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2019 Southern Bay Race Week at Hampton Yacht Club - Preview

by J/Boats 31 May 2019 04:57 PDT 31 May - 2 June 2019
PHRF action at the Southern Bay Race Week involving Truculent Turtle and Cheeky Monkey © Southern Bay Race Week / PhotoBoat

The first week of June marks the opening of the summer season for the southern Chesapeake Bay offshore sailing season. Hosted by Norfolk Yacht Club, the Southern Bay Race Week is enthusiastically supported by numerous J/Teams in the area for both PHRF Handicap racing and one-design classes.

The half-dozen J/70 class has crews like Arielle Darrow's all-women's team on Lady Vortexes, Rob Gorman's Surrender To The Floe, Scott Dinse's Margaritaville, and Mike Karn's Inconceivable.

Sailing PHRF Super A Class is Ian Hill's J/111 Sitella. In PHRF A1 Class are Craig Wright's J/109 Afterthought and two J/36's (Phil Briggs' Feather and Will Roberts' Remedy.

In PHRF B1 Class is Ben Weeks and Michele Cochran's J/29 Rumble from Hampton Yacht Club. In PHRF B2 Class is Rusty Burshell's J/30 Cool Change.

In the Cruising B Division are John Wandling's J/28 Pisces and Christian Johnson's J/24 Bleu Bus from Virginia Beach, VA.

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