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Jack Taylor’s all-conquering SC 50 Horizon added yet another overall race win to her resumé.

Horizon
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Almost the entire fleet — or what remains of it — has reached the finishe in the Newport Harbor YC’s Cabo Race. Nine of the 15 boats that started on Saturday fell victim to the 30-knot southerly that presented itself, along with a Northerly swell, to Divisions 0 and 1. Only one boat from Division 0 finished, Bill Turpin and Dave Janes’ Santa Cruz-based R/P 77 Akela. In Division 2, Ed McDowell’s SC 70 Grand Illusion took the top honors and ‘won their start day’ with Bay Area sailor Will Paxton aboard, while Ashley Wolfe’s Bay Area-based TP 52 Mayhem took third.

Frank Slootman’s new J/111 Invisible Hand rounded-out the overall podium.

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The overall winner came from Friday’s more mellow start and Division 2. Not surprisingly, Jack Taylor’s super-successful SC 50 Horizon was happy to take that spot. Horizon corrected out less than an hour ahead of the overall runner-up and the Division 3 winner, Charles Etienne-Devannaux’s Beneteau First 40 Naos II. The crew of Frank Slootman’s Bay Area-based J/111 Invisible Hand clawed their way up to second in Division 3 and third overall.

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