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TMHTranspac.indd 1 5/30/13 2:52 AM 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 2013 Preview ................... 12 History of Transpac ...................................... 14 Life on Board............................................16 Dorade’s History . .18 2013 Yacht Entries & Crews ................................ 20 Eight Bells Sailors........................................ 28 Rescue ................................................31 Safety First .............................................32 Barn Door Winners ....................................... 37 Overall Winners.......................................... 37 Transpac 2013 Perpetual Trophies ........................... 39 Transpac 2013 Committees ................................ 40 Mahalo List ............................................. 41 Clare Lang Memorial Trophy ................................ 42 2011 Class Finish Positions ................................ 43 Transpac 2013 Sponsors................................... 47 Publisher ...................................Michael J. Roth - Roth Communications Editor ........................................Ray Pendleton Contributing Writers ..................Dobbs Davis, Jeremy Leonard, Ray Pendleton Contributing Photographers ......Sally Ewing, Sharon Green, Twain Newhart, Mike Reed, Yoichi Yabe Designer ....................................Leslie Johnson Design Print Consultant ........................Pat Meara OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE 47TH TRANSPACIFIC YACHT RACE On the cover: Bella Mente finishing first to win the Barn Door for The Transpac 2013 Official Race Handbook is published for the Honolulu Committee shortest elapsed time 6 Days, 19 hours, 44 minutes, 28 seconds. of the Transpac Yacht Club by Roth Communications, Inserts L to R; Truth, winner Double Handed Division, Gracie, winner 2040 Alewa Drive Honolulu, HI 96817 USA. Aloha Class, Grand Illusion, Over All Corrected Time winner, Sled Class (808) 595-4124 winner and Top Navigator’s Award winner Transpac 2011. [email protected] Photos by © Sharon Green/ultimatesailing.com 6 TRANSPAC 2013 Grand Illusion crew accepts trophies for First Corrected Overall Transpac 2011. Photo by Twain Newhart Alaska Eagle crew showing their aloha spirit on their arrival in Honolulu. The 2011 Transpac was her last trip as the Communications Vessel. Photo by Twain Newhart TRANSPAC 2013 7 8 TRANSPAC 2013 OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Mayor BOB FOSTER CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU CITY OF LONG BEACH MESSAGE FROM Mayor KIRK CALDWELL It gives me great pleasure to extend my warmest aloha to all Greetings Transpac Participants and Race Fans: participants in the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race from the West Coast to Honolulu this summer. As Mayor of Long Beach, it a pleasure to once again extend my warmest welcome to all who come out as our city hosts the Departure Festival We are honored to welcome the world-class sailors, navigators and for one of the world’s greatest sailing races - the 47th Biennial yachtsman who will cross the Pacific in this 47th Transpacific Yacht Transpacific Yacht Race. Race that was first conceived by King David Kalakaua in 1886 in an invitation to the Pacific Yacht Club in San Francisco. Enjoying our role as the host city, Long Beach is proud to recognize all of the event winners over the past 100+ years through the Transpac I applaud the hard work of the captains and crewmembers for the Walk of Fame. Initially, when these spectacular memorials were unveiled rigorous physical demands and team work required for this challenge for the start of the 2007 Transpac Race, it allowed everyone to fully that has been conducted biennially. understand what an extreme honor it is to have the Crews and the Club calling the City of Long Beach their “home port” for the Transpac event. We are deeply appreciative of the participants because this intense competition draws positive attention to the islands. The success of this A special recognition is extended to all who have worked so diligently world class exhibition of sailing talent is a tribute to the organizers over the years to ensure the success of Transpac – particularly, our local and those who make this event a worldwide spectacle. Long Beach clubs – Shoreline and Long Beach Yacht Clubs, and also the Honolulu Committee and the members of the Transpacific Yacht Club. On behalf of the people of the City and County of Honolulu, I extend best wishes for a safe and successful race. On behalf of the citizens of Long Beach, I wish the skippers and crews of the 47th Biennial Transpacific Yacht Race, and all who come out to participate and support, a fun and safe 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! Kirk Caldwell Mayor Mayor Bob Foster Ember Lee Shinn City of Long Beach Managing Director Georgette T. Deemer Deputy Managing Director TRANSPAC 2013 9 COMMODORE HONOLULU Commodore’s Welcome Message – Transpac 2013 Aloha from the Honolulu Committee and the over 600 volunteers who staff the This year brings the 47th running of the Transpac race, which began with an many committees necessary for the finish of the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race. invitation from King Kalakaua to race from the mainland to the beautiful tropical From the Diamond Head Lighthouse crew that documents the finish of every yacht, paradise on Oahu. That invitation was written in 1886 in the Iolani Palace and to our Harbor Operations group, Committee Boats, Boat Hosting group, Inspectors, sent to the Commodore of the Pacific Yacht Club in San Francisco. The occasion Shuttle Boat operators, Communications operators, Media group, Photographers, was an invitation to join the celebration of the King’s 50th birthday. As described Race Headquarters staff, and so many others involved, we send a big aloha to in the Transpac history book written by Jack Smock, ”…knowing what we know each of the skippers, their crews, and their families joining us in the beautiful about old Hawaiian hospitality, a fun loving King’s 50th birthday party must have Hawaiian Islands. been some weenie roast.” It all began on September 25, 1886 when King Kalakaua of Hawaii instructed Now, in the 21st century, that spirit of Aloha still exists in the people who live his Chamberlain and Private Secretary, Curtis P. Iaukea, to send an invitation to in the islands of Hawaii. And there can be few sailing destinations that compare the Commodore of the Pacific Yacht Club in San Francisco an invitation to the with the welcome we find when we sail to their shores. Over the years since the Club to be present at the festivities to be held at Iolani Palace in Honolulu, on the first race in 1906, hundreds of sailors have stepped on shore to be met with leis occasion of His Majesty’s 50th birthday. He noted further that he would offer prizes and Mai Tais and the warm embrace of the islands Aloha. It is a greeting and a for an ocean race from San Francisco to Honolulu. For reasons that are lost to us feeling that none of us will forget. today, the members of the Pacific Yacht Club were unable to take advantage of In 2013 we might think that the time of wooden boats crossing the Pacific is King Kalakaua’s generous invitation. However the concept was never lost and in gone, but that is not true. This year we have two venerable yachts, “Dorade” and 1906 the first race took place. Furthermore, one of King Kalakaua’s trophies later “Westward,” whose keels have been across these waters many times, sailing to surfaced and today is still awarded as the King Kalakaua Trophy, First Overall Hawaii again.