(07-24-2007) - (July 23, 2007) The first two times Reinrag2 sailed the Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii, Al Garnier was on the boat enjoying the fun with the family. This year he's on the docks greeting every boat that finishes the race, whatever time of day or night, because that's what Transpacific Yacht Club commodores do. Late Sunday night at the Hawaii Yacht Club that duty included Reinrag2, his brother Tom's J/125 from Portland, Ore. "Al said before the race, 'My dream would be to present the big trophy to you,' " Tom Garnier said. And so it will be. The little 41-foot boat-that-could upstaged all 73 starters big and small to win first place overall on corrected handicap time. Al will hand the Governor of Hawaii trophy to Tom at the awards dinner Friday night. "The gods must still be crazy," Tom said.
Garnier spelled backwards is Reinrag . . . or vice versa. The 2 means "squared," but let's not go there. What's important is that even with handicaps aside, Reinrag2's daily mileage logs late in the race surpassed those of almost all other boats except Pyewacket and Magnitude 80 twice its size. Doug Baker's Mag 80, meanwhile, finished an hour before dawn Monday to clinch overall honors in Division 1 ahead of Pyewacket. Mag 80's elapsed time was 7 days 19 hours 8 minutes 10 seconds, second only to Pyewacket's 7:01:11:56. And there was still considerable action at sea with a second match race between Cal 40s heating up to the level of the ongoing joust of Transpac 52s. Both were so tight that in each case the boat behind was ahead of its rival on corrected time---Steve Calhoun's Cal 40 Psyche over Don Grind's Far Far and the Morning Light rookies against John Kilroy Jr.'s Samba Pa Ti pros. The TP52s should finish around midnight Wednesday, the Cal 40s the next day. -- Read on for the complete report:
http://tinyurl.com/yspvqb
* Look for the ETAs from the yachts as they near Hawaii, the actual Finish Reports, and then the Daily Standings at http://www.transpacificyc.org
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