RAIN BARRELS
- YORGO'S - RIO GRAPHICS - SIGNATURE
CanvasMakers - and now, BB&T. They are your sponsors;
show your appreciation whenever you can; treat 'em
nice!