Doug Baker just wanted the record. H.L. (Loe) Enloe would settle for his newfound respect. This time.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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…\u00c2\u00a0 Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10442,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}