Keelhaulers in charge at Harbor Cup

San Pedro, CA (March 12, 2022) – Conditions went from bucolic to blustery today at the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup – California Maritime Academy Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta. After eight races in the Catalina 37s, defending champion California Maritime Academy clung to the top of the leaderboard, with the US Naval Academy close astern.

The Navy Midshipmen and Cal Maritime Keelhaulers have a long-standing rivalry. They are the only teams to have competed in every edition of the Harbor Cup, and both have tasted victory. But today, as winds topped 18-knots, they carried their battles from the racecourse to the protest room, leading to a DSQ in Race Seven for the Mids.

Winds pressed today just shy of the top limit of the Catalina 37 fleet, with their fixed sail inventory, but the Race Committee was able to pull off four races…

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