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The 2019 edition of the race, its fiftieth, saw the sinking of a yacht for the first time in its history, when the 68 foot mono-hulled sailboat Santa Cruz 70 OEX suffered rudder damage and an uncontrollable water intrusion. [5] [6] The crew was rescued by another racing boat. This edition also saw the greatest number of skippers dropping out of ...
Merlin approaching Diamond Head. The Merlin is a 68 foot long by 12 foot wide monohull racing yacht designed by Bill Lee.Weighing 25,000 pounds, it is considered one of the most famous racing yachts in the United States, and has won numerous offshore yacht races including the Transpac (Transpacific Yacht Race) in 1977, establishing a course record that stood for 20 years.
Bill Lee is the designer of noted ocean racing yachts, and one of the founders of the Santa Cruz school of boatbuilding.Known to many as the Wizard, Lee's designs achieved notoriety in the 1970s, with Chutzpah [1] and Merlin having won the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu many times. [2]
Santa Cruz boats are made to order so the roughly $600,000 base price of a Santa Cruz 52 can climb to well over $1 million; even ten-year-old Santa Cruz 52's are fetching a half million dollars. The newer Santa Cruz 53 with a base price of about $850,000 is substantially a more luxiourious and heavier adaptation of the 52.
Vic-Maui challenges navigators to demonstrate their weather routing and navigational skills both out at sea and maneuvering in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. [6] Success depends on the navigator's skill in predicting where the high pressure zone of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and trade winds will be, nearly a week into the future.
The boat was built by C&C Yachts, at Erich Bruckmann's custom shop at Bronte, Ontario, Canada, starting in 1970.During its production run, a total of nine examples were completed, [1] [3] though it is possible the last two 61s credited as built were actually constructed and registered as 62 ft (19 m) ketches (see C&C Custom 62).
The Vic-Maui, the longest offshore sailing race off the west coast of North America, starts off Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and finishes near Lahaina, Maui, United States, a distance of approximately 2,308 nautical miles (4,274 km). In the Vic-Maui 1994 the then brand new C&C 37R "Luna" competed, finishing 3rd in Div B, 15th of 24 boats ...
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