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We're the Jolly Roving Tarrs - the crew of the sailboat Rhiannon on the 2009 Puerto Vallarta race, to be held January 31 to February 14, 2009. Forty fast sailboats will race from Marina Del Rey (near Los Angeles, California) to Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The race is sanctioned by the Del Rey Yacht Club.


The race is divided into four separate legs. A boat can win its class in any of the four legs, and can win the race overall. The overall class winners will be determined not by accumulated time but by combined finishing positions in the four legs, as in a regatta. Entries are divided into spinnaker “performance” boats and non-spinnaker “racer-cruisers.”

Rhiannon is a 1978 Kelly-Peterson 44 moderate-displacement cutter, captained by owner Bill Tarr and crewed by Stacy Tarr, Kerry Rackliffe, Jack Rackliffe, and Jeff Zurschmeide. Rhiannon races in the non-spinnaker class.