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Five Stars for Inaugural Safe Harbor Race Weekend Stark Raving Mad IX Wins ORC Class and Overall Honors Photos by NANCY BLOOM | Text by BARBY MACGOWAN (Media Pro International)
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he inaugural Safe Harbor Race Weekend, recently held in Newport, Rhode Island is now in the history books and has made an indelible mark in the log books of 46 sailing teams from around New England and across the country who competed in it. A Superyacht class sailed on Friday and Saturday on Rhode Island Sound while another six classes for ORC, PHRF (A, B and C), and Performance Cruising (Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker) extended their racing into Sunday, sailing mostly on upper Narragansett Bay. “It was a good show of boats,” said Jim Madden (Newport Beach,
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California), skipper of the Carkeek 47 Stark Raving Mad IX, which clinched victory in its ORC Class and was named Overall Winner at the event, “so we never took anything for granted.” Madden explained that after finishing 1-2-1 in a decent sea breeze of 8-12 knots on Friday, Saturday was a different story. A race around Jamestown (Conanicut Island) began downwind in a fiveknot southerly near Rose Island, and when teams struggled to keep spinnakers flying as they sailed north under the Pell Bridge, the Race Committee shortened course at the north end of Jamestown,
