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Feb. 26,
2007
Big winds gone,
but Mag still on record pace
PUERTO
VALLARTA,
Mexico---By no choice
of its own, Magnitude 80 is drawing out the drama in its run at the
record in Del Rey Yacht Club's 19th International Yacht Race to
Puerto
Vallarta, presented by Corum. Because of the
variability of winds across the Gulf of
California, the finish time was projected at sometime
between 4:30 and 8 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Despite
slowing down, Magnitude 80 would need to finish only by noon PST
Wednesday (2 p.m. Puerto
Vallarta time) to beat the record.
Monday
morning's 8 a.m. PST official roll call position report had Doug Bakers'
Andrews 80 making only 8.5 knots in 9 knots of breeze---about half what
it found in its fun run from the start down to Cabo San Lucas at the tip
of Baja
California---with 203 nautical miles to go.
Later, at
about 2 p.m. PST, the Flagship tracking program showed the Long Beach boat
sailing at 103 knots with 135 miles remaining before it could wrest the
record from the 22-year grip of Joss, the MacGregor 65 that sailed the
1,125 miles in 4 days 23 hours 14 seconds in 1985.
Magnitude 80
passed Raincloud late Sunday and by Monday afternoon had left Lorenzo
Berho's J/145 98 miles behind, with the other boat taking a more
northerly course to its home port, making 5.9 knots with 233 miles to
go. The Mexican entry had a two-day head start in PHRF-B class.
The Salsa
fleet started its third and last leg around mid-day Monday with three
boats---Jim Puckett's Amazing Grace (3-1), David Kory's Barking Spider 3
(1-3)and Gil Maguire's Tenacity (2-2)---sharing the lead with four
points each in the spinnaker class on overall handicap time. They were
expected to cross the gulf in two or more days.
Awards will be presented at
separate banquets in Puerto
Vallarta Saturday and Sunday. Corum, the lead
sponsor, will present the Admiral's Cup Trophy 41 watch to the winner of
each class within each division. The timepiece with a 41mm stainless
steel case and nautical pennants instead of numerals to indicate the
hours was introduced by Corum before the 2005 race.
Corum is an independent,
family owned company producing high-quality and prestigious Swiss
watches since 1955. The Admiral watch, along with the complete Corum
line, may be seen at www.corum.ch
Position
reports, boat tracking and more race information at www.pv07.com
Standings:
Racing Division
(Official
positions at 8 a.m. PST Monday; handicap ratings in seconds per mile in
parentheses)
PHRF A (started
Feb. 23)
Magnitude 80
(Andrews 80), Doug Baker, Long
Beach (-165), 203 miles to go (avg. speed 13.7
knots).
RETIRED---Scout
Spirit (Reichel/Pugh 77), David
Janes, Newport
Beach (-123).
PHRF B (started
Feb. 21)
1. Raincloud
(J/145), Lorenzo Berho, Puerto
Vallarta (-25), 248 miles to go (avg. speed 5.9
knots).
Salsa Division
/ Started Feb. 16
(Positions
through Friday)
Leg 2
(Leg 2 finishes
boat for boat; handicap ratings
to be computed
at finish)
Spinnaker A
1. Barking
Spider 3 (MacGregor 65), David Kory, Concord, Calif. (-24), finished Thursday at
15:49:24.
2. Amazing
Grace (Farr 55), Jim Puckett, Pacific Palisades, Calif. (12), Thursday
17:01:10.
3. Tenacity
(J/133), Gil Maguire, Marina del Rey (9), Thursday 17:13:20.
Spinnaker
B
1. Classic
Impulse (Catalina 40), Sean Roll, Riverside, Calif. (102), 34 Friday
00:58:23.
2. Voice of
Reason (Ericson 32), Jim McCone/Mike Verla, Lomita, Calif. (180), Friday
03:28:15.
RETIRED---Jungle
Jim (Jeanneau 49), Jim Maslon, Marina del Rey (69).
Non-spinnaker
1. Far Niente
(Catalina 42), Pat Hearne, Monarch Beach, Calif. (102), Friday
00:31:50.
2. Polaire
(Tayana 52), Hideshige Seki, Tokyo, Japan (87), Friday
02:15:58.
3. Vision
(Tayana 48), Jean Rooryck, Woodland Hills, Calif. (78), Friday 03:28:15.
4. Aquarius
(Jeanneau 43), Hiro Funaoku, Marina del Rey (117), Friday 03:42:13.
5. Segue (Island Packet 485), Peter
Hirsch, Santa
Monica, Calif.
(114), Friday 04:37:41.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Del
Rey Yacht Club
(310) 823-4664
www.pv07.com
RACE CHAIRMAN
David Ross
(310) 980-7829
pv07@dryc.org
PRESS OFFICER
Rich Roberts
(310)
835-2526
richsail@earthlink.net
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