Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race Records and Winners for 92nd Edition

MACKINAC ISLAND, MICH. (July 19, 2016) – The 92nd Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race provided a fast ride for winners in nine classes on its 259-mile Cove Island Course and seven classes on its shorter 204-mile Shore Course. “It was a resounding success with near-perfect conditions for most of the race and mostly downwind and reaching legs,” said Chair Kyle Burleson, “and of course there was plenty of camaraderie and revelry before the start during Friday night’s Boat Night in Port Huron and then again on Mackinac Island, which hosts thousands of sailors and their families for two days after the racing is over.” Even though Rick Warner (Marine City, Michigan) and his crew aboard the Orma 60 Areté set a new elapsed course record for the Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race on Sunday morning, it was Alan Gurski’s and Ben Gougeon’s (Bay City, Michigan) 35-foot Adagio that won the race’s Division III (Multihull) overall when it arrived at Mackinac Island around 6:16 p.m. that night. Areté had finished just before 11:15 a.m. to finish the Cove Island Course in 21 hours, 44 minutes and 58 seconds, shaving nearly two hours off its own record, which it set last year, but Gurski stole the spotlight with his ride that, on corrected time, put him at the top of the scoreboard and Areté in third position.