Transpac 2005 Press Release 32

HONOLULU---From the Barn Door to Bubala and B'Quest, the 43rd Transpacific Yacht Race presented the greatest span of sailing technology and talent in its 100 years, and all received due recognition among 1,040 fellow competitors and guests who packed the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Ilikai Hotel for the sold-out awards dinner Friday night.

Polynesian dancers entertained 1,040 at the Transpac 2005 awards dinner.

Bubala, a Cal 40 sailed by six men ages 66 to 72, and B'Quest, Challenged America's team of sailors with disabilities from San Diego, shared the stage with crew members of Morning Glory, Hasso Plattner's maxZ86 that broke Roy Disney's record and collected the Barn Door trophy as the monohull with the fastest elapsed time: 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds and an average of 13.9 knots for the 2,225 nautical miles. Plattner was not present.The audience saw videos of race highlights and tributes to Disney, who delivered his formal farewell to the event he promoted and helped to reshape in 15 races over 30 years.

"Did I say I was quitting?" he dead-panned in opening remarks.

Then, more serious, he said, "This race is not about the big boats. It's about the Cal 40s, it's about B'Quest's disabled sailors, it's about Bubala and the old geezers. Keep doing this. I've brought all four of our kids up on it. Thank you, all of you."

Morning Glory's crew accepts the Barn Door trophy. Boat captain Peter Pendleton, kneeling left, also was voted the Don Vaughn outstanding crew member award by his mates.

Appropriately, among those honored was Bernardo Guzman, 11, a member of the crew on his father's J/145, Jeito, from Acapulco, Mexico. He is within 9 ½ months of the youngest person ever to sail Transpac.Later, with Morning Glory boat captain Peter Pendleton, Disney did the honors of updating the hands on the 18th century-style trophy clock he commissioned six years earlier to mark the current record.

Pendleton also received the Don Vaughn Trophy as the outstanding crew member on the fastest boat, chosen by his crew mates.

Ivan Chan Wa, director of pier operations---i.e., maintaining order in the upheaval afflicting the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor, including the displacement of "Transpac Row"---was honored as top volunteer on the Honolulu Committee.

Roy Disney said his farewell after 15 Transpacs over 30 years.

A total of 75 boats, second only to 80 in 1979, started the Centennial Transpac. They came from eight countries on four continents and 12 of the United States.

Still, after all the traditional dockside welcome parties were exhausted and all the awards distributed, one remained more than 500 miles at sea. James and Ann Read of San Francisco, sailing their 42-foot boat Camille doublehanded with their little dog, Sweetie Pie, were expected to finish next Wednesday after 22 days.

As the Reads have seen, it wasn't the windiest Transpac, but at the front it was by far the fastest with five boats---including Disney's own maxZ86, Pyewacket---eclipsing his 1999 record, alongside the anomaly of a 68-year-old yawl, Odyssey, finishing just ahead of them with its six-day head start in the Aloha division.

Bernardo Guzman, 11, joins father Francisco (r.) and brother Francisco Jr. in accepting the award to Mexico's Jeito as first racer-cruiser under 50 feet.

Also noted: along the way, Morning Glory blew away the race's 24-hour distance record when it logged 393 miles on its first full day at sea, July 18, stretching the mark of 356 miles set by Philippe Kahn's Pegasus 77 maxi sled on its second Barn Door romp in 2003.

So Far, But So Worth It, Man Overboard and All

There once was a Transpac tradition to go swimming at the halfway point, which is farther from land than any other place on earth, but that isn't what Gary Kozlowski had in mind.

Kozlowski was a crew member on Larry Hillman's Swan 48, So Far, from Chicago that ran away with Aloha B class honors and won Aloha A and B overall on handicap time. He was handling a spinnaker sheet preparatory to a hoist when he suddenly found himself in the drink, without a PFD.

"I knew I couldn't swim fast enough to get back to the boat," he said, "but I still had hold of the sheet."

Within three or four minutes, his mates hauled him back to the boat.

Later, Hillman summed up his boat's highlights of the race: "We sailed just 2,438 n.m. to complete the race---the equal of eight back-to-back Mackinacs! We saw whales, sea lions, seals and dolphin by the score, and after 13 days at sea we saw the amazing beauty of Molokai Island rise over our port bow . . . a breathtaking sight. Along the way it seems like we broke, repaired and broke again just about everything aboard. We sent eight bags of sails to the sail loft for repairs, reworked our engine fuel lines, rebuilt a head (nice!), hauled spinnakers from the sea, hoisted a bowman to the masthead and battled a failed refrigeration system. We dodged a monstrous 50-foot cross-tacking whale, missing it by less than five feet. We missed countless tankers and cargo ships, ducked falling masthead sheaves and spinnakers and evaded boarding waves, flying fish, dive bombing birds and airborne shelves and drawers. Weather-wise, we had it all, from 0.0s to 40 knots. And in the end, what a reception! Each Transpac boat was assigned a host family in California and Hawaii, and no matter what time of day or night you arrived in Hawaii, the host family was there in force to applaud and cheer 'their' boat and crew. Immediately upon docking, our host, Doug Taylor, whisked us to a party fully stocked with ice (yes ICE) in our drinks, frosted beers, shrimp platters and all sorts of other incredible edibles. I never met this man before. That's hospitality."

Final Standings as of July 30, 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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