Doug Baker just wanted the record. H.L. (Loe) Enloe would settle for his newfound respect. This time.
Both—one sailing the 80-foot monohull Magnitude 80 from Long Beach and the other the 60-foot Jenn trimaran Loe Real from San Diego—emerged from the 62nd Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race reasonably satisfied. Baker had a race record for monohulls of 10 hours 37 minutes 50 seconds and Enloe scored a first-place finish in a faster time by nearly two hours of 8 hours 45 minutes 3 seconds, second only among multihulls to the late Steve Fossett’s record of 6:46:40 on the Stars & Stripes catamaran in 1998.
Oh, sure, a multihull should beat a monohull of similar size, some monohull sailors may say dismissively, but Baker wasn’t as concerned about that as he was chasing the ghost boat adorned with the face of a witch’s cat on the hull…Â DetailsÂ