8.00pm February 21, 2025
‘Karakoa’ has finished the Subic to Boracay Race with an incredible new record of 25 hours, 29 minutes, and 40 seconds, breaking last year’s Line Honours record set by ‘Belatrix’ with a finish time of 37 hours, 55 minutes, and 9 seconds!
The Line Honors list at the time of posting were:
Ray Ordoveza’s ‘Karakoa’ (IRC) 11:59
Romain Barberis’s ‘Maelie’ (Ocean Multihulls) 14:02
James Villareal’s ‘Raw Honey’ (IRC) 14:42
Jun Villanueva’s ‘Belatrix’ (IRC) 15:32
Bobby Benares’s ‘Sabad’ (IRC) 17:39
With half the fleet having arrived safely in Boracay by 6pm, the IRC placings are unchanged with ‘Karakoa’ in 1st place, followed by ‘Raw Honey’ in 2nd and ‘Selma Star’ in 3rd place, with Bobby Benares’s ‘Sabad’ finishing a close 4th.
In Cruising class, ‘Allusive’ finished in 1st place with ‘Despacito’ a very close 2nd place. The two-yacht Ocean Multihull fleet finished as they started, with the fast and furious catamaran ‘Maelie’ in 1st place followed by ‘Carino’ in 2nd place.
Congratulations once again to PGYC member Ray Ordeveza’s ‘Karakoa’, skippered by his son Francis, John Quirk’s ‘Allusive’ and the young PGYC SBP sailors of the ‘Allusive’ crew.
By tomorrow morning the fleet should be all finished and enjoying a well-earned rest day before the BPI Boracay Regatta In-shore series starts.
For more information about the BPI Boracay 200 Race, or the upcoming PGYC Easter Regatta 2025 to be held in the Verde Island Passage from April 18-20, 2025, please contact the Puerto Galera Yacht Club at clubhouse@pgyc.org or call 09175205874
