{"id":70233,"date":"2025-07-17T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70233\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:35:09","slug":"116th-race-to-mackinac-to-set-sail-from-chicago-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70233\/","title":{"rendered":"116th Race to Mackinac to set sail from Chicago this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac to set sail this weekend <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a55e58983b7006e49d9a7c351f4a37de-0-1752765335037.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/chicago-yacht-club-race-to-mackinac-to-set-sail-this-weekend\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac to set sail this weekend<\/p>\n<p>          00:41<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get ready to set sail. The 116th Race to Mackinac begins on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 300 boats and 2,500 sailors are joining the 333-mile race on Lake Michigan from Navy Pier to Mackinac Island, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hosted by the Chicago Yacht Club, which is also celebrating their 150th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p>The cruising division, which has a more leisurely pace, sets sail on Friday, and the racing division, featuring faster boats, sets sail Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep track of the boats throughout the week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.yb.tl\/chicagomac2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Chicago Yacht Club website has a live race tracker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fastest boats can finish the race in around 20-22 hours. Most boats finish in 40 to 60 hours, according to the Chicago Yacht Club.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Chicago will be streaming the start of the race on Friday on the CBS News app and website, Paramount Plus, and Pluto TV starting around 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/todd-feurer\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd  Feurer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac to set sail this weekend Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,5405,5406],"class_list":{"0":"post-70233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-lake-michigan","12":"tag-navy-pier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114869313622283392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}