Division Winners

PHRF

Jerome Sullivan’s Bacchant, a 64-foot mahogany sailboat built in Norway in the 1930s won the Performance Handicapped Racing Federation (PHRF) division, which rates different types of boats with a handicap so that they can fairly race against each other.  The Milwaukee Yacht Club boat won The Mackinac Cup with a corrected time of 30:33:07. Second place in the PHRF division is Charles Boelkins’ Ragged Edge at 30:34:39, followed by Jack Kelley’s C.C. Rider at 30:49:21.

Larry Ellison’s Farr Maxi 81 Sayonara earned First-to-Finish honors for the PHRF division and The Royono Trophy, with corrected time of 32:24:37.

One Design

Bill Alcott’s Great Lakes 70 Equation won the One Design Division and The Mackinac Trophy with an adjusted time of 36:24:25.  The One Design Division is comprised of five different classes, each made up of similar boats, with time adjustments made according to the predicted boat speed for the class.  Equation also earned One Design First-to-Finish honors and The Clinch Trophy by edging out record holder Dick Jenning’s Pied Piper by 22 seconds.  Pied Piper took second with 36:26:35, followed by Peter Thornton’s Holua at 36:56:39.

Open

Gamera, a 27-foot trimaran owned by Matthew Scharl of the Midwest Open Racing Fleet, is the winner of the open division (multi-hulled boats) with an adjusted time of 32:52:29.  Second place went to Bruce Geffen’s Nice Pair at 33:29:20, which also earned First-to-Finish honors for the division.  David Schneider’s High Priority 2 took third place with 35:05:36.

Americap, a new handicap ratings system sanctioned by U.S. Sailing was used for the first time this year.  Seventy-four of the boats, all of which were entered into one of the three main divisions, were certified in the ratings system, which is based on boat measurements.  Winner of the Americap Division is Jerry and Shawn O’Neill’s Eagle, a Sydney 38 out of Chicago Yacht Club, with a corrected time of 39:00:10.  The rest of the top five places went to Verb and Thomas’s Goblin.com at 39:08:10, Dorsey Ruley’s Majic at 39:14:28, Dick Jenning’s Pied Piper at 39:34:50 and Alice Martin’s Painkiller 4 at 39:53:17.

Within each division, preliminary class winners include:

PHRF 1 (boats with the largest handicaps) winner is Philip O’Niel’s Natalie J, a Nelson 47 out of Bayview Yacht Club at 32:09:00, followed by Michael Campbell’s Victoria 5 at 32:21:40 and Stephen Murray’s Decision at 32:24:04.

PHRF 2 winner is Tim Woodhouse’s Rumours out of New York Yacht Club, a Thompson 35 at 31:14:09, followed by Randall Pittman’s Ruffian at 31:52:07 and Dr. Edward Buerger’s Fast Eddy at 32:11:12.

PHRF 3 winner is division winner Bacchant, followed by Ragged Edge and C.C. Rider.

PHRF 4 winner is Peter Karl’s Dr. Detroit, a Beneteau 40 out of Burnham Park Yacht Club, at 34:17:18, followed by William Harris Smith’s Wooton 2 at 35:10:53 and James Hellquist’s Spitfire at 35:56:06.

PHRF 5 winner is Michael Bremer’s Station Wagon, an SR33 out of Macatawa Bay Yacht Club, at 35:17:04, followed by John Gottwald’s Eagles Wings at 35:21:43 and Jeff and Carol Comeaux’s Outrageous at 35:29:46.

PHRF 6 winner is Donald Meyer’s Certainly, a J110 out of Columbia Yacht Club, at 35:21:16, followed by Andrews and Vaughn’s Holy Toledo at 35:47:30 and Thomas Merlin’s Siren Song at 35:54:48.

PHRF 7 winner is Randall Kuhn’s Cheep N’ Deep, a C&C39 out of Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club, at 33:02:21, followed by Alan Baske’s Nana at 36:12:31 and Charles Cable’s Time at 36:40:53.

PHRF 8 winner is Stearns and Williams’ Glider, a Cal 40 out of Chicago Yacht Club, at 32:09:40.  Second place went to Dobeus and Hansmann’s Accord at 40:12:25, followed by John Gallagher’s White Spray at 42:01:16.

PHRF 9 winner is Thomas Kuber’s Bantu, a Bls40 out of Menominee-Marinette Yacht Club, at 41:56:47, followed by Greg Moll’s Falcon at 43:31:27 and Thomas Van Tol’s Tomfoolery at 43:55:17.

Great Lakes 70 class winner is division winner Equation, followed by Pied Piper and Holua.

Farr 40 class winner is Steven Mash’s Hot Lips of Chicago Yacht Club at 37:02:18, with the top five finishers in the class finishing within 12 minutes of each other.  In second is Helmut Jahn’s Flash Gordon at 37:08:33, followed by W.F. Dooley’s Sorcerer at 37:10:18.

J105 class leader is Tom Edman’s Pronto II of Jackson Park Yacht Club at 39:43:14, followed by Len Siegal’s Lucky Dubie at 39:54:14 and Philip Nieman’s Cetare at 40:01:01.

J35 class winner is Michael Sterenberg’s Ragtime out of Muskegon Yacht Club at 40:49:07, followed by Bruce Metcalf’s Bozo’s Circus at 41:05:15 and Edward Cohen’s Jason at 41:20:11.

Tartan 10 winner is Goff and Clasen’s Windemon out of Great Salt Lake Yacht Club at 45:50:41, followed by James Mitchell’s Contumatious out of Chicago Yacht Club (no corrected score available) and Eaton and Fagerstrom’s Amateur II at 46:55:06.