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2000 Port Huron Mac and Millennium 600 Coverage

Personnel from PortHuronmackinac.com will be sailing in the races and providing daily live reports.  Other staffers will provide shore based coverage.  Bookmark this page and check it often for race reports beginning Saturday July 15th.

Final Results:  Southampton Course
                      Shore Course

 

July 22 1130 MILLENNIUM 600 information now out.  First to finish was Magnitude in a time of 2 D 14 H 25 M 2 seconds an average of 9.40 knots.  Magnitude did win PHRF Class I, but was beaten for overall.  Below find the podium finishers in the PHRF Classes:
Class Yacht Hours Minutes Overall
PHRF 1 Magnitude 62 25 6
PHRF 1 Natalie J 63 07 8
PHRF 1 Wild Oats 65 06 9
PHRF 2 Vagary 60 57 2
PHRF 2 Moonraker 61 44 4
PHRF 2 Rambunctious 62 1 5
PHRF 3 Glider 59 16 1
PHRF 3 Souvenir 61 41 3
PHRF 3 Kutty's Ark 62 59 7

Winner of the IMS/Great Lakes 70's Class was Tom Neil's Nitemare.  2nd was Peter Thornton's Holua, with Dick Jenning's Pied Piper 3rd.  Many of the Millenium 600 winners will be heading back up Lake Michigan looking for more brag flags in the Chicago to Mackinac race which starts today.  For coverage click here
July 18 1:00 pm The Bayview site now has "Final" results up - the links are listed below.
July 18 11:00 am MILLENNIUM 600

Initial reports from Chicago show the first boats from the Millennium 600 as finishing.  Well in time for starting the Chicago as well as getting plenty of time for rest, relaxation and food!!

The following boats arrived in Chicago around sun up this morning:
Magnitude, Holua, Nitemare, Pied Piper, Stripes and Mongoose.
Windancer is not yet on the horizon.

The report on the conditions for the ride down Lake Michigan -
The 70's had a sleigh ride.  
Have you seen pictures of the Whitbread racers surfing? That was it!!
Traveling southwest with a northeast breeze that filled in to 30-40 knots and continued to blow for 10 hours.  The boats held their course to Chicago and were traveling around 15 knots for long periods of time with the occasional 18-19 stuck in. Frequent 'deck washings' kept the crew on their toes to stay on the boat.

We will add more information as we acquire it. 
July 17 5:30 pm The bulk of the Port Huron Mac fleet has finished.  Both the shore course and the Southampton course.  Unofficial results can be found at http://www.byc.com/mack00/southcrs.htm and http://www.byc.com/mack00/shorecrs.htm 

The current divisions leaders are: 
Southampton Course -
GL70 - Pied Piper
Open - Adagio (Gougeon 35)
PHRF A - Promotion (Frers 50)
PHRF B - Sagitta (J-44)
PHRF C - Hot Ticket (J-120)
PHRF D - Pendragon
PHRF E - Wild Ride
Shore Course - 
PHRF I - Bravo (C&C Mk-1 35)
PHRF J - Tar Baby (T-10)
PHRF K - Lady Luck (T-10)
PHRF L - Chippewa (Tarten 10)
July 17 1:15 pm THIS AFTERNOON...WEST WIND 10 TO 15 KNOTS BECOMING NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 25 KNOTS.  WAVES BUILDING TO 1 TO 2 FEET.
July 17 12:45 pm *UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Latitude   07 55 07
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: High Priority   07 28 18
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Tiki II  07 27 20
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Insatiable(25340)   07 06 03   
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Saturn   06 45 44
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Promotion   06 39 49
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Natalie J   06 27 43
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Windancer VI  04 40 00
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Chance   03 49 20
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Adagio   03 44 42
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Nitemare   03 38 37
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Colt 45   03 37 17
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Mirage   03 19 38
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME: Mongoose   03 11 02
July 17 10:00 am Experience reports 20 knots, upwind with approx 340 miles left to go in the Millennium 600.  Champosa is the nearest boat.
July 17 8:00 am TMI crew member  reports upwind 15 knots, westerly wind at Bois Blanc Island.
Last night, southerly wind with a lot of spinnaker work.
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  C-Attitude   03 55 16
USCG cutter Bramble reports that at Middle Island, Overdraft ran a ground around 3:40 am.  The keel is hitting rocks and they are not taking on any water.  The six person crew are all doing fine.
USCG cutter Bramble reports that at Spectacle Reef, Cynosure ran a ground at 1:34 am with thirteen people aboard.  When Cynosure got off the reef at 3:35 am  they were floating and taking on water.  The pump is doing a good job and they are under power to Cheyboygan with no major problems.  The crew members are all doing fine.
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Mirage   03 19 39
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Mongoose   03 10 20   Millennium 600 racer
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Holua   02 57 50
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Equation   02 14 54
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Stripes   02 09 42
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Renegade   01 53 49
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Pied Piper   01 38 09
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Magnitude   0 49 19
*UNOFFICIAL FINISH TIME:  Earth Voyager   20 52 51
July 16

10:00 am

 Northeast winds around 10 knots.
Most of the fleet is on a jib reach.

Of the TMI crew on the course - Brian Torresen on Pied Piper rounded the Southampton Light at 4:54 AM.  Ike Stephenson and Jeff Allen on Experience rounded at 8:21 AM.
July 15

3:30 pm

 Northeast winds 20 knots.  
Majority of the fleet is on port tack (heavily favored tack).
July 15 9:30 am Northwest winds 10-15 knots at start.
More breeze on the Canadian side.
July 14 8:00 pm BOAT NIGHT!! The whole town of Port Huron gears up for the party before the Port Huron Mackinac race.  From the private boat parties (like Renegade who commandeered an entire parking lot) to the public festival with carnival rides and loud music - there is something for just about everyone.

The Port Huron - Chicago Race (Millennium 600 this year) is an event that hasn't been raced since 1987.  The question among the crew members racing 'all the way around' for the first time is - How weird will it to be to drive on by the Pink Pony at the finish of the Port Huron Mac?
* - courtesy of Bayview Yacht Club