Luhrs’ Arrival Now Expected Sunday

SAN FRANCISCO — Warren Luhrs still is poised to break the 89-day 8-hour sailing record set by the clipper ship Flying Cloud on a voyage from New York to San Francisco in 1854 but he wasn’t able to do it Friday, as he had hoped.

Luhrs, sailing Thursday’s Child, an ultra-light sloop, still was 190 miles short of the Golden Gate at mid-day Friday.

Best guess now for Thursday Child’s arrival under the Golden Gate Bridge is mid-day Sunday.

Meanwhile, hard-luck sailor Guy Bernardin has failed a second time to make it past Cape Horn in pursuit of the record.

Bernardin, 43, reportedly discovered the keel on his 60 foot racing sloop, BNT Bank of the West, had sprung its bolts and that the boat was taking water rapidly. He was rescued by a Chilean naval patrol boat.

Less than a year ago, on March 8, 1988, Bernardin lost his first 60-footer off the Cape when he was dismasted.