Fleet Updates

All results are preliminary

Section One Windquest arrives first and far ahead of the fleet, they should take Section One honors in addition to the Royono Trophy for first to finish. Second and third place are yet to be determined with protests pending on Wooton and Equation . 9 boats are in of the 15 boat fleet.

GL70’s Nitemare, skippered by Tom Neill corrects over Evolution in the Great Lakes 70 class for the Section Win. This is the second consecutive year Nitemare has won in the section. All 10 boats in the fleet are in.

Multihulls Cheekee Monkee was the first Multihull to finish. Nice Pair had a man-overboard in the middle of the race, but the skipper and crew executed a text book man-overboard rescue and all is well. ‘We actually performed a man-overboard drill the morning we left for the race,’ said skipper of Nice Pair Bruce Geffen of Ann Arbor, Mich. ‘He [the crewmember] went over in about 15 knots and it took us about 12 minutes to get him back onboard.’ The crew and skipper are fine. Of the 9 boat fleet, 4 have finished and 1 boat, Moxie, has retired.

Section 2 18 boat fleet, 2 have finished; the Natalie J, a Nelson Marek 46 skippered by Phillip O’Niel III of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. and Fine Line, a Nelson Marek 46 as well, skippered by Rich Montplaishir of Park Ridge, Ill.

J105 Mac Race Chairman Bob Smith, skipper of New World, called in at 11:45 CDT on Monday around Fox Island moving at a frustrating .93 knots. ‘The lake looks like a mirror. We’re getting a great tan and we just paid homage to wind gods, in hopes we will stop bobbing around here.’

Section 6 At 5:17 p.m. Don Glassell aboard LA Woman called. ‘We are under chute right now going along in the Manitous. We can see Big Meanie behind us, a multihull ahead and a bunch of T-10’s. We have enough food for another day, so I think we’ll make it.’

Cruising Fleet Four boats of the 18 cruisers in this new division have retired. Four boats have called in at the 45th parallel although the rest of the cruisers with GPS appear to be entering the Manitous right behind them.

Among the rest of the boats (the majority of the fleet) we have several call-ins at the 45th, but that is still about 100 miles away from the finish. It’s going to be a busy night!

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