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Geoff and Mary Ewenson onboard Terminally Pretty at SBRW. Photo by David Baxter[/caption]
Over 100 boats entered into Southern Bay Race Week, which unfolds June 3-9 at the Hampton YC. It seems that the tagline “Y’all Come Racing!” is working better than most on the Chesapeake. If you’re looking to bring more people to your racing events, you might want to check out what the folks at HYC are doing—it’s working! And ask anyone who races down there what they think about the event, and it’s a guarantee you’ll hear them talk about hospitality.
Bob Fleck and his crew on the Olson 911S Mad Hatter will be back on the race course to defend their top honors in PHRF B as well as the Black Seal Cup they took home in 2015 as top overall competitor. Fleck hails from Hardyville, VA, and digs the top of the podium, so the 16-boat PHRF B division better be practicing their tacks and gybes.
The 2015 winner in PHRF A, Craig White and the Fishing Bay YC-based team on the J/109 Afterthought, are back in the mix, too, as are the Solomons-based team on David and Jacki Meiser’s Colgate 26 Easy Button to maintain their #1 status in PHRF C.
Ron Medline of Wilmington, NC, will be back with his crew on the J/24 Bash to defend their top honors from last year. Virginia Beach sailor Bill Barnes and his crew on the Irwin 38-1 Restless, who won the Cruising 2 division in 2015, will also be on the scene.
As expected, most of the boats hail from Solomons on south to Virginia Beach, but there are Annapolis boats making the trek to Hampton for the big event, as well as a token Baltimore boat, Steve Young on Project Mayhem.
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