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This year is the 62nd running of
the race. 272 sail boats left the starting line Friday (4/24/09) in
Newport Beach for 125 nautical mile race to Ensenada.
Weather: as of Saturday
4/25/099:00 AM Mostly sunny, breezy, 8-10 kts from the West.
Race Facts Number of boats entered this year: 272 Fastest rated Boat: Doug
Baker's Magnitude 80
(Andrews 80 - Long Beach) Fastest time to date: The Late Steve Fosset's
Stars & Stripes Catamaran - 6 hrs, 46Min, 40Sec - 1998
Schedule - Starting
Thurs, April 23rd
Thursday eve. - Send off party, Bahia Corinthian
YC Friday Noon - Start of race, Newport Beach Saturday AM - Boats arrive in Ensenada Sunday Afternoon - Trophy Party, Bahia Hotel, Ensenada
Race
Organizer Newport Ocean Sailing Association
Newport Beach, CA www.nosa.org
62nd
Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht Race
Saturday, April 25, 2009
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BULLETIN ---
ENSENADA,
Baja California, Mexico---Doug Baker's Magnitude 80 broke the race record
for monohulls late Friday night when it finished the 62nd Newport to
Ensenada International Yacht Race at 10:37:50 p.m. in 10 hours 37 minutes
50 seconds---7 minutes 3 seconds faster than the record for the
125.5-nautical mile race set by Roy E. Disney's Pyewacket III in 2003.
Also notable,
H.L. Enloe's big trimaran, LoeReal, finished nearly two hours earlier at
8:45:03 p.m. with an elapsed time of 8 hours 45 minutes 3 seconds to log
the race's second fastest time ever for a multihull, next to the late
Steve Fossett's record of 6:46:40 on the Stars & Stripes catamaran in
1998.
Details will
follow later.
Rich Roberts
Press Officer
Newport to Ensenada Race
310.835.2526
cell 310.766.6547
richsail@earthlink.net
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