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SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK - LOGISTICS INFO
Check-in and Skippers Meeting: Thursday, May 29 Racing, Party-ing, Awards: May 30 thru June 1
PHRF, One-Design (J/105, J/24, and Elliott 770), and Cruising Classes
Event Chairman - Jack Pope Principal Race Officer - John McCarthy
For an entry form, hit "Reply" and say "I want my SBRW Entry Form"; it will come directly to you.
SLIPS and DOCKING INFORMATION:
SAILMAKERS / RIGGING SERVICES:
For information contact: Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4225 or email at mcbear@earthlink.net
or go to the SBRW website at www.blacksealcup.com
For additional information contact: Lin McCarthy, (757) 850-4225
Southern Bay Racing News You Can Use # 392
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Today is CINCO de MAYO - AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Carramba!
Mother's Day cometh, Sunday, May 11th - this is the 100th anniversary of the holiday!
SOUTHERN BAY RACE WEEK (May 30-31 & June 1)- It's time to race and party your brains out! Organizers are working hard to make this the best SBRW ever. Food and drink are being ordered, live entertainment is booked, your trophies are being engraved, welcome packets are being prepared, party tents are reserved, the beer truck and bartenders are set, a system for ordering lunches to carry on raceboats is ready, T-shirt designs are finalized, race committee members are checking equipment and tuning mark boat motors, scoring databases are being set up, media invitations are in the mail, and businesses in downtown Olde Hampton are sprucing up for your arrival. Please do support the regatta by sending in your entry today to facilitate planning and preparations. SBRW wants you on the list of entries! Ya'll come on now! For entry forms and information check the event website at www.blackbeardcup.com or contact Lin McCarthy at (757) 850-4224 or email at mcbear@earthlink.net.
CCV Wraps-up 2008 Spring Series! One had light air that backed around the compass, the other featured a steady as a rock sea breeze. Both races happened on the same day in the same piece of water. The third day of the CCV Spring Series was a beauty and 28 boats enjoyed the racing and the post-race party-ing. The Series was decided, except for PHRF B Fleet where a protest pends, and here are the podium boats: PHRF A: 1.Sea Star, J/36, Dave Eberwine; 2.Cyrano, Frers 36, Bob Mosby; 3.Mirage, Hobie 33, Christian Schaumloffel. PHRF B (protest pends): 1.Cool Change, J/30, Rusty Burshell; 2.Bad Habit, Pearson Flyer, Bob Archer; 3.PF Flyer, Pearson Flyer, Larry Preddy. PHRF C:1.Roundabout, J/24, Alan Bomar; 2.Spray, Olson 25, Bumps Eberwine; 3.Incentive, O'Day 27, Louie Lewis. PHRF Non-Spin: 1.Virginia H, Soverel 30, Andy Armstrong; 2.Margarita, Roberts 40, Harry Tenney; 3.Fins Up, Pearson 26, Tom Connors. PRO - John McCarthy; Official Scorer - John Ritter; Mark Boats - Bill Gibbings, Glenn Giles, and Tom Fowler.
Hampton Yacht Club on the Hampton River is headquarters for Southern Bay Race Week. Out-of-town racers looking for a slip near race central, may want to contact Bluewater Yachting Center (757) 723-6774 or the Hampton Marina Hotel (previously the Radisson) (757) 727-9700. Hampton Yacht Club will offer slip/rafting as available on a first-come-first-served basis - contact Phil Briggs at (757) 244-5477 for info.
Early Tuesday morning, the morning after the tornado that hit Suffolk and demolished Driver, came word from LG Raley, Mr. Screwpile Regatta, concerned about "our friends in the southern Bay" and hoping we had all escaped serious damage and injury. That's proof there is true "Southern Grace" in LG's bones - thanks, LG!
Jimmie Mock, former trimmer on Feather (Phil Brigg's J36) and, before that, Sugar Bear, reports in "alive, well, and in Orlando!" Jimmie was the official Arbiter of Time (AOT) for SBRNYCU countdowns 'til Spring.
Southern Bay J/24 racers Mike Veraldi (Quicky) and Tripp Behm (no name) finished in the middle of the fleet this past weekend at the Pink Moon Regatta in Harve de Grace, Maryland. Veraldi (7th) and Behm (8th) will be racing in the J/24 class at Southern Bay Race Week, which is the second event of three which will decide the winner of a berth in the 2009 J/24 Worlds in Annapolis. Paul Van Ravenswaay won the Pink Moon, finishing in the money in 6 of the 8 races.
Going to Bermuda on the bluewater - On June 20, two southern Bay boats, Ticket to Ride (Ed Whitmore) and Shearwater (Conrad Hall) will be racing from Newport to Bermuda. On Saturday the Ticket to Ride crew tuned up and completed specific requirements to race. The crew, except for Dan Bowman, who hails from Annapolis, consists of racers from Hampton YC and Norfolk Yacht & CC. They are: Ed Whitmore, Mark Wheeler, Bryant McGann, Jim Forrester, Brendan Drinkwater, Chad Wilkins, Evan Harrell, Gordie Stokes and Randy Stokes.
Dig out your high heel boat shoes for Southern Bay Race Week. On Friday night Sojorn will provide the live music and on Saturday night dance some more to Take 3.
When you head for the Virginia In-Water Boat Expo and Sailfest this Fall (September 14-16) at Norfolk's Waterside, take your US SAILING card with you - USSA members will be entitled to a free second ticket (applies to any kind of pass you purchase at all upcoming Strictly Sail and SailFest events for the next year).
The Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival will be taking place the same weekend as Southern Bay Race Week. That's lots of fun for racers' families and friends who are not sailing during the day, as well as fun for racers after the post-race parties. You may run into Blackbeard himself (you'll recognize him by the lighted candles burning in his beard) and/or other characters from the 1700's pirate era.
Ben Butler arrives on the scene. Second son of Mike and Natalie Butler was born the night of last week's tornado. Mike, who has been around the southern Bay racing scene for a number of years, raced on Sugar Bear and, more recently, Mirage. The story goes, that Pappa Mike ran back and forth between home in Suffolk (where Natailie's mom was with the #1 son) and Natalie in the hospital. All are well.
MURPHY'S LAW: Ben Butler - wasn't he the sailor in that racing movie, "Gone with the Wind"? /S/ Murphy the Racing Beagle, the sailing spirit in us all.
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