SAILING : Chance First to Finish Transpac
Chance, a dark blue Santa Cruz 70 from the Los Angeles Yacht Club owned and skippered by Bob McNulty, was first to finish the 36th biennial Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii at 9:59 (PDT) Tuesday night.
The 2 1/2-year-old boat also appeared to be the winner on corrected handicap time among 42 boats in five classes.
Chance, which led from the start, completed the 2,216-nautical-mile course from Point Fermin to the finish line off Diamond Head in 10 days 8 hours 59 minutes, well off the record of 8:11:01:45 set by Merlin in 1979.
Silver Bullet, John DeLaura’s SC 70 that was first to finish in 1989, was expected to follow Chance by 3 1/2 hours, with Roy Disney’s new SC 70 Pyewacket another 2 1/2 hours behind.
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