Off to Cabo (or San Diego)
Run Past the Border
Starts in Newport Harbor Yacht Club’s Newport Beach to Cabo San Lucas International Yacht Race began yesterday. They continue through Sunday, concluding with the two-boat Multihull Division. The plan is thus for all boats to finish in Cabo by Thursday, March 21, when awards will be handed out. Check out who’s racing and when they start(ed) here.
The fastest boats on the course should be Manouch Moshayedi’s Rio100 monohull and Giovanni Soldini’s Multi 70 Maserati. Remarkable among the boats in the first start is the Long Beach YC-based 67-ft 1939 Sparkman & Stephens yawl Chubasco, skippered by LBYC’s Will Durant. In this offshore reach/run, part of the lead-up to this summer’s massive 50th Transpac, 28 boats signed up. As of this morning, Seth Hall’s J/124 Marisol was leading the five-boat ORR 5 division, with Chubasco only 7 miles behind.
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NOOD in San Diego
Meanwhile, San Diego YC and Coronado YC are co-hosting the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta starting today on South San Diego Bay and the Coronado Roads. Coronado YC will host tonight’s party, and SDYC will host parties on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s post-race event will include a presentation by Tucker Thompson about the America’s Cup. Saturday’s sailing includes the North Sails Rally, which welcomes monohulls and multihulls that don’t fit into a one-design category. The multihulls in the rally are all Farrier or Corsair trimarans, and the monohulls include such diverse designs as a Left Coast Dart and the 6-Meter Sprig. Etchells, Beneteau First 36.7s and 40.7s, J/105s, J/120s, J/70s, Flying Tiger 10s, Viper 640s, I-14s and 29er skiffs, F-18 beach cats, and a new design, the RS 21, all have one-design divisions.
The smaller designs are racing on South San Diego Bay. In all, 126 boats registered. Competitors hail from as far away as British Columbia, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Florida and Jalisco, Mexico. See www.sailingworld.com/tags/helly-hansen-nood-regatta-in-san-diego to learn more.