Transpac Day 14

HONOLULU, H.I.—Ten boats had finished the 40th Transpacific Yacht Race at mid-day Monday, while 19 others reported positions at the morning's roll call.

Two—tiny Vapor from Long Beach and Sweet Caroline from Australia—remained out of radio touch. Both were believed to be having radio problems—Bill Boyd and Scott Atwood's Vapor since it started two weeks ago and William Rawson's Sweet Caroline because of dead batteries after its engine broke down.

Estimates based on the speed potential of Vapor, a B-25, were that it wasn't expected to reach Honolulu until Tuesday night or Wednesday. No satellite distress signals had been heard, so race officials remained confident it would show up unannounced.

Three ULDB 70s followed the other Doublehanded entry, Two Guys On the Edge, into Waikiki late Sunday night. Steve Popovich's Cheval from San Pedro, Bob Lane's Medicine Man, Long Beach, and Robert Saielli's Mongoose, San Diego, finished in that order.

Medicine Man lost three spinnakers in the last few days. The first two blew apart while flogging after gear failures. The third ripped during a jibe.

Photos, e-mail from boats, daily progress and position reports, charts, crew lists and other information are available on the race web page, www.transpacificyc.org.

The 40th Transpac is sponsored by Iridium North America, the world's first global telephone and paging company. Several boats are carrying the phones. Through a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites circling the globe, customers can make or take calls and receive pages in the most remote regions on Earth. Additional information regarding the Iridium system is available at the web site www.iridium.com or by calling 1- 888-Iridium.

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Standings (as of 8 a.m. PDT July 12; in order of corrected handicap time):

DIV. 1 (started July 3)—1. Pyewacket, Roy E. Disney, Los Angeles YC, finished, elapsed time 7 days 11 hours 41 minutes 27 seconds (breaks record of 7:15:24:40 by previous Pyewacket, Roy P. Disney, 1997), corrected time 7:11:39:58; 2. Magnitude, Doug Baker, Long Beach YC, 7:13:37:07/7:13:36:07; 3. Zephyrus IV, Bob McNeil/John Parrish, St. Francis/San Diego YCs, 7:16:34:43/7:16:33:59; 4. Front Runner, Lou Grasso/Craig Lyons, Newport Harbor YC, 7:16:51:45/7:19:51:43; 5. Pegasus, Philippe Kahn, UC Santa Cruz Sailing Club, 7:17:51:20/7:20:50:20.

DIV. 2 (started July 3)—1. Grand Illusion, James McDowell, Lahaina YC, 8:02:52:27/7:08:40:10 ; 2. Cheval, Steve Popovich, Cabrillo Beach YC, 8:13:47:14/7:20:44:46; 3. Mongoose, Robert Saielli, SDYC, 8:16:58:37/7:23:09:01; 4. Velos, Kjeld Hestehave, SDYC, 185 miles to go; 5. Medicine Man, Bob Lane, LBYC, 8:15:24:12/8:00:29:07.

DIV. 3 (started July 3)—1. Gone With the Wind, Bill LeRoy/Jim Cascino, StFYC, 176; 2. Stealth Chicken, Alamitos Bay Syndicate, Alamitos Bay YC, 148; 3. Warpath, Fred Howe, Santa Cruz YC, 173; 4. M-Project, Manouch Moshayedi, Bahia Corinthian YC, retired.

DIV. 4 (started July 2)—1. Great Scot, Tom Garnier, LAYC, 448; 2. Tower, Don Clothier, Waikiki YC, 206; 3. Glama!, Seth Radow, California YC, 294; 4. Prime Time, John Borkowski/Richard Sherlock, Channel Islands YC, 346; 5. Bolt, Craig Reynolds, Balboa YC, 553; 6. Uproarious, Robert Bussard, Silver Gate YC, 663; 7. Apollo V, Ned Knight, Point Loma YC, 570; 7. 8. Sweet Caroline, William Rawson, Royal YC, Australia, no report.

DOUBLEHANDED DIV. (started June 29)—1. Two Guys On the Edge, Les Vasconcellos/Bruce Burgees, Waikiki YC, 12:10:04:31/7:21:15:24; 2. Vapor, Bill Boyd/Scott Atwood, Alamitos Bay YC, no report.

CRUISING DIV. (started June 29)—1. Hurricane, Kim Stebbens, Sloop Tavern YC, 75; 2. Esprit, Bob Pace, Oceanside YC, 118; 3. Willow Wind, Wendy Siegal, Cortez Racing Assn., 157; 4. Pacifica, Doug Jones, Southwestern YC, 247; 5. Tango, Howard Raphael, Palo Alto, Calif., 334; 6. Endeavor III, Randy Bell/Eleanor Clitheroe, Royal Canadian YC, 294; 7. Goodnight Moon, Carlton Vanderbeek, Dana Point YC, 199; 8. Derivative, John Robert Misko, Seattle, Wash., 331.