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Page 24 <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Guide <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Guide Page 25<br />
The Main Duck<br />
Island Course<br />
What is the actual distance?<br />
302 nautical miles on the rhumb line.<br />
How long does it usually take?<br />
Average finishing time for the larger/faster boats is 58 hours and the<br />
higher PRHF rating boats average 78 hours, weather depending.<br />
Which fleets are on this course?<br />
All IRC boats, multi hulls, spinnaker boats that have a PHRF rating<br />
of 180 or lower, and Solo Challenge competitors.<br />
The Main Duck Island Course is a challenging <strong>300</strong> nautical mile clockwise<br />
circumnavigation of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>, starting and finishing at the Port<br />
Credit Yacht Club.<br />
The course takes the fleet past Toronto, keeping the Gibraltar Point mark to<br />
starboard. From there, the boats head down the lake and round the infamous<br />
Main Duck and Yorkshire Islands, also keeping them to starboard.<br />
The next mark, the Ford Shoal mark, is on the US shore, just west of Oswego.<br />
It is kept to starboard before the fleet heads west past Rochester towards the<br />
Niagara mark.<br />
The final mark is the PCYC Turning mark, just west of the actual finish line. **<br />
** please refer to the Sailing Instructions<br />
for final definition of the course.
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