#547 SOUTHERN BAY RACING NEWS YOU CAN USE
on Tuesday June 28, 2011 12:47PM
From the Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta
(racing July 9-10) comes word that Early Bird Pricing has been
extended! This event includes a Cruising Class and a
Classic Class for yachts designed by 1976 in addition to PHRF spinnaker and
non-spinnaker classes. Event officials are offering multiple races
each day; drop mark courses will be in the Chesapeake Bay off Stingray
Point. Fishing Bay Yacht Club and Stingray Harbour Yacht Club sponsor
this, the 13th edition, of the event. For info and/or to enter, please
contact Sue Willis at 800-766-0797 or sue.willis@LLS.org.
RUNNING TIDE, Waddy Garrett's J46,
was the only southern Bay boat in the 2011 Marion to Bermuda
Race. Running Tide finished 10th in her class and
29th overall in the 50 boat fleet. The entire crew is from Fishing Bay
Yacht Club: Waddy Garrett, Parker Garrett, Winston Trice, Ned
Trice, Charlie Clough, Paul Becker and Tad Thompson. RUNNING
TIDE raced in Division A. For complete
results, www.marionbermuda.com
4th of July weekend - INDEPENDENCE DAY - is upon
us! We are all free to fly our flag, eat plenty of 'burgers, and
sail! The Founding Fathers must be smiling!
SCREWPILE ( July 17, 18, & 19)
is July Racing Central AND July Party Central: The
word is out that Mount Gay Rum is hosting three additional parties in Solomons starting around 8PM each day after the racing:
Sunday Night at Kingfisher's, Monday Night at Solomons Pier and Tuesday
Night at Isaacs located in the Holiday Inn (Race
Headquarters). This year's regatta marks 19 years of
SCREWPILE and, like the previous 18, it will be a grand time for racers from all
over the Bay and beyond. Going as part of the SOUTHERN
BAY BRIGADE and bringing the number of southern Bay boats
racing at SCREWPILE to 10 is David Taylor's red Andrews
27, WHAM BAM. Already entered from the southern Bay
are: Voodoo 2,
Lissenden/Birch/Krusheinisky; Goin', Dennis Hannick;
Bobinski, Bob Hausmann; Black Widow, Leo Wardrup;
Double Eagle, Sam Mitchener; Midnight Mistress, Jake
& Pat Brodersen; Stardancer, John & Beverly Blais;
Corryvreckan, David
Clark ; and The Hunter, Justin Morris.
Special SCREWPILE
notice: SAVE MONEY! Enter by noon, THIS THURSDAY, July 30,
to avoid the $75 late entry fee. For information and entry form, click on www.splc.us. If you are a racer, you
need to be at SCREWPILE 2011!
Racers' Vocabulary.
Yawl - a sailboat from the southern Bay, with some good bourbon stored
down yonder in the cabin.
BBSA Annual Regatta (small boats) -
(Results were incomplete at publication deadline)However, the Laser fleet report
was available, thanks to Robert Suhay: LASER (7 boats) - 1.
Cameron Barclift, 2.Neil Ford, 3.Robert Suhay. Hampton One Design
, FJs, and Force 5s were reported to have raced, but results were not
available. Watch www.broadbaysailing.org
Word has spread around the sailing community of the
accidental death of a young sailor, Olivia Constants, 14, during a
Severn Sailing Association Junior Sailing Association Program
session. The following is from The Capital,
HometownAnnapolis.com posting, Sunday, June 26, 2011:
" On Thursday afternoon, Constants drowned in the
Severn River when her Club 420 sailboat capsized near the Naval Academy during a
lesson with the Severn Sailing Association Junior Sailing Program. The Broadneck
High sophomore-to-be was wearing a trapeze harness that got caught in the boat's
rigging when it capsized. A counselor freed the girl and performed CPR until
rescuers arrived. She was wearing a personal flotation device,
officials said. Questions remain unanswered about the accident and the
Natural Resources Police had not completed their investigation late
yesterday. But one thing is clear - the accident was a rare event in the
sailing school industry in the Annapolis area. A search of The Capital's archive
found no stories about serious sailing school accidents, let alone a fatal one.
. . . . Not only are sailing school fatalities rare, deaths associated
with sailboats are rare as well. U.S. Coast Guard 2010 boating
accident statistics show of 672 total boating deaths only 3 percent were related
to sailboats. There were eight deaths associated with sail-only craft and 15 for
auxiliary sailboats, those with both sail and an engine." Read
the complete article at
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2011/06/25-23/Rare-mishap-claims-life-of-young-sailor.html As of this morning (June 27) details about
this terrible accident remain unconfirmed.
VET CUP is on the near horizon - Saturday, July
9 . Remember, you do not have to be affiliated with
the Armed Services to participate. The racing will take place off the
Buckroe area and is open to all PHRF classes as well as to Cruising Fleet
boats. Four boats of a specific kind will constitute a
one-design fleet and a separate start. For information and entry, please
contact Annette Connors at (757) 327-1514) Event officials
hope to have two races on drop mark triangular courses. Entries
are due by July 7, 2011.
COMING UP during 4th of July, INDEPENDENCE
DAY, weekend:
Screwpile entry
(Late Fee kicks in July 1) - enter by June 30 to avoid $75 Late
Fee; www.screwpile.net or
www.splc.us
Bay Open - Junior
Olympics - July 1-3, Hampton Yacht Club, www.hamptonyc.com
Hampton Annual One-Design
Regatta (small boats) - July 2-3, Hampton Yacht Club, www.hamptonyc.com
Cut Channel Race - July
2; Fishing Bay Yacht Club, www.fbyc.net
OPENING FOR COACH FOR MAURY HIGH CLUB
SAILING TEAM. The Maury High School Club Sailing Team
(Norfolk, VA) is looking for a coach to run weekly practices, attend Saturday
regattas and travel once or twice a year to out of town regattas. The
employment period is per semester when Maury competes in Virginia
Interscholastic Association (VISA) events during Fall and Spring
semesters. This is a club sport and does not involve employment with
Norfolk Public Schools or Maury High School. Team administrators are
looking for applicants who are experienced dinghy sailors if not big boat
sailors. US SAILING Level II certification and proof of current CPR and
First Aid certification is an added plus. For information, please
contact Bill Dister at 757-650-0680, Maury
Sailing Club Administrator , or Jennifer Sanford at 757
537-7004.
Kudos to Butch
Patterson for his service to high school sailing in the southern Bay
area. Butch recently stepped down from the head coach position of the
Maury High Club Sailing Team (see item above). Most "big boat"
sailors know Butch from the race course where he currently races Schock Full
O' Nuts in the PHRF B fleet and previously raced Small
Potato in the PHRF C fleet. Butch has come up against a
conflict between the coaching and his work situation, proving there are a finite
number of hours in everyone's day! Thanks to Butch and all his coaching
cohorts who make sailing possible for high schoolers in the southern
Bay.
Virginia Junior State Championship
Regatta: Results were not available at publication
deadline. Watch www.fbyc.net
MURPHY'S LAW: Yrs
Truly, the Racing Beagle's edition of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary defines yacht as "a vessel used for private
cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes."
So. . . depending on to whom one is speaking, it is ok to explain one's weekend
racing endeavors as yachting. And, if one wishes to or needs to
appear snooty to a degree, it is ok to describe oneself as
yachty. And, one does not have to toss out the
favorite faded regatta T-shirt or holey sailing shorts. Pass the Grey
Poupon and the Sly Fox - you are racing, therefore,
yachting! /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing
spirit in us all.
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