(07-30-2007) - HONOLULU---A Pyewacket crew posed with its third Barn Door in the last six Transpacific Yacht Races to Hawaii, and Transpac Commodore Al Garnier handed the King Kalakaua perpetual and Governor of Hawaii take-home trophies to his brother Tom, skipper of Reinrag2, the overall winner on handicap time, but Friday night's awards affair was not the total tale of the 44th Transpac by far. Even as the hardware and native Hawaiian-carved prizes were distributed, four of the 73 starters were still racing, five others had retired and two---a very thirsty Locomotion and a battered but upbeat Traveler---had just blown in,bringing relief to friends and family that they had made it at all.
Several veteran navigators agreed it was the weirdest Transpac for wind conditions in memory, not the usual pick-the-best-southern-route-under-the-Pacific High, hook-up-the-chute-and-fly drill, but a frantic search for breeze through a maze of pockets of light or little wind. John Jourdane, the ocean racing author who sailed on Bob Lane's Medicine Man from Long Beach, said, "I've done 25 Pacific crossings and this was the most unusual." In general, the various types of boats took two more days to sail the 2,225 nautical miles than they normally would. -- Rich Roberts
Division winners: Division 1 - Magnitude 80 (Andrews 80), Doug Baker; Division 2 - Samba Pa Ti (Transpac 52), John Kilroy Jr.; Division 3 - Denali (Nelson/Marek 70), William McKinley; Division 4 - Reinrag2 (J/125), Tom Garnier; Division 50/52 - Kokopelli 2 (Santa Cruz 52), S.A. (Chip) Megeath; Division 5 - Rancho Deluxe (Swan 45), Mike Diepenbrock; Aloha A - Between the Sheets (Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman; Aloha B - 1. Cirrus (Standfast 40), William D. Myers; Multihull - LoeReal (Jeanneau 60 trimaran). Complete results: http://www.transpacificyc.org/
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