(Port Huron, MI)- This coming weekend, the Bayview to Mackinac Island
Race starts Saturday July 20th. This year's event has 239 entries
participating across the spectrum of double-handed and fully crewed
divisions in PHRF or ORR handicap racing.The race organizers offer the sailors two options for courses: the longer Cove Island course takes teams up onto the Canadian side of Lake Huron up north near a buoy to the entrance of the North Channel in Ontario, then head nearly due WNW to Mackinac Island for the finish. The other course is a direct shot, mostly up the eastern Michigan shoreline right to Mackinac, generally a reaching course.
Sailing in the Cove Island course in Division I is a highly competitive fleet, including a raft of past J/120 overall champions. Dueling with this gang will be two J/111s, including the Brummel/ Henderson/ Mayer trio on KASHMIR and Tim Clayson's UNPLUGGED, and the J/124 STILL MESSIN' sailed by Adam Messelman. For more Bayview Mackinac Island sailing information
