2015 Supermac Race overall

by Barby MacGowan on 17 Jul 2015

The Supermac Race, an extension of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac and a precursor to this Saturday’s start of the Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race, wound up with 31 entrants, and after four dropouts, 27 finishers. Among those finishers, it was the smaller boats that fared the best, just as they had in the “Chicago Mac” (which started on Lake Michigan July 11th).

“Supermac racers are those that keep racing, without stopping, after their Chicago Mac finish (at Mackinac Island) to a Port Huron finish line, for a total of 500 nautical miles,” explained Supermac Co-Chair and Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Chair Peter Wenzler, who sailed aboard Bill Alcott’s 65-foot Equation. “The smaller boats started first in the Chicago Mac, but halfway through the race the fleet inverted and the big boats got ahead. However, the wind was such that the larger boats had to beat their way to the Supermac finish while the smaller boats got to run in 30 knots of breeze, so it became their race.”

Equation finished third over the line behind Peter and Christopher Thornton’s Volvo 70 Il Mostro and Rick Warner’s ORMA 60 Arete, in that order, but corrected out to fourth in Monohull Class One. (Il Mostro corrected out to sixth Equation’s same class, while Arete finished third in the Multihull Class.) Winning Multhull Class was Jonathan Alvord’s Corsair F-31R Triceratops, while taking Monohull Classes Two, Three and Four, respectively, were Bill Martin’s 70-foot Stripes, Gintaras Karaitis’s Schock 41 Quick Silver and Michael Leland’s Najad 332 Hope. To Wenzler’s point, the top three finishers in Monohull Class Three (for the smallest boats), also finished top-three overall. They were the aforementioned Hope, Tim Prophit’s Fast Tango, and David Keys’s C&C 35 Shamrock.

Organizers were the Bayview, Chicago and Port Huron Yacht Clubs, who billed this as the longest fresh water race on earth. According to Wenzler, most of the boats are planning to compete in the Bayview Mac, so collectively, all three events have to be the most exciting 10 days of racing fun on the Great Lakes.

This year marks the 91st running of the Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race and the 107th running of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac.

2015 Super Mac Results - Final

						Start	Finish	Elapsed	Corrected	Place	Place
						Time (EDT)	Time (EDT)	Time	Time	Class	Fleet
Multihull Class
USA 142	Triceratops	Jonathan Alvord	Great Lakes Multihull Racing Association	Corair F-31R AC	1.0484	7/11/2015 14:30	7/14/2015 19:22:39	76:52:39	80:35:54	1	1
USA 12	Panic Button	Todd / Ryan Howe	Rochester Yacht Club	Farrer F-25C	1.0586	7/11/2015 14:30	7/14/2015 20:09:25	77:39:25	82:12:28	2	2
CAT 13	Double Time	Martin Foster	Viking Multihull Sail Club	Reynolds 33	1.1017	7/11/2015 14:30	7/15/2015 00:09:53	81:39:53	89:58:12	3	3
USA 8	Arete'	Rick Warner	Port Huron Yacht Club / Emeryville Yacht Club	Marc Lombard ORMA 60	1.5187	7/11/2015 14:30	7/14/2015 07:42:20	65:12:20	99:01:40	4	4
Monohull Class 1
USA 25168	Stripes	Bill Martin	Bayview Yacht Club	Santa Cruz 70	1.156	7/11/2015 14:10	7/14/2015 17:34:31	75:24:31	87:10:20	1	18
USA 97363	Denali	Richard Hennig	Racine Yacht Club	Nelson/Marek 67	1.201	7/11/2015 14:20	7/14/2015 17:23:02	75:03:02	90:08:09	2	19
USA 5252	Natalie J	Philip O'Niel III	Bayview Yacht Club / Storm Trysail Club	Judel/Vrolijk TP 52	1.243	7/11/2015 14:20	7/14/2015 15:00:46	72:40:46	90:20:26	3	20
USA 323	Equation	Bill Alcott / Tom Anderson	Bayview Yacht Club	Farr STP 65	1.390	7/11/2015 14:20	7/14/2015 09:13:33	66:53:33	92:58:50	4	21
USA 52575	Defiance	Dale Smirl	Chicago Yacht Club	Judel/Vrolijk 66	1.270	7/11/2015 14:20	7/14/2015 15:40:06	73:20:06	93:08:08	5	22
USA 1948	Il Mostro	Peter & Christopher Thornton	Chicago Yacht Club	Botin/Carkeek Volvo 70	1.582	7/11/2015 14:20	7/14/2015 07:16:35	64:56:35	102:44:24	6	23
USA 52329	Heartbreaker	Robert Hughes	Macatawa Bay Yacht Club	Reichel/Pugh TP 52	1.249	7/11/2015 14:20	DNF			9
USA 7779	Ocean	Gary Feracota / Jim Banovitz	Chicago Yacht Club	Andrews 77	1.384	7/11/2015 14:20	DNF			9
Monohull Class 2
USA 33547	Quick Silver	Gintaras Karaitis	St. Joseph River Yacht Club	Schock 41	0.906	7/11/2015 13:10	7/15/2015 01:41:57	84:31:57	76:35:11	1	6
USA 18188	Gauntlet	Guy Hiestand	Macatawa Bay Yacht Club	Benetti 44	0.913	7/11/2015 13:10	7/15/2015 02:07:38	84:57:38	77:34:08	2	8
USA 64986	Surface Tension	Jeffrey Schaefer	Racine Yacht Club	Nelson Marek 36	0.928	7/11/2015 13:20	7/15/2015 01:42:25	84:22:25	78:17:55	3	9
USA 25669	Notso Ez Money	Michael Medwid	Bayview Yacht Club	Dehler 44 SQ	0.987	7/11/2015 13:50	7/14/2015 21:15:50	79:25:50	78:23:53	4	10
USA 11508	Maskwa	Donald Waller	Burnham Park Yacht Club	C&C 115	0.914	7/11/2015 13:10	7/15/2015 03:08:52	85:58:52	78:35:12	5	11
US 50799	Willie J	Doug Petter	Macatawa Bay Yacht Club	J 130	0.992	7/11/2015 13:50	7/14/2015 22:33:49	80:43:49	80:05:04	6	13
USA 40025	Solution	William Francis	Bayview Yacht Club	Farr 40	1.031	7/11/2015 13:40	7/14/2015 21:06:10	79:26:10	81:53:55	7	15
USA 111	Skull Cracker	Daniel Kitchens	Chicago Yacht Club	J 111	0.964	7/11/2015 13:30	7/15/2015 03:07:10	85:37:10	82:32:14	8	16
USA 56565	Relentless	Mark Hagan	Grand Traverse Yacht Club	Schock 40	1.067	7/11/2015 14:00	7/14/2015 23:24:35	81:24:35	86:51:51	9	17
USA 42492	Michela	Miguel Gambetta	Michigan City Yacht Club	C&C 37	0.903	7/11/2015 12:10	DNF			11

Monohull Class 3
USA 18	Hope	Michael Leland	Michigan City Yacht Club	Najad 332 TM	0.815	7/11/2015 12:00	7/15/2015 04:56:07	88:56:07	72:28:56	1	1
USA 15004	Fast Tango	Tim Prophit	Bayview Yacht Club	North American 40	0.858	7/11/2015 12:20	7/15/2015 02:32:16	86:12:16	73:57:48	2	2
USA 5166	Shamrock	David R. Keys	Bayview Yacht Club / Detroit Sail Club	C&C 35 MKI	0.805	7/11/2015 12:00	7/15/2015 08:01:15	92:01:15	74:04:36	3	3
USA 51541	Radiance	Benjamin White	Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club	Farr 38	0.883	7/11/2015 12:50	7/15/2015 02:58:30	86:08:30	76:03:47	4	4
USA 25633	Titan	Michael Schultes	Bayview Yacht Club	C&C 41	0.882	7/11/2015 12:50	7/15/2015 03:24:53	86:34:53	76:21:53	5	5
USA 16826	Absolute	Donald Hinckfoot	North Star Sail Club	Peterson 37	0.870	7/11/2015 12:50	7/15/2015 04:54:50	88:04:50	76:37:48	6	7
USA 617	Pterodactyl	Mark Symonds	Grosse Pointe Yacht Club	J 105	0.889	7/11/2015 12:40	7/15/2015 05:26:27	88:46:27	78:55:13	7	12
CAN 103	Cerulean	Elaine Neely	Royal Canadian Yacht Club	Beneteau First 30	0.861	7/11/2015 12:50	7/15/2015 10:06:19	93:16:19	80:18:26	8	14
USA 51804	Cyclone	John Madey	Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club	J 92	0.863	7/11/2015 12:50	DNF			10