44th
Transpacific Yacht Race
Los
Angeles to Honolulu
Starts July 9, 12 and 15,
2007
2,225 nautical miles
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Horn
blowing and barging: a wild 2nd start
With
12 knots of fresh wind gusting to 14, Adrenalin was pumping. That's the
name of David Clark's
If so,
Destiny wasn't the only one. Although the line was set square to a
due-west wind, presenting a cleaner shot from the pin end to the west
end of
"It
looked like the whole fleet was coming right at us," said a race
committee member. "There was tremendous barging going on."
Several boats did 360-degree turns, apparently not for penalties but
because they couldn't find room to get through the gridlock of what
looked like
One
collision was heard amid the chaos, but it probably wasn't between
Adrenalin and Destiny.
Two
boats started late. Richard Mainland's Ross 40, Paddy Wagon, blew out
its mainsail before the start and returned to port to replace it, while
James and Chris Gilmore's
The
tuba? The Minnow, a Catana 52 catamaran sailed doublehanded by brothers
Mike and Bob Webster of
"We
don't worry about that," Mike Webster said. "The wind blows when it
blows."
The
Minnow was started alone 10 minutes after the monohulls, with Mike
puffing heartily on his horn as they crossed the line. Bob would have
made it a duet, but somebody had to steer.
Mike
said, "We got [the tubas] a few years ago to play on top of
This
is their first, although they sailed their first cat across the Atlantic
to
The
other multihull---H.L. Enloe's Jeanneau 60 trimaran, LoeReal, from
Meanwhile, out at sea, Monday's 23 starters found some encouraging wind
after a depressing couple of days and were making up to 7 knots.
Although they gained less distance southwest toward Hawaii, boats that
went south, led by Simon Garland's Hobie 33, Peregrine, in Division 6
and Ross Pearlman's
Jeanneau 52, Between the Sheets, in Aloha A, appeared to have gained
leverage on the others as they continued south while rivals lifted west
more directly toward their destination.
Who
made the best calls will become clearer in the next few days.
The
Transpacific Yacht Club has joined with Casio Computer Co., Ltd., in a
sponsorship agreement to make the company's Oceanus watch the official
timekeeper of the 44th biennial race. The Oceanus is a solar-powered
chronograph watch with
a time signal-calibration function developed by making full use of
Casio's advanced electronic technologies.
News and product information:
http://world.casio.com/
Transpac supporters also include the Long Beach Sea Festival 2007,
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Transpac 2007 entries
(Standings by corrected handicap time. ORR rating allowances in
parentheses in days:hours:minutes:seconds based on handicap distance of
2,300 n.m.; subtract time allowance from actual elapsed time to
determine corrected handicap time)
Division 1 (Starts July 15)
Pyewacket (Reichel/Pugh
90),
Magnitude 80 (Andrews
80), Doug Baker,
Rosebud (STP 65),
Roger Sturgeon,
Peligroso (Kernan
70), Mike
Medicine Man (Andrews
63),
Division 2 (Starts
July 15)
Hugo Boss (Volvo 60),
Andy Tourell,
DH-Pegasus 101 (Open
50),
Lucky (Transpac 52),
Bryon Ehrhart, Chicago (2:05:26:28)
Morning Light
(Transpac 52), Jeremy Wilmot,
Skylark (
Holua (
Trader (Transpac 52),
Fred Detwiler,
Division 3 (Starts
July 15)
Denali (Nelson/Marek
70), William McKinley,
It's OK (Andrews 50),
Tres Gordo Sailing,
Cheetah (ULDB 70),
Chris Slagerman,
Pendragon IV
(Davidson 52), John MacLaurin,
Yumehyotan (Nelson/Marek
68), Yasuo Sano,
Ragtime (Spencer 65),
Chris Welsh,
Bengal 7 (Ohashi 46),
Yoshihiko Murase,
Locomotion (Andrews
45), Ed Feo,
Division 4
(Starts July 12)
Verizon Wireless
(ex-Stealth Chicken; Perry 56), Timothy Beatty, Rancho
Cipango (Andrews 56),
Bob & Rob Barton,
Delicate Balance
(Andrews 56), DBB Transpac LLC,
Lucky Dog (J/125),
Colin Shanner,
The Secret (MacGregor
65), Cheryle Rayson/Garry Golding,
Reinrag2 (J/125), Tom
Garnier,
Raincloud (J/48),
Lorenzo Berho
Ruahatú (Concordia
47), Ricardo Brockmann,
Bolt (Nelson/Marek
55), Craig Reynolds,
Division 50/52
(Starts July 12)
Kokopelli 2 (
Relentless (
Hula Girl (
Tachyon III (
Adrenalin (
Passion (
Horizon (
Stags' Leap
Winery (ex-Chasch Mer;
Division 5 (Starts
July 12)
Rancho Deluxe (Swan
45), Mike Diepenbrock,
Tower (Lidgard 45),
Doug Grant,
Paddy Wagon (Ross
40), Richard Mainland,
DH-Tango (J/133),
Michael Abraham,
DH-Narrow Escape
(Fast 40), Allen Lehman Jr.,
Uncontrollable Urge (
On the Edge of
Destiny (1D35), Sean Doyle,
Recidivist
(Schumacher 39), Ken Olcott,
Division 6 (Started
July 9)
1. DH-X Dream
(X-119), Steen Moller,
2. Psyche (
3. Brown Sugar
(Express 37), Steve Brown,
4. DH-Brilliant
(J/100), Tim Fuller,
5. Shanti (Olson
911S), Jon Eberly,
6.
7. Peregrine (Hobie
33), Simon Garland,
8. Far Far (
9. Inspired
Environments (Beneteau First 40.7), Timothy Ballard,
Aloha A
(Started July 9)
1. Ho'okolohe (Farr
58), Alyson and Cecil Rossi,
2. Ariadne (Ladd 73),
Frank Easterbrook,
3.
Windswept (Sean 57), Maxwell Phelps,
4. Alsumar (S&S 70),
Bill and Ted Davis,
5. Between the Sheets
(Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman, Marina del Rey (5:12:56:15), 2,058.
6. Enchilado (Jeanneau
54), Cesar de Saracho,
7. French Kiss (Beneteau
50), Bryan Daniels,
8. Anna Katarina
(First 47.7), John Otterson,
Aloha B (Started July
9)
1. Mysteré (Swan 42),
Jorge Morales, Dana Point,
2. Ginny (Calkins
50), Chris Calkins/Norm Reynolds,
3. Cirrus (Standfast
40), William D. Myers,
4. Traveler (North
Wind 47), Michael Lawler,
5. Lady Liberty
(Catalina 36), John Wallner,
WITHDREW---Gaviota
(Cal 2-46), Jim Partridge,
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DH-Doublehanded.
Multihull
LoeReal (Jeanneau 60
trimaran), H.L. Enloe,
Minnow (Catana 52
catamaran), Bob Webster,
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the wild start Thursday
Mike
Webster blows his horn as The Minnow starts its first race
Everybody was flying at the start
Rocio
Berho was out to watch husband Lorenzo start on
Raincloud in Division 4
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Transpac schedule of events
Friday,
July 13
"The Race to
Honolulu/Transpac Yacht Presentation, Media and Children's Day"
2 p.m.---Transpac
boats "dressed" to receive visitors
2:30 p.m.---Young
people from Southern California Chapter of Special
Olympics visit boats and crews
4
p.m.---Introduction of Transpac skippers and crews, Club Transpac
4:30
p.m.---Introduction of visiting VIPs
Sunday,
July 15
10 a.m.---Final
start ceremonies,
1 p.m.---Divisions
1, 2, 3 start, Point Fermin, San Pedro
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