Alan Block
editor
Alan and Meredith Block of Sailing Anarchy/Blocksail recap the planning and coverage of the The 100th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. With the help and support of the Sailing Anarchy community and Kathleen Torresen of Torresen Marine of Muskegon, Michigan, Alan (Mr. Clean) and Mer have done a exceptional and amazing job of reporting and informing a worldwide audience on the adventures of the Race to Mackinac participants...
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Thierry Martinez
Keith Taylor
PUERTO PORTALS, MALLORCA, July 22, 2008 – The American TP52 Quantum Racing remains at the top of the Audi MedCup scoreboard after finishing third overall in the opening day of competition today at the Breitling Regatta at Puerto Portals on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca...
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JH Peterson
David Dellenbaugh
Race committees usually try to set their finish lines square to the wind direction, but windshifts and other factors often skew the line and favor one end. It’s not uncommon for this favored end to be two or more boatlengths closer, and when you’re trying to gain every inch to beat your competition, this can make a huge difference.
Theoretically, a good way to understand the orientation of any finish line is by visualizing “ladder rungs,” or imaginary lines drawn on the water perpendicular to the wind direction. At an upwind finish, the favored end is the one on the lower ladder rung (since you are climbing up the ladder and you’ll get to this one first). At a downwind finish, the favored end is on the higher ladder rung.
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Peter
Peter
Following up on the race report from Tuesday night, I emailed Joy Okazaki of Hot Pursuit, the boat we collided with, to get a clearer picture of what happened. I got that and more.
First of all, here was the situation:
Our strategy was to avoid the crowd at the pin. Unfortunately, with Tundra Rose (TR) to leeward of us and the starboard tackers in front of us, we felt boxed in. As we approached the pin layline, TR “helpfully” suggested that we should “make our turn.” We went for it. We tacked under Hot Pursuit and then began the luffing game. As we drifted there the jib backwinded and we tacked.
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Racing Rules of Sailing
Section C has been completely rewritten and split into three rules: 18 -Markroom, 19 - Room to pass an obstruction and 20 - Room to Tack at an Obstruction
The preamble of part C covers all of them:
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Rolex
Rolex US-IRC National Championship Second annual national title to be decided at Little Traverse Yacht Club's Annual Regatta & One Design Series Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA – This week many of the Mackinac race boats are making the approximately 50 nm delivery to Harbor Springs, Mich. for Little Traverse Yacht Club's 48th Annual Regatta and One Design Series, where the battle for the Rolex US-IRC National title will take place in IRC Division 1. The winning skipper will receive the Rolex US-IRC National Championship trophy and a specially engraved Rolex timepiece.
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Thierry Martinez
Audi MedCup
Winners of the first regatta of the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008, Peter de Ridder’s Mean Machine (MON) leads the Breitling Regatta after the first three races on the Bay of Palma off Puerto Portals. ..
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Barby MacGowan
July 22, 2008 – SAN FRANCISCO – Steadily gaining on the fleet, Raindrop (Portland, Ore.) has pushed into first place overall, recalling Skip Allen's double-handed victory aboard Wildflower in 2002. Employing a similar strategy of a sharp southern starting course, combined with superior boathandling, Easton and Huseby on Raindrop are now the ones to beat.
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Wally Cross
Wally Cross
ListenWally reports on the 2008 CYC Race to Mackinac from Bill Alcott's Equation.
Paul Cayard
Paul Cayard
It is going fast. The boat, the race, the dream. We are half way to Hawaii. The first two nights were cold, wet and high speed. Everyone was wet to the bone. Everything on the boat got soaked. We had a few minor fire drills. Mainsail down and Robbie up the mast to lead a new spinnaker halyard.
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Joy Dunigan
The International Melges 32 Class Association will celebrate its third, and largest ever U.S. National Championship on July 25-27 in Newport, R.I. The regatta will be held in conjunction with the New York Yacht Club's Race Week at Newport, presented by Rolex. Twenty entries have been confirmed. ..
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Christie Kirchner
There are four overall winners for the 100th Running of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac representing top honors in each of the four divisions: Chicago-Mackinac Trophy Division, Mackinac Cup Division, Multihull Division, and the Cruising Division. The preliminary results for division winners have been determined. Congratulations to the boats that made their way through this challenging race and emerged victorious.
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Ray Cudney
Skip Dieball
Darrell Peck (Gresham, OR) won an abbreviated North American Championship series sailed in mostly light, challenging winds on Lake Champlain. This was another victory in a series for one of the class’s veterans and all around good guys. Darrell has helped hundreds of Finn sailors (myself included) get into the class and enjoy high-octane singlehanded sailing!
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CYC
As the day progressed forward, so too did the boats participating in the 100th Running of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. The sound of the cannon firing, indicating a boat crossing the finish line, became more and more frequent.
As of 6:29 p.m., 90 boats had finished and 16 retired. Nearly all boats in from the Turbo and Great Lake 70 sections are in as the cannon continues to sound almost every minute as a stream of boats continue past Round Island light at the finish.
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Barby MacGowan
Put-In-Bay, Ohio (July 18, 2008) – Over 160 junior sailors converged on tiny South Bass Island on Lake Erie for the first of three events in the Inter-Lake Yachting Association's (I-LYA) Bay Week Regattas. Held July 14-18 and presented by Progressive and sponsored by GMC, the Junior Bay Week Regatta hosted sailing in five one-design classes (Thistle, 420, Club FJ, Laser and Laser Radial) for youngsters ages 13-18...
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