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From 2011 until 2019 the title sponsor of the race has been Bell's Brewery of Kalamazoo, Michigan and the race was designated the Bell's Beer Bayview Mackinac Race. Since 2020, the race has been officially termed the "Bayview Mackinac Race." The July 2019 running of the race was the 95th such annual event, with 202 sailboats registered. [2]
[2] The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac Race is often confused with the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race. They were held on the same weekend until 1939, when both clubs agreed to alternate the date of their Mackinac races, scheduling them a week apart. The 104th running of the race began on July 21, 2012. [3] 320 boats were entered in the ...
Bayview's first clubhouse was a two-story tin shanty built atop a floored-over boat well at the foot of what was then known as Motor Boat Lane, adjacent to Water Works Park. Bayview moved to its present clubhouse and harbor, at the foot of Clairpointe, in 1929–30. Bayview Yacht Club's Port Huron to Mackinac Race has sailed annually since 1925.
Sailboats set sail during the start of the Bayview Mackinac Race on Lake Huron in Port Huron on Saturday, July 16, 2022. That time has come once again for Boat Week, Port Huron's largest summer ...
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However, the first Chicago Race to Mackinac was held in 1898, so it is the oldest annual freshwater distance in the world, the 2017 edition was the 109th running of the race. As for the Super Mac Race as "longest," the Lake Ontario Offshore Racing (LO 600) and the Great Lakes Single-handed Society (Super Mac & Back) are longer.
Cowes-Cherbourg Race Royal Ocean Racing Club: 17 June 2011 Chris Reddish (GBR), 46 Lion, Reflex 38 [13] Chicago-Mackinac Race Chicago Yacht Club: 17 July 2011 Mark Morley (USA), 51 Suzanne Bickel (USA), 41 WingNuts, Kiwi 35 head injuries during capsize [14] Farallones Race San Francisco Yacht Club: 14 April 2012 Alexis Busch (USA)