64th Newport to Ensenada: Cabrillo never knew how much fun it would be

8:20 PM Mon 24 Jan 2011 GMT

'Steve Fossett - only boat ever to finish before sundown - Newport to Ensenada International Race' Rich Roberts &copy

64th Newport to Ensenada is a tradition Don Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo could never have imagined when the Portuguese navigator brought the first two foreign vessels into lonely Todos Santos Bay on Mexico's Baja California peninsula in 1542. Nearly five centuries later Cabrillo's joy of discovery will be replicated again this spring on a much larger scale in the Newport Ocean Sailing Association's 64th International Yacht Race from Newport Beach April 15-17. The total of boats competing over the years is more than 20,000 and counting. Don Juan would have been blown away. The high was 675 in 1983, long before ...

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by Rich Roberts