The waving so-long to friends and family, the light beat out to Catalina, the coast disappearing astern with nothing but the ocean and the lure of tropical paradise ahead. Bill Stanges Westsail 32 Hula finished in the morning with a spinnaker wrapped around the forestay. The race finishes in Hanalei Bay on the north shore of Kauai. 1983 Results. If you are not planning to race and would like to volunteer, please contact racechair@sfbaysss.org for more information.All entries are required to have a 2023 PHRF certificate from YRA or BAMA (NOR 4.3) Be sure to register with the actual name(s) of the person(s) who will be aboard (NOR 6.1/6.2).Register now at https://jibeset.net/JACKY000.php?RG=T00134165Thank you for racing with the SSS, and we look forward to seeing you on the water.Richard, 2023 SSS Race Co-Chair, 12/21/22Racers;I announced this at Saturdays annual awards meeting and posted it on the forum yesterday, but want to make sure that it reaches all members. It was this mistakefailing to untie the read more, After four long months poised to spring into action at the first sign of the right weather window, Spindrift has announced that its record-breaking circumnavigation attempt wont be possible this year. If you are registering as DH, you will be asked if you want a t-shirt for your crew. Look for the latest information to be posted on the website, with the highlights distributed in the e-Newsletter. However, true to our roots as a SINGLEhanded organization, going forward t-shirts will be free to skippers (SH or DH) only. Dorade James Flood 13:07:20:04, 1939 (S.Fran.) And boats may not be sequestered at all at the CYC docks. Please join us for the full season. 11/30/222023 Race schedule.Registration for TBF will open on Jibeset soon! Yes, Einfach Lieben und Leben! If they cant have group meetings and such, I dont think theyre going to want us in there with our boats. The new Dufour 37 slots in just above the 32-foot baby of the family, and it replaces the previous Dufour 360 from three years ago. Between the time we last posted on Lectronic Latitude on Friday, July 3, and this morning, all 11 boats finished the 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race. Eric Taberly won it in 1969 on Pen Duick V. SF to Japan he finished 11 days ahead of the next competitor . By Christine Weaver | July 7, 2021 | Hanalei, HI | 14 Between the time we last posted on 'Lectronic Latitude on Friday, July 3, and this morning, all 11 boats finished the 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race. 1999 Results. Eleven boats and he was number ONE. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. All 11 skipper in the 2021 Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race which started June 19 from California have arrived in Hawaii. The first, the 2019 Great Pacific Longitudinal Race (LongPac), was a 400-mile singlehanded race to longitude 126 degrees 40 minutes and back. Congrats to all! The San Francisco SSS offers events where singlehanded and short-handed sailors can share knowledge, gain experience, and find a structured environment to expand their horizons. Annual membership will continue at $170/year and single race entry (SH or DH) will be $50/race. The departure luncheon, which weve held at CYC in the past, and sometimes at restaurants in the area, could be impacted if we still have COVID restrictions. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. General Procedures and Practices for Race Participants. 1981 Results. After two years of preparation, I thought I knew how challenging this race would be, but I underestimated how mentally difficult it would be to complete the passage in solitude and to cross an imaginary finish line at the Hanalei Bay anchorage. 2023 Scuttlebutt Sailing News. Headed by Dona Bertarelli, the Spindrift team has been on a mission to set a read more, In some stunning footage from onboard reporter Antoine Auriol, Boris Herrmann and his team aboard Malizia decided to cut their Code 0 free after it came loose and got tangled in the keel last night. This is acutely the case for members who race doublehanded two t-shirts times eight races quickly exceeds the $170 annual membership fee. [5][6] The crew was rescued by another racing boat. Ten days from today, hell sail back to Hawaii as navigator on the Andrews 63 Medicine Man in the Transpac Race from San Pedro to Honolulu. Dec 14th Power Requirements/Electricity Budgeting/Communications, Feb 8th Returning the boat (By sail or freighter), March 8th Provisioning/Food, Water & Medicine, April 15th Emergency Sea Trails Cruise In. Coming in after dark on the 4th and within several minutes of each other were Brendan Huffman on the Santa Cruz 33 Siren and John Wilkerson on the Express 37 Perplexity. If you race DH and want a t-shirt for your crew, youre going to have to pay extra for it. But not just any kind of sailing. Be the uncommon of the uncommon. At the time of registration, Skippers of doublehanded boats shall self-certify that they and their crew occupy the same household or social bubble. 2011 Results. The San Francisco SSS offers events where singlehanded and short-handed sailors can share knowledge, gain experience, and find a structured environment to expand their horizons. James Wyllys beautiful Sabre 426 Northern Star arrived in the late afternoon with a very similar wrap, though this one was already doing no good as a sail. Go ahead, post it, Relative Distance Between Boats as Noon Today, 2023 Singlehanded Trans Pacific Yacht Race, If this is your first visit, be sure to And we did it. FYI not sure how yall got this wrong, but Cliff Shaw was not sailing a Gemini it was a Crowther 10M If you register as a single race entrant, the same rules will apply. Despite his troubles (What didnt break? he quipped), hell be declared the overall (monohull) winner of the 22nd edition of this race from San Francisco Bay to Hanalei Bay. Results. Messano and co-skipper Bill Durant are excited to put the improved Deception through her paces this summer, particularly because the crew consists largely of the Messano and Durant families. Sailors Help Improve Data Collection on Floating Marine Debris, Spaulding Marine Center Invites You to Help Launch Boatworks 101, Prada Americas Cup World Series Starts Today. 1989 Results. The MOD70s are doing the crewed Transpac, different boat. https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/podcast/episode-65-david-herrigel-loving-singlehanded-transpac/, And be sure to mark your calendar for the 23rd Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race . The plan is to sequester boats on June 18. 1991 Results. Year Boat Owner/Skipper Time, Transpac Honolulu Race Elapsed Time Record Trophy, "Transpac Race: Casualties in the Pacific >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News", http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/603027/Transpacific-Race%7C, "1936 Transpac victor Dorade wins again in 2013", "First ship sinks in Transpacific Yacht Race", "Trans-Pacific yacht race crew safely rescued by competitor after boat sinks", "Twice a Winner, Restored Ragtime Races in Transpac: A Legend Is Still Fit Enough to Sail Away", "Mighty Merloe and Comanche on race record pace in 2017 TRANSPAC", "URI students appear in Disney's 'Morning Light', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transpacific_Yacht_Race&oldid=1105544445, 1949 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:10:13:09, 1955 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 9:15:05:10, 1971 Windward Passage Mark Johnson 9:09:06:48, 2005 Morning Glory Hasso Plattner 6:16:04:11, 2009 Alfa Romeo Neville Crichton 5:14:36:20, 1923 (S.Barb.) So impressed as always at how much good sportsmanship and camaraderie a bunch of solo sailors display! I'm planning to sail from Haleiwa on Oahu over to Hanalei Bay on ~July 14th to hang out for a bit before heading down the Napali Coast and eventually back to Haleiwa. With that, I changed course back toward Hanalei Bay. Race chair Brian Boschma shared news of the race's future during a Zoom meeting for SSS sailors on December 3. 1983 Results. David is Chair of the 2023 SHTP, has been Commodore of the Singlehanded Sailing Society and is a two-time veteran of the SHTP himself! A singlehanded (edit:Transpacific)race to Japan has been done. Visit MARINE WEATHER UNIVERSITY to learn more about the course offerings available to enhance your sailing, navigating and software knowledge. It can also all happen to you. During the LongPac, I experienced rudder failure when I hit an underwater object at 0200. All rights reserved. Guess he likes that trip! [1], The race is famous for fast downwind sailing under spinnaker in the trade winds.[2]. Therefore, Kyle Vanderspeks Hobie 33 Aloha claimed elapsed, class, and overall honors. Long gone are the days of $5 t-shirts providing free t-shirts to skippers, and their crew for doublehanders, has put a real strain on our finances. Change could bring a new set of possibilities and problems. That morning he had sent the message, 70 miles to go. There are a variety of reasons, but one of the big ones is the cost of supplying t-shirts to all race participants. The start of the race would be June 19, with the startline at CYC in Tiburon. Your options will be no t-shirt ($0) or select a style/size for $20. They have roadblocks on the island, and they check people driving along. It gets this race out of the shadow of the Pacific Cup. Nipping at Alohas heels (on corrected time) was Robb Walkers Cal 40 Nozomi. Singlehanded Transpacific Race That's a Wrap! 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. Eleven entrants made the journey, ranging from an Olson 25 to a J/109. That exhibit symptoms of COVID-19 are directed to stay home and not participate in any activity that may risk the exposure of others. What an accomplishment and only those of you that have done it real understand the challenge!! And why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? I think the first couple races to Hawaii were done like that. (Without satellite tracking in 1978.) Hosted by the Singlehanded Sailing Society, at their Awards Ceremonies Saturday night, the 14 finishers received their coveted TransPac belt buckles, signifying successful completion of their. He said hed heard from a number of the 2020 registrants that they were coming back, with some additional people interested, for a fleet of perhaps 25 sailors. And then of course, we could delay the race to another season.. The smallest entrant is the Olson 25 sailed by Falk Meissner while a J/109 and a Sabre 426 share the fastest rating in the fleet. We could have a no-race committee finish and a self-managed finish line where individuals record their time. The Skipper is the person in-charge of a boat during an event. https://jibeset.net/JACKY000.php?RG=T00134165, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvceqhrTorG9D44EQZFGVEPI2YVQQykksT, https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/hanalei-bay-resort. Multihulls are usually quite scarce in the the SHTP as there are few to compete against. Starting in San Francisco, the 2120 nm course carries the fleet to the finish. This is how it will work in Jibeset: You sign up for season membership at $170, either during your registration for 3BF or later. We are all super proud of you and happy that you fulfilled one of your dreams . If you do a Baja Ha-Ha, or if you did the Nada Ha-Ha because there wasn't an official Baja Ha-Ha this year, be careful, because you may be in for a much longer adventure than you anticipated. But finish he did, in the middle of the night. Hed had it up for 10 days straight! document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Receive emails when 'Lectronic Latitude is updated. 2005 Results. Thank you for considering my request!. Special fist bump to Jim Quanci and Green Buffalo. The Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association, based in Marina del Rey, had planned to run their Shaka Challenge simultaneously with the SHTP, finishing in the same place around the same time, and sharing the awards ceremony in Nawiliwili. Ive had some snafus out there to be sure, and they loom large when theyre read more, When One Wrong Makes a Right Everybody knows youre not supposed to sail up the Pacific Coast! Ive used it a few times. During registration you will be asked as skipper if you want a t-shirt. That is still a possibility. Last and with the most concerning gear failure, Will Lees Hinckley 42 Souwester Competition Sloop Sea Wisdom suffered rudder bearing troubles. The Singlehanded Transpac record is held by Steve Fossett in '98 in an ORMA 60. The first, the 2019 Great Pacific Longitudinal Race (LongPac), was a 400-mile singlehanded race to longitude 126 degrees 40 minutes and back. ID MADE IT! Although the hull actually read more, It was March, and Id made it through another Maine winter. It would imply that the race committee has to go over there two weeks in advance and sit around., Brian explained that although other islands in Hawaii have a system of testing within 72 hours to allow visitors to enter without quarantining, Kauai has tighter restrictions, as their hospital is very small. As always, the 2023 Transpac fleet will feature races within the race. Instead, I tried to stabilize the situation by minimizing any rudder movement. Desperation, euphoria and fear competed for equal time throughout the voyage. To be extra prudent, I slept with my EPIRB next to me and prepared the life raft and abandon ship bags. Morning Glory was the scratch boat when it led a five-boat assault on the record for monohulls. Since 2009, it has been restricted to manual power only sailing yachts. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Receive emails when 'Lectronic Latitude is updated. During registration you will be asked as skipper if you want a t-shirt. Start getting ready for 2023!! If we have to delay again, well have to have a discussion about whether we do races two years in a row to hold the odd year planning. Learn more about the outstanding companies that sponsor Transpac At 12:53:52 local time, in the pitch darkness I heard the SHTP race chair on the VHF: Congratulations Sea Wisdom, you have successfully completed the 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race., Hawaii makes for about as picturesque a finish as they come. Thank you for racing with the SSS, and we look forward to seeing you on the water. All Skippers of doublehanded boats not able to find crew that meet these criteria are encouraged to race singlehanded. The final rules and communications plan will be available near the end of December., Regarding the pandemic, Brian said, On the San Francisco side, we could possibly not have access to the yacht harbor at CYC other than the startline. The next two days she broke her own best-day record by sailing 420 nautical miles (480mi; 780km)[10] and 431 nautical miles (496mi; 798km). The major gear failure on Rainbow was the loss of both weatherfax computers. You simply cannot push it as hard due to waterline length. As skipper you can select donate or a style/size t-shirt, and we either add to our youth sailing fund or the t-shirt is free, respectively. I announced this at Saturdays annual awards meeting and posted it on the forum yesterday, but want to make sure that it reaches all members. I talked to the county administrators today on the phone about it. Jamie had sailed with it that way with no headsail for 700 miles. Congratulations Falk Meissner (Shark on Bluegrass) from the Olson 25 fleet! 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race, https://www.jibeset.net/show.php?RR=JACKY_T007588480&DOC=r201&TYP=html, St. Francis Yacht Club Members to Compete in Tokyo, Get One Month Free at Wayfarer Apartments and Marina, Circumnavigator Ellen MacArthur Navigating the Circular Economy.