In the song "The Sacramento" there's a verse which says:

Ninety days to 'Frisco Bay

Ninety days is darn good pay

which implies that the crew received a bonus if they could make San Francisco in ninety days around the horn.

The Flying Cloud was the first ship to do it in 1851 making the voyage in 89 days. This speed record held until about ten or so years ago when a ship (who's name we cannot recall), designed on a computer specifically to break this record made the trip in 88 days.

Bev and Jerry