The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. Fermin buoy in San Pedro, California and ending off Diamond Head in Hawaii, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560 mi; 4,121 km). In even-numbered years the Pacific Cup race starts out of San Francisco and is run by the Pacific Cup Yacht Club . Started in 1906 by Clarence W. Macfarlane and hosted by the Los Angeles Yacht Club , it is one of yachting's premier offshore races and attracts entrants from all over the world. The race is organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club .
12-564: Transpac may refer to: Transpacific Yacht Race Transpac 52 , sailing yacht The original name of Air Caledonie Transpac (cable system) , one of a series of Pacific Ocean submarine communications cables Transpac (data network) , French public data network from the late 1970s to the 1990s TransPAC2 , part of the NSF’s International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program Topics referred to by
24-468: A maxZ86 from Germany . Morning Glory was the scratch boat when it led a five-boat assault on the record for monohulls. She finished the race in 6 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 11 seconds to win "the Barn Door" trophy, a slab of carved koa wood traditionally awarded to the monohull with the fastest elapsed time. In 1995, multihulls were invited to participate for the first time, but not eligible for
36-471: A means of establishing his seamanship credentials with Quint. The 2008 documentary Morning Light is a film about the 2007 Disney-sponsored competitors in the race. The Transpac Honolulu Race Elapsed Time Record Trophy is awarded to the Record Holder for the fastest elapsed time by a monohull yacht in the race. The list of Los Angeles to Honolulu Record Holders is: The Barn Door Trophy
48-401: A new race record for monohulls; the multihull record of 5 days, 9 hours, 18 minutes, set by Bruno Peyron in the 1997 race, remains. However, because she must use "stored power" (a diesel engine) to move, Alfa Romeo II, sailing in the "unlimited" class, was not eligible for the traditional "Barn Door" trophy, but instead was the inaugural winner of a new trophy dedicated by Trisha Steele, called
60-416: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Transpacific Yacht Race The race is famous for fast downwind sailing under spinnaker in the trade winds . In 1969, French sailing legend Éric Tabarly shadowed the race with his Pen Duick IV , one of the world's first trimarans competitive in all wind conditions. He originally intended to enter
72-515: The Morning Glory record for best day's run set in the 2005 race, by sailing 399 nautical miles (459 mi; 739 km) in 24 hours. The next two days she broke her own best-day record by sailing 420 nautical miles (480 mi; 780 km) and 431 nautical miles (496 mi; 798 km). First to finish the 2009 Transpac, Alfa Romeo II set a Transpac race elapsed-time record of 5 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, 20 seconds. This represents
84-526: The " Merlin Trophy". However from 2019 yachts eligible for this trophy must use manual power only In the double-handed division, Pegasus 50, sailed by Philippe Kahn and Mark Christensen, set a new record of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds. They pioneered use of an iPhone , with Fullpower -MotionX GPS technology. In the 1975 movie Jaws , the character Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss , claims that he has "crewed three Transpacs" as
96-503: The Barn Door trophy. Steve Fosset set a new race record in 1995 on his 60' trimaran Lakota , of 6 days 16 hours 7 minutes 16 seconds. Two years later in 1997, this record was broken by the 86' catamaran Explorer with a time of 5 days 9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds. 2017 saw Howard Enloe and his boat the Mighty Merloe smash the record by over 25 hours making the trip in just over 4 days. On July 7, 2009, Alfa Romeo II beat
108-505: The race but was unaware that multihulls were not invited. Having started with all other participants, Tabarly and his crew set an unofficial record of 8 days and 13 hours, almost a day ahead of official winner and record-setter Blackfin . In 2013, the fully crewed monohull, Dorade , won first overall, making it the oldest boat in the fleet to win and a 2-time winner, having won the Transpac in 1936, 77 years prior. The 2019 edition of
120-401: The race, its fiftieth, saw the sinking of a yacht for the first time in its history, when the 68 foot mono-hulled sailboat Santa Cruz 70 OEX suffered rudder damage and an uncontrollable water intrusion. The crew was rescued by another racing boat. This edition also saw the greatest number of skippers dropping out of the race. Ragtime finished first in 1973 and again in 1975. In 1977,
132-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Transpac . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transpac&oldid=1183624425 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732780761622144-444: The yacht Merlin, designed by Bill Lee , set an elapsed time record of 8 days, 11 hours, 1 minute. This record would stand for 20 years. Ending Merlin's record, in the 1997 race a new monohull elapsed time record of 7 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes, and 27 seconds was set by Roy E. Disney 's Pyewacket , a Santa Cruz 70 ultralight also designed by Bill Lee. The record fell once again in 2005, with Hasso Plattner 's Morning Glory ,
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