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The Annual Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race is a 125-nautical-mile International Yacht Race. First run in 1948, sailors gather each spring in Newport Beach, California, to take part in one of the West Coast's premier regattas. The Newport to Ensenada yacht Race (N2E) is a race to the city of Ensenada, Baja California. ==History== The Newport to Ensenada race is organized and run by the Newport Ocean Sailing Association.〔http://www.bajatimes.com/past/articles07/articles04B_07/art20.html〕 The record for fastest time (6 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds) was set in 1998 by ''Stars & Stripes''. With over 20 classes, the race provides competitive classes for a variety of sea-going sailboats ranging from large ultra-light and maxi-yachts to smaller yachts in non-spinnaker classes. Doug Baker’s Andrews 80 from Long Beach "Magnitude 80", holds a race record for monohulls of 10 hours 37 minutes 50 seconds—7 minutes 3 seconds faster than the record of 10:44:54 set by Roy E. Disney’s Pyewacket III, a Reichel/Pugh 77 in 2003. The multihull record of 6:46:40 set by Steve Fossett’s 60-foot Stars and Stripes catamaran in 1998 remains intact as the only boat ever to finish before sundown, although in 2014 two Maxi trimarians finished in under 8 hours, finishing the race in 7:40 & 7:42 respectively: "Orion" followed by "Mighty Merloe". 〔http://newporttoensenada.com〕 In 2009, boat designer Randy Reynolds was denied entry into the race by the organizers, who felt his twin-hulled catamaran was too prone to capsizing. Reynolds in response created the Border Run, a Newport Beach to San Diego race billed as a safer alternative. The 2009 race moved the start to allow for spectators on Balboa Pier it had previously been set just outside the entrance to Newport Bay. Winds blew steadily from start to finish at 9-12 knots, even in Todos Santos Bay near the finish line, and from an off-wind direction that allowed everyone to sail the rhumb (direct) line all the way. Of 260 starters, there were 257 finishers, and all finished by 4 p.m. Saturday, 19 hours ahead of the usual 11 a.m. Sunday cutoff time. During the 2012 race, the yacht ''Aegean'' was wrecked with four fatalities, the first in the event's history. The boat likely collided with North Coronado Island, where debris was found.〔http://www.ocregister.com/articles/sailing-376208-aegean-report.html〕 2014 saw strong head winds for most the race, with the "MOD 70 Trimaran" first to finish "Orion" 〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI2iIY61Lc8 MOD 70 flips〕 finishing in 7 hours and 40 minutes with "MIGHTY MERLOE" a ORMA 60 Trimaran finishing at 7 hour and 42 minutes. The Maxi yacht "Wizard" finished the 2014 race in 11:38:34 making it first monohull. The fleet experienced seas of up to 8 feet as well as a heavy rain shower approx. 4 am, Saturday morning making the race a rather wet one. The strong winds, assisted most of the 2014 fleet in finishing the race in under 24 hours. 〔http://scoring.newporttoensenada.com/results〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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