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Newport Beach | Manhattan Beach | Laguna Beach | Honolulu Schedule of Events June 18, 2011 Transpac Race Weather Seminar July 4, 2011 First Transpac 2011 Start Saturday Los Angeles Yacht Club Monday 1 p.m. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 8, 2011 Second Transpac 2011 Start June 25, 2011 Expedition Seminar Friday 1 p.m. Saturday Gladstone’s Restaurant Long Beach 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 20, 2011 Hawaii Yacht Club Luau Wednesday 4 p.m. June 26, 2011 Last Day for Safety Inspection Sunday July 21, 2011 Waikiki Yacht Club Mt. Gay Rum® Party Thursday July 1, 2011 Aloha Class Mixer 4:30 p.m. - Midnight Friday 6 p.m. Shoreline Yacht Club July 22, 2011 Honolulu Awards Ceremony July 2, 2011 Skipper’s Meeting Friday 5:30 p.m. Waikiki Shell Saturday 3 p.m. Long Beach Aquarium July 22, 2011 Waikiki Yacht Club “After” Party July 2, 2011 Aloha Sendoff Party Friday 7 p.m. Saturday Gladstone’s Restaurant Long Beach 5:30 p.m. July 23, 2011 Plywood Cup - Kaneohe Yacht Club Saturday 9 a.m. July 3, 2011 US Sailing Safety at Sea Seminar Sunday Shoreline Yacht Club July 23, 2011 Kaneohe Yacht Club Transpac Party 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. Hawaii events listed in Hawaii Standard Time
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4 Transpac 2011 Table of Contents Schedule of Events ...... 4 Welcome from the Governor of Hawaii ...... 8 Welcome from the Mayor of Honolulu ...... 9 Welcome from the Mayor of Long Beach ...... 9 Welcome from the Transpac Yacht Club Commodore ...... 10 Welcome from the Honolulu Committee Chair ...... 10 Welcome from the Sponsoring Yacht Clubs ...... 11 Creating History - A Transpac 2011 Preview ...... 12 Transpac’s Colorful Past ...... 14 Roy E . Disney - In Fond Memory ...... 18 Go Toward the Light - Transpac and the ULDB ...... 20 Clare Lang Memorial Trophy ...... 26 Far Niente arrives at 0700. Transpac 2009 Photo by Susan Novak. Transpac Trivia ...... 27 A Brief History of Mir ...... 28 Transpac 2011 Committees ...... 30 Transpac 2011 Perpetual Trophies ...... 31 Transpac 2011 Sponsors ...... 33 Barn Door Winners ...... 35 Overall Winners ...... 35 Mahalo List ...... 37 2009 Class Finish Positions ...... 38 2011 Yacht Entries & Crews ...... 44
FM Radio Daily Transpac News Hawaii Public Radio is again offering daily reports by Bobbie Jennings,“Hawaii’s Voice of Transpac” . Reports begin July 4 .
Air Times: 6:30 a .m . on 88 .1 FM – To all Islands 8:30 a .m . on 89 .3 FM – Oahu, parts of Neighbor Islands 12:30 p .m . on 89 .3 FM – Oahu, parts of Neighbor Islands 4:30 p .m . on 88 .1 FM – To all Islands
Publisher ...... Michael J . Roth- Roth Communications Editor ...... Ray Pendleton Contributing Writers ...... Kimball Livingston, Ray Pendleton, Curtis A “Bud” Thompson, Bobbie Jennings Contributing Photographers . . . Phil Uhl, Mike Reed, John Davis, JasPics, Sharon Green, Susan Novak Designer ...... Leslie Johnson - Leslie Johnson Design Print Consultant ...... Pat Meara
Official Handbook On The Cover: of the 46th Transpacific Yacht Race Top: Alfa Romeo, Merlin Trophy winner - elapsed time record 5 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes and 20 seconds . Photo by The Transpac 2011 Official Race Handbook is published for the Honolulu Sharon Green Committee of the Transpac Yacht Club by Roth Communications, Middle: Samba Pa Ti, Division I and overall corrected time 2040 Alewa Drive Honolulu, HI 96817 USA . winner . Photo by Sharon Green (808) 595-4124 Bottom: Charisma First Aloha Division . Photo by Phil Uhl rothcomm@lava .net
5 Transpac 2011 Transpac 2011 5 Magic Island and Ala Wai Yacht Harbor. Photo by Phil Uhl .
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loha May 5, 2011 On2011 behalf Race of to the Honolulu people of Hawai‘i, I share a warm a to all of the racers, crews, familiesth and spectators of the , the 46 sailing of the biennial Race to Honolulu.
I applaud the Transpacific Yacht Club racers for their courage to embark on the 2,225 nautical mile journey to Honolulu,Mau Hawai‘iPiailug from Los Angeles, California. As participants prepare for their journeys, I share a quote from , a famous Micronesian navigator who was best known as a teacher of traditional, non- “If you can read the ocean, you will never be lost.” instrumental way finding methods of deep sea voyaging:
I commend the Transpacific Yacht Club Board of Directors for their hard work and dedication; their efforts have helped make this event a success. The Transpacific Yacht Club has perpetuated the oldest open ocean race in the world that began with the first race ahalo dating back to 1906. Again, m to the Transpacific Yacht Club for hosting the 2011 Race to Honolulu. It is my hope that the travels of each of this event’s racers are safe and that their reunion in the Aloha State is memorable. I share with them my best wishes.
NEIL ABERCROMBIE ______Governor, State of Hawai‘i _
8 Transpac 2011 OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Mayor Bob Foster CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU City of Long Beach
Peter B . Carlisle Douglas S . Chin Mayor Managing Director
Message from Mayor Peter B. Carlisle
It gives me great pleasure to extend my warmest aloha Greeting Transpac Fans: to all participants in the 2011 Transpacific Yacht Race from As Mayor of Long Beach, it is once again my pleasure to the West Coast to Honolulu this summer. extend a heartfelt welcome to all who come out to celebrate the Departure Festival for one of the world’s greatest sailing We are honored to welcome the world-class sailors, races - the 46th Biennial Transpacific Yacht Race. navigators and yachtsmen who will cross the Pacific in As the host city, Long Beach is proud to be able to create the this 46th Transpacific Yacht Race first conceived by King Transpac Walk of Fame, recognizing all of the events winners David Kalakaua in 1886. I salute the captains who have over the past 100+ years. Initially, when these stunning prepared their boats and crewmembers for the rigorous memorials were unveiled for the start of the 2007 Transpac, physical demands and team work required for this challenge it was then that everyone fully understood what an extreme conducted nearly every year since 1906. honor it is to have the Crews and the Club calling the City of Long Beach their “home port” for a while. Deepest appreciation goes to the event organizers A special recognition is extended to all who have worked and participants for the positive attention and significant so diligently over the years to ensure the success of Transpac revenue this event generates for the islands. The ongoing – particularly, our local Long Beach clubs – Shoreline and Long success of this competition is a tribute to the planners and Beach Yacht Clubs, and also the Honolulu Committee and the organizational committees that have made this a world-class members of the Transpacific Yacht Club. exhibition of sailing talent. On behalf of the citizens of Long Beach, I wish the skippers and crews of the 46th Biennial Transpacific Yacht Race, and On behalf of the people of the City and County of Honolulu, all who come out to participate and support, a fun and safe I extend best wishes for another safe and successful race. journey to Hawaii, and ask you to send over a warm “Long Beach Aloha” to all our friends and neighbors in the City of Honolulu and the great State of Hawaii. Congratulations on another successful event!
Peter B. Carlisle Mayor Bob Foster City of Long Beach
Transpac 2011 9 e ulu nol Commodor Ho
Welcome to the 46th running of one of the world’s great On behalf of the 2011 Transpac Honolulu Committee, ocean races . Transpac brings together a wide range of as well as the Kaneohe, Hawaii and Waikiki yacht clubs, competitive boats and sailors for an exciting downwind I want to extend an aloha greeting to all participating race through strong trade winds, beautiful blue water skippers and crewmembers, along with their families and and tall cumulus clouds . friends . Since the time I raced my first ranspacT in 1971, many As usual we have an eager cadre of 600-plus things have changed and many things have stayed the volunteers lined up to support finish line communications, same . The ocean, of course, is always out there, the same escort vessels, mooring, inspection and various information ocean, but also different every time . And when you are and other administration needs . We also will continue our halfway, you are further from land than any place else on long tradition of providing hosts for aloha greetings for earth . Ala Wai Harbor and the Ilikai Hotel were relatively every entry . This is a unique and distinguishing feature of new back then, but I remember the Aloha welcome well our race and I would remind skippers and crewmembers as a lasting tradition for the race . to be generous with their mahalos to their hosts . One thing that has changed is the faster boats have I encourage participants, families and friends to gotten much, much faster . In the early 1980s, Santa Cruz stop by the Transpac Race Headquarters, affectionately 50s were in Division 1, but these days they are several known as “The Shack” to see some new improvements divisions down . and features designed to let us serve you better . Due to There is room for everyone in Transpac and competition gracious donations by the Transpacific Yacht Club board to fit their sailing style . The three photos on the cover of and several board members, we have been able to make this program further display three very different sailing some needed structural and cosmetic improvements as styles . Better yet, all yachts are eligible for the overall well as equip the Shack with some new technology to help corrected time victory . friends and families track their crews’ performance on the In the late 1960s, 73-foot industrial strength maxis like race course and ETAs . Blackfin and Windward Passage were fierce course We must ask for everyone’s cooperation with the record contenders and both were winners of the “shortest mooring arrangements this year . Unfortunately one of our elapsed time” Barn Door trophy . With a good breeze and nearby marinas in Keehi Lagoon was heavily damaged by lot of work, these boats could sail the course in less than the recent Japanese tsunami so the Ala Wai harbormaster nine and a half days . At the time, a Cal 40 was the best is providing temporary mooring space to approximately 60 bet for a corrected time victory, and even today, a well- refugee yachts . We will be working closely with the Ala prepared, well-sailed Cal 40 is still in the hunt . Wai harbormaster and the Hawaii and Waikiki yacht clubs Returning to the cover and Neville Crichton’s R/P 100, to handle both the Transpac finishers and the temporary Alfa Romeo, a 100-footer, sailed the course in 5 days 14 marina guests . hours to win the Merlin trophy for the shortest elapsed I also want to thank several new sponsors including time for boats with power winches and movable ballast . It Tommy Bahama, the new Disney Aulani Resort and should also be noted that Alfa was also the first monohull Pepsi Cola Hawaii who are contributing product and/or ever to sail the course in less than half of the time of the treasure so that we can continue to improve the post-race original record holder, that being the 86-foot schooner environment here in Hawaii . Lurline, which 105 years ago, set the original course at 12 days 6 hours . Bo Wheeler Next on the cover is John Kilroy’s modified TP 52 Samba Honolulu, Committee, Chairman Pa Ti, which completed the course 7 days 8 hours to blow the doors off the fixed ballast, manual winch Barn Door competition . The crew will tell you that racing to Honolulu on a TP 52 is a bit like racing to Honolulu on a 49er . The third photo is Alejandro Calzada’s S&S 57 Charisma, winner of the Aloha division for traditional cruising yachts . This is the class for those who want to race the boat they have, eat real cooked food, and enjoy a glass of wine with dinner . Transpac is considered by many to be an adventure of a lifetime . With a great mainland sendoff, spectacular racing across the Pacific, and a wonderful Aloha welcome in Honolulu it is a “don’t miss” race on any serious sailor’s resume . Last of all to skippers and crew, I thank you in advance for saying “mahalo” to your hosts while you are having a grand time in Honolulu .
Bill Lee Commodore, Transpacific Yacht Club
10 Transpac 2011 In 1925 an article appeared in a local E Komo Mai . The Waikiki Yacht Club offers a friendly aloha newspaper to the effect that Kaneohe Yacht Club After the Mai Tais and before your lei dries out to all of the skippers, crew, family, supporters, and members had unanimously passed a resolution we hope you will take time to enjoy our beautiful volunteers who are involved in Transpac 2011 . We protesting the action of Honolulu customs officials island . In our 110th year, the Hawaii Yacht Club is look forward to having you as our guests . The (sic) for seizing a small quantity of liquor on board the oldest yacht club in the state and we are proud Waikiki Yacht Club is a wonderful place to relax, the vessel Eloise, a Transpac racing yacht . The swim, shower, eat and drink, from morning to co-hosts . skipper of that yacht, Commodore John Piver, night, and for reviving your spirits in our tropical subsequently donated a trophy to the KYC, which While you undoubtedly have things to do and locale . For those who need to stay connected, we was known as the “Piver Cup ”. The resolution see, I invite you to visit our clubhouse . The view have free wireless Internet service . Free coffee read, “Resolved, that the Kaneohe Yacht Club, in from our upper deck is second to none and you can with be available 24/7 complements of Hawaiian special meeting hereby assembled does protest enjoy special service from Fred, Kevin, Tom, Nick or Paradise Coffee from July 18th to the 24th . with all its strength against a continuance of the Jamie at the bar . Enjoy a meal or two at our Galley We invite everyone to enjoy our wharfside, practice of searching incoming registered yachts by the Sea Restaurant that prepares wonderful fare umbrella-shaded tables, where you can listen which plainly are not engaged in illicit traffic for by Chef Alfredo Lee . The restaurant is open for to music while enjoying island-style pupus and liquor or any other contraband . . .” (The History Of breakfast, lunch and dinner, during Transpac . Our cold, refreshing drinks . Or you can choose to Kaneohe Yacht Club, page, 21) Today Transpac chef is especially good when creating something relax by our pool, while never being far from wait yachts must surrender fruits, vegetables and service and locker rooms . As always, our Waikiki special just for you . animals .How times have changed! Yacht Club shuttle will provide complementary The KYC’s tradition of supporting Transpac You might also visit our Ship’s Store, run by transportation between our club and the rest of began less than a year after the founding of the Sunni and her crew, for Hawaii Yacht Club logo- the Ala Wai Harbor . club in 1924 . We are proud of our long association wear . Food service at our club is available from 8:00 with the race and we look forward to many more We have a special Okole Maluna (Bottom’s a .m . until 9:00 p .m . every day . Our dining room is years of successful Transpacs ahead . Up) Party on July 20th, sponsored by Bacardi . It open for lunch Wednesday through Friday 11:30 Once you arrive here in Hawaii, we hope you should be a highlight of your time here . Tickets are a m. . to 2:00 p m. . and dinner on Wednesday and won’t forget that the island extends well beyond available at our office (808) 949-4622, Alex or Terri Friday from 6:00 p m. . to 9:00 p m. . We also serve Waikiki . Please join us at KYC here on the lush, will be glad to help you . an excellent Sunday brunch starting at 10:30 a .m . green windward side of Oahu . We pride ourselves Enjoy your vacation, enjoy the food, drink to 2:00 p m. . on being a family club with amenities for the sailor, The Waikiki Yacht Club will host the famous a little, and live a little Hawaiian style and enjoy fisherman and landlubber that include a bar, casual ‘Mount Gay Rum Party’ with the great red Mount and fine dining opportunities, a swimming pool and the Hawaii Yacht Club . If you have any questions Gay souvenir hats, on Thursday, July 21st . In a tennis court . pertaining to the Hawaii Yacht Club please call Chris addition, and new for this year, will be an ‘Aloha Jump on a boat for a ride around the bay on Laletin, Club General Manager (808) 546-9055 or After Party’ following the awards ceremony on a Thursday Night Happy Hour race or simply enjoy myself (808) 888-9494 . Again, welcome to Hawaii, July 22nd . This will be a unique and special party a Mai Tai on the lawn and watch the sun set over sailors! to recognize everyone who played a part in the the Ko’olau Mountains, but do come to see us! The 2011 Transpac . We look forward to having a great KYC will also host the traditional racing-ending Charles Barclay time and we hope to see all of you there . Plywood Cup fundraiser for United Cerebral Palsy Commodore The Board of Directors, members, and Hawaii on Saturday, July 23 . We hope you will all Hawaii Yacht Club staff of the Waikiki Yacht Club are proud to be join in the fun to raise funds for this worthy cause . a part of the great tradition of Transpac and Mahalo to all the volunteers who make this race our congratulations to all of the racers on your successful, it couldn’t be done without you . downwind ride to paradise . To all racers, we wish you a safe and fast passage, a sincere KYC Aloha upon arrival, and our Fair winds, and the warmest Aloha, heartiest congratulations on your accomplishment . Cindy Wyrick, Commodore Hana Hou! Lou Ickler, Commodore Hawaii Yacht Club Flag Officers Waikiki Yacht Club Flag Officers Commodore Charles Barclay Commodore Cindy Wyrick Vice Commodore Ron Pestel Vice Commodore Peter Lewis Kaneohe Yacht Club Flag Officers R .C . for Sail Joseph Schact R .C . for Sail Scott Bradley Commodore Lou Ickler R .C . for Power Robbie Santanello R .C . for Power Mike Farrell Vice Commodore Mark Logan Secretary Gregory Dunn Rear Commodore Jamie Thompson Board of Governors Linda West Treasurer Doug McClaflin Secretary Rick Villalobos Beth Malvestiti Directors Richard Lewis Treasurer Ray Sanborn Doug Allen Dave Hoffman Directors Dan Ford Kawika Warren Ed Irvine Ned Dewey Jerry Sinay Imm . Past Comm . Jim Ewing Lou Darnell Judge Advocate P . Gregory Frey Club Manager Ken Rakta Club Manager Chris Laletin Club Manager Guy Azuma Phone: 808-247-4121 Phone: 808-546-9055 Phone: 808-955-4405 E-Mail: manager@kaneoheyachtclub com E-Mail:. HYC-GM@hawaii rr com . . E-Mail: wyc@lava net . Website: www kaneoheyachtclub. com Website:. www hawaiiyachtclub. org . Website: Http://waikikiyc com .
Transpac 2011 11 Sunday July 5 start for Unlimited, Transpac 52’s and Sleds. Transpac 2009. Photo by Phil Uhl. CREATING HISTORY A TRANSPAC 2011 RACE PREVIEW By Kimball Livingston
A decisive Transpac moment can come as early as the first day, That is the beauty of the game that we play, a tradition since 1906, if one boat picks a lane and goes off unchallenged—and if that turns passed down from generation to generation. Passed down as a gift. out to be the right lane. Or the decisive “moment” can develop over If you live Transpac, you know this. a few days, or many days, in much the same way. In any crossing If you are new, welcome. You’re going to love it. from the West Coast to Hawaii, the navigator’s key decision is where What finer witness could we present than Yoshi Murase, who has to aim the boat to keep it safely south of the calms of the Pacific High been racing Transpac since 2001, and with a bit of a commute to the Pressure Zone. Usually that means bending south and adding extra start line, at that. Murase’s boats, named Bengal, come all the way from miles for the sake of better winds. But every year there is always the Japan, about 5,000 miles, to make the Transpac start. He pined for the possibility, however unlikely, that this year is different, that this year is adventure for years, he says, and finally did it and keeps coming back a rhumb line year. because, “We feel genuinely close to the people, and we appreciate If you haven’t got it already, the commitment is called, picking your lane. the Aloha hospitality. We want to be great friends to all. And, we learn And switching lanes, as in sailing laterally across the racecourse, is from each race. On a chart, the race might look monotonous, but the expensive. reality is very different.” If you are reading this ahead of Transpac 2011, you can be sure Questions of the Hour that picking a lane is the hottest topic going between navigators and Can Magnitude 80 capture the Barn Door again, now that the classic skippers. The must-win boats (for example, Magnitude 80 or Horizon Barn Door Trophy has been set as a prize for boats with a fixed-keel? or Bella Mente) have already recruited their pick of talented, fearless With Magnitude now reconfigured to a fixed keel for the sake of the downwind drivers. In the polar opposite, the Aloha Class, the boats quest? Could Bella Mente play the spoiler as she continues her West (for example, Dr. Paul Edwards’ Catalina 42, Wind Dancer, or Ross Coast tour? It takes a race to know Pearlman’s Jeanneau, Between the Sheets) have already rounded up After setting a doublehanded record in 2009 in an Open 50 with their own, chosen people for their own special, self-defined experience. Mark Christensen, Philippe Kahn chose to “de-turbo” an Andrews 68, If you are reading this after the race, picking the lane will still be one of ex-Equation, now Pegasus, and race fully-crewed in 2011. the hottest topics, along with that round-down in the black squall, along “We plan to sail her surfing to Honolulu like a Moore 24 as with that wonderful (or perhaps gawdawful) meal that Binkie served opposed to sailing across the waves, reaching, like a Melges 24,” on the fifth night out, along with whatever ineffable fright or marvel Kahn said. “I surf and I love surfing, and what we want is to have or unspeakably-funny oopsie that will forever jump out for everyone fair racing with the other boats in the ‘70s’ class using the Transpac aboard, whenever they meet again, wherever they meet again. ORR rating. We hope to get more people wanting to do this and
12 Transpac 2011 have some great Pacific Ocean sailing.” committed to it. “Sailing empties you of the daily junk,” she says, “and De-turboing meant that the mast on Pegasus was shortened by that’s the meaning of life, to put amazement into every day.” 12 feet, and the keel was shortened, with a smaller bulb and a few Some of the hottest competition should be found among the six thousand pounds of lead added to the bilge. The bowsprit is gone, and Santa Cruz 50s. Wayne Zittel, skippering Hula Girl, figures you have the the boat’s new short poles, Kahn said, can be gybed easily with a crew best of all worlds, “any time you come this close to having a one-design of three to five. fleet. We went against Deception and Horizon racing Newport-Cabo, Also in the “70’s” pack are such familiar names as Alchemy, and we could see that Horizon is the benchmark. It’s very well prepared, Grand Illusion, Holua, Cheetah, Condor, Pendragon VI, Peligroso and very well sailed. We’ll race Hula Girl with six J/World clients and three Pyewacket, with Bill McClure sailing Pyewacket as a sort of tribute to coaches. In doing these things, it’s always fun to watch the dramatic Roy Disney, but with local sailors instead of pros. This group should learning curve. In a week, the driving gets so much better.” have great head-to-head competition. Which may not be unique to a teacher-student entry. Then there is the 69-foot Bella Mente, line honors winner in the Only two boats are sailing doublehanded. Alex Mehran and Jesse 2006 Newport-Bermuda Race, owned by Hap Fauth of Chicago and Rowse have Truth, the Open 50 that carried Kahn and Christensen to born “turbo’d.” Fauth’s crew was caught up in a race to the race after a doublehanded record in 2009, and Greg Constable/Doug Backhouse breaking the mast en route to Cabo last spring, with a new boat in-build are the “other” Canadian entry with the Fast 40, Narrow Escape. and lots to think about. For them, getting across the start line will truly One of the verities of long-distance handicap racing is that you race feel like a vacation. your class, and the weather determines whether a big boat or a small Very hot boats in the midsize range include the likes of Ricardo boat wins overall. Often enough, the smaller end of the scale is the Brockman’s Vincitore, Jeffrey Urbina’s CaZan, Chip MeGeath’s Criminal place to be, and in 2011, that end of the fleet includes two J/125s, a Mischief, and the TP52, Patches. Add Lorenzo Berho’s Peligroso to Santa Cruz 37, and a Hobie 33. Will a four-day head start see them Vincitore along with Jorge Ripstein’s Patches and you have a three-boat crossing the Diamond Head finish line alongside the big guys? contingent from Mexico, which puts our neighbors to the south ahead Among the nine entries in the Aloha class, Eric Gray’s Gracie has of our neighbors to the north, by one entry. Of those, the Open 60, O only one race veteran in the crew. Plenty of new blood there. Also Canada, is a standout, skippered by 2009 Melges 24 world champion in the Aloha group, Traveler returns after using the 2007 race as leg and 2007 doublehanded Transpac winner Richard Clarke. Completing one of a circumnavigation. Michael Lawler’s North Wind 47 visited six our 3-2-1 countdown of internationals is perennial competitor and long- continents and covered 31,145 miles, Lawler says: “We crashed the distance commuter from Japan, Yoshiko Murase with his Ohashi 46, King of Tonga’s coronation, rescued fishermen offN aui—they would Bengal 7. have died—and eventually crossed the other pond with the Atlantic And we’d better add Katana to our list of hot midsize boats. “Dr. Rally for Cruisers. But we also spent eight months in the South Pacific, Laura” Schlessinger, who had Tim Kernan design Katana as a Transpac because we liked it so much. What I learned is that cruising is the art boat, has made a fast ascent through sailing after her sudden, spasmodic of fixing your boat in exotic places.” conversion from motoryachting. In seven years, Schlessinger has gone Perhaps, this time, Hawaii is exotic enough. from profound surprise that she could possibly like sailing to being totally
Magnitude 80 in unlimited class. This year she is back to the sled class. Photo Mike Reed.
Transpac 2011 13 Tcranspa ’s Colorful Past 105 Years Old and Going Strong By Ray Pendleton The Transpacific YachtR ace, or ‘Transpac” as most sailors call Anemone flying theN ew York Yacht Club burgee. Anemone, under it, vies with the Bermuda Race on the U.S. East Coast as one of an earlier agreed upon handicap system, was the scratch boat and the two most enduring long distance sailing events in the world. had to give Lurline and La Paloma 12 and 27 hours respectively. However Transpac’s open ocean racecourse that measures some Twelve days, nine hours, and 59 minutes after the start, on a 2,225 nautical miles, far overshadows the Bermuda Race that also passage so fast it was only eclipsed once in the next four decades, was first raced in 1906. Lurline crossed the finish line off Oahu to become Transpac’s first It should also be noted that Transpac’s historic first contest might elapsed- and corrected-time winner. have occurred nearly a decade sooner had San Francisco’s Pacific Transpac has been raced biennially with few exceptions since Yacht Club accepted Hawaii’s King David Kalakaua’s invitation to race 1906, and after 45 contests, it has created its own colorful history. to Hawaii for his 50th birthday celebration in 1897. Unfortunately, for The following are some of its historic highlights: reasons unrecorded, his royal offer was never acted upon. • The race was run every even-numbered year from 1906 through still, shortly after Hawaii became a U.S. Territory, Honolulu 1936, except for 10 years during World War I. It then changed businessman and yachtsman Clarence Macfarlane discussed creating to odd-numbered years in 1939 so as to not conflict with the such a race with Los Angeles businessman and South Coast Yacht East Coast’s Bermuda Race. Club member Harry Sinclair. Macfarlane agreed to sail his 48-foot schooner to San Francisco, as much to show other yachtsmen it • Transpac was not raced from 1942 through 1946 during could be done as to meet them there for the start of a race back to World War II. Honolulu. • The race started in Los Angeles every year except 1928 Unfortunately, Macfarlane sailed into San Francisco Bay on May (Newport Beach), 1923 and ’32 (Santa Barbara), 1936 (Santa 13, 1906 just 25 days after that city had been devastated by the great Monica), and 1939 (San Francisco). earthquake and fire.S till, he somehow managed to contact Sinclair and they agreed that Macfarlane should sail down to Los Angeles • The first multiday staggered start for the race was in 1993. where they could organize a race to Honolulu from there. • The largest fleet to race Transpac had 80 boats in 1979. The first Transpac race began off L.A.’s San Pedro breakwater at noon on June 11, 1906 between three yachts: Macfarlane’s La Paloma, • The smallest fleet had two boats in 1932 during the Great Depression. Sinclair’s 86-foot schooner Lurline, and Charles Tutt’s 112-foot ketch • The largest officially entered yacht to race in Transpac was
Gib Black’s Santa Cruz 50 Roy’s Chasch Mer lines up to start. First Hawaii Boat, July 2 start. Transpac 2009. Photo by Phil Uhl. 14 Transpac 2011 the 161-foot schooner Goodwill in 1953 and 1959 (with a best (1906, ’08, and ’12), and Morning Star (1949, ’51, and ’55). time of 10 ½ days). • Only three foreign boats have won Transpac on elapsed time, • The smallest boat to race was the 25-foot sloop Vapor in 1999. the 73-foot ketch Stormvogel, from South Africa in 1967, the Z86 Morning Glory, from Germany in 2005, and Alfa Romeo, • New Zealander Neville Crichton’s Reichel Pugh 100-foot from New Zealand in 2009. Alfa Romeo, holds the current elapsed-time record of 5 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, and 20 seconds. • The longest elapsed time recorded to complete Transpac was 23 days, 23 hours, and 55 minutes, set by the 42-foot ketch Viking • Two yachts have had the most wins on elapsed time, Lurline Childe in 1939.
Bad Pak, First corrected time winner Division IV Transpac 2009. Photo by Phil Uhl.
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Transpac 2011 15 Tcranspa ’s Colorful Past con’t
• The only yacht to cross the Diamond Head finish line stern-first was the 78-foot ketch Mir in 1969, when she lost her mast and was backed across the line with her mizzen.
• The Spencer 65 sloop Ragtime has raced in Transpac a record 15 times, from 1973 through 2009.
• Although Transpac has traditionally been a monohull contest – catamarans and trimarans were not allowed – Buno peyron 86-foot catamaran Explorer set a multihull record of 5 days, 9 hours, 18 minutes, and 26 seconds in 1997 as an ”invited guest.”
Horizon enters the Ala Wai harbor. First in Division V and Santa Cruz 50 class. Transpac 2009. Photo by Phil Uhl.
Free Range Chicken crosses the start line. First Division VII and Unlimited July 2 start. Transpac 2009. Photo by Phil Uhl. 16 Transpac 2011 The battle for first to finish for conventional boats. The 1D35 Relentless, first in Division VI and Double Handed June 29 start just beats Samba Pa Ti, first in Division I, first TP52, first overall and winner of the Barn Door (July 5 start) across the finish line at Diamond Head Buoy Hawaii. Photo by Phil Uhl.
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Transpac 2011 17 One thing to know about Roy Disney is that he came to grand prix racing the slow way. First he sailed modest family cruisers, and he was drawn into sailing bit by bit. Then he discovered Transpac. It was the beginning of a love affair that enriched Roy’s life and the Transpacific YachtR ace as well. The man commissioned custom ocean racers and raced all over the world, with great success. But Transpac? He sailed fifteen Transpacs. He served on the Board of the Transpacific Yacht Club and was always about the business of making Transpac better. Transpac was his passion. He said, “I raised four kids on this race.” Shamrock was Roy’s first Transpac ride, in 1975, and he loved that boat, but Shamrock was an S&S centerboard yawl and wrong-wrong-wrong for racing downwind in the trades. Slip-sliding all the way to the Diamond Head Buoy proved the point. For the next race Roy chartered a Santa Cruz 50. Now, Photo by Leslie DeMeuse Disney, Artwork by Phil Uhl. instead of fighting the boat down the waves, the crew found themselves fighting each other for the delight of helming a boat that wanted to go straight and fast. Roy held onto his dear Shamrock—now she was declared a cruising boat—and Roy E. Disney along the way there would be four new race boats, each in turn named Pyewacket, after the cat in the Disney movie, In fond memory Bell, Book and Candle. But these were downwind flyers, every one. By Kimball Livingston Welcoming Transpac boats for 82 years
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18 Transpac 2011 Pyewacket II, a Santa Cruz 70 with son Roy Pat skippering (Roy was nursing a broken leg) in 1997, became the boat that finally beat Merlin’s 20-year-old record, taking the mark down to seven days and change. Come 1999, Roy was back in the saddle and riding Pyewacket III, an R/P 75 that shaved the record by four more hours for a time of 7 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes. The same boat in 2002 went east and set records in the Newport-Bermuda and Chicago-Mackinac. An attempt in 2007 to reclaim the Transpac record with a cant-keeled, extended Pyewacket IV did not pan out, but this is becoming too much like a list of races and records. Those who knew Roy Edward Disney, inevitably referenced in the press as “nephew of Walt,” knew him as dead-set loyal to his crew, who were equally loyal to him. He was generous and gentle, but driven, with a fertile and creative mind. He made his nature movies and championed his animations, he made his Morning Light Transpac movie, and he cared deeply about the Disney heritage. During the heights/depths of his bitter battle to oust Michael Eisner from the helm of the company that Roy feared was losing its soul, he told the New York Times, “You want to know what really set me off? It was the word ‘brand.’ Michael Eisner kept talking about Mickey Mouse as a brand. He’s not a brand. He’s a mouse.”
Roy E. Disney, Leslie DeMuse Disney and Robbie Haines work on the movie Morning Light. Photo by Phil Uhl.
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Transpac 2011 19 Go toward the light Transpac and the ULDB By Kimball Livingston
In the story of Transpac and the ULDB, it is no coincidence that California lies upwind from Hawaii. However, there is no rational explanation of the Santa Cruz phenomenon and how, or why, a small town tucked into the sheltered bight of Monterey Bay should experience a boatbuilding spasm that rocks our world to this day.
But it did. Which is not to claim that every critical element bubbled up out of Santa Cruz. To get our story right, we must begin in Southern California, with a man who knew what he wanted in a boat, and it wasn’t anything already on offer. And we must touch base with a Chutzpah 1973 finish. Crew: L to R: Steve Fletcher, Bruce Nelson, Tom Nelson, man of the islands, who believed it was time for a Honolulu boat to Stuart Cowan, Jacob Van Heeckeren, Jim Gannon (crouched). win the Honolulu race, a man prepared to go out on a limb to make that happen. Santa Cruz; Goring’s 30-foot Starbuck had been built in South Africa. At We begin, long before the term Ultra Light Displacement Boat the same time there was buzz about an inaugural “MORA Transpac” was coined, much less in need of the acronym, ULDB. We begin for boats 30 feet and under. The prospect inspired Santa Cruz surfer with George Griffith, Transpacific YachtC lub member #1 in 2011 and /sailor George Olson to build a boat with the goal to go insanely fast long before, in the 1960s, the godfather of the Cal 40. Bill Lapworth downwind. What would become Grendel was born of having, as Olson did the naval architecture, yes, but it was George Griffith who put it, “a lot of Cal 20 stuff lying around.” A bit of research on what sketched the midsection that defined the ride. It was Griffith who we might call a Model T computer convinced Olson that a Cal 20 rig insisted upon a fin keel, spade rudder layout and a structure that would work for a light 24-footer (think 2,000 pounds displacement) was radically-light for the day. It was Griffith who guaranteed the so a 24-footer is what he built. The MORA Transpac never happened, builder—purely a gamble—a series run of 10. Then, in their Transpac but Grendel was a happening in herself. The boat was launched in debut, 1965, Cal 40s ran 1-1 and 2-2 and four more Cal 40s placed 1968 and won a MORA season championship and a distance race in the overall top 10. In a race already rich with history, a new ethos that finished in Ensenada. Olson had got his numbers right. But the was born. Transpac celebrates downwind, tradewind sailing, and it Grendel story was just beginning, because Olson’s friend and fellow was no longer necessary, and certainly no longer cool, to wallow in this madness, Ron Moore, refused to let Grendel’s male mold downwind, stuck in the water. Sailors began to speak of “surfing” go to waste. With the beam stretched to suit the eyeball, the mold to Hawaii. It was a new day. produced a second one-off, Summertime, that became the prototype The Cal 40 had its critics in the old guard until, year by year, it of the Moore 24, something of a legend in itself. proved itself on both coasts as one very good boat. The castle keep And so the stage was set for a fellow named Bill Lee who, ahem, had been breached. You might call the Cal 40 a ULDB-of-its-day, actually had an engineering degree. Lee had arrived in Santa Cruz in but Griffith never endorsed the label. In this writing, your author 1968 and soon was at work on a 30-footer that became Magic. Rather contacted Griffith and a heap of other veterans as to the origin of than use solid glass, Lee chose a cored sandwich for his hulls, for the term, Ultra Light Displacement Boat, ULDB, and came away lighter displacement. Magic was launched in 1969. Next came the with lots of speculation but no answers. Certainly the term was in 36-foot Witchcraft for Art Biehl, who racked up a string of successes widespread use in the 1970s as a means to identify the new, light in downwind races to Mexico. And then came Stu Cowan, a man on boats that were coming, notably, out of Santa Cruz. Designer Alan a mission “to bring First Overall and the King David Kalakaua Cup Andrews pointed me to a page in Royce’s Sailing Illustrated crediting back to Honolulu.” Windward Passage (first to finish, 1969, 1970) as the first big ULDB, As Cowan relates it, a bit of research led to the discovery of with a D/L of 100, and quoting designer Bob Perry saying, “If you some glowing press accounts of that Witchcraft thingamajig, a have to draw the lines I would suggest zero to 110 for ULDBs, 110 product of Bill Lee and his then-partner, Biehl, in Magic Marine Boat to 160 for light displacement boats. The Cal 40, considered light Works. Along with Honolulu sailmaker Tommy Nelson, Cowan flew in the 1960s, had a 250 D/L ratio.” And here is a little fine-tuning to Witchcraft’s home port of Marina del Rey, California “to try her from Andrews: “In more modern boats, the sail-carrying power has out. Before we even got her out of the harbor, I decided this was increased tremendously, so they carry bigger rigs and actually plane the right design.” in many conditions as opposed to just surfing.” The right design to bring an overall Transpac win to Honolulu. As the Sixties wound down, MORA—the Midget Ocean Racing The result was a commission for Lee to design and build a 35-footer Association (RIP)—was a hotbed of activity on the Northern California that would become Chutzpah IV. Launched in April, 1973, Cowan’s coast. Bill Lee credits Don Goring with having the first ultra light in new boat weighed in at 7,000 pounds compared to his previous
20 Transpac 2011 Chutzpah, a 35-foot Herreshoff displacing 18,500 pounds. To crew finish Barn Door Trophy by eight hours over Ondine. The rating hit to the race that year, Cowan recruited Jake van Heeckeren, a Northern Chutzpah was roughly four hours, but then, there was that four-day California sailmaker who had navigated a 1969 Transpac win on the stretch during the race when her mileage was only seven miles short Cal 40, Holiday II, plus Nelson and three more people who qualified of the mileage of Ondine, at 79 feet more than twice her length. Can as among the best helmsmen going. you race light boats against heavy boats? Chutzpah would repeat Chutzpah was the smallest and, by a country mile, the cheapest as Class D and overall time allowance winner, finishing on elapsed of 58 boats entered in the 1973 race, including 15 in Class D. While time ahead of all the Class D boats, all the Class C boats, seven B’s van Heeckeren (a Ph.D in mathematics) worked with Bill Lee to design and one A. Winning for Honolulu, a second time. Bill Lee designs the rig and sail plan to the IOR-magic number of 27.5018, Cowan took seven of 19 trophies, and a consensus began to develop that cheerfully told anyone who would listen that his boat was going to apples versus oranges was a problem deserving a solution. win the ‘73 Transpac. For that, he relates, he was “laughed out of Such as, dividing the fleet into ULDB and not. every yacht club from the Royal Thames to the Royal Prince Albert.” THE 1977 RACE stands out for many reasons. The Pacific High Even the friendlies at his home club, Waikiki, were not putting their performed like a champ, producing Chamber of Commerce conditions bets on Chutzpah. Obsessively light-loading with a diet of freeze- all the way. The race saw the debut of the first big ultralight from dried foods, obviously different, Santa Cruz, Merlin—a boat the Chutzpah crew stuck out like designed to get Bill Lee to a sore thumb and drew attention Honolulu in time to make from the rating committee, every party, it would become which a few days before the start part of Transpac lore—with bumped the rating to 31+. Merlin faced off against Harry But that wasn’t enough, if Moloshco’s copycat Drifter you were in the anti-ULDB camp. that was rushed through Chutzpah crossed in 13 days, 13 design and construction hours, 36 minutes, 53 seconds barely in time to make the to win on corrected time, Class start. And yes, the fleet was D and overall, by 3:07:55 over a split. A formula was drawn Cal 40, Ariana, which finished 2-2. up to define a ULDB, and 10 The slender rocketship from New lightweights were assigned Zealand, Ragtime, now based in to “Division II.” They were Southern California, edged out the smallest grouping in the Windward Passage for line honors race, with a size range of 35 by a heart-pounding 4 minutes. feet to 69 feet. And that, you Some figured such a might believe, was a problem lightweight flyer as Chutzpah was of its own. unsafe for sea, an accusation not Drifter led Merlin past supported by the ocean miles that the West End of Catalina, ULDBs have sailed since. Other both of them trailing Kialoa people, without being anti-ULDB, and Windward Passage, then saw the new boats as a problem the course record holder off a of apples and oranges. The rule 1971 crossing of 9:09:06:48. of the day, IOR, rated a boat Under the new formula, according to its performance on Passage sailed in the regular Chutzpah crosses the finish line winning the 1973 Transpac with the all points of sail, but the 2,225-mile Hawaiian Flag flying . division, not ULDB. She official length of the Transpac, in a would eventually finish ahead textbook year, breaks up into a day or so of beating, a few days of of Kialoa but correct to second to Kialoa’s first inC lass A. By day four, close reaching, and then a lot of reaching and running before the however, the Passage record was clearly at risk, and the race for trades. No apologies, that’s the attraction. But how to handicap it? line honors was all about Merlin and Drifter. Add another four days, As George Griffith recalled many years later, “For several races we and the duel was incredibly tight, with Bill Lee and Harry Moloshco went through the tortures of the damned. Can you race light boats both checking-in to the finish line committee on the evening of day versus heavy boats and make it mean something? It was a period eight. With lots of wind in the Molokai Channel. With Merlin closing of frustration. Everybody had an axe to grind.” at the more favorable angle of sail. With tension mounting. Meanwhile, Bill Lee declared “Fast is fun” and continued to ignore Hallelujah, they were arriving at party time. the IOR rule in favor of the type of boat that he liked. Transpac YC Merlin came first across the Diamond Head finish line just past 9 committees, in their turn, increased the ratings of the very light boats, o’clock in a time of 8:11:1:45. Drifter arrived only 17 minutes later— credited some of the heavier boats, and hoped for the best in ‘75. the crew not knowing whether they were first or not—followed by By way of adjustment, the ratings committee lopped 8:46:52 Ragtime in the early next morning, in the wake of celebrations that off Ragtime’s allowance for the 1975 race. Ragtime then placed 7th ran most of the night. Lee remembers ‘77 as, “A battle between in Class A, 52nd overall while winning her second-in-a-row first-to- the old and the new. The heavy boats with big rigs versus the light
Transpac 2011 21 boats with little rigs. All in the days of amateur crews, real food, Dacron sails, and celestial navigation.” Between Chutzpah’s double wins in ‘73 and ‘75, and Merlin’s Barn Door win in ‘77 that shaved 22 hours off the existing record, ULDBs had come to Transpac to stay. Over the years to come, the emerging new-generation Transpac fleets edged closer to the ULDB range, and by and by the whole sport moved. Soon Transpac entered the era of the Sleds, production boats from Lee in the form of Santa Cruz 50s and Santa Cruz 70s, custom boats from the likes of Reichel-Pugh and Alan Andrews that reached speeds in the twenties, under control. They became the new standard even before carbon fiber came along to make the high-end boats lighter yet. The Transpac course record now belongs to Neville Crichton’s all-carbon cant-keeled 100 footer from New Zealand, Alfa Romeo, which sailed the 2009 race with a rating of -32.997 and finished with an elapsed time of 5 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, and 20 seconds—but no Barn Door. Instead, the Barn Door was reserved for fixed-keel boats, and fourth-generation Transpac sailor Trisha Steele donated the Merlin Trophy for boats in an “Unlimited” division. The inaugural Merlin Trophy went to Alfa Romeo. Think of this as an early-21st century quandary of apples versus oranges. Not since 1977 has there been a fleet split by a standard of displacement. Meanwhile, in 2011, an “average” boat looks more like Double Trouble, an off-the-shelf J/125 with a displacement/length ratio of 74, and the Transpacific Yacht Club goes out of its way to drum up interest from “traditional, heavy cruising-type yachts” to encourage them to sign up for the Aloha Class and come on along. Our second century is just beginning to unfold. Tachyonn III first Santa Cruz 52 class. Transpac 2009. Photo by Mike Reed.
22 Transpac 2011 Charisma, first in Division VII Aloha Class. Transpac 2009 Photo by Phil Uhl.
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26 Transpac 2011 Transpac Trivia
Across: 32 - yacht harbor Down: 27 - biggest Transpac boat 1 - right of way 33 - about 50 miles away 2 - shortest distance 28 - 1949 record setter 4 - winning dance 35 - tropical drink 3 - a bum 31 - famous lighthouse 6 - South African winner 37 - Japanese boat like a tiger 5 - change to gold 33 - a true island state 7 - SC 50 named for famous 42 - first winner 8 - 1969 record setter 34 - Newport Harbor Nautical college mascot 43 - windy weather condition 10 - Hawaiian kinds sledded this way Museum 8 - marker 44 - SC 70 which is a nice breeze 11 - Mexican wind 36 - famous channel 9 - first ranspacT ULDB 45 - change direction of boat 13 - record for most trophies & 37 - the wizard 12 - sailors have this for the sea 46 - smallest boat Hawaiian for wave 38 - fast Italian car 14 - bears like this navigator 49 - not really there 15 - starting place of 1928 race 39 - twenty year record holder 17 - famous hotel 50 - slowest boat 16 - great Led Zeppelin song 40 - horse, type of glass 18 - oldest boat 51 - SC 70 winner in 2009 19 - safety gear 41 - this 70 had more fun 20 - Hawaii yacht club 52 - music from New Orleans 21 - mark of the course 47 - communications building 22 - easterly winds 54 - fast cat 23 - navigation instrument 48 - devil winner from 1923 25 - type of pencil 55 - colorful sail 24 - kids movie 53 - finished backwards 29 - map for water 56 - Hawaiian for surf 26 - spirit of Hawaii 30 - Disney’s boat Transpac was a great love of Roy E. Disney. So were his Pyewackets. But that left plenty of room for his passion for the crossword puzzle. Roy was a contributor to your 2011 Transpac Crossword Puzzle, and we dedicate it now to his memory, for all that he did for Transpac.
Transpac 2011 27 A brief history of MIR First and only Transpac yacht to Finish stern-FIrst By Curtis A. “Bud” Thompson
Mir heads to Kewalo Basin under jury rig.
Forty-two years ago, in the 1969 Transpacific YachtR ace, the 79- Mir found admirers wherever she sailed. One of them was John foot ketch Mir, flying the burgee of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, Scripps who had sailed his 89-foot ketch Novia del Mar in several fdismasted near the Diamond Head finish line. Transpac and Tahiti races but lost her in a fire off the coast of Mexico. Members of the press and photographers aboard a nearby It wasn’t long before he started looking for another boat and heard Mir powerboat witnessed several knockdowns as the gusting trade winds was for sale. He had raced against her a number of times and in 1973 overpowered her. A short distance from the finish line another heavier became her new proud owner. John’s son Paul and family now enjoy gust came down out of the mountain valleys laying Mir almost flat in sailing her out of the San Diego Yacht Club. Mir, in Russian, means the water and the spinnaker collapsed. The helmsman steered her off “Highest point of perfection,” and she is now named Miramar, which the wind and when the sails filled the rig collapsed! The plucky crew in Spanish means, ”Seeing or enjoying the sea. Such a wonderful quickly cut away the rigging and mast and sailed her over the finish way to treat a lady! line stern first with a spinnaker flying from the mizzenmast. It was like a shot heard around the world when the pictures and story hit the press. FotoBoat photographer Richard Cleveland took a sequence of shots in color, as did Lois Kennedy of SEA Magazine in black and white. To this day the shots of the Mir dismasting are found in many homes and yacht clubs. Her resourceful owner, George O’Brian, after finding that getting a new mast would take months, had a telephone pole stepped in the vessel for the sail back to the coast. Over time, Mir has enjoyed quite a life. Designed by Jarl Lindblom, her keel was laid at the ABO Batfarv yard in Abo, Finland in 1943, launched in 1949, and finished at the Plym yard in Stockholm Sweden in 1950. Her first owner Wilhelm Hedensjo sold her in 1953 to Harry Greb and she found herself being sailed from Sweden across to Canada where she enjoyed sailing out of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club on the Great Lakes. Illness caused Harry Greb to sell her and she was sailed to Puerto Rico where she lay idle and in need of attention. Mir later found her way back to Toronto and was sold to George O’Brian who sailed her out of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club in the Swiftsure races and to Mexico and finally to Hawaii in the 1969 Transpac.
Mir using only her mizzen sail crosses the Transpac finish line stern first.
28 Transpac 2011 How the world learned of the yacht Mir’s dramatic Transpac finish By Bobbie Jennings
In 1969, my first year with the Transpacific Yacht Race, I Final roundup . wasI the assistant to Communications Chair Ernie Ernshaw (a KGMB anchor), who served as both the fleet and media contact. We used HAM radio in those days to talk with the fleet and the escort vessel, and a landline phone to reach the press. Our “Press Room” was on his boat, near Transpac Row. Usually he’d head up to the Hawaii Yacht Club for a “quick one” around 2:00 p.m. and often not return, leaving me to receive messages via HAM and pass out press releases on the phone. On the afternoon of Mir’s scheduled arrival, Ernie had already departed for the club. Suddenly, from the ship-to-shore radio came a voice that said, “Ernie, this is hot news. Listen to this...” and the voice proceeded to tell me the yacht Mir had had a bad knockdown and with just a few hundred yards to go The mainmast come down. to the finish line, had broken its mast, and the crew had rigged the mizzen and was coming across the line backward. This report was from a helicopter flying above the finish line and the speaker was Bud Thompson. With no knowledge about radio protocol, I simply - without call letters - thanked the helicopter and turned to the HAM set to tell the Escort Vessel and TP Officials. Again, without any call letters, I repeated what I had heard. “Get that lady off the horn” someone shouted. I explained who I was, but they still insisted I was crazy and had my facts wrong. So I called the helicopter back (again, no call letters; just “Bobbie to helicopter”) and asked them to repeat what they had said. Again they repeated the same story. So back I went to the HAM set and passed along the information once again, and once again was told to put Ernie Mir cleans up the carnage. on the horn with some reasonable explanation. I replied that Ernie was “indisposed” and I was in charge, but after a few more back-and-forth conversations I said to heck with them and began preparing a press release for the media. The Transpac officials finally learned I was correct in my reporting, and thanks to a photographer from California, the photo of Mir taking the knockdown was captured for magazine covers, as well as the huge framed enlargement on the wall of the Waikiki Yacht Club. Ernie, incidentally, received over a dozen “unlicensed-user citations” from the FCC! (End Note: Ernie passed away later that year and I became the media-dubbed “Voice of Transpac”. I haven’t missed broadcasting a Transpac on local radio in 40 years.)
The arrival party was not dampened by the loss of the rig. Photos from Kennedy Family collection. Transpac 2011 29 TRANSPACIFIC YACHT CLUB COMMITTEES
Transpacific Yacht Club Honolulu Committee Commodore...... Bill Lee Honolulu Committee Chair...... Bo Wheeler Vice Commodore ...... Dave Cort V/C Administration...... Carl Geringer Rear Commodore ...... Dan Nowlan V/C Race Operations...... James “Jim” Ewing V/C Harbor Operations...... Rick Houck Race Operations Race Chair ...... Dave Cort Administration Entry Chair ...... Al Garnier Publicity...... Ray Pendleton & Bobbie Jennings Racing Rules and Procedures Consultant...... Dick Rose Program Chair...... Michael Roth Los Angeles Communications ...... David Lee Awards Ceremony...... Linell Kam Technical Committee Chair...... Alan Andrews Technology Advisor...... Don Crispin Judge Advocate ...... Jerry Montgomery Plywood Cup...... Lyle Holden Communications Vessel ...... Alaska Eagle T-Shirts ...... Marcy Fleming Daily Roll Call ...... Tom Trujillo Inspections Chair...... Roby Bessent Race Operations Measurer...... Dan Nowlan Race Headquarters/Information - The Shack...... Crispin Lippincot & Sally Ewing Trophies Chair...... Trish Steele Finish Line...... Iwalani Stone Communications & Web Site...... Walt & Lisa Niemczura Administration Procurement...... Ivan Chan Wa Mainland Chair...... Warren Wolfe Treasurer ...... Jim Eddy Harbor Operations Publicity ...... Kimball Livingston Pier Operations...... Ben Merritt Membership Chair...... Mike Nash Committee Boats...... Rachel Simon Sponsorship and Marketing Chair...... Mike Nash Boat Hosting...... Barbara Silvey Administrator...... Cathie Nash Boat inspections...... Pat “Moose” Kudlich Shuttle Boat...... Lennie Cantor Shore Activities Send Off Gala...... John Sangmeister Race Committee Rainbow Harbor Send Off Coord...... Gary Asbury Principal Race Officer...... Dave Cort Sea Festival Liason...... Drew Satariano ...... Dan Nowlan Mainland Host Coord...... Laurie Little ...... Betty Sue Sherman Mainland Port Captain...... Ric Sanders ...... John Thorne Aloha Gala...... Betsy Crowfoot ...... Tom Trujillo ...... Barbara Falk ...... Terry Brown Protest Committee Chief Judge...... Michael Roth TPYC Board of Directors ...... Jerry Montgomery Bill Lee John Fuller ...... Tom Pochereva David Cort John Jourdane ...... Guy Fleming Dan Nowlan Jon Andron ...... Scott Melander Dale Nordin Leslie Disney ...... Steve Thomas Alan Andrews Mike Nash ...... Joseph Shacat Betty Sue Sherman Peter Tong ...... Bob Stephenson Bo Wheeler Roby Bessent Chuck Hawley Roy P. Disney Cliff Cisco Stan Honey David Lee Trisha Steele Drew Satariano Warren Wolfe James Eddy III
30 TRANSPAC 2011 Trophies Finish ...... Trophy First Overall Corrected...... King Kalakaua & Governor of Hawaii Second Overall Corrected...... Harry “Skip” Warren Memorial Third Overall Corrected...... TPYC First Elapsed Time...... Barn Door & W. H. Stewart Memorial First Elapsed Time - Unlimited...... Merlin Trophy Second Elapsed Time...... Clark Sweet Third Elapsed Time...... Morgan Adams Memorial Course Record...... TPYC New Course Record Division I First...... Harry Uhler Memorial Second Corrected ...... TPYC Third Corrected ...... TPYC Division II First Corrected ...... Clarence McFarland Memorial Second Corrected ...... TPYC Third Corrected ...... TPYC Division III First Corrected ...... Albert Soiland Memorial Second Corrected ...... TPYC Third Corrected ...... TPYC Division IV First Corrected ...... TPYC Second Corrected ...... TPYC Third Corrected ...... Makapuu Point Division V SC 50 Class First Corrected ...... TPYC Second Corrected ...... Hawaii Prince Perpetual Third Corrected ...... TPYC Samba Pa Ti accepting (L to R) the W.L.Stewart Jr Memorial Tea Set take home trophy for winning the Barn Door, the Division VI Governor of Hawaii take home Canoe trophy and the King First Corrected...... City of Long Beach Kalakaua Perpetual trophy for first corrected time boat. Second Corrected...... Harry G. Steele Memorial Transpac 2009. Photo by John Davis. Third Corrected...... TPYC Division VII Aloha Class First Corrected...... TPYC - Eugene Overton Perpetual Second Corrected...... TPYC Third Corrected...... TPYC Multihull Class First Elapsed Time...... Rudy Choy Trophy Navigators’ Trophies First Elapsed Time...... Ben Mitchell Navigation First Corrected Overall...... Chuck Ullman Division II Corrected...... Navigators Award Division III Corrected...... Frank Mallory Aloha First Place Corrected...... Winthrop Johnson Navigators Specialty Classes First Corrected Double-Handed...... Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Gary Jobson Perpetual Shortest Elapsed Time Under 36 Feet.....TPYC Shortest Elapsed Time Under 49 Feet..... TPYC Shortest Elapsed Time Under 60 Feet...Makani Hula – WYC Shortest Elapsed Time Under 73 Feet... TPYC The Barn Door. Photo by Phil Uhl. Other Trophies Farthest North ...... Pacific High Tail-End Charlie ...... TPYC Outstanding Seamanship ...... Steve Newmark Seamanship Outstanding Crew Member ...... Don Vaughn Memorial First Foreign Yacht Corrected ...... International Perpetual First Hawaii Yacht Corrected ...... H. G. Dillingham Perpetual First Split Rig ...... TPYC First Racer/Cruiser under 50’ ...... Don Clothier Outstanding Honolulu Volunteer ...... Clare Lang Fastest Elapsed Time - Foreign Yacht...... Curtis Piehu Iaukea International Trophy
31 Transpac 2011 Transpac 2011 31 Transpac awards moved to the Waikiki Shell in 2009 where hundreds enjoyed the Hawaiian afternoon at this Waikiki landmark. Photo by Phil Uhl .
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Transpac 2011 33 OEX owner Peter Tong and crew accept first place Division II and Sled Division Transpac 2009. Photo by John Davis.
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34 Transpac 2011 SBAG-14344 Transpac insertion v7.indd 1 6/6/11 3:41 PM Barn Door Winners Overall Winners Year Boat Owner/Skipper Time Year Boat Owner/Skipper Time 1906 Lurline H.H. Sinclair 12:09:59 * 1906 Lurline H.H. Sinclair 11:21:59 1908 Lurline H.H. Sinclair 13:21:31 1908 Lurline H.H. Sinclair 13:21:31 1910 Hawaii Hawaii Syndicate 14:03:23 1910 Hawaii Hawaii Syndicate 14:03:23 1912 Lurline A.E. Davis 13:17:03 1912 Lurline A.E. Davis 13:16:55:11 1923 (S.Barb.) Mariner L.A. Norris 11:14:46 1923 (S.Barb.) Diablo A.R. Pedder 11:10:26:57 1926 Invader Don M. Lee 12:02:48:03 * 1926 Invader Don M. Lee 12:02:48:03 1928 (Balboa) Talayha L. Lippman 13:04:58:30 1928 (Balboa) Teva C.W. Stose 12:07:13:38 1930 Enchantress Morgan Adams 12:13:22:52 1930 Enchantress Morgan Adams 12:13:22:52 1932 (S.Barb.) Fayth William S. McNutt 14:14:33:00 1932 (S.Barb.) Fayth William S. McNutt 12:07:31:27 1934 Vileehi H.T. Horton 13:03:42:26 1934 Manuiwa Harold Dillingham 12:09:29:56 1936 (S.Mon.) Dorade James Flood 13:07:20:04 1936 (S.Mon.) Dorade James Flood 11:03:29:44 1939 (S.Fran.) Contender Richard R. Loynes 14:07:50:00 1939 (S.Fran.) Blitzen R.J. Reynolds 11:09:58:41 1941 Stella Maris II Dr. A. Steele 13:21:03:55 1941 Escapade D.W. Elliott 12:21:45:32 1947 Chubasco W.L. Stewart Jr. 12:15:51:18 1947 Dolphin II Frank Morgan 11:01:04:40 1949 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:10:13:09 * 1949 Kitten Fred W. Lyon 9:10:24:49.5 1951 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:16:44:33 1951 Sea Witch A.L. McCormick 8:12:00:01 1953 Goodwill R.E. Larrabee 11:02:17:24 1953 Staghound Ira P. Fulmor 10:23:42:49 1955 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 9:15:05:10 * 1955 Staghound Ira P. Fulmor 8:21:07:05 1957 Barlovento Frank Hooykaas 11:13:02:44 1957 Legend Charles Ullman 11:00:41:46 1959 Goodwill Ralph Larrabee 10:12:16:15 1959 Nalu II Peter Grant 9:05:50:27 1961 Sirius II Howard F. Ahmanson 10:10:38:35 1961 Nam Sang A.B. Robbs Jr. 9:15:23:01 1963 Ticonderoga Robert Johnson 11:16:46:33 1963 Islander Earl Corkett 10:05:57:47 1965 Ticonderoga Robert Johnson 9:13:51:02 * 1965 Psyche Don Salisbury 8:22:44:30 1967 Stormvogel Cornelius Bruynzeel 11:14:10:56 1967 Holiday Too Skip Allan 8:19:46:46 1969 Blackfin Kenneth DeMeuse 9:10:21:00 * 1969 Argonaut Mortimer Andron 6:20:44:07 1971 Windward Passage Mark Johnson 9:09:06:48 * 1971 Windward Passage Robert Johnson 9:05:34:22 1973 Ragtime Ragtime Syndicate 10:14:00:40 1973 Chutzpah Stuart Cowan 8:21:21:50 1975 Ragtime White/Pasquini 9:23:54:51 1975 Chutzpah Stuart Cowan 7:22:29:05 1977 Merlin Bill Lee 8:11:01:45 * 1977 Kialoa Jim Kilroy 8:11:29:24 1979 Drifter Harry Moloschco 11:18:01:04 1979 Arriba Dennis Choate 11:14:42:51 1981 Merlin Nick Frazee 8:11:02:31 1981 Sweet Okole Dean Treadway 7:21:44:48 1983 Charley Nolan K. Bushnell 9:01:53:48 1983 Bravura Irving Loube 7:22:55:15 1985 Swiftsure III Nick/Robert Frazee 10:19:21:47 1985 Montgomery St James Denning 9:14:00:40 1987 Merlin Donn Campion 8:12:00:40 1987 Drumbeat Don Ayres 8:00:56:41 1989 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 8:12:50:35 1989 Notorious Pine/Shaw 8:02:54:08 1991 Chance Robert McNulty 9:21:59:35 1991 Chance Robert McNulty 9:22:59:35 1993 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 9:09:11:17 1993 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 8:23:09:06 1995 Cheval 95 Hal Ward 9:01:32:20 1995 Merlin Dan Sinclair 8:22:41:48 1997 Pyewacket Roy P. Disney 7:15:24:40 * 1997 Ralphie Jerry Montgomery 7:00:15:51 1999 Pyewacket Roy E. Disney 7:11:41:27 * 1999 Grand Illusion James McDowell 7:08:40:10 2001 Pegasus Philippe Kahn 8:02:34:03 2001 Bull Seth Radow 8:01:01:08 2003 Pegasus 77 Philippe Kahn 7:16:31:17 2003 Alta Vita Bill Turpin 7:12:20:29 2005 Morning Glory Hasso Plattner 6:16:04:11* 2005 Rosebud Roger Sturgeon 6:08:45:04 2007 Pyewacket Roy E. Disney 7:01:11:56 2007 Reinrag2 Tom Garnier 6:14:39:33 2009 Samba Pa Ti John Kilroy Jr. 7:08:17:11 2009 Samba Pa Ti John Kilroy Jr. 5:07:52:20**
* New Course Record ** Corrected Time includes penalty(s) for failure to comply with one or more Sailing Instructions . Transpac 2011 35 Medicine Man, first Unlimited Class July 5 start. Transpac 2009. Photo by Mike Reed.
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37 Transpac 2011 Transpac 2011 37 2009 Class Finish Positions
DIV I: ET CT COMMS: ET CT 1 . SAMBA PA TI TP52 176:17:11 127:52:20* 1 . ALASKA EAGLE S&S65 328:18:41 214:43:54 2 . FLASH TP52 182:42:40 129:22:22 3 . VALKYRIE TP52 201:01:13 146:15:33 UNLIM 7/2: ET CT 4 . MEDICINE MAN AND63 182:03:09 148:12:17 1 .FREE RANGE CHICKEN PERY56 280:01:10 195:07:51 5 . AKELA R/P 78 179:58:10 150:00:52 6 . CAZADOR TP52 207:06:23 150:27:27 UNLIM 7/5: ET CT 7 . PEGASUS 50 OPEN50 186:38:35 153:38:35 1 . MEDICINE MAN AND63 182:03:09 148:12:17 8 . ALFA ROMEO R/P 10 134:36:20 155:41:13 2 . PEGASUS 50 OPEN50 186:38:35 153:38:35 9 . MAGNITUDE 80 AND80 160:17:41 157:38:48 3 . ALFA ROMEO R/P 10 134:36:20 155:41:13 4 . MAGNITUDE 80 AND80 160:17:41 157:38:48 DIV II: ET CT 1 . OEX SC70 187:23:22 132:30:34 TP 52: ET CT 2 . GRAND ILLUSION SC70 197:11:00 133:24:43 1 . SAMBA PA TI TP52 176:17:11 127:52:20* 3 . PYEWACKET SC70 194:13:11 135:26:08 2 . FLASH TP52 182:42:40 129:22:22 4 . ALCHEMY AND68 199:00:45 138:44:21 3 . VALKYRIE TP52 201:01:13 146:15:33 5 . MIRAGE SC70 202:35:41 141:22:58 4 . CAZADOR TP52 207:06:23 150:27:27 6 . RAGTIME SPNC65 210:19:34 141:42:16 7 . HOLUA SC70 204:57:02 144:30:05 SC 52: ET CT 8 . WESTERLY SC70 212:37:23 151:30:55 1 . TACHYON III SC52 257:33:24 170:09:58 2 . RELENTLESS 52 SC52 258:35:38 170:27:35 DIV III: ET CT 3 . HULA SC52 259:24:02 171:06:40 1 .CRIMINAL MISCHIEF R/P45 224:40:00 156:37:46 4 . PARANOIA SC52 274:23:47 180:00:43 2 . CIPANGO AND56 256:41:37 171:59:21 3 . BENGAL 7 OSHI46 246:47:00 172:07:59 SC 50: ET CT 4 . WASABI FARR46 262:17:41 179:08:52 1 . HORIZON SC50 263:15:02 169:21:36 5 . LEGLUS OSHI52 263:19:49 190:12:29 2 . ALLURE SC50 263:13:57 171:33:02 6 .FREE RANGE CHICKEN PERY56 280:01:10 195:07:51 3 .MIGHTY TONGAROA SC50 271:35:29 175:14:58 4 . PASSION SC50 268:08:13 179:16:03 DIV IV: ET CT 5 . CHASCH MER SC50 283:21:56 186:38:51 1 . BAD PAK J-145 260:14:24 166:11:12 2 . REINRAG2 J-125 259:22:26 169:35:41 ALOHA: ET CT 3 . TACHYON III SC52 257:33:24 170:09:58 1 . CHARISMA S&S57 340:31:56 221:36:29 4 . RELENTLESS 52 SC52 258:35:38 170:27:35 2 .BETWEEN THE SHEETS JEN50 360:52:06 232:48:20 5 . RUAHATU CNCRD4 262:07:07 170:49:42 3 . FAR NIENTE CAT42 406:07:09 250:31:11 6 . HULA SC52 259:24:02 171:06:40 4 . HASSLE CAT38 427:26:39 254:48:18 7 . ARTEMIS AND53 270:20:45 176:07:33 5 . LYNX TALL 418:49:52 292:04:20 8 . PARANOIA SC52 274:23:47 180:00:43 DH 7/5: ET CT DIV V: ET CT 1 . PEGASUS 50 OPEN50 186:38:35 153:38:35 1 . HORIZON SC50 263:15:02 169:21:36 2 . ALLURE SC50 263:13:57 171:33:02 DH 6/29: ET CT 3 .MIGHTY TONGAROA SC50 271:35:29 175:14:58 1 . RELENTLESS OD35 320:16:50 206:40:36 4 . PASSION SC50 268:08:13 179:16:03 2 . BLOODHOUND HOB33 364:52:13 226:46:33 5 . CHASCH MER SC50 283:21:56 186:38:51 SLEDS: ET CT DIV VI: ET CT 1 . OEX SC70 187:23:22 132:30:34 1 . RELENTLESS OD35 320:16:50 206:40:36 2 . GRAND ILLUSION SC70 197:11:00 133:24:43 2 . BLOODHOUND HOB33 364:52:13 226:42:43 3 . PYEWACKET SC70 194:13:11 135:26:08 3 . NARROW ESCAPE CPBAY4 344:47:17 229:31:11 4 . ALCHEMY AND68 199:00:45 138:44:21 4 . ADDICTION J-35 393:07:04 239:53:17 5 . MIRAGE SC70 202:35:41 141:22:58 6 . RAGTIME SPNC65 210:19:34 141:42:16 DIV VII: ET CT 7 . HOLUA SC70 204:57:02 144:30:05 1 . CHARISMA S&S57 340:31:56 221:36:29 8 . WESTERLY SC70 212:37:23 151:30:55 2 .BETWEEN THE SHEETS JEN50 360:52:06 232:48:20 3 . FAR NIENTE CAT42 406:07:09 250:31:11 HAW 7/2: ET CT 4 . HASSLE CAT38 427:26:39 254:48:18 1 . CHASCH MER SC50 283:21:56 186:38:51 5 . LYNX TALL 4 18:49:52 292:04:20 HAW 6/29: ET CT 1 . BLOODHOUND HOB33 364:52:13 226:42:43 2 . ADDICTION J-35 393:07:04 239:53:17
Note: Entries that retired or did not start are not listed. *Corrected time includes penalty for failure to comply with one or more sailing instructions.
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Transpac 2011 39 Bloodhound, first Hawaii boat June 29 start. Transpac 2009. Photo by Phil Uhl.
40 Transpac 2011 July 5 start. Photo by Mike Reed.
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Second Start JasPics. 42 Transpac 2011 Send off festivities at Rainbow Marina include canoe escorts and the fireboat. Photo by Mike Reed.
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Transpac 2011 43 Yacht Entries and Crews
Alaska Eagle Alchemy
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Custom Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Andrews 68 LOA...... – 65 LOA...... – 68 Sail Number...... – US 59707 Sail Number...... – USA 97999 Owner Skipper.... – Richard Crowe Owner Skipper.... – Per Peterson Navigator...... –Sherri Crowe Navigator...... –Artie Means Designer...... – Sparkman & Stephens Designer...... – Alan Andrews Yacht Club...... – Yacht Club...... – Oceanside Yacht Club Crew...... – Tom Trujillo, Robin Clark Crew...... – Chuck Skewes, Carol Armitage, David Brady, Mark Haesloop, Jay Davis, Brad Ruetenick, Pat Koranda, Sally Ewing, Jim Jorgensen, , Patrick Shannon, Greg Clark, Mike Herlihy, Parker Mitchell Mark Saxon, Mike Trujillo, Kate Wall
Allure Alpha puppy
Rig/Model...... Sloop / Santa Cruz 50 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / 1D35 LOA...... – 50 LOA...... – 35 Sail Number...... – USA 77890 Sail Number...... – USA 35024 Owner Skipper.... – Jim Morgan Owner Skipper.... – Alex Farell Navigator...... –Al Garnier Navigator...... – Designer...... – Bill Lee Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Los Angeles Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – SAYC Crew...... – Jim Barber, Eric Caras Crew...... – Vivienne Farell, Steve Calhoun, Tom Jorgensen Sean Doyle, Brian Caldwell, Sherry Smith Bill McGowan
Bad Pak bebe
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / J/145 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / J-130 LOA...... – 48 LOA...... – 43 Sail Number...... – USA 56203 Sail Number...... – CAY 130 Owner Skipper.... – Tom Holthus Owner Skipper.... – Charles Browning Navigator...... –Scott Lowry Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – San Diego Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Santa Barbara Yacht Club Crew...... – Tom Deere, Crew...... – Mickey Ryan Charlie Jenkins, Andrew O’Dwyer Ed DeVicente, Andrew Nunn, Steven Stowe, Emmit Holden, Jimmy Richardson Mike Wapner, Jesse Bickley Jon Gardner, Mike Gladstone
44 Transpac 2011 Bella Mente Bengal 7 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Reichel/Pugh Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Ohashi46 ...... – Mini Maxi LOA...... – 70 LOA...... – 46 Sail Number...... – USA 45 Sail Number...... – JPN 6308 Owner Skipper.... – John J. Fauth Owner Skipper.... – Yoshihiko Murase Navigator...... –Ian Moore Navigator...... –Haruhiko Mori Designer...... – New England Boatworks Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – New York Yacht Club Crew...... – Michele Cannoni, Yacht Club...... – Laguna Marine Yacht Club Thomas McLaughlin, Daniel Fong, Crew...... – Yasuharu Ando, Matt Smith, John von Schwarz, Yoichi Ito, Masahiro Nagao, Yasuyuki Romolo Ranieri, John Reaper, Michael Sanderson, Thomas, Allin, Sean Couvreux, Hirano, Umihiko Arakawa Peter Henderson, Alex Wadson
Between the sheets Bodacious 3
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Sun Odessey Rig/Model...... – Sloop / R/P 45 LOA...... – LOA...... – 45 Sail Number...... – USA 51593 Sail Number...... – USA 45001 Owner Skipper.... – Ross Pearlman Owner Skipper.... – Jeff Urbina Navigator...... –Eric Blumencrantz Navigator...... –John Hoskins Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Balboa Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Columbia Yacht Club Crew...... – Richard Blatterman Crew...... – John Ayres, Jeffry Matzdorff, Chad Downey, Christer Still, Matt Scharl, Phil Pollard, Tori Baltterman, Mark Waters Pierce Johnson, Dave Rearick Jerry Magnussen
cazan celerity
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / DK / 46 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 37 LOA...... – 46 LOA...... – 37 Sail Number...... – USA 61046 Sail Number...... – USA 4892 Owner Skipper.... – Scott Bradley Owner Skipper.... – Harry Zanville Navigator...... –Philip Katzman Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Waikiki Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Lake City Yacht Club, Crew...... – Ron Uryga ...... – Rush Creek Yacht Club Jake Arcand, Clifford Chang, Mimi Crew...... – Kelson Elam Whitmarsh, Mike Fisher, Isaac Gillete Jeff Progelhof, Ed Kownacki, Harry Powell
Cheetah Condor Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Andrews 70 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Peterson 68 LOA...... – 70 LOA...... – 68 Sail Number...... – USA 685 Sail Number...... – USA 87654 Owner Skipper.... – Lindy Thomas Owner Skipper.... – Chris Slagerman Navigator...... – Navigator...... – Designer...... – Alan Andrews Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – San Diego Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – California Yacht Club Crew...... – Zac Schramm, Crew...... – Dave Sheesley Jim Calto, Rod Salazar, Chuck Lane, Bob John Staff, Steve Mullen, Mark Van Steel, Mike Roll, Mark Baxter, Dave Faulkner, Gessel, Richard Mitchelle, Brian Mackay Tyler Prentice, Graham Kelly, Barry Ault Jen Tinning, Ryan Parker
45 Transpac 2011 crash criminal mischief
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Aerodyne 43 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / R/P 45 LOA...... – 43 LOA...... – 45 Sail Number...... – USA 50605 Sail Number...... – USA 2245 Owner Skipper.... – Jeff Braugh Owner Skipper.... – Chip Megeath Navigator...... –Gordon Leon Navigator...... –Jeff Thorpe Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Hawaii Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Corinthian Yacht Club Crew...... – Rob Sjostedt, Crew...... – Campbell Rivers Dan Downing, Evan Sjostedt Robin Jeffers, Morgan Gutenkunst, Garrett Brown Andy McCormick, Jay Crum, Dan Malpas, Mike Radziejowski
Deception double trouble
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 50 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / J-125 LOA...... – 50 LOA...... – 41 Sail Number...... – USA 97263 Sail Number...... – USA 93204 Owner Skipper.... – Bill Helvestine Navigator...... –Peter Shumar Owner Skipper.... – Andy Costello Designer...... – Bill Lee Navigator...... –Trevor Baylis Yacht Club...... – St Francis Yacht Club Designer...... – Crew...... – Steve Meyers Yacht Club...... – Corinthian Yacht Club Jasper Van Vliet, Mark Van Selst, Crew...... – Patrick Whitmarsh Michele Sumpton, Mark Coleman, Don Azcarate, Will Helvestine Mark Breen, Gilles Combruson
Espiritu Santi Flaca
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Atlantic 57 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 50 LOA...... – 57 LOA...... – 50 Sail Number...... – A57 Sail Number...... – USA 18081 Owner Skipper.... – Santiago Becerra Owner Skipper.... – Paul Casanova Navigator...... –Dave Houser Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Bill Lee Yacht Club...... – Yacht Club...... – South Bay Yacht Racing Club Crew...... – Gerrit Neve, Crew...... – Harry Pattison, Justin Bingham, Dave Houser, Jeff Scuba, Kell Morris, Chris Hemans, Joe Poire Peter Larsson Greg Bosdet, Mike Hanna, Ron Wood
Gracie Grand Illusion
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Morris Yachts/46 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 70 LOA...... – 46 LOA...... – 70 Sail Number...... – USA 46017 Sail Number...... – USA 97 Owner Skipper.... – Eric Gray Owner Skipper.... – James McDowell Navigator...... –Richard Parlette Navigator...... –Patrick O’Brien Designer...... – Designer...... – Bill Lee Yacht Club...... – Los Angeles Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Waikiki Yacht Club Crew...... – Luke Ackerman, Crew...... – Will Paxton, John King, Steven George, Sam Cargill Rick Magrath, Bill Mais, Dave Morris, John Sabourin Michael Blunt, Jake Sorosky
46 Transpac 2011 Hassle Holua Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 70 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Catalina 38 LOA...... – 70 LOA...... – 38 Sail Number...... – USA 97656 Sail Number...... – USA 77649 Owner Skipper.... – Brack Duker Owner Skipper.... – Larry Malmberg Navigator...... –Wouter Verbraak Navigator...... –David Kraai Designer...... – Bill Lee Designer...... – Alan Andrews Yacht Club...... – California Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Shoreline Yacht Club Crew...... – Peter Holmberg, Crew...... – Dennis Jones, Paul Allen, Scott Easom, Andy Escourt, Bruce Davis, James McCone, Doug McLean, J. Mark Sims, Warren Wolfe Bruce Nelson, Bill Erkelens
horizon J World’s Hula Girl Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 50 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 50 LOA...... – 50 LOA...... – 50 Sail Number...... – USA 77285 Sail Number...... – USA 18926 Owner Skipper.... – Wayne Zittel Owner Skipper.... – Jack Taylor Navigator...... – Navigator...... –Jon Shampain Designer...... – Bill Lee Designer...... – Bill Lee Yacht Club...... – San Diego Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Dana Point Yacht Club – San Francisco Yacht Club Crew...... – Erik Shampain, Crew...... – Josh Butler, David Britt Mel Wills, Tom O’Keefe Jason Huntsman, Mark D’Arcy, John Taylor, Scott Taylor, Dan Geissmann Thomas Petric, Tomas Case, Thomas Wood
K ata na Locomotion
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Kernan 49 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Andrews 45 LOA...... – 49 LOA...... – 45 Sail Number...... – USA 60206 Sail Number...... – USA 46860 Owner Skipper.... – Dr Laura Schlessinger Owner Skipper.... – Dave Millett Navigator...... –Eric Bowman Navigator...... –Steve Rossi Designer...... – Designer...... – Alan Andrews Yacht Club...... – Pierpont Bay Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Transpac Yacht Club Crew...... – Kit Will, Paul Wolthausen Crew...... – Jon Andron, Sam Solhaug, David Young, Kevin Miller John Turpin, Dr Jim Sears, Steve Rossi Mike Rossi, Kerry Deaver
Magnitude 80 Medicine Man Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Andrews 80 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Andrews 63 LOA...... – 80 LOA...... – 63 Sail Number...... – USA 46469 Owner Skipper.... – Doug Baker Sail Number...... – USA 97777 Navigator...... –Ernie Richau Owner Skipper.... – Bob Lane Designer...... – Alan Andrews Navigator...... –Randy Smith Yacht Club...... – Long Beach Yacht Club Designer...... – Alan Andrews Crew...... – Keith Kilpatrick, Yacht Club...... – Long Beach Yacht Club Sam Heck, Chris Hamel, Gary Weisman, Crew...... – Dave Jones, Keith Ives Hogan Beatie, Steve Dodd, Mike Pentecost, John Busch, Alan Andrews, Phil Soma Mike Van Dyke, Rob Synders, Chad Hough, Bob Greb Chris Carson, Mike Elias, Matt Reynolds
47 Transpac 2011 NAOS Two Narrow escape
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Beneteau / First 40 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / /Fast 40 LOA...... – 40 LOA...... – 40 Sail Number...... – FRA 40 Sail Number...... – CAN 69102 Owner Skipper – Charles-Etienne Owner Skipper.... – Greg Constable – Devanneaux Navigator...... – Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Nanaimo Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – California Yacht Club Crew...... – Scott Poe, Crew...... – Doug Backhouse Frederic Courouble, Keith Magnussen, Gilles Galerne,Thomas Anglade, Jacques Daniel
O Canada Paddy Wagon
Rig/Model...... – Sloop/ Open 60 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Ross 40 LOA...... – 60 LOA...... – 40 Sail Number...... – CAN 60 Sail Number...... – USA 69348 Owner Skipper.... – Richard Clarke Owner Skipper.... – Richard Mainland Navigator...... –Kevin McMeel Navigator...... –Doug Johnstone Designer...... – Alan Andrews Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Royal Victoria Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – California Yacht Club Crew...... – John Curtis, Crew...... – Mike Kennedy, Andrew McCorquodale, Tyler Bjorn Curt Johnson, Lukas Kennedy, Paco Stevens, Alejandro Bugaqcov
patches Paranoia
Rig/Model...... – Sloop/ TP 52 Rig/Model...... – Sloop/ Santa Cruz 52 LOA...... – 52 LOA...... – 52 Sail Number...... – 1234 Sail Number...... – USA 27007 Owner Skipper.... – Jorge Ripstein Owner Skipper.... – Rick von Heydenreich Navigator...... –John Rumsey Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Club de Yates de Acapulco Yacht Club...... – Long Beach Yacht Club Crew...... – Skip McCormack, Crew...... – Steve Steiner, Bruce Cooper, Chris Busch, Dave Johnson, Linus Ralls, Gabe Jack Jennings, Rodrigo Ripstein, Ferramola, Rick Gorman, Scott Atwood, Peter Wheelon, J B Cianciarulo David Stotler, Christi Kolisnyk
Pegasus-Motion X Peligroso Rig/Model...... – Sloop/ Waikiki 70 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Kernan 70 LOA...... – 70 LOA...... – 70 Sail Number...... – USA 678 Sail Number...... – 55555 Owner Skipper.... – Philippe Kahn Owner Skipper.... – Lorenzo Berho Navigator...... – Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Waikiki Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Club Nautico IZAR Crew...... – Bruce Mahoney Crew...... – Loren Berho, Mark Christensen, Jeff Madrigali, Daniela Berho, Diego Berho, David Giles, Zan Drejes, Seth Larkin, Yon Belausteguigoitia, Miguel Lanzagorta, Mark Golsh, Darren Jones, Hayden Andres Akle, Jorge Garcia Moreno, Goodrick, Curtis Florence Eduardo Sainz, Alex Camet, Cris Doolittle, Piet Van Os, Ben Mitchell, Patrick Murray
48 Transpac 2011 Pendragon VI Peregrine 33 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Davidson 70 LOA...... – 70 Rig/Model...... – Sloop/ Hobie 33 Sail Number...... – USA 7744 LOA...... – 33 Owner Skipper.... – John MacLaurin Sail Number...... – USA 77696 Navigator...... –Mike Quilter Owner Skipper.... – Simon Garland Designer...... – Navigator...... –Jeff Westbrook Yacht Club...... – California Yacht Club Crew...... – Mike Ishino, Susan Designer...... – MacLaurin, Rick Brent, Eric Chowanski, Yacht Club...... – Roy Pat Disney, Mike Howard, Crew...... – Bill Jenkins Ralph Mailioux, Alan McGlashan, – Nigel Garland Max Moosman, Randy Moreno, Tom O’Connor, Rick Rogers, Greg Weeger
Peregrine 38 Prevail
Rig/Model...... – Sloop/ Catalina 38 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 52 LOA...... – 38 LOA...... – 52 Sail Number...... – USA 46726 Sail Number...... – USA 28725 Owner Skipper.... – Steve Smolinske Owner Skipper.... – Bill Guilfoyle Navigator...... –Jim Brenden Navigator...... –David Hodges Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Seattle Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Santa Barbara Yacht Club Crew...... – Dan Symonds, Crew...... – Mike Amery, Randy Doull, Ferenc Feher, Shannon Hunt Marcel Tremplay, Rick Valdes, Frank Doyle, Lauren Amery, Duncan Shea
Pyewacket Rapid Transit
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 70 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Antrim / 49 LOA...... – 70 LOA...... – 49 Sail Number...... – USA 4 Sail Number...... – USA 627 Owner Skipper.... – Bill McClure Owner Skipper.... – James Partridge Navigator...... –Bill McClure Navigator...... – Designer...... – Bill Lee Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Los Angeles Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Oceanside Yacht Club Crew...... – Gregg Hedrick, Dale Nordin, Dennis Durgan, Doug Grant, Crew...... – Cree Partridge, Mike Burch, Justin McJones, Chuck Clay, Willie Partridge, John Dinwiddie, Kenny Dair, Jib Kelly, Dale Nordin John Latiolait, Rob Benjamin
Relentless 32 Relentless 52
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Sunfast 3200 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 52 LOA...... – 32 LOA...... – 52 Sail Number...... – USA 60161 Sail Number...... – 46052 Owner Skipper.... – Peter Fray Owner Skipper.... – Bill Durant Navigator...... – Navigator...... –Jeff Shew Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Long Beach Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Oceanside Yacht Club Crew...... – Rick Brizendine, Crew...... – Tom Edman, Byron Watson, Dustin Durant, John Larson, Dave Snodgrass, Tim Oelker Richard Whitely, Jim Wasti, Bob Zelmer, Mike Lowe
49 Transpac 2011 Sauvage ROY’S Chasch Mer
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Centurion 40s Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Santa Cruz 50 LOA...... – 40 LOA...... – 50 Sail Number...... – Sail Number...... – USA 8929 Owner Skipper.... – Jim Eisenhart Owner Skipper.... – Gib Black Navigator...... –Brian McKenna Navigator...... – Designer...... – Designer...... – Bill Lee Yacht Club...... – Ventura Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Maui Boat & Yacht Club Crew...... – Chris Thompson, Crew...... – Gordon Clay, John Spille, Andy Clark, Jeff Beller Gregory Wislocki, David Lawson, Craig Leverault Mary Cox, Mark Svenson
Second Chance Traveler
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Nautor Swan 441 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / North Wind 47 LOA...... – 44 LOA...... – 47 Sail Number...... – USA 77099 Sail Number...... – USA 7315 Owner Skipper.... – Philip Sauer Owner Skipper.... – Michael Lawler Navigator...... – Navigator...... –David Lee Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club...... – Channel Islands Yacht Club Yacht Club...... – Transpacific Yacht Club Crew...... – Harry Krum, Crew...... – Barbara Burdick, Curt Ingram, Thomas Andrews, Graham Paine, Mary M. Howard, Eric Flanders, Jim Borgman Edward Atwell, Charles Clark, Randall Alcorn
Truth Victoire
Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Open 50 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Beneteau / First 40.7 LOA...... – 50 LOA...... – Sail Number...... – USA 101 Sail Number...... – USA 93174 Owner Skipper.... – Alex Mehran Jr Owner Skipper.... – Bob Atkins Navigator...... – Navigator...... –Steve Cullen Designer...... – Designer...... – Yacht Club – Cruising Club of Yacht Club...... – – America Crew...... – Rochelle VanTil, Crew...... – Jesse Naimark-Rowse John Costanza, Matt Stein, Paul Turang Charlie Legeman
Vincitore Wind Dancer Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Reichel Pugh 52 Rig/Model...... – Sloop / Catalina 42 Mark I LOA...... – 52 Sail Number...... – MEX 52001 LOA...... – 42 Owner Skipper.... – Ricardo Brockman Sail Number...... – USA 97871 Navigator...... –Raul Velarde Owner Skipper.... – PK Edwards Designer...... – Navigator...... –Vance Edwards Yacht Club...... – Acapulco Yacht Club Designer...... – Crew...... – Ricky Brockman, Yacht Club...... – Ventura Yacht Club Erik Brockman, Marina Brockman, Crew...... – Donald Olson, Robbie Haines, Raul Velarde, Colin Booth Justin Mellin, Leo Gabriels, Alberto Anchustegui, Andres Morales Jeronimo Mariscal, Diego Velasco Wyant Lauterman
50 Transpac 2011 There’s magic in the heart of Hawai‘i.
Discover a whole new kind of family vacation.
Opening August 29, 2011, Aulani will be a resort like no other. Inspired by the wonders and traditions of Hawai‘i, in perfect harmony with the magic of Disney, every detail has been uniquely designed with families in mind. Ideally located in O‘ahu on a beautiful beachfront cove, here, kids, adults and families will experience the enchantment of Hawai‘i as few ever get to. Aloha. Artist Rendering—Proposed To learn more, visit DisneyAulani.com/Family
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