Transpac 2007
44th
Transpacific Yacht Race
Los
Angeles to Honolulu
Starts July 9, 12 and 15,
2007
2,225 nautical miles
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Is the
south starting to pay in Transpac?
Pyewacket's
According to Flagship tracking charts Monday, Honey may have gone
conservative. Pyewacket was headed generally southwest straight toward
the islands, making 13 knots, with Division 1 rivals Doug Baker's
Magnitude 80 and Mike Campbell and
A
notable exception was Roger Sturgeon's Rosebud, a new STP 65 that
flashed impressive speed in two inshore regattas leading up to Transpac.
Rosebud was headed almost due south at 13 knots without losing
significant distance to its division rivals, except Pyewacket, and
building leverage for when it turns west into the trade winds.
Not
far back was Morning Light, a Transpac 52 sailing at 10.8 knots but not
as far south as two other Division 2 boats, the Santa Cruz 70s Westerly
and Skylark, streaking side by side at 11.3 knots.
Back
among the last starters in Division 2,
It seems the south
is paying off. David Clark, sailing the Santa Cruz 50 Adrenalin that
started Thursday and led 50/52 division for awhile, wrote: "Things
appear to have changed some. Breeze has been lightening and continually
keeping us north of our desired waypoints. Boats north of us are taking
the worst of this and those to the south are benefiting but must sail
much farther."
The
south scenario was advanced among earlier starters with much shuffling
of the running orders in the various divisions. Those that lost miles by
going south are now cashing in their strategic, if risky, investments.
New leaders Monday included Steve Calhoun's Cal 40 Psyche in
Division 6, Ross Pearlman's Between the Sheets in Aloha A and Bill
Myers' Cirrus from
Myers
is sailing with a four-woman crew led by Lindsey Austin, 22, who was a
finalist for the Morning Light team.
In a battle of Cal
40s, Calhoun had jumped to first place in Division 6 but said, "[I'm]
worrying about whether to sail even farther south to cover Far Far,
wondering if the rest of the fleet would just pass us by. We knew there
was a bit more wind to the south. Today the weather maps showed that
there was substantially more wind to the south. More specifically, there
is a disturbance? Is it a depression?"
It may not even be a
factor. Alaska Eagle, a long-ago Whitbread Round the World Race winner
that serves as the communications vessel and is sailing out in front of
everyone, reported that tropical storm Cosme was feeding them some wind
and helping them to pick up speed, but that "it probably will not bother
the fleet on its current course."
Earlier, Ed Feo's Locomotion from
Bill McKinley on Denali, from
On the Edge of
Destiny's five young sailors on a 1D35 also went south and have improved
their position to third place in Division 5. Skipper Sean Doyle, 19,
reported: "The wind has clocked around to pretty far behind us and we
put up the big yellow symmetrical kite today. We have been surfing
fairly well when the wind is up at 18-20, and luckily we haven't seen
below 10 knots of wind speed yet. These are our conditions because we
are so light we just have to push hard to surf when no one else can."
A day earlier their
steering went out.
"We had switched
back to the big white kite and the boat suddenly spins out," Doyle said.
"A shackle in the steering chain had bent open and the wheel was just
spinning in the wind. Luckily, it happened during the day with everyone
on deck and we had the boat back on course with the emergency tiller and
the kite back up within a minute or two."
Doyle also said that
Roscoe Fowler had repaired the broken radio that prevented them from
reporting their daily positions.
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,
Archived press releases:
http://www.underthesunphotos.com/Press%20Releases/PR-index.htm
More
information:
www.transpacificyc.org
Transpac 2007 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 final elapsed time to determine
corrected handicap time)
(positions at 8 a.m. Monday)
Division 1 (Started July 15)
1. Pyewacket (Reichel/Pugh
90), Roy P. Disney/Gregg Hedrick, Burbank, Calif. (minus-21 hours, 9
minutes, 13 seconds), 2,046 miles to go.
2. Magnitude 80
(Andrews 80), Doug Baker,
3. Rosebud (STP 65),
Roger Sturgeon,
4. Peligroso (Kernan
70), Mike
5. Medicine Man
(Andrews 63),
Division 2 (Started
July 15)
1. Holua (
2. Samba Pa Ti (Transpac
52), John Kilroy Jr.,
3. Lucky (Transpac
52), Bryon Ehrhart, Chicago (2:05:26:28), 2,120.
4. Morning Light (Transpac
52), Jeremy Wilmot,
5. Hugo Boss (Volvo
60), Andy Tourell,
6. Skylark (
7.
8. DH-Pegasus 101
(Open 50),
9. Trader (Transpac
52), Fred Detwiler,
Division 3 (Started
July 15)
1. Denali (Nelson/Marek
70), William McKinley,
2. Pendragon IV
(Davidson 52), John MacLaurin,
3. Locomotion
(Andrews 45), Ed Feo,
4. It's OK (Andrews
50), Tres Gordo Sailing,
5. Bengal 7 (Ohashi
46), Yoshihiko Murase,
6. Cheetah (ULDB 70),
Chris Slagerman,
7. Ragtime (Spencer
65), Chris Welsh,
8. Yumehyotan
(Nelson/Marek 68), Yasuo Sano,
Division 4
(Started July 12)
1. Verizon Wireless
(ex-Stealth Chicken; Perry 56), Timothy Beatty, Rancho
2. Reinrag2 (J/125),
Tom Garnier,
3. Cipango (Andrews
56), Bob & Rob Barton,
4. Ruahatú (Concordia
47), Ricardo Brockmann,
5. Delicate Balance
(Andrews 56), DBB Transpac LLC,
6. Raincloud (J/48),
Lorenzo Berho
7. Bolt (Nelson/Marek
55), Craig Reynolds,
8. Lucky Dog (J/125),
Colin Shanner,
Division 50/52
(Started July 12)
1.
Hula Girl (
2.
Kokopelli 2 (
3. Passion (
4. Horizon (
5. Adrenalin (
6. Stags' Leap
Winery (ex-Chasch Mer;
7.
8. Tachyon III (
9. Relentless (
Division 5 (Started
July 12)
1. Tower (Lidgard
45), Doug Grant,
2.
3. On the Edge of
Destiny (1D35), Sean Doyle,
4. Rancho Deluxe
(Swan 45), Mike Diepenbrock,
5. DH-Narrow Escape
(Fast 40), Allen Lehman Sr. and Jr.,
6. DH-Tango (J/133),
Michael Abraham/Phillip Rowe,
7.
Recidivist (Schumacher 39), Ken Olcott,
8. Paddy Wagon (Ross
40), Richard Mainland,
9. Uncontrollable
Urge (
Division 6 (Started
July 9)
1. Psyche (
2. Far Far (
3. Peregrine (Hobie
33), Simon Garland,
4. DH-Brilliant
(J/100), Tim Fuller/Erik Shampain,
5. Inspired
Environments (Beneteau First 40.7), Timothy Ballard,
6.
7. Shanti (Olson
911S), Jon Eberly,
8.
Brown Sugar (Express 37), Steve Brown,
9.
DH-X Dream (X-119), Steen Moller/Bob MacDonald,
Aloha A
(Started July 9)
1. Between the Sheets
(Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman, Marina del Rey (5:12:56:15), 1,462.
2. French Kiss (Beneteau
50), Bryan Daniels,
3. Ariadne (Ladd 73),
Frank Easterbrook,
4. Windswept (Sean
57), Maxwell Phelps,
5. Enchilado (Jeanneau
54), Cesar de Saracho,
6.
Ho'okolohe (Farr 58), Alyson and
Cecil Rossi,
7.
Anna Katarina (First 47.7), John Otterson,
8. Alsumar (S&S 70),
Bill Davis,
Aloha B (Started July
9)
1. Cirrus (Standfast
40), William D. Myers,
2. Traveler (North
Wind 47), Michael Lawler,
3. Lady Liberty
(Catalina 36), John Wallner,
4. Mysteré (Swan 42),
Jorge Morales, Dana Point,
5. Ginny (Calkins
50), Chris Calkins/Norm Reynolds,
RETIRED--Gaviota (Cal
2-46), Jim Partridge,
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DH-Doublehanded.
Multihull
Minnow (Catana 52
catamaran), Bob and Mike Webster,
LoeReal (Jeanneau 60
trimaran), H.L. Enloe,
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Adrenalin got off to a good start (above) but longs for the south
South
paying off for On the Edge
of
Destiny's (l-r) Cameron Biehl, Sean Doyle and Roscoe Fowler
On the
Edge of Destiny at the start
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