The Prada Americas Cup World Series Auckland and the Prada Christmas Race run from December 17 to December 20, meaning the racing starts this evening at 9 p.m. on the West Coast of the US. Moving the SHTP from even years to odd years seems like a good idea. In the meantime, were looking forward to the first race of the 2021 SSS season, the Three Bridge Fiasco on January 30. [4], The 2019 edition of the race, its fiftieth, saw the sinking of a yacht for the first time in its history, when the 68 foot mono-hulled sailboat Santa Cruz 70 OEX suffered rudder damage and an uncontrollable water intrusion. Starting in San Francisco, the 2120 nm course carries the fleet to the finish. 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. Four days later, 19 larger boats hit the line in windy, nasty weather which thankfully improved past Mile Rock. Ive used it a few times. Since 2009, it has been restricted to manual power only sailing yachts. I would simply change my destination to Nawiliwili Marina, still complete my goal of sailing solo, but avoid this particularly distressing tack. The start of the race would be June 19, with the startline at CYC in Tiburon. 2013 Results. Eleven entrants made the journey, ranging from an Olson 25 to a J/109. 1985 Results. 2011 Results. The warm trade winds in the West Indies were calling; time to go sailing. Commodores Welcome LetterWelcome! I reduced sail, locked the rudder on centerline and let the Hydrovane do the steering. They have roadblocks on the island, and they check people driving along. Einfach Lieben!!! I expect the first arrival to be about June 30 in Hanalei Bay. Looks like the 2023 SHTP race will start on Sunday, June 25. Also, it should be noted that Rainbow corrected out to first overall, above Aloha, if you score multihulls and monohulls together. All of us get excited when brilliant minds go to work on creating new ideas and even new spaces for the sport to grow into. 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! 1989 Results. However, there are equally brilliant minds at work enhancing what has already been created to improve performance, safety and (usually) comfort too. MBYC young sailors rule. By Christine Weaver | July 7, 2021 | Hanalei, HI | 14 Between the time we last posted on 'Lectronic Latitude on Friday, July 3, and this morning, all 11 boats finished the 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. During the LongPac, I experienced rudder failure when I hit an underwater object at 0200. StFYC members Luke Muller and Nikki Barnes share a little about what competing in the Olympic Games means to them. The record fell once again in 2005, with Hasso Plattner's Morning Glory, a maxZ86 from Germany. [5], Ragtime finished first in 1973 and again in 1975.[7]. I dont know if I have it in me, but Id really like to try this race. Congratulations to all! One Month Free on Brand New Boat Docks in Marina Del Rey! It was also a qualifier for the 2021 Singlehanded TransPac. If they cant have group meetings and such, I dont think theyre going to want us in there with our boats. The authors goals for the voyage included finding out some more about himself as much as finishing. Race t-shirts have been a long-standing tradition at the SSS and we dont want to eliminate that. General Procedures and Practices for Race Participants. 2001 Results. Smoked the competition and finished a day plus all others. Ed Note: For more on the biennial Singlehanded Transpac, organized by San Francisco Bays Singlehanded Sailing Society, go to sfbaysss.org. My passage was plagued by light winds and assorted equipment failures. First to finish the 2009 Transpac, Alfa Romeo II set a Transpac race elapsed-time record of 5 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, 20 seconds. Traditionally, thats been at the Corinthian Yacht Club. The Singlehanded Transpac record is held by Steve Fossett in '98 in an ORMA 60. Hopefully I'll get a chance to shoot some photos and drone videos of a few boats coming in. Unless it was a perfect year I don't see the ORMA 60s record falling to that boat. The awards ceremony is currently scheduled for July 10 at the Nawiliwili Yacht Club, which is a bit of a drive around the island. If you are registering as DH, you will be asked if you want a t-shirt for your crew. 1981 Results. See overall results here: https://www.jibeset.net/show.php?RR=JACKY_T007588480&DOC=r201&TYP=html. A light rain started failing, like the sky was cheering for me. Thats when I learned of the outpouring of support coming from Hanalei Bay. 1993 Results. Meanwhile, you can follow his incredible story as told through his race journal on Facebook. Get it wrong, and your boat could wind up on the beach in a bad blow. As always, the 2023 Transpac fleet will feature races within the race. You must log in or register to reply here. Ten days from today, hell sail back to Hawaii as navigator on the Andrews 63 Medicine Man in the Transpac Race from San Pedro to Honolulu. This loss ends up being subsidized by members racing singlehanded and single race entrants. 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. 1999 Results. Great race everyone! Therefore, Kyle Vanderspeks Hobie 33 Aloha claimed elapsed, class, and overall honors. Go for the uncommon. Discussion, questions (and hopefully some answers) for the 2021 race to Hanalei. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 2021 Singlehanded Transpac; The WoodenBoat Forum is sponsored by WoodenBoat Publications, publisher of WoodenBoat magazine. Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. All rights reserved. Inbox Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.made by VSSL Agency. Just a reminder-- the single-handed transpac continues and it's worth reading the competitor's reports just to hear about their perseverence and how they deal with breakages: 2008 SHTP - Log Reports Black Feathers, the Cal 20, and her captain continue to do well, but he did manage to break his solar panel and split his fiberglass rudder in half. In the 1975 movie Jaws, the character Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss, claims that he has "crewed three Transpacs" as a means of establishing his seamanship credentials with Quint. Accept full responsibility for any potential exposure to COVID-19 that may result from participating in any SSS event. 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. The next two days she broke her own best-day record by sailing 420 nautical miles (480mi; 780km)[10] and 431 nautical miles (496mi; 798km). 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. Robert Cleveland and Jan Passion are correct that Rainbow is a Crowther not a Gemini. I let it all out, like a kid. Ive had some snafus out there to be sure, and they loom large when theyre read more, When One Wrong Makes a Right Everybody knows youre not supposed to sail up the Pacific Coast! Look for the latest information to be posted on the website, with the highlights distributed in the e-Newsletter. Surprise! Every time I think Ive seen it all, my people outdo themselves and serve up the unexpected. Although I think the TP record is held by a stretched 60. Dorade James Flood 13:07:20:04, 1939 (S.Fran.) I know a bit about the race as I've been a SSS competitor since '95, past commodore, etc. To be extra prudent, I slept with my EPIRB next to me and prepared the life raft and abandon ship bags. Lost your password? Unfortunately, my backup steering system, the Hydrovane, was also jury rigged due to a missing bolt. UPDATE: Race organizers contacted us to say how Shaw won the multihull division, of which he was the only boat, and not the overall despite the race results saying he won the overall. You sign up at $50 for the race. At one point yesterday, he was considering bypassing the finish and going directly to Nawiliwili on the other side of Kauai, where theres a shipping port and therefore marine services. At one point, I had to go overboard to work on a repair while staring into the blue abyss. If Fiasco was too long for you to finish, or if you want to follow up a great Fiasco, this is your race! Few places on the planet have such a devoted, diverse, and downright joyful yacht racing season as the island read more, Ive never laughed so hard as I have on some of my charters, but its typically only funny after the fact. Your options will be no t-shirt ($0) or select a style/size for $20. It was originally called the "First to Finish" Trophy. The first, the 2019 Great Pacific Longitudinal Race (LongPac), was a 400-mile singlehanded race to longitude 126 degrees 40 minutes and back. And boats may not be sequestered at all at the CYC docks. Will that be lifted? 1983 Results. 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. It depends on the boat types. Singlehanded Transpacific Race That's a Wrap! document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Receive emails when 'Lectronic Latitude is updated. One day you will make it happen. The Singlehanded Transpac record is held by Steve Fossett in '98 in an ORMA 60. Kyle is missing all the social activities, as he has to be back in SoCal ASAP. 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. So we might have to think through our strategy on sequestering or not sequestering. Special fist bump to Jim Quanci and Green Buffalo. There is a video available now on YouTube that can help those unable to attend to tune in on the information presented, as well as act as a reference resource for those that did attend to remind them of the material. I notice a lot of people help each other that last day. Instead, I tried to stabilize the situation by minimizing any rudder movement. The plan is to sequester boats on June 18. 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. Barn Door Winners 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. I had to cross the finish line! As we approach the end of 2022, weve been working on our financial plans for 2023. 2021 Singlehanded Trans Pacific Yacht Race, SHTP 2021 VIDEOS: got one? You will receive a link to create a new password via email. I believe the catamaran is a Crowther not a Gemini. If you race DH and want a t-shirt for your crew, youre going to have to pay extra for it. 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. FYI not sure how yall got this wrong, but Cliff Shaw was not sailing a Gemini it was a Crowther 10M (This article, written by Dobbs Davis, appeared in the most recent edition of Seahorse Magazine, photo courtesy of Sharon Green, Ultimate Sailing). One took over the tiller on my jury-rigged rudder. Hed had it up for 10 days straight! If you race DH and want a t-shirt for your crew, youre going to have to pay extra for it. What an accomplishment and only those of you that have done it real understand the challenge!! The Skipper is the person in-charge of a boat during an event. It was also a qualifier for the 2021 Singlehanded TransPac. 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. Additionally, that impacts the race committee. To all the children Ive met while sailing in remote locations: you can do the same. Due to ongoing COVID restrictions on large gatherings, were not yet sure where thats going to be. Well keep you posted on further developments on this and other significant races for West Coast sailors. We are always learning and always sharing knowledge. I immediately noticed some clicking at the upper rudder bearing. This desire to roam inspired me to enter the 2021 Singlehanded TransPac (SHTP) aboard Sea Wisdom, my 1987 Hinckley Souwester 42 Competition Sloop. Ever since my first sailing trip 29 years ago, I have sought that joy, yearning to cast away the security of my daily life and let my spirit roam freely. Mission Bay Yacht Club proud!. This will be rolled out starting with the 2023 3BF registration.Thanks for your ongoing support of the SSS.Tracy RogersSSS Treasurer, 12/21/22Reminder!Please join us for the next Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race seminar on Wednesday,Jan 11that 7:30 via zoom. Though I had cruised offshore for over 20 years, this was only the fourth race I had ever competed in, and my second ocean race. The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. https://www.jibeset.net/entrylist.pbcba1b542bc1e034440bd44b&T=1671595900&SORT=br, https://www.sfbaysss.org/forum/attachment.php?s=d387ff0ccf94a14b592e1096ee3c2aab&attachmentid=7209&d=1644978248, https://www.sfbaysss.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SHTP-Results-1978-2021C.pdf. Dame Ellen MacArthur retired from professional sailing in 2010 and went on to create the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to promote the circular economy. To all the kids in all corners of the world: dream big. Finishing in a squall that night was the smallest boat in the fleet, Falk Meissners Olson 25 Shark on Bluegrass. All Skippers of doublehanded boats not able to find crew that meet these criteria are encouraged to race singlehanded. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. If as skipper you want a t-shirt, you select a style/size and there is no cost to you. San Francisco to Hanalei, 2,120 nm of solo racing, starting July 2, 2016. My diary from that day reads: SHTP sailors and race committee suggested that, once I crossed the finish line, they would help me diagnose the rudder problem, and even offered to have a flotilla of boats to guide me from Hanalei Bay to Nawiliwili. With 200 miles to go until the finish line, I realized my rudder was dropped to a point of not being able to steer the vessel. 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. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. Desperation, euphoria and fear competed for equal time throughout the voyage. If Fiasco was too long for you to finish, or if you want to follow up a great Fiasco, this is your race! The current list ranges from Steve Campo's BAZINGA, a Hobie 33, to Manouch Moshayedi's RIO100 to three MOD70 trimarans that will be looking for speeds in the high thirties. 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. I think the award should go to the people who supported me along the way and after the race. 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. Should maintain a safe distance of at least 6 feet from anyone outside of their household or social bubble* before, during, and after any SSS event. Two years later in 1997, this record was broken by the 86' catamaran Explorer with a time of 5 days 9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds. Start getting ready for 2023!! 2023 Scuttlebutt Sailing News. However, for me, there is no greater joy than an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to wake up to a different sunrise. Overdid it last night, shredded another spin.. Please enter your username or email address. Dec 14th Power Requirements/Electricity Budgeting/Communications, Feb 8th Returning the boat (By sail or freighter), March 8th Provisioning/Food, Water & Medicine, April 15th Emergency Sea Trails Cruise In. Sailing solo can be as euphoric as it is taxing. It was this mistakefailing to untie the read more, After four long months poised to spring into action at the first sign of the right weather window, Spindrift has announced that its record-breaking circumnavigation attempt wont be possible this year. The wind died down a bit, and the sea was not as rough. We will be coveringRigging/Sails/Repairs at SeaYou can register here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvceqhrTorG9D44EQZFGVEPI2YVQQykksTThis registration will be good for this seminar and all following seminars in the series.Full seminar calendar:Dec 14th Power Requirements/Electricity Budgeting/CommunicationsJan 11th Rigging/Sails/Repairs at SeaFeb 8th Returning the boat (By sail or freighter)March 8th Provisioning/Food, Water & MedicineApril 12th Anchoring & Satellite ComsApril 15th Emergency Sea Trails Cruise InMay 10th Weather & Race Strategy. In 1995, multihulls were invited to participate for the first time, but not eligible for the Barn Door trophy. In 1977, the yacht Merlin, designed by Bill Lee, set an elapsed time record of 8 days, 11 hours, 1 minute. Contender Richard R. Loynes 14:07:50:00, 1941 Stella Maris II Dr. A. Steele 13:21:03:55, 1947 Chubasco W.L. Easy to deploy with little chance of wrapping!! Every. I do understand the effort and cost involved. In 2013, the fully crewed monohull, Dorade, won first overall, making it the oldest boat in the fleet to win and a 2-time winner, having won the Transpac in 1936, 77 years prior. Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. The 2021 Singlehanded Trans Pacific Yacht Race Is completed. We'll be right back. Navigators, Tacticians, Watch Captains Seminar Video, Transpac Fleet at 55 as 2022 Draws to a Close, PlanetSail DockTalk on the 52nd Transpac Race, Learn more about the outstanding companies that sponsor Transpac. 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. The very next day, Kyle departed Hanalei with orange storm jib hoisted, bound for Oahu, where he would put the Hobie onto a ship. 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. 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. That is still a possibility. 1991 Results. This is particularly common in the USA offshore scene where there are dozens and dozens of boats designed and built over 30 years ago that are still cherished and raced in a variety of classic races: the Bayview and Chicago-Mac Races held annually, the Newport-Bermuda Race held on even-number years, and the Transpac from LA to Honolulu held on odd-number years. Transpacific Yacht Club. 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 (459mi; 739km) in 24 hours. The first, the 2019 Great Pacific Longitudinal Race (LongPac), was a 400-mile singlehanded race to longitude 126 degrees 40 minutes and back. 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. On July 3, the first to arrive by more than 26 hours was Kyle Vanderspek on the Hobie 33 Aloha. 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. The San Francisco SSS offers events where singlehanded and short-handed sailors can share knowledge, gain experience, and find a structured environment to expand their horizons. And we can track how close you were to that with satellite data. I talked to the county administrators today on the phone about it. 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. But finish he did, in the middle of the night. My tears started rolling uncontrollably. TPYC Commodore Tom Trujillo welcomes the new partnership saying After a detailed and exhaustive search to determine the best supplier for Transpac owners and crews, we are delighted to be working with LW Regatta Gear. 1997 Results. Proud to know him. What a great achievement! 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? We are hoping this approach will stabilize our finances a bit and cut down on waste as often t-shirts get printed only never to be claimed. Would it be too much trouble to ask the people of Kauai to celebrate my accomplishment with fireworks? I'm planning to sail from Haleiwa on Oahu over to Hanalei Bay on ~July 14th to hang out for a bit before heading down the Napali Coast and eventually back to Haleiwa. *Social bubbles are defined as stable groups of 12 people or less who have agreed to limit their social activities to only each other for at least three weeks. I announced this at Saturdays annual awards meeting and posted it on the forum yesterday, but want to make sure that it reaches all members. There are active forum people that are going but just haven't chimed in yet. Eleven entrants made the journey, ranging from an Olson 25 to a J/109. 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. We are always learning and always sharing knowledge. Large gatherings are completely prohibited, so that if thats still in place that could be a complication for our tree meetings and get-togethers at a little house we rent near the beach. 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. The 2008 documentary Morning Light is a film about the 2007 Disney-sponsored competitors in the race. 2007 Results. All doublehanded boats shall consist of individuals occupying a single household or social bubble. 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. Multihulls are usually quite scarce in the the SHTP as there are few to compete against.
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