Crazy Horse Is Declared Overall Winner of Race to Puerto Vallarta

With only one yacht still at sea Sunday, Del Rey Yacht Club wrote a finish to the 8th edition of its biennial Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta race.

The yacht Racy out of St. Francis Yacht Club was still fighting light, fluky airs in Banderos Bay at 2 p.m.

William Goodley’s Dakar of the host club finished Sunday after being detained several hours by Mexican authorities when she strayed too close to the penal colony at the Tres Marias Islands. There were no details of the boarding by a Mexican Navy vessel.

With all of the 28 starters accounted for, the Del Rey Yacht Club race committee announced the unoffical handicap standings for the International Offshore Rule and the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet divisions.

Overall winner in the IOR fleet was Crazy Horse, a Nelson-Marek-49 skippered by Larry Harvey of Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club. Second overall was Monte Livingston’s Peterson-55 Checkmate, Del Rey Yacht Club, and third was Elusive, a Santa Cruz-50 sailed by Reuben Vollmer, King Harbor Yacht Club.

Overall winner in PHRF was Rocket, a Santa Cruz-50 sailed by Mark Bleiweis, Del Rey Yacht Club; second was Joss, a MacGregor-65 skippered by Dick Daniels, Long Beach Yacht Club; and third was Cheval, a MacGregor-65 sailed by Harold Ward, California Yacht Club.