Transpac 2005 Press Release 7

LONG BEACH, Calif.---Hasso Plattner's Morning Glory led a five-boat rampage on the 24-hour distance record for the Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii Tuesday, sailing 393 nautical miles on the big boats' first full day of the centennial event.

The former record was 356 miles by Philippe Kahn's Pegasus 77 in 2003. Roy Disney's Pyewacket, with 385; Randall Pittman's Genuine Risk, 381; Doug Baker's Magnitude 80, 372, and Doug DeVos's Windquest, 361, also left it in their wakes, validating pre-race expectations that these are the fastest monohulls ever to sail one of the world's great ocean races.

Transpac Commodore Jerry Montgomery and wife Marilyn check the boats' daily position postings at Gladstone's restaurant on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach.

Morning Glory was listed at 1,640 miles from the finish, Pyewacket at 1,661 and Genuine Risk at 1,669, their tracks separated by only 10 miles with the German leader now north of its rivals after leading them south a day earlier.

Morning Glory's time was logged between the initial Monday morning and Tuesday morning position reports from the fleet---the basis for a Transpac 24-hour record. There was no immediate information how far Morning Glory or any other boat may have sailed in a 24-hour period unrelated to the check-in reports. As recognized by the World Speed Sailing Record Council, that record is 530.19 n.m. by MoviStar, a Volvo 70, last April.

Tuesday's reports made the day for John Reichel and Jim Pugh, who designed Morning Glory and Pyewacket, as well Roger Sturgeon's Rosebud from San Francisco, which turned 312 miles to assume first place overall on projected corrected handicap time for the 75-boat fleet.

Rosebud was built in 2001. Another TP 52, Kahn's new Pegasus, posted the best day in Division II with 322 miles and rated fifth overall, behind Rosebud, Ragtime---yes, that Ragtime---Morning Glory and Scout Spirit, in that order.

"It will be tough for Rosebud to beat the new boats," Pugh said, "but downwind it'll go pretty fast."

And downwind is where the leaders are going now, riding what the communications vessel described as "weak NE trades in the 12-15-knot range." Several boats had less than 1,000 miles to go, led by the 68-year-old yawl Odyssey at 913.

The fastest boat gets the Barn Door trophy; the winner overall on handicap time gets the King Kalakaua trophy.

Ragtime, the legendary Spencer 66 now owned by an Orange County, Calif. syndicate, made a big blast from the past with a 271-mile day in its 13th Transpac, a record it shares with fellow competitor Merlin. The sleek wooden beauty was first to finish in 1973 and '75.

Scout Spirit, another R/P design, is the former Zephyrus V chartered from the Newport Sea Base by Bill Turpin of Newport Beach, Calif., who won the Kalakaua in 2003 sailing a TP 52, Alta Vita.

Morning Glory and Pyewacket are the race's scratch boats for handicap purposes. Both are maxZ86s with canting keel technology. Genuine Risk, a Dubois 90, is a 90-footer with canting keel but powered down to meet the rating limit---and, in fact, will get all of 23 seconds from the other two for the race. The race's third maxZ86, Windquest, is water ballasted.

Abandoned Derelict Spotted on Transpac Route

Rick Gorman's Swan 53, Incredible, from Long Beach reported sighting an abandoned 40-foot sailboat at 25-54N 134-35W Monday. It had been dismasted and the word "derelict" spray-painted on the topsides.

Alaska Eagle wrote: "We subsequently discovered an article in the current edition of Latitude 38 noting that the vessel was a Newporter 40 named Kamera abandoned by her skipper, William Peterson, after she was dismasted 800 miles SW of San Diego on June 10. The skipper was recovered by the USS Chun Hoon out of Pearl Harbor. Kamera appears to be on her way slowly to the South Pacific."

Meanwhile, boats that started two days ahead of the Morning Glory gang indicated they had gone as far south as necessary to avoid the Pacific High and were headed straight for the finish.

Mike Dawley, watch captain on Norm and Rosemary Dawley's Custom 48, Pursuit, from Maryland, reported: "We actually got our first brief glimpses of blue sky today (alternating with a foggy heavy mist) which was a nice change from the plain gray we have had since the start. The big strategy change of the day was the decision to start heading directly for Hawaii instead of looping around to the south along the traditional route.

"Based on various illegible weather faxes, notoriously inaccurate 'grib' files and radio weather reports that think we have totally different winds than we have, we have come to the conclusion that the High is too far to the northwest to trap us in the doldrums."

Dan Doyle reported from Two Guys On the Edge that "we are pointing directly at Diamond Head Buoy. We had 20 minutes of sun today and a lot of squalls."

Daily Standings for July 19, 2005.

Official entries
(With total handicap time allowances in hours:minutes:seconds)

Division I (starts July 17)

Morning Glory (R/P maxZ86), Hasso Plattner, Kiel, Germany (0:00:00)
Pyewacket (R/P maxZ86), Roy E. Disney, Los Angeles. (0:00:00)
Genuine Risk (Dubois 90), Randall Pittman, La Jolla, Calif. (0.00:23)
Windquest (R/P maxZ86), Dick & Doug DeVos, Holland, Mich. (6:51:07)
Magnitude 80 (Andrews 80), Doug Baker, Long Beach. (9:44:58)
Beecom (Reichel/Pugh 72), Isao Mita, Yokohama, Japan (30:16:07)
Scout Spirit (R/P 77), Bill Turpin, Newport Beach, Calif. (32:21:35)

Division II (Starts July 17)

Renegade (Andrews 70), Dan Sinclair, Vancouver, B.C. (40:03:46)
Merlin (Lee 68), Patricia Steele, Maui, H.I. (41:54:03)
Medicine Man (Andrews 61), Bob Lane, Long Beach. (45:59:58)
Pegasus 52 (Transpac 52), Philippe Kahn, Honolulu. (51:49:29)
Trader (Transpac 52), Fred Detwiler, Pompano Beach, Fla. (52:18:39)
Skylark (S/C 70), Doug Ayres, Newport Beach. (52:18:53)
Rosebud (Transpac 52), Roger Sturgeon, San Francisco. (55:04:54)
Braveheart (Transpac 52), Charles Burnet, Seattle. (55:23:53)
Mongoose (Santa Cruz 70), Bradley Thorson, Bellevue, Wash. (57:38:37)
Coruba (N/M 68), Rob and Suzanne Fleming, Seattle. (57:52:37)
Bengal 2 (Ohashi 52), Yoshihiko Murase, Nagoya, Japan (64:07:15)
Pendragon IV (Davidson 52), John MacLaurin, Encino, Calif. (65:20:10)
Ragtime (Spencer 66), Peterson/Richards/Welsh, Honolulu. (69:08:37)

Division III (Starts July 15)

Barking Spider 3 (MacGregor 65), David Kory, Concord, Calif. (74:38:45)
Stealth Chicken (Perry 56), Timothy Beatty, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (80:52:12)
The Cone of Silence (Super 30), Jamie and Jenny Neill, Sydney, Australia. (83:69:39)
Cipango (Andrews 56), Bob & Rob Barton, San Francisco. (84:08:21)
DH-Serena (T1150), David Kuettel, Bel Marin, Calif. (84:32:16)
Jeito (J/145), Francisco Guzman, Acapulco, Mexico. (86:10:42)
Dasher (S/C 50), Roger Groh, Sausalito, Calif. (89:38:24)
Reinrag2 (J/125), Tom Garnier, Portland, Ore. (90:15:09)
Bolt (Nelson/Marek 55), Craig Reynolds, Newport Beach, Calif. (90:16:35)
Artemis (Andrews 53), Louis Bianco, Seattle. (90:58:29)
Innocent Merriment (J/160), Myron Lyon, San Diego. (91:10:54)
Blue (J/160), Ken and /Cheryl Sears, Nashville, Tenn. (93:03:17)
Chasch Mer (S/C 50), Gib Black, Honolulu. (95:31:20)

Division IV (Starts July 15)

DH-Two Guys On the Edge (1D35), Dan Doyle, Kailua, H.I. (114:54:33)
Sensation (1D35), Gary Fanger, San Francisco. (115:11:28)
Tabasco (1D35), Alamitos Bay Syndicate, Long Beach. (115:31:05)
Kahoots (Andrews 43), Kerry Deaver/Bob Williamson, Newport Beach. (119:24:28)
Pursuit (Custom 48), Norman and Rosemary Dawley, Solomons, Md. (121:24:04)
Wild Impulse (J/120), Larry Barels, Santa Barbara, Calif. (122:19:04)
Uproarious (Olson 40), Robert Bussard, San Diego. (123:41:45)

Division V (Starts July 11)

Super Gnat (Beneteau First 40.7), Cliff Thompson, San Diego (132:16:04)
Iataia (Beneteau First 40.7), Marcos Rodriguez, Acapulco, Mexico. (133:59:14)
Showdown (IMX 38), Pete Meade/Mike Luna/ Paul McDonald, Irvine, Calif. (136:02:44)
B'Quest (Tripp 40), Challenged America, San Diego. (136:41:18)
Brown Sugar (Express 37), Steve Brown, Santa Ana, Calif. (141:30:59)
DH-Soap Opera (Hobie 33), Scott Self/Nigel Brown, Rockwall, Tex. (141:56:43)
DH-Jacaré (J/35), Jeff Young/Rich Blackman, San Diego. (148:46:04)
DH-Diablo (J/35), Reed Barnard, Anacortes, Wash. (150:24:54)

Cal 40 (Starts July 11)

California Girl (Cal 40), Don and Betty Lessley, Richmond, Calif. (163:20:29)
Radiant (Cal 40), Fin Beven, Pasadena, Calif. (164:09:20)
Callisto (Cal 40), Jim Eddy, Glendale, Calif. (164:44:47)
Far Far (Cal 40), Don Grind, Naples, Fla. (164:53:27)
Dancing Bear (Cal 40), Mark Schrader, Sitka, Alaska. (165:01:55)
Spectre (Cal 40), Lee Rogge, Seattle. (165:13:28)
Ralphie (Cal 40), Davis Pillsbury, Woody Creek, Colo. (165:37:14)
Azure (Cal 40), Rodney Pimentel, Alameda, Calif. (165:50:20)
Psyche (Cal 40), Steve Calhoun, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (166:05:17)
Shaman (Cal 40), Steve Waterloo, Alameda, Calif. (166:13:50)
Willow Wind (Cal 40), Wendy Siegal, Sunset Beach, Calif. (166:28:31)
Illusion (Cal 40), Sally Honey, Palo Alto, Calif. (167:07:37)
Seafire (Cal 40), John Harrison, Honolulu. (168:13:35)
Bubala (Cal 40), Lloyd Sellinger, Newport Beach. (168:51:37)

Aloha A (Starts July 11)

*Shanakee II (Pedrick 74), James Warmington, Costa Mesa, Calif. (83:26:25)
Enchilado (Jeanneau 54), Cesar de Saracho, Mazatlan, Mexico. (112:22:50)
Madrina (Cabo Rico 56), Dick Simon, Dana Point, Calif. (124:52:04)
Between the Sheets (Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman, Marina del Rey, Calif. (126:13:17)
Incredible (Swan 53), Rick Gorman, Los Alamitos, Calif. (126:14:24)
Odyssey (58' yawl), Audrey Steele Burnand, Newport Beach. (128:53:47)
Plan B (Peterson 48), David Johnson, Long Beach. (129:07:19)
DH-Charmed Life (Catalina 470), Patricia Garfield, San Francisco. (131:54:20)

Aloha B (Starts July 11)

Azure (Swan 441), Samuel Beckey, San Diego. (138:17:59)
DH-Camille (Stewart 42), James Read, San Francisco. (141:52:48)
So Far (Swan 48), Larry Hillman, Chicago. (147:28:54)
Wind Dancer (Catalina 42), Paul Edwards, Ventura, Calif. (149:50:14)
Pipe Dream (CF 37), John Davis, Long Beach. (164:43:08)

DH---Doublehanded.

*---Starts July 15.


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