Race to Mackinac

[troutman]

I just learned about this race in Chicago. 333 mile yacht club race. Starts in 17 hours. Sounds really cool:

http://www.cycracetomackinac.com

"Harrowing" conditions forecast.

At 333 miles (289.4 nautical miles), the Race to Mackinac is the oldest annual freshwater distance race in the world. ‘The Mac’ starts at the Chicago Lighthouse, just off Navy Pier and continues to Mackinac Island.

[troutman]

What is the record for the fastest race?

Pyewacket, a Reichel Pugh 75, owned and skippered by Roy Disney, set the monohull record in 2002 with an elapsed time of 23 hours, 30 minutes and 34 seconds. This broke the 14-year record of 25 hours,
50 minutes and 44 seconds established by the yacht Pied Piper, a Santa Cruz 70 owned and skippered by Dick Jennings. For multihulls, the record of 18 hours 50 minutes and 32 seconds was set in 1998 by Steve Fossett on Stars and Stripes, the catamaran previously sailed by Dennis Conner in the America’s Cup.

The race usually takes most of the fleet between 40 and 60 hours to finish.

[EldrickOnIce]

Wonder if there is much of anything to see live at the start. Can't really find anything at the website.
If do, I may just have to go down and check it out.

[troutman]

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018
Search Suspended for Man Overboard in Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

After nearly seven hours of active search efforts, the US Coast Guard has suspended the search to locating the missing sailor aboard Imedi, a Transpac 52 competing in the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. The sailor has been identified as Jon Santarelli, a 53-year-old from Lincoln Park (Chicago).

The search efforts included approximately 20 boats and three helicopters from US Coast Guard, Chicago Fire, Chicago Police and Chicago Yacht Club covering nearly 47 square miles. All competitors in the vicinity immediately suspended their own racing efforts to assist in the search. The man overboard occurred approximately five miles east of Navy Pier, 40 minutes after Imedi began the Race to Mackinac.

Santarelli had more than a decade of offshore racing experience, and was a core member of the Imedi Racing team as well as the greater Chicago sailing community. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and teammates.

[troutman]

Search for Race to Mackinac boater resumes: 'The whole sailing community is pretty torn up by this'

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...722-story.html


Results:


http://competitor.cycracetomackinac.com/results.cfm