Pyewacket 70 Units New Puerto Vallarta Race Report

On Tuesday, the Puerto Vallarta Race race committee studied the YB tracker all afternoon making an attempt to anticipate when the primary boat would cross the road. That honor went to Pyewacket 70. Actually, each Pyewacket 70 and Rio100 eclipsed Rio100’s 2016 monohull course report of three days, 5 hours, 42 minutes, 43 seconds. Pyewacket 70 bettered that point by 64 minutes, Rio100 by 25 minutes.

To complete first and break the report, Pyewacket truly sailed probably the most miles within the 2022 fleet, 1,223. (ORR-5’s second-place finisher, Michael T. Ewens’ Olson 40 Akaw!, sailed the least complete variety of miles within the race, 1,075.)

Racers on each ends of the pace spectrum loved the surroundings and wildlife alongside the best way. Off the coast of Baja, Roy Disney wrote, “Plenty of sea life, mom and child grey whale, sea turtles and packs of seabirds selecting off flying fish that we scare up.”

Wayne Zittel of the Santa Cruz 52 J World’s Hula Lady wrote, “Large pod of dolphins round us at this very second. And the implausible crusing days simply hold coming. Actually, the crusing is so best on this one, the crew hasn’t even talked about stopping in Cabo for a fast margarita. That could be a primary for me.”

Natalie Criou of San Francisco, crusing her Figaro 2 Envolée in ORR-6, wrote, “When the solar rose it illuminated a brilliantly quick luck duck bearing down on our place. They had been enjoyable to look at, however sadly weren’t in our sight lengthy.” Oh wait, that’s not a fowl she’s referring to — it’s Dave MacEwen’s Rogers 46 Fortunate Duck racing previous in ORR-3.

The race didn’t finish efficiently for all entries. If this occasion had a Secretary of the Navy award for fortitude and energy, it might go to BlueFlash. A crew member sustained damaged ribs and a secure backbone fracture from a fall into the cockpit throughout a sail maneuver. The J/121 put in at Turtle Bay. The injured crewman toughed his approach by way of an in a single day bus experience up Baja to Tijuana to stroll throughout the border for a visit to the emergency room. The skipper, Scott Grealish, solo-delivered the boat 400 miles upwind again to San Diego.

John Raymont’s Ker 51 Quick Exit II, crusing in ORR-2, is the general winner on corrected time. The awards ceremony will likely be held on the Westin Resort and Spa Puerto Vallarta tonight at 6 p.m.

Now on to MEXORC! That regatta will sail March 19-22 on Banderas Bay. We hope to incorporate protection of each occasions within the Could difficulty of Latitude 38.