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| JULY 13, 1999 [RESS RELEASE #28 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Seattle's Hurricane wins Cruising division HONOLULU, H.I.—Kim Stebbens and a crew of five sailed Hurricane past Diamond Head Monday night to win the Cruising division of the 40th Transpacific Yacht Race. The Septre 41 representing Seattle's Sloop Tavern Yacht Club completed the 2,225-nautical mile passage in 14 days 7 hours 42 minutes 9 seconds at an average speed of 7 knots. Roy E. Disney's Pyewacket went almost twice as fast (12.4 knots) in about half the time (7 days) to set a record for monohulls, but that's a high-tech racing machine. Most of the eight Cruisers are older boats with heavier displacement, less sail area—and furniture and refrigerators on board. Bob Pace's 46-foot Esprit from Oceanside YC finished about five hours after Hurricane, followed by Wendy Siegal's Cal 40 Willow Wind from San Diego's Cortez Racing Association. Other overnight finishers were Kjeld Hestehave's Tanton 73 Velos, San Diego YC; Don Clothier's Lidgard 45 Tower, Waikiki YC, and three boats in the closely contested Div. 3 for boats in the 50-foot category: Bill LeRoy and Jim Cascino's Santa Cruz 50 turbo Gone With the Wind, St. Francis YC; the Alamitos Bay Syndicate's Perry 56 Stealth Chicken, with Jerry Montgomery as skipper, and Fred Howe's Santa Cruz 52 Warpath, Santa Cruz YC. Gone With the Wind actually finished almost three hours behind Stealth Chicken and 2 minutes 26 seconds behind Warpath but eclipsed both on corrected handicap time. Tower was the only finisher in Div. 4 for 40-footers but Tom Garnier's J/35 Great Scot, with 247 miles to go, was ahead of the pace needed to correct out for first place overall in the class. There was still no radio contact with Vapor, a 25-footer from Long Beach's Alamitos Bay YC sailed by Bill Boyd and Scott Atwood. But the little boat was not expected until Tuesday night or Wednesday and perhaps later depending on wind conditions and possible gear problems. 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. Publicity: Rich Roberts Media center: (808) 946-0020 Cell ph: (808) 366-0959 e-mail: richroberts@compuserve.com Standings (as of 8 a.m. PDT July 13 ; 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. Velos, Kjeld Hestehave, SDYC, 9:13:31:03/7:22:55:12; 4. Mongoose, Robert Saielli, SDYC, 8:16:58:37/7:23:09:01; 45. 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, 9:11:41:04/7:14:45:18; 2. Stealth Chicken, Alamitos Bay Syndicate, Alamitos Bay YC, 9:08:L46:14/7:19:06:40; 3. Warpath, Fred Howe, Santa Cruz YC, 9:11:37:40/7:19:56:46; 4. M-Project, Manouch Moshayedi, Bahia Corinthian YC, retired. DIV. 4 (started July 2)—1. Great Scot, Tom Garnier, LAYC, 247 miles to go; 2. Tower, Don Clothier, Waikiki YC, 10:16:48:47/7:22:55:15; 3. Glama!, Seth Radow, California YC, 86; 4. Prime Time, John Borkowski/Richard Sherlock, Channel Islands YC, 346; 5. Bolt, Craig Reynolds, Balboa YC, 348; 6. Uproarious, Robert Bussard, Silver Gate YC, 283; 7. Apollo V, Ned Knight, Point Loma YC, 402; 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, 14:07:42:09/9:22:067:09; 2. Esprit, Bob Pace, Oceanside YC, 14:12:28:14/10:10:00:44; 3. Willow Wind, Wendy Siegal, Cortez Racing Assn., 14:16:23:04; 10:17:55:34; 4. Tango, Howard Raphael, Palo Alto, Calif., 177; 5. Pacifica, Doug Jones, Southwestern YC, 101; 6. Endeavor III, Randy Bell/Eleanor Clitheroe, Royal Canadian YC, 140; 7. Goodnight Moon, Carlton Vanderbeek, Dana Point YC, 50; 8. Derivative, John Robert Misko, Seattle, Wash., 173. |
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