EL DREI EN SAN DIEGO



(TOMADO DE LA PAGINA UK SAILMAKERS)

FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET – NOT REALLY
BUT AN F31 TRIMARAN WAS FASTER THAN A SANTA CRUZ 70


Juan Hussong of Ensenada Mexico sailing his Corsair 31 DREI in the Newport Beach to San Diego ended up sailing the 65-mile course 11 minutes and 45 seconds faster than the Santa Cruz 70 MILUSKA. The little boat was truly a dragon slayer.
Luis Gianotti of UK-Halsey San Diego sailed on the boat and wrote the following story: It was very light at the start so we reached out with the screacher and main. About half way though the race the wind started to increase so we hoisted the asymmetric spinnaker and jumped up the speedo to 14-15 knots; at this point we had passed most of the boats that started in front of us. The one boat that we were after was the Santa Cruz 70 that started 15 minutes before us. For a long time she was a very small sail on the horizon, but thanks to the stronger wind she was getting bigger by the minute. The wind went light just before the finish, so we never did pass the biggest boat in the fleet, but we did sail the course in less time than they did.