BUMPS IS BACK , AND BETTER THAN EVER!!
The "not a surprise anymore" 85th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION for Bumps
Eberwine is on for this Wednesday, September 1st, at the HYC docks
right after the regular Wednesday Night racing. DO bump
along to the Birthday Party for Bumps. Stop by for Birthday Cake and
Beer; drink a toast to "The Bumpster" on his 85th! Graham Field is
organizing this surprise party and he can be reached at (757)
488-3931. (Donations toward the cake and beer are appropriate and
will be greatly appreciated - please give them to Graham.)
Southern
Bay racer, Mark Wheeler, has
been sailing as part of the Vela
Veloce(owner Richard Orland) crew for a number of months now.
And, the ride will continue when Vela does
the Vineyard race on September 5th, the Long Island IRC Championships
on September 18/19th and then the IRC East Coasts at the end of
October. Mark sailed on Sledd
Shelhorse's Meridian at
Screwpile, where they won the PHRF A0 fleet. Vela won
the 2010 Rolex US- IRC National Championship sans Mark,
since the regatta started the day after Screwpile.
In both Mackinac races, the Port
Huron to Mackinac and
the Chicago to Mackinac,
southern Bay racer Geoff
Hummel, and
his two brothers Greg
and Glenn, sailed
aboard Runaway, a
68 foot Andrews that carried a crew of 15 and is owned by Bruce
Burton, Commodore of Bayview Yacht Club. Geoff's main duties were
that of navigator. He was especially impressed by the amount of
carbon on the boat. He said, "...carbon
everything - hull, spars, toilet
seat, . . . ." Geoff is a mainstay on the Sea Star
crew ( owner-skipper David
Eberwine), racing, and usually winning, in the PHRF A fleet.
Mark Arnold
(Chesapeake, VA) and Matt Frank (Suffolk) are 2010 Mobjack National
Champions. The 47th Mobjack National Championship was
sailed at Lewes Yacht Club, on
theDelaware Bay, just inside Cape Henlopen near
Breakwater Harbor. Mark
and Matt set a Mobjack
Nationals record by stringing together
6 first
place finishes. This is
the 9th Mobjack National Championship for Mark and the 4th for Mark
and Matt as a team. There were 27 Mobjacks competing for the title.
Laser Racers do well (3 in Top 10) in District
11 Championships: The turnout at this District Championships
held at Corsica River Yacht Club was the best in quite some time, with
42 Laser Standards and 19 Laser Radials for a fleet of 61 Lasers
racing for the district crown. From the southern Bay in the 42-boat
Standard Laser fleet, Kyle
Swenson (FBYC)
finished 2nd overall. David
Tunnicliffe (NCYC) was
8th and Jon Deutsch (10th). Robert
Suhay also
competed in the standard rig fleet. Austin
Powers (FBYC) and Mary
Peyton Sanford (NYCC)
competed in the 19-boat Radial fleet.
Next Monday is a holiday!!
Look for your next issue of Southern
Bay Racing News You Can Use, #507, on TUESDAY, September 7th.
VOTE for ANNA! Anna
Tunnicliffe is one of the 10 finalists from around the world for the
Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year! VOTING
CLOSES August 31 - TOMORROW! Click HERE to
vote for Anna for Sportswoman of the Year. Here
in the southern Bay we know of Anna's accomplishments: Gold Medal in
the Women's Laser Radial dinghy at the 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao,
China; ISAF world's Number One-ranked women's Radial sailor from
April 9, 2008 to May 2010; voted 2009 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the
Year in November 2009; currently, as skipper of Team Tunnicliffe,
teamed up with Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi to take on
the world and go for Gold in 2012 London Olympic Games in Women's
Match Racing. Anna is a three-time
Collegiate All-American and three-time Collegiate National Champion
and is also a two-time recipient of the US Rolex Yachtswoman of the
Year award. [The other nine finalists are Torah Bright (Skate
Boarding), Rebecca Bross (Gymnastics), Yu-Na Kim (Skater), Kelly
Kulick (Bowling), Ai Miyazato (Golf), Alana Nichols (Paralympic
Skiing), Sanya Richards (Track and Field), Lindsey Vonn (Alpine
Skiing) and Serena Williams (Tennis)] The
winner will be announced Oct. 12.
The Bay
Days Festival, the continuation of Hampton's
400th birthday celebration, and THE
HAMPTON ANNUAL MIDDLE GROUND LIGHT RACE all
come together on Saturday,
September 11, the weekend after Labor Day Weekend. The race is
OPEN TO ALL, is a sanctioned regatta, offers starts for PHRF A.B, C,
and Non-Spin (2 headsail) as well as J24 one-design. Racing will be
in the harbor using CCV Harbor marks, including Middle Ground Light.
First warning is at 1030; there is a time limit at 1600 hours. Entry
deadline is Friday, September 10. For information, please
contactJohn McCarthy at (757) 850-4225. Race in the Hampton
Annual and stick around for Bay Days festivities including FIREWORKS!
Another great summer weekend in Hampton Roads.
On the Rappahannock River, September
11 brings the Fishing
Bay Yacht Club's Wolf Trap Race -
see www.fbyc.net,
and Yankee Point
Yacht Club has
their Fall Regatta scheduled.
Great Indian Summer racing - be sure to do all you can.