page_title: Super Mac Race
section_title: 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Super Mac Race / 2009 through 2017: The 9th through 11th Races – Super Mac - Chicago, IL to Port Huron, MI / 2015
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context_page_description: The Super Mac is a non-periodic 568 mile sail boat race from Chicago, IL to Port Huron, MI, or vice versa. Recent editions have been jointly sponsored by the Chicago Yacht Club, Bayview Yacht Club and Port Huron Yacht Club. The 2015 race was promoted as "The Longest Fresh Water Race on Earth," a debatable claim.
  The race was originally known as the "Centennial Race" in 1975, then the "Chicago-Sarnia International Yacht Race" for several years, and then the "Millennium 600" before it was officially called the Super Mac. Although there are "Super Mack" references in newspapers dating back to 1978, the race wasn't officially known as the Super Mac until the 2009 & 2015 editions. Start & finish locations, courses and lengths, and sponsoring yacht clubs have varied over the 40-year history.
context_section_description: The tenth race began on Saturday, July 11, 2015, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Bayview Yacht Club, and was won by Michael Leland's Hope, a Najad 332 from Michigan City Yacht Club – the smallest boat in the fleet of 31! The wind was moderate to light for the first several days. The smaller boats started first in the Chicago Mac, but as usual the big boats were well ahead before Mackinac Island. However, the wind was such that the larger boats had to beat their way to the Super Mac finish at Port Huron, MI while the smaller boats got to run in 30 knots of breeze, so it became their race. Hope was also awarded the Clark-DeRoy Trophy.
  Jonathan Alvord's Triceratops, a Corsair F-31R AC won the 4 boat multihull section.
  The first boat to finish was Peter & Christopher Thornton's il Mostro, a Volvo 70 (former Puma) with an elapsed time of 64:56:35, believed to be the fastest passage from Chicago to Port Huron. Il Mostro was followed by Rick Warner's trimaran Areté, Bill Alcott / Tom Anderson's STP65 Equation, Philip D. O’Neill III's TP52 Natalie J and Dale Smirl's JV/66 Defiance.
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