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DNC - "Did Not Compete" - a competitor who has completed registration at the Pre-Race Sign-In but did not check in at the Check-In-Boat and did not cross the start line. Will be in the list of competitors and scored DNC. The "check in" test is used in lieu of the RRS "did not come to the starting area". Boat will display on the online list of entrants.

DNS - "Did not start (other than DNC and OCS)" - boat was properly registered, checked in, but failed to properly start. Boat will display on the online list of entrants.

OCS - "Did not start; on the course side of the starting line at her starting signal and failed to start, or broke rule 30.1". Boat will display on the online list of entrants.

RET - "Retired" - boat STOPPED RACING for any reason before the expiration of the Time Limit, or notified the RC it had retired after Finishing.

DNF - "Did Not Finish" - boat did not Finish before the expiration of the Time Limit.

SCP - "Scoring Penalty"

DPI - "Discretionary Penalty Imposed"

RDG - "Redress given"

DSQ - "Disqualification"

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Each boat racing is equipped with a YB Tracking satellite tracker from that sends boat GPS information (location, speed, and direction) every 15 minutes and displays the location and track on the race course.  

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At 333 miles (289.4 nautical miles), the Race to Mackinac is the oldest annual freshwater distance race in the world. ‘The Mac’ starts at the Chicago Lighthouse, just off Navy Pier and continues to Mackinac Island.

This is the official notice board for the 2024 Race to Mackinac. It will be updated throughout the lead up to the race. 

The 46-foot sailboat Skye is one of 245 yachts that will compete in this year’s race from Chicago to Mackinac Island.

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The Race to Mackinac: WBEZ's guide to the world’s longest freshwater sailing competition

The Race to Mackinac, the longest and oldest freshwater annual sailing competition in the world, is here. On Friday and Saturday, roughly 245 boats carrying more than 2,000 crew members will sail for Mackinac Island, the resort destination off the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

Here’s your primer.

Race basics

For 333 miles — or 289.4 nautical miles — 245 entrants, give or take last-minute dropouts, will traverse the route from Navy Pier to Mackinac Island in this year’s event, according to Sam Veilleux, chairman of the 2023 race committee. The first Mackinac race took place in 1898, with just five boats, and the second was in 1904. With the exception of several years during World War I and 2020 during the pandemic, the race, organized by the Chicago Yacht Club, has happened every year, marking its 114th running this year. Competitors may enter the race, classified as an amateur event, by invitation only.

The majority of entrants travel to the race start via water — meaning they’re coming from harbors in or near Chicago or traveling from cities along connected lakes, mostly Michigan and Huron.

“Every year, we do have a few out-of-town boats that come from the coast, but it is quite an endeavor,” Veilleux said, noting that delivering a large yacht on a truck involves reassembling the boat in Chicago after shipment. Past races have included crews and boats from Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

As described by Veilleux, the route starts at the Chicago Lighthouse, near Navy Pier, and runs the entire length of Lake Michigan, passes through Grays Reef, enters Lake Huron through the Straits of Mackinac, ducks under the Mackinac Bridge and finishes at Mackinac Island.

The start of the 2003 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac on Lake Michigan.

Brian Jackson

How a crew wins and what they get

First to the island wins, right? Not quite.

The Chicago Yacht Club describes the Race to Mackinac as “a unique race, where the boat equivalent of ‘family sedans’ compete against ‘Formula One cars.’ ” What this means in practical terms is that boats, which range widely in technical capability, must be assessed in advance in order to be properly grouped by similar ratings. An algorithm takes boat measurements — including weight, size, sizes of the sails and more — to produce the standardized ratings.

The entrants compete in two divisions: cruising and racing. Boats in the cruising division are, according to Veilleux, “generally more comfortable” equipped with cabins, galleys and full accommodations.

“Boats that you’d go on, for example, a family cruise around the Great Lakes or around the Caribbean,” he said. There are three sections within this division, each based on speed.

Yachts in the racing division are built for speed — lightweight carbon-fiber hulls, sparse interiors — and compete in two section types: one in which the boats have identical specs, and another in which boats are handicapped, as in golf, based on relative performance characteristics.

Roughly split in half into “faster” and “slower” groups, the racing division is then further divided into similarly rated sections — this year there are 18, each with around 12-15 boats. The winner is determined by calculating time against a boat’s rating.

Sailors compete for three main honors: the Mac Trophy and the Mac Cup for the racing division, and, new this year, the Whitehawk Trophy for the overall winner in the cruising division. Each year, the two groups in the racing division — one faster, one slower — alternate between competing for the Trophy and the Cup so crews could possibly have their names engraved on both if they raced in consecutive years. The first three places in every section also receive a brag flag to display on their boat.

To be invited to the exclusive Island Goats Sailing Society, racers must have competed in at least 25 Chicago-to-Mackinac races, for a total of about 8,325 miles. Founded in 1959 by Hobart “Red” Olson, the society was named after sailors’ “appearance, aroma and behavior upon reaching Mackinac Island,” according to the Chicago Yacht Club website.

Sailors say the Race to Mackinac is a bucket list event. Its distance makes it a test of endurance and preparation. Here, boats line up for the start of the 1982 race.

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When can we expect results?

Most of the fleet takes from 40 to 60 hours to finish the race. Cannons will fire to release the cruising sections at 3 p.m. Friday, and the rest of the sections start from 11 a.m. Saturday every 10 minutes until 3 p.m.

To race around the clock, the crews sail in shifts. The multihull record was set in 1998 at under 19 hours, and the monohull record was set in 2002 at under 24 hours. Ideally, racers finish on or before Monday so they have time to rest before the awards ceremony Tuesday. While there’s no publicly available record of the longest time a boat has taken to finish the race, Veilleux said the club has a system for sailors to submit their final times even after the finish line is taken down on Wednesday.

During last year’s race, Veilleux said wild storms battered the fleet for about 12 hours on Lake Michigan, causing 29 boats to drop out. Veilleux competed last year in the cruising division and, although only sailing on the edge of the storm, experienced wind in excess of 55 knots.

“That’s like sticking your head out of a car window at highway speed,” he said.

Chuck Nevel, the club’s on-the-water director, stays on the island to direct boats as they complete the race. Once the boats start streaming in, they don’t stop. Neither do their supporters.

“If it’s 2 a.m. or if it’s 10 a.m., there are people out there cheering their family members on, their friends on, especially if it’s their first Mac,” he said.

“Everyone stinks, hasn’t taken a shower, sweating in their weather gear,” Nevel notes of the state of the crews as they disembark. But he concedes the members of the race committee, who work through the day and night to make sure everyone arrives safely into port, aren’t the freshest smelling bunch either.

One word for the atmosphere of the awards ceremony? “Jubilation.”

Sailors begin the Race to Mackinac in 2012. This year, more than 2,000 crew members will race on nearly 250 boats.

Chandler West

How to watch the race

From 2:30-3:30 p.m. on Friday, the start of the race for the cruising division will be livestreamed on CBS .

On Saturday, you can watch the parade of boats in the racing division off the end of Navy Pier from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. An announcer will provide details of the vessels as they sail toward the start. Viewers should also be able to see the rigs from anywhere along the lakefront north of Navy Pier.

Race updates will be available on the Chicago Yacht Club’s Facebook , Instagram and Twitter feeds. But perhaps the best way to follow the race is to view each boat’s progress through the event’s race tracker website or via mobile app, which will become available on Thursday of race week. Download the YB Tracking app and “buy” the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac (it’s free).

Finally, why is it spelled “Mackinac” but pronounced “Mackinaw?”

Originally named Michinnimakinong by the Ojibwa tribe, the indigenous translation refers to the large crevice in the island: “mish” meaning great, “inni” meaning connecting sound, “maki” meaning fault and “nong” meaning land or place. The name was shortened to Mackinac by the French, and the British transcribed it phonetically as Mackinaw. Edgar Conkling, founder of Mackinaw City in 1857, was the one to spell it with a “w.”

Either way, the pronunciation is “ MACK-in-awe .”

Ysa Quiballo is the digital news intern at WBEZ. Courtney Kueppers contributed.

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Tense battle, finish line drama for Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

• Updated: Jul. 23, 2023, 10:01 p.m. |
• Published: Jul. 23, 2023, 9:03 p.m.

Whitehawk passing Round Island Light House, claiming first-to-finish in the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. Photo courtesy of BlockIsland Steve and the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac.

• Tanda Gmiter | [email protected]

MACKINAC ISLAND, MI - When the Cruising Division boats took off from Chicago on Friday, Eagle One, a sleek 65-foot boat owned by Tim Lariviere of Grosse Pointe, shot out to an early lead in Lake Michigan for the 114th annual Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac.

When light winds on Friday and into Saturday made it clear it was going to be a tactical race, the vessel tracker showed Eagle One’s crew of mostly past commodores from the Bayview Yacht Club took the vessel across the big lake to hug the Michigan coastline. Eagle One led for nearly the entire 333-mile race - the longest annual freshwater sailing race in the world.

Until the last mile. That’s when the big 104-foot ketch Whitehawk, owned by Peter Thornton, sailed past Eagle One to take first-to-finish line honors.

“Racing into the Mackinac Straits, the majestic ... Whitehawk had every sail raised and every trick out of the bag to overtake Eagle One , the sleek 65-foot cruising boat that had led the entire fleet since the start,” race communications staff said.

“Trailing Eagle One for 288 nautical miles, it took until the final mile for Peter Thornton’s Whitehawk to overtake and clinch line honors of the 114th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac presented by Wintrust.”

Lariviere and his crew credited Thornton for a well-earned victory. It’s his second consecutive line-honors win with Whitehawk.

There are lot of boats still in the race among the different divisions, and some may not be arriving at Mackinac Island until Monday. The race starts near Chicago’s Navy Pier, heads up Lake Michigan, rounds the top of The Mitten and sails under the Mackinac Bridge before approaching the finish line near the Round Island Lighthouse alongside Mackinac Island.

While the Cruising Division began Friday with light winds, Saturday’s start for the sleek Racing Division was hit by a squall that pelted some of the boats with rain.

“Sunday afternoon and evening, the two fleets continue to make their way up Lake Michigan, sailing in moderate conditions along the Michigan shoreline. The faster boats competing in the Racing Division are expected to finish overnight, with the remaining teams crossing the finish line throughout the day Monday,” race officials said.

Want to track the boats? Each entry is equipped with a satellite tracker that sends information on speed, location and direction every 15 minutes. Race Tracker: https://yb.tl/chicagomac2023

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Fun Facts about the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

• This year’s race features 2,100 crew from 16 countries
• 45 U.S. states are represented
• There are 240 total entries
• Boats range from family cruisers to state-of-the-art carbon fiber racing vessels
• Boats range from 29 to 104 feet long
• Crew numbers range from 2 to 22 per boat

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Surprising Evansville has a winning hand in getting to the super regional against No. 1 Tennessee

Evansville was an afterthought in the college baseball discussion two weeks ago

INDIANAPOLIS — Evansville was an afterthought in the college baseball discussion two weeks ago.

It entered the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament as the No. 3 seed, a decided underdog to regular-season champ and rival Indiana State. The Purple Aces were relying on a true freshman pitcher and a committed coach who believed in them.

They have exceeded expectations.

Evansville swept four games to win the league crown, earning their first NCAA berth since 2006, and emerged as this year’s tourney darling as they continued to win this past week. Now the Aces are going all in Friday's matchup at top-seeded Tennessee in the school’s first super regional appearance.

“Our plan at the beginning of the season was just to make a regional,” designated hitter Kip Fougerousse said. “We weren’t playing our best baseball when we went to Mississippi State, but we kept grinding and kept improving every weekend. The MVC Tournament semes like it was two months ago, and now we’re heading to a super regional. It’s crazy.”

Crazy, indeed, for a mid-major program sitting just six games above .500 on May 16 and is now just the ninth No. 4 seed to advance this far.

Coach Wes Carroll and his experienced team created a Hollywood-like script to turn things around.

A former Evansville player, Carroll played in the minor leagues and even got chance to play in two spring training camp games with his Major League-playing brother, Jamey, in 2006. He soon retired and returned to the Purple Aces as an assistant coach, taking over the top job two years later.

He now is the mastermind of one of the nation’s most unique rosters.

Instead of embracing the traditional cookie-cutter approach to roster building, Carroll cobbled together a winning hand with an unusual cast from various backgrounds and a variety of athletic skills.

Fougerousse joined the Aces as a transfer from Indiana after losing the starting first baseman job in 2022 because of injuries. When his replacement earned freshman All-American honors, Fougerousse changed schools and positions. He was a 2023 first team all-MVC selection at second base, took on a new role again this season and was rewarded with the regional tourney’s Most Outstanding Player Award while extending his career best streak to six straight games with a home run.

Freshman pitcher Kenton Deverman figured he was destined to play baseball from the moment his parents accepted a gifted Stan Musial autographed baseball before he was born. The recruiting services apparently disagreed, ranking him as the 10th-best left-handed prospect in Missouri. But at Evansville (38-24), he quickly became its ace.

Deverman heads to Knoxville with a 9-1 mark, a team-high 81 strikeouts, the MVC’s freshman of the year award, wins in the MVC title game and the NCAA opener at East Carolina. He also plays tennis and ping pong as a right-hander.

“I can throw a football with my right hand,” he said. “I can kind of throw with my right, but it doesn’t look like a normal pitch at all. I wish I could, though. That would be awesome.”

Brent Widder wasn’t even specializing in baseball until high school. Long before he became a five-year starter and a key ingredient in Carroll’s offense with his second grand slam of the season helping Evansville beat VCU 17-11 last weekend, Widder was traveling around Wisconsin and the nation as a tennis star.

The oddities are seemingly endless.

— Outfielder Ty Rumsey’s second cousin, Stacy Jones, played drums for Miley Cyrus.

— At age 12, pitcher Max Hansman became the youngest sailor to compete in the Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac.

— A pair of pitchers, Matt Maloney and Elias Hachem, each have twin brothers playing Division I baseball.

— Eleven of the 35 rostered players have completed at least four years of college, leading to their self-dubbed nickname the Senior Citizens..

And if they weren’t playing baseball, they’d probably be execlling at Indiana’s favorite sport, basketball.

“We play a little bit in the fall and the games are pretty competitive,” said Fourgerousse, whose uncle, Jeff Oliphant, played on Bob Knight’s 1986-87 national championship team at Indiana.

Players say Carroll’s brilliance is his ability to let them be themselves with a business-like demeanor that keeps everybody focused. The combination has created a confidence.

“We’ve been going into every single game expecting to win,” Widder said. “We don’t believe that we can’t beat any team in the country.

Two more wins, against the Volunteers (53-11), the nation's most dominant college team in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, would send the Aces to Omaha, Nebraska, for their first College World Series.

While doubters may still write off Evansville, these Aces believe they have what it takes to win.

“To make the run in the conference tournament, especially at home, we really had a belief we could do it,” Carroll said. “Then you go into the Greenville Regional with house money, the mentality that ‘Hey, we’ve accomplished a lot of great things.’ The senior group really turned around the entire culture, to play loose, play fun and things really mapped out perfectly for us.”

This story was previously published with a photo attached of East Carolina, not Evansville.

AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports

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