2000 RACE RESULTS

Round the Island - MUG Race - Hogs Breath Race - Miami-Key Largo Race

2000 Round the Island Race

The 2000 Round Island Race was held on Saturday September 23rd. 2000. The race is a 110 mile sprint around Santa Rosa Island on the Florida Gulf Coast.
The race started at 7:45 am with 67 catamarans at Ft. Walton Beach Florida.  The competitors headed south through the channel at Destin and into the Gulf of Mexico. Upon reaching the Gulf of Mexico and rounding the Whistle Buoy the fleet headed west for Ft. Pickens, 55 miles down the Florida coast.
At Ft. Pickens, the half way point in the race, the lead boats included four ARC-22's and a RC-30. After passing Ft. Pickens the remainder of the race is a 50 mile run up the Intercoastal Waterway, a challenge of narrow channels, shallow water and three bridges. The first competitors finished around 6:30 pm and continued well into the early hours of Sunday morning. The 2000 race was in the end was dominated by two boats, the ARC-22   and RC-30. Overall results for the top six places are tabulated below.

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2000 MUG Race

The MUG is a 38 mile distance race from Palatka to Jacksonville Florida on the St. John's River hosted by the Rudder Club of Jacksonville. The 2000 MUG Race was held on Saturday May 6th. with a fleet of over 50 multihulls.  This years MUG Race utilized a reverse handicap start and awarded the coveted MUG Cup to the first boat to cross the finish line.  This year with the handicapped start, line honors go to Lloyd Beery on his ARC-22 .  Congratulations are also in order for Rudder Club member Robert Lyman for recording the lowest elapsed time in the 2000 race on his RC-27  and Danny Sassaman in his first race on his NEW ARC-21   for an outstanding performance as he took the lead during several legs of the race!

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2000 Hogs Breath Race

The Hogs Breath is a 2 day, 100 mile sprint from Key Largo to Key West. The first day competitors race approximately 50 miles to Marathon Key. The second day competitors continue on another 50 miles to Key West. Elapsed times are recorded each day and combined to produce a total elapsed race time. The first day was relatively slow moving, but the second day brought new conditions and record elapsed times. Eric & Bill Roberts on their RC-30 set the lowest elapsed time for the second day at 2 hours, 19 minutes and 28 seconds, maintaining an average speed of 21.5 MPH with peak speeds nearing 30 MPH over the 50 mile course!

Mike Kelly, Lloyd Beery, and Tracy Oliver on  their ARC-22's provided strong competition for Team Roberts RC-30 and the other competitors.   In fact close examination of the elapsed times will show that the ARC-22's were in the top five finishers both days of the race. It can also be noted that Team Roberts on their RC-30 salvaged a 6th place finish the first day with a record setting run the second day which provided them with the fastest total elapsed time for both days.

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2000 Miami-Key Largo Race

The Miami-Key Largo is a 42 Mile distance race hosted annually by the Miami Yacht Club. The 2000 race was host to 71 multihulls, of which 51 finished. Fifty-Eight of the Seventy-One entrants were classified as beach cats. The wind was moderate and from a direction that made the race a upwind battle the entire way.  Because of the wind direction, no one was able to fly spinnakers and no one was able to challenge the 11 year old record of 1 hour 45 minutes set by Bill Roberts on his RC-27 in 1989.

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