After 18 days at sea, I awoke at 0600 on July 7 and peered out of my tiny porthole to see a massive green wave towering over me. Back row L-R, Falk Meissner, John Wilkerson, Jamey Wylly, Brendan Huffman Front L-R, Will Lee, Robb Walker, Bill Stange, Cliff Shaw, Jim Quanci Not pictured, Kyle Vanderspek, Reed Bernhard LATEST NEWS 6/13/2021 The incredible singlehanded sailors! In either case, if you race DH and want a t-shirt for your crew, it will be an extra $20 each race. I cried because I learned there is always a way to move forward. Congratulations to all. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. However, true to our roots as a SINGLEhanded organization, going forward t-shirts will be free to skippers (SH or DH) only. Eric Taberly won it in 1969 on Pen Duick V. SF to Japan he finished 11 days ahead of the next competitor . Subsequently, the upper bearing of my main rudder had been redesigned and rebuilt completely in metal. Long gone are the days of $5 t-shirts providing free t-shirts to skippers, and their crew for doublehanders, has put a real strain on our finances. The new Dufour 37 slots in just above the 32-foot baby of the family, and it replaces the previous Dufour 360 from three years ago. They dont want you to leave your hotel or home. Congratulations to all! Callus your mind through pain and suffering.. Proud to know him. At the time of registration, Skippers of doublehanded boats shall self-certify that they and their crew occupy the same household or social bubble. Transpacific Yacht Club (TPYC) is proud to announce a new partnership with LW Regatta Gear for all Transpac related apparel and merchandise. Steve Fosset set a new race record in 1995 on his 60' trimaran Lakota, of 6 days 16 hours 7 minutes 16 seconds. I lost all steerage and was forced to request rescue from the US Coast Guard. Fayth William S. McNutt 14:14:33:00, 1936 (S.Mon.) Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted. The Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association, based in Marina del Rey, had planned to run their Shaka Challenge simultaneously with the SHTP, finishing in the same place around the same time, and sharing the awards ceremony in Nawiliwili. Learn more about the outstanding companies that sponsor Transpac One. Mission Bay Yacht Club is super proud of Kyle Vanderspek. Starting in San Francisco, the 2120 nm course carries the fleet to the finish. Ninety-five years ago, on March 1, 1928 the Transpacific Yacht Club was born of an idea hatched by thesame man who had sparked the 1906 inaugural race to Honolulu. Dorade James Flood 13:07:20:04, 1939 (S.Fran.) However, Were not through the COVID waters yet, explained Brian. And I think they would be a missing part of the race if we cant do it., Brian spoke with the authorities in Kauai. The Transpacific Yacht Club takes preparation and safety seriously, and held aPre-Race Seminaron November 9th to provide attendees with some valuable insights from a panel of experts on how to be ready for this race of a lifetime. Annual membership will continue at $170/year and single race entry (SH or DH) will be $50/race. The 2008 documentary Morning Light is a film about the 2007 Disney-sponsored competitors in the race. I dropped the sails. He and his wife Darlene spent the rest of the day cutting the spinnaker away. ID MADE IT! Charley, the 1983 Transpac Winner On July 7, 2009, Alfa Romeo II beat the Morning Glory record for best day's run set in the 2005 race, by sailing 399 nautical miles (459 mi; 739 km) in 24 hours. As always, the 2023 Transpac fleet will feature races within the race. As we approach the end of 2022, weve been working on our financial plans for 2023. For all of us whove done this race its a no-brainer, this is one of the best races in the world and were hooked for life. FYI not sure how yall got this wrong, but Cliff Shaw was not sailing a Gemini it was a Crowther 10M This year has been a challenge to break even financially. 1987 Results. The race finishes in Hanalei Bay on the north shore of Kauai. Copyright 2023. That is still a possibility. Like this year you will have the option to donate (ie, dont want a t-shirt) which saves us the money to buy and print you a t-shirt and we will add that savings to our fund to support local youth sailing programs. Dame Ellen MacArthur retired from professional sailing in 2010 and went on to create the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to promote the circular economy. Will that be lifted? 1985 Results. The committee on site at Hanalei Bay will probably arrive on June 29. The first, the 2019 Great Pacific Longitudinal Race (LongPac), was a 400-mile singlehanded race to longitude 126 degrees 40 minutes and back. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. This will be rolled out starting with the 2023 3BF registration. 2009 Results. Commodores Welcome LetterWelcome! The final rules and communications plan will be available near the end of December., Regarding the pandemic, Brian said, On the San Francisco side, we could possibly not have access to the yacht harbor at CYC other than the startline. All Skippers of doublehanded boats not able to find crew that meet these criteria are encouraged to race singlehanded. The race is organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club. They persevered. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. If you are registering as DH, you will be asked if you want a t-shirt for your crew. 2007 Results. Barn Door Winners The awards ceremony is currently scheduled for July 10 at the Nawiliwili Yacht Club, which is a bit of a drive around the island. At 12:53:52 local time, in the pitch darkness I heard the SHTP race chair on the VHF: Congratulations Sea Wisdom, you have successfully completed the 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race., Hawaii makes for about as picturesque a finish as they come. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. Thats when I learned of the outpouring of support coming from Hanalei Bay. The SSS encompasses everyone from a first-time, double-handed sailor to veterans of the Singlehanded TransPacific (SHTP) yacht race. Eleven boats and he was number ONE. If you are registering as DH, you will be asked if you want a t-shirt for your crew. 1981 Results. I think that this is one of the big sticking points we had last time, which was we just felt it wasnt feasible to do the race because of the impact it had on the non-racers as well as the racers. This loss ends up being subsidized by members racing singlehanded and single race entrants. I know a bit about the race as I've been a SSS competitor since '95, past commodore, etc. Transpac Race; News & Media; Results & Trophies; Transpac YC; Gear; Archives; Contact; Tahiti Race; Race Entries; BOAT NAME TYPE OWNER HOME COUNTRY; Artemis: Botin 65 Raymond Paul USA BadPak: Botin 56 Tom Holthus USA . For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Inbox Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.made by VSSL Agency. I immediately noticed some clicking at the upper rudder bearing. See bigger map Boat positions on tracker map update every 4 hours, and update every 20 minutes within 25 nm of the finish. Fireworks bigtime in Hanalei Bay on the 4th welcoming solo Transpac! Details, Tags: Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race. Tags: Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race. Please enter your username or email address. Are required to provide their own personal protective equipment and to carry a face covering with them at all time during events. 2005 Results. The Santa Cruz 50/52 fleet is one of the long-standing rivalry classes. 1/10/23Hello, SSS Racers!We have opened registrations for the Feb 25 2023 Corinthian Race, which will start at Golden Gate YC using a normal start sequence, and have a roughly 13 NM course. Looks like the 2023 SHTP race will start on Sunday, June 25. Please join us for the next Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race seminar on Wednesday,Jan 11that 7:30 via zoom. Hed had it up for 10 days straight! As skipper you can select donate or a style/size t-shirt, and we either add to our youth sailing fund or the t-shirt is free, respectively. Therefore, Kyle Vanderspeks Hobie 33 Aloha claimed elapsed, class, and overall honors. If as skipper you want a t-shirt, you select a style/size and there is no cost to you. And boats may not be sequestered at all at the CYC docks. Well done!! We have made that correction in the text of the story. Every time I think Ive seen it all, my people outdo themselves and serve up the unexpected. Also finishing on July 4 were Reed Bernhard on the J/109 Mountain, and toward sunset, Jim Quanci on the Cal 40 Green Buffalo. 2021 Singlehanded Transpac; The WoodenBoat Forum is sponsored by WoodenBoat Publications, publisher of WoodenBoat magazine. Two sailboats and the race committee would wait for me at the finish line after dark. Racing will be conducted in compliance with all relevant county health orders and any additional site-specific regulations in effect at the time of each event that are detailed in the events Sailing Instructions (SIs). Headed by Dona Bertarelli, the Spindrift team has been on a mission to set a read more, In some stunning footage from onboard reporter Antoine Auriol, Boris Herrmann and his team aboard Malizia decided to cut their Code 0 free after it came loose and got tangled in the keel last night. Surprise! The major gear failure on Rainbow was the loss of both weatherfax computers. And we did it. I think the first couple races to Hawaii were done like that. (Without satellite tracking in 1978.) The 22nd Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race from California to Hawaii gets underway for 11 skippers on June 19, 2021. That was Albert Soiland. During registration you will be asked as skipper if you want a t-shirt. In the first hours of the morning yesterday, Californian and lifelong sailor Alex Merhan arrived in Kauai, not only happy to have finished the Singlehanded TransPac but also because he smashed the previous record time for the race by more than 2 days. Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. Kauai is under stricter restrictions than the rest of the islands. Be the uncommon of the uncommon. Eleven entrants made the journey, ranging from an Olson 25 to a J/109. Fortunately, weve had good single race entrant turnout in the first three big races each year (Three Bridge Fiasco, Corinthians, and Round the Rocks) which, while it has allowed us to squeak by financially, has masked this inequity.Race t-shirts have been a long-standing tradition at the SSS and we dont want to eliminate that. The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. If we get some ultra lightweight, super-fast Moore 24 or something, maybe itll beat that time. I think it would make for a spectacular arrival. 2001 Results. The very next day, Kyle departed Hanalei with orange storm jib hoisted, bound for Oahu, where he would put the Hobie onto a ship. He said hed heard from a number of the 2020 registrants that they were coming back, with some additional people interested, for a fleet of perhaps 25 sailors. Additionally, that impacts the race committee. Desperation, euphoria and fear competed for equal time throughout the voyage. Ground tackle is a complete system, including the anchor itself, the rode (chain, rope, or some combination thereof, read more, French builder Dufour Yachts has rolled out another new design bringing their line to eight models from 32 to 61 feet. And they enforce it. Last edited: Jan 6, 2023 A Alan H Super Anarchist 3,699 943 SF Bay Area 1987 Results. Thank you for racing with the SSS, and we look forward to seeing you on the water. It gets this race out of the shadow of the Pacific Cup. Spaulding Marine Centers Boatworks 101 is an innovative new apprenticeship program for young apprentices who will spend nine months training at Spaulding Marine Center and six months rotating through partner-employer boatyards throughout the Bay Area. The LongPac would shift as well. The Great Pacific Longitude Race is a 400-mile qualifier that runs on opposite years from the SHTP. If Fiasco was too long for you to finish, or if you want to follow up a great Fiasco, this is your race! Who would have thought that a little kid from a Long Tang in Shanghai, a kid from an old apartment building in North Point, Hong Kong, a paperboy and janitor from New Jersey, would get to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean to Kauai? That man was Clarence MacFarlane,still engaged with his brainchild but entrusting the leg work to an old friend known for getting thingsdone. A singlehanded (edit:Transpacific)race to Japan has been done. The list of Los Angeles to Honolulu Record Holders is: The Barn Door Trophy is awarded each race for the Fastest Monohull Elapsed Time in the race. Every. The waving so-long to friends and family, the light beat out to Catalina, the coast disappearing astern with nothing but the ocean and the lure of tropical paradise ahead. Instead, I tried to stabilize the situation by minimizing any rudder movement. Ed Note: For more on the biennial Singlehanded Transpac, organized by San Francisco Bays Singlehanded Sailing Society, go to sfbaysss.org. But the Singlehanded Sailing Society had to postpone it until 2021, mostly due to quarantine requirements on the Hawaii side. Hopefully I'll get a chance to shoot some photos and drone videos of a few boats coming in. Moving the SHTP from even years to odd years seems like a good idea. One took over the tiller on my jury-rigged rudder. Hawaii is less than halfway. So impressed as always at how much good sportsmanship and camaraderie a bunch of solo sailors display! Would it be too much trouble to ask the people of Kauai to celebrate my accomplishment with fireworks? John on Perplexity going for his 3rd race to Hawaii in 3 years. Two of my fellow competitors cheered me across the finish line, even though it was well past midnight. If you are registering as DH, you will be asked if you want a t-shirt for your crew. Anyone in this forum doing the race? 2021 Singlehanded Trans Pacific Yacht Race Forum Race Archive 2021 Singlehanded Trans Pacific Yacht Race If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. On June 19, the 22nd Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race sailed a 2120 nm course from San Francisco to Puu Poa Point on Hanalei Bay, Kauai. David is Chair of the 2023 SHTP, has been Commodore of the Singlehanded Sailing Society and is a two-time veteran of the SHTP himself! StFYC members Luke Muller and Nikki Barnes share a little about what competing in the Olympic Games means to them. Congratulations to all you wonderful single handers! A few hours later I discovered the rudder had dropped an inch. Mission Bay Yacht Club proud!. 1995 Results. Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. With that, I changed course back toward Hanalei Bay. Stewart Jr. 12:15:51:18, 1949 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:10:13:09 *, 1951 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:16:44:33, 1955 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 9:15:05:10 *, 1957 Barlovento Frank Hooykaas 11:13:02:44, 1961 Sirius II Howard F. Ahmanson 10:10:38:35, 1965 Ticonderoga Robert Johnson 9:13:51:02 *, 1967 Stormvogel Cornelius Bruynzeel 11:14:10:56, 1969 Blackfin Kenneth DeMeuse 9:10:21:00 *, 1971 Windward Passage Mark Johnson 9:09:06:48 *, 1973 Ragtime Ragtime Syndicate 10:14:00:40, 1983 Charley Nolan K. Bushnell 9:01:53:48, 1985 Swiftsure III Nick/Robert Frazee 10:19:21:47, 1989 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 8:12:50:35, 1993 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 9:09:11:17, 1997 Pyewacket Roy Pat Disney (son of Roy E. Disney) 7:15:24:40 *, 1999 Pyewacket Roy E. Disney 7:11:41:27 *, 2005 Morning Glory Hasso Plattner 6:16:04:11*, 2009 Alfa Romeo Neville Crichton 5:14:36:20*, 2015 Rio 100 Manouch Moshayedi 7:05:34:07, 2017 Rio 100 Manouch Moshayedi 6:17:09:09, This page was last edited on 20 August 2022, at 18:50. All rights reserved. July 8th, large gathering restrictions will be lifted. Ending Merlin's record, in the 1997 race a new monohull elapsed time record of 7 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes, and 27 seconds was set by Roy E. Disney's Pyewacket, a Santa Cruz 70 ultralight also designed by Bill Lee. What was left of the spinnaker was still acting like a kite, and Bill had to spin circles in the bay to wrap it up enough that he could anchor. 1981 Results. The plan is to sequester boats on June 18. 1993 Results. 1999 Results. On June 19, the 22nd Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race sailed a 2120 nm course from San Francisco to Pu'u Poa Point on Hanalei Bay, Kauai. How might probability inform policy on pandemics? Suggestion on spinnaker wraps (2 sailboats): use snuffing socks and avert the damn wraps! It would imply that the race committee has to go over there two weeks in advance and sit around., Brian explained that although other islands in Hawaii have a system of testing within 72 hours to allow visitors to enter without quarantining, Kauai has tighter restrictions, as their hospital is very small.
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