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March 1,
2007
Barking Spider
3 wins Salsa on a 3-way tiebreaker
PUERTO
VALLARTA,
Mexico---David Kory
and Gil Maguire were like rival candidates sweating out razor-thin
election returns. A day after finishing they watched anxiously Thursday
as race administrator Peggy
Redler ran the numbers for the Salsa Division in Del
Rey Yacht Club's 19th International Yacht Race to Puerto Vallarta,
presented by Corum.
After three
legs Kory's Barking Spider 3, from Point Richmond, Calif., and Maguire's Tenacity, Marina
del Rey, had wound up tied for first place with Jim Puckett's Amazing
Grace, Pacific Palisades, Calif., on overall corrected time based on
handicap ratings, engine use time and penalties, each with six points.
The
tiebreaker: which boat won the last leg: The winner: Barking Spider 3.
Kory's
MacGregor 65, the fastest-rated boat, finished first on every leg but
was always counting time in its wake because it owed its Spinnaker A
class rivals so much time. Maguire's J/133 won overall on
Leg 1 to Turtle Bay and Puckett's Farr 55 prevailed on Leg 2
to Point Lazaro before Barking Spider 3 corrected out against both on
Leg 3 to Puerto
Vallarta.
"We were
within four hours of one another on corrected time for the whole race,"
Kory said. "It was exciting and a well-sailed race for everyone."
And it also
was nice to be fast.
"The only boat
that beat us here was Magnitude 80," Kory said, noting that he had a
one-week head start on the
Andrews 80 that Doug Baker and his crew
sailed to a race record elapsed time of 3 days 15 hours 51 minutes 39
seconds, obliterating Joss's 22-year-old standard by about 31 hours.
Jim McCone's
Voice of Reason, an Ericson 32 from Lomita, Calif., won Spinnaker B class, while
Patrick Hearne's Far Niente, a Catalina 42 from Dana Point, Calif., won
the non-spinnaker class.
Barking Spider
3 used its engine fewer hours (20) for less distance (163 nautical
miles) than any other Salsa boat in the 1,125-nautical mile race. At the
top end of those scales were Jean Rooryck's Vision (102 hours) and Peter
Hirsch's Segue (586 miles).
"That means a
lot to me, too," Kory said, "because it is a sailboat race."
Awards will be presented at
separate banquets in Puerto
Vallarta Friday and Saturday. 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 Tuesday; handicap ratings in seconds per mile in
parentheses)
PHRF A (started
Feb. 23)
1. Magnitude 80
(Andrews 80), Doug Baker, Long Beach (-65), finished in 3 days 15
hours 51 minutes 39 seconds (avg. speed 12.8 knots); breaks record of
4:23:00:14 by Joss, 1985.
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), elapsed time 7 days 0 hours 11
minutes 39 seconds.
Salsa Division
/ Started Feb. 16
Leg 3
Final
standings, with engine use and penalties computed
Spinnaker A
1. Barking
Spider 3 (MacGregor 65), David Kory, Point Richmond, Calif. (-24 rating), motor hours
20/distance motored 163 miles.
2. Amazing
Grace (Farr 55), Jim Puckett, Pacific Palisades, Calif. (12), 26/212.
3. Tenacity (J/133), Gil Maguire,
Marina del Rey (9), 34/221.
Spinnaker
B
1. Voice of
Reason (Ericson 32), Jim McCone/Mike Verla, Lomita, Calif. (180), 39/240.
2. Classic
Impulse (Catalina 40), Sean Roll, Riverside, Calif. (102), 40/251.
3. Jungle Jim (Jeanneau
49), Jim Maslon, Marina del Rey (69), competed only on Leg 3.
Non-spinnaker
1. .Far Niente
(Catalina 42), Pat Hearne, Monarch Beach, Calif. (102), 37/249.
2. Aquarius
(Jeanneau 43), Hiro Funaoku, Marina
del
Rey (117), 40/258.
3. Polaire
(Tayana 52), Hideshige Seki, Tokyo, Japan (87), 64/41.
4. Segue (Island Packet 485), Peter
Hirsch, Santa
Monica, Calif.
(114), 82/586.
5. Vision (Tayana 48), Jean
Rooryck, Woodland
Hills, Calif. (78), 102/450.
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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