Biennial Transpacific Yacht Race / Los Angeles to Hawaii

From TransPac Publicity, Rich Roberts
www.transpacificyc.org

TransPac Yacht Race

Highlights

(through 2005)

  • Total starters (44 races): 1,700.
  • Largest fleet: 80 boats, 1979.
  • Smallest fleet: 2 boats, 1932.
  • Largest boat: Goodwill, 161 feet, 1953 and 1959.
  • Smallest boat: Vapor, 25 feet., 1999.
  • Oldest boat: Alsumar (70-foot Sparkman & Stephens yawl), 73 years; next: Odyssey (58-foot yawl), 68 years, 2005.
  • Oldest crew: Bubala (Cal 40), six crew members ages 66 to 72, 2005.
  • Oldest doublehanded crew: Tango (J/133), Michael Abraham, 70/Phillip Rowe, 70, 2007.
  • Fastest elapsed time (monohull):

6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds, Morning Glory (Reichel/Pugh maxZ86 maxi sled), Hasso Plattner, Kiel, Germany, 2005.

  • Fastest elapsed time (multihull):

5 days 9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds, Explorer (86-foot catamaran), Bruno Peyron, 1997.

  • Slowest elapsed time (monohull):

23 days 23 hours 55 minutes 4 seconds, Viking Childe (42-foot ketch), William Merry, 1939 (Note: race started in San Francisco; slowest ET from Los Angeles was 22 days 11 hours 36 minutes 15 seconds by Camille (Stewart 42), James and Ann Read, doublehanded, San Francisco, 2005).

  • Fastest elapsed time doublehanded:

10 days 4 hours 4 minutes 19 seconds, Étranger (Open 50), Howard Gordon/Jay Crum, 2001.

  • Longest day's run: 393 nautical miles, Morning Glory, July 18, 2005.
  • Shortest day's run: 0, Viking Childe, 1939 (7 miles in 7 days).
  • Closest boat-for-boat finish: 4 seconds, Kawamee over Marie Amelie (for 6th to finish in Class B), 1955.
  • Closest first-to-finish: 4 minutes 31 seconds, Ragtime def. Windward Passage, 1973.
  • Most races by boat: 14, Ragtime (first race 1973, latest 2007).
  • Most Transpac races by individual: 22, Thad Jones.
  • Most Transpac and Tahiti races by individual: 25, Bob Dickson.
  • Youngest crew members:

Larry Folsom Jr. (Centurion, 1975), 11 years 35 days; Virginia Munsey (Silhouette II, 1957) 11 years 42 days; Samuel (Shark) Kahn (Pegasus, 2001), 11 years 11 months.

  • Hawaiian entries: 101.
  • International entries: 124 (record 9 in 2003).

International boat trophy winners:

    • Fasted elapsed time: Morning Glory (maxZ86), Germany, 2005.
    • Second overall corrected time -- Beau Geste (Transpac 52), Karl Kwok/Gavin Brady, Hong Kong, 2003.
    • First, Class B -– Chiriqui, Balboa Canal Zone, 1951, 1953
    • First to finish –- Stormvogel, South Africa, 1967
    • Second overall, Class B -- Miyakodori, Japan, 1979
    • First overall – Merlin (Lee 66), Canada, 1995
    • First, Div. 1 – Merlin (Lee 66), Canada, 1995
    • First, Div. 2B –- Exile, British Virgin Islands, 1995
    • First, multihull – Explorer (86'), France, 1997

International ports represented:

  • Australia
  • Balboa Canal Zone
  • Canada
  • D'Antibes
  • Fiji
  • Germany
  • Holland
  • Hong Kong
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • New Zealand
  • Peru
  • South Africa
  • United Kingdom
  • Virgin Islands (British)
BARN DOOR WINNERS
Fastest elapsed time, monohull

Year  Entries  Boat  Owner/skipper  Time**
1906   3  Lurline  H.H. Sinclair 12:09:59*
1908   4  Lurline  H.H. Sinclair 13:21:31
1910   3  Hawaii  syndicate 14:03:23
1912   4 Lurline A.E. Davis  13:17:03
1923 (S.Barb.)  4 Mariner L.A. Norris 11:14:46
1926   6 Invader Don M. Lee 12:02:48:03*
1928 (Balboa)   6 Talayha L. Lippman 13:04:58:30
1930   4 Enchantress Morgan Adams 12:13:22:52
1932 (S.Barb.)   2 Fayth William S. McNutt 14:14:33:00
1934  12 Vileehi  H.T. Horton  13:03:42:26
1936 (S.Mon.)  22 Dorade James Flood  13:07:20:04
1939 (S.Fran.)  26 Contender Richard R. Loynes  14:07:50:00
1941 7 Stella Maris II Dr. A. Steele  13:21:03:55
1947  34 Chubasco W.L. Stewart Jr. 12:15:51:18
1949  24 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem  10:10:13:09*
1951  27 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:16:44:33
1953  32 Goodwill  R.E. Larrabee  11:02:17:24
1955  53 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 9:15:05:10*
1957  34 Barlovento Frank Hooykaas  11:13:02:44
1959  41 Goodwill  Ralph Larrabee 10:12:16:15
1961  41 Sirius II Howard F. Ahmanson 10:10:38:35
1963  32 Ticonderoga Robert Johnson  11:16:46:33
1965  55 Ticonderoga Robert Johnson 9:13:51:02*
1967  71 Stormvogel Cornelius Bruynzeel  11:14:10:56
1969  72 Blackfin Kenneth DeMeuse 9:10:21:00*
1971  69 Windward Passage Mark Johnson 9:09:06:48*
1973  60 Ragtime Ragtime Syndicate 10:14:00:40
1975  65 Ragtime White/Pasquini 9:23:54:51
1977  69 Merlin Bill Lee 8:11:01:45*
1979  80 Drifter Harry Moloschco 11:18:01:04
1981  74 Merlin Nick Frazee 8:11:02:31
1983 66 Charley Nolan K. Bushnell  9:01:53:48
1985  64 Swiftsure III  Nick/Robert Frazee  10:19:21:47
1987  55 Merlin Donn Campion 8:12:00:40
1989  49 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 8:12:50:35
1991  42 Chance Robert McNulty 9:21:59:35
1993  42 Silver Bullet  John DeLaura 9:09:11:17
1995  38 Cheval 95 Hal Ward 9:01:32:20
1997  38 Pyewacket II Roy P. Disney 7:15:24:40*
1999  34 Pyewacket III Roy E. Disney 7:11:41:27*
2001 33 Pegasus Philippe Kahn 8:02:34:03
2003 57 Pegasus 77 Philippe Kahn 7:16:31:17
2005 75 Morning Glory Hasso Plattner 6:16:04:11*
2007 73 Pyewacket Roy Pat Disney/Gregg Hedrick 7:01:11:56

 *--Record.
**---Days, hours, minutes, seconds.
 Note: Races started from San Pedro except where noted.

OVERALL CORRECTED TIME WINNERS

Year  Class Yacht Owner/Skipper Corrected Time
1906  Lurline H.H. Sinclair 11:21:59
1908  Lurline H.H. Sinclair 13:21:31
1910  Hawaii Syndicate 14:03:23
1912  Lurline A.E. Davis 13:16:55:11
1923  Diablo A.R. Pedder 11:10:26:57
1926  Invader  Don Lee 12:02:48:03
1928   Teva C.W. Stose  12:07:13:38
1930  Enchantress Morgan Adams 12:13:22:52
1932   Fayth William McNutt 12:07:31:27
1934  A Mamuia Harold Dillingham 12:09:29:56
1936  B Dorade James Flood 11:03:29:44
1939  C Blitzen  R.J. Reynolds 11:09:58:41
1941  Escapade D.W. Elliott 12:21:45:32
1947  B Dolphin II  Frank Morgan 11:01:04:40
1949  B Kitten Fred W. Lyon 9:10:24:49.5
1951  C Sea Witch A.L. McCormick 8:12:00:01
1953 C Staghound  Ira P. Fulmor 10:23:42:49
1955  D Staghound Ira P. Fulmor 8:21:07:05
1957  B  Legend Charles Ullman  11:00:41:46
1959 C  Nalu II   Peter Grant 9:05:50:27
1961  A Nam Sang A.B. Robbs Jr. 9:15:23:01
1963  D Islander Earl Corkett  10:05:57:47
1965  C Psyche  Don Salisbury 8:22:44:30
1967  C  Holiday Too  Skip Allan  8:19:46:46
1969  C  Argonaut Mortimer Andron  6:20:44:07*
1971  A  Windward Passage Robert Johnson 9:05:34:22
1973  D Chutzpah Stuart Cowan  8:21:21:50
1975  D  Chutzpah Stuart Cowan 7:22:29:05
1977  A Kialoa  Jim Kilroy 8:11:29:24
1979  B Arriba Dennis Choate 11:14:42:51
1981  D Sweet Okole Dean Treadway 7:21:44:48
1983  C Bravura Irving Loube 7:22:55:15
1985 .  D Montgomery St James Denning 9:14:00:40
1987  A Drumbeat  Don Ayres 8:00:56:41
1989  C  Notorious Pine/Shaw  8:02:54:08
1991  A Chance Robert McNulty 9:22:59:35
1993  A Silver Bullet  John DeLaura  8:23:09:06
1995  1 Merlin Dan Sinclair  8:22:41:48
1997  III Ralphie Jerry Montgomery 7:00:15:51
1999  II  Grand Illusion James McDowell  7:08:40:10
2001 4 Bull Seth Radow 8:01:01:08
2003 2 Alta Vita Bill Turpin 7:12:20:29
2005 2 Rosebud Roger Sturgeon 6:08:45:05 *
2007 4 Reinrag2 Tom Garnier 6:14:39:33

* - Record

CLEAN SWEEPS
(First to finish, first in class, first on overall corrected time)

Year  Boat Owner/Skipper Elapsed Time Corr. Time
1936  Dorade James Flood  13:07:20:04 11:03:29:44
1971  Windward Passage Mark Johnson 9:09:06:48* 9:05:34:22
1991  Chance Robert McNulty 10:08:59:35 9:22:34:13
1993  Silver Bullet John DeLaura 9:09:11:17 8:23:09:06


ALL-WOMEN TEAMS
(Skippers noted)

  • Concubine, Terry Clapp, 1979.
  • Antara, Bonnie Gibson, 1993.
  • Antara, Bonnie Gibson, 1995.
  • Bay Wolf, Linda Elias/Betty Sherman, 1997.
  • Pegasus, Linda Newland, 1997.
  • Illusion, Sally Lindsay Honey, 2005.
  • Charmed Life, Patricia Garfield/Diane Murray (doublehanded), 2005.

CLOSEST FINISHES (FIRST TO FINISH)
  • 1973  Ragtime d. Windward Passage, 4 minutes 31 seconds
  • 1965  Ticonderoga d. Stormvogel, 5 minutes 48 seconds
  • 1936  Dorade d. Circe, 13 minutes, 55 seconds
  • 1989  Silver Bullet d. Blondie, 16 minutes 40 seconds
  • 1977  Merlin d. Drifter, 17 minutes 41 seconds
50 FASTEST FINISHES

  Boat Owner/Skipper Year Time*
1. Morning Glory Hasso Plattner 2005 6:16:04:11
2. Pyewacket 4 Roy E. Disney 2005 6:18:32:25
3. Genuine Risk Randall Pittman 2005 6:22:02:35
4. Pyewacket 5 Roy P. Disney/Gregg Hedrick 2007 7:01:11:56
5. Magnitude 80 Doug Baker 2005 7:03:02:57
6. Windquest Doug DeVos 2005 7:05:58:03
7. Pyewacket 3 Roy E. Disney 1999 7:11:41:27
8. Magnitude Doug Baker 1999 7:13:37:07
9. Pyewacket 2 Roy P. Disney 1997 7:15:24:40
10. Pegasus 77 Philippe Kahn 2003 7:16:31:17
11. Zephryus IV Bob McNeil/John Parrish 1999 7:16:34:43
12. Front Runner Lou Grasso/Craig Lyons 1999 7:16:51:45
13. Pegasus Philippe Kahn 1999 7:17:51:20
14. Magnitude 80 Doug Baker 2007 7:19:08:10
15. Cheval Hal Ward 1997 7:20:23:05
16. Pyewacket 3 Roy E. Disney 2003 7:20:48:55
17. Victoria Mike Campbell 1997 7:21:44:54
18. Luna Barba Anthony Sessions 1997 8:01:14:45
19. Pegasus 73 Philippe Kahn 2001 8:02:34:03
20. Grand Illusion James McDowell 1999 8:02:52:27
21. Merlin Alliance Syndicate 1997 8:03:25:03
22. Pyewacket 3 Roy E. Disney 2001 8:03:36:58
23. Chance Bob McNulty 2001 8:05:08:24
24. Scout Spirit Bill Turpin 2005 8:05:29:53
25. Medicine Man Bob Lane 1997 8:06:31:00
26. Beecom Isao Mita 2005 8:07:15:12
27. Merlin Bill Lee 1977 8:11:01:45
28. Merlin Nick Frazee 1981 8:11:02:31
29. Drifter Harry Moloschco 1977 8:11:19:26
30. Merlin Donn Campion 1987 8:12:00:40
31. Silver Bullet John DeLaura 1989 8:12:50:35
32. Blondie Pat Farrah 1989 8:13:07:15
33. Drumbeat Don Ayres 1987 8:13:10:15
34. Pegasus 52 Philippe Kahn 2005 8:13:14:13
35. Taxi Dancer Mitchell Rouse 1989 8:13:14:17
36. Mongoose Paul Simonsen 1989 8:13:27:21
37. Pandemonium William Packer Jr. 1987 8:13:43:38
38. Cheval 88 Steve Popovich 1999 8:13:47:14
39. Medicine Man Bob Lane 2005 8:13:49:45
40. Blondie Robert McNulty 1987 8:13:51:18
41. Hotel California John Wintersteen 1987 8:13:53:30
42. Pyewacket Roy Disney 1987 8:13:59:06
43. Chance Robert McNulty 1989 8:14:46:18
44. Christine Fred Preiss 1981 8:14:47:37
45. Citius Pacific Marine synd. 1987 8:15:16:36
46. Medicine Man Bob Lane 1999 8:15:24:12
47. Kathmandu Joe Jaconi 1997 8:15:27:40
48. Medicine Man Bob Lane 2003 8:15:42:47
49. Mirage Jim Ryley 1997 8:15:44:44
50. Prima 68 Rod Muir 1987 8:15:49:04

*---Days, hours, minutes, seconds

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