Silver Bullet Is First to Reach Puerto Vallarta
Silver Bullet, a Santa Cruz-70 skippered by John DeLaura of Waikiki Yacht Club, finished at 12:24:42 a.m. Friday to take line honors in the 1,125-mile yacht race from Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta.
Hal Ward’s Nelson-Marek 70, Cheval, was 26 minutes behind Silver Bullet, and by 7:30 a.m., three other yachts had finished.
Silver Bullet’s elapsed time was about 12 hours short of the record, 4 days 23 hours, set by Dick Daniels’ MacGregor 65, Joss, in 1985. Other finishers were Grand Illusion at 1:53:31 a.m., Maverick 4:43:49 a.m. and Citius 6:46:20 a.m. All of the finishers were IOR Class A yachts.
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