If they cant have group meetings and such, I dont think theyre going to want us in there with our boats. Since 2009, it has been restricted to manual power only sailing yachts. Look for the latest information to be posted on the website, with the highlights distributed in the, Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race Collecting the Bling. See overall results here: https://www.jibeset.net/show.php?RR=JACKY_T007588480&DOC=r201&TYP=html. Copyright 2023. The Transpacific Yacht Club takes preparation and safety seriously, and held aPre-Race Seminaron November 9th to provide attendees with some valuable insights from a panel of experts on how to be ready for this race of a lifetime. On July 7, 2009, Alfa Romeo II beat the Morning Glory record for best day's run set in the 2005 race, by sailing 399 nautical miles (459mi; 739km) in 24 hours. In total back to the $70 for DH single race entry as was the case in 2022 if you get a t-shirt for skipper and crew.We are hoping this approach will stabilize our finances a bit and cut down on waste as often t-shirts get printed only never to be claimed. I had to cross the finish line! Theres some other alternatives. However, because she must use "stored power"[12] (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 the "Merlin Trophy". You are using an out of date browser. Therefore, Kyle Vanderspeks Hobie 33 Aloha claimed elapsed, class, and overall honors. I know a bit about the race as I've been a SSS competitor since '95, past commodore, etc. The awards ceremony in the traditional manner potentially could not be held., In summary, were moving forward with planning; we expect to run the race. I was no longer alone! I was about to quit the race and detour to another port for repair, but I changed my mind because of the support from everyone. Thirty-one singlehanders, who hailed from Seattle to Los Angeles, started that first SSS TransPac. FYI not sure how yall got this wrong, but Cliff Shaw was not sailing a Gemini it was a Crowther 10M Also, it should be noted that Rainbow corrected out to first overall, above Aloha, if you score multihulls and monohulls together. 1987 Results. The Santa Cruz 50/52 fleet is one of the long-standing rivalry classes. 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. There is a video available now on YouTube that can help those unable to attend to tune in on the information presented, as well as act as a reference resource for those that did attend to remind them of the material. If you are registering as DH, you will be asked if you want a t-shirt for your crew. Race t-shirts have been a long-standing tradition at the SSS and we dont want to eliminate that. Finishing in a squall that night was the smallest boat in the fleet, Falk Meissners Olson 25 Shark on Bluegrass. The Ocean Race 2023 leg 3: Capetown to Itaja, Brazil. Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. Theyre currently under a 14-day quarantine restriction for anybody arriving from out of the area, which is pretty strict. Change could bring a new set of possibilities and problems. To all the children Ive met while sailing in remote locations: you can do the same. We are always learning and always sharing knowledge. There is a lot of value in having all the boats get together. Metabiota has ideas. The warm trade winds in the West Indies were calling; time to go sailing. The Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race had been scheduled to run in summer 2020. Callus your mind through pain and suffering.. Started in 1906 by Clarence W. Macfarlane and hosted by Los Angeles Yacht Club, it is one of yachting's premier offshore races and attracts entrants from all over the world. With the liferaft and abandon ship bags prepared, Sea Wisdom and I had to limp across the finished line. On the floor, I've fallen and can't get up. Go for the uncommon. (This article, written by Dobbs Davis, appeared in the most recent edition of Seahorse Magazine, photo courtesy of Sharon Green, Ultimate Sailing). 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. 2023 Scuttlebutt Sailing News. Heres the webcam in Hanalei where we can see you arrive! Morning Glory was the scratch boat when it led a five-boat assault on the record for monohulls. So, thats a wrap all thats left are a few more Tree Times, culminating in the awards ceremony this Saturday. This registration will be good for this seminar and all following seminars in the series. In 1977, the yacht Merlin, designed by Bill Lee, set an elapsed time record of 8 days, 11 hours, 1 minute. 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. 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. A few hours later I discovered the rudder had dropped an inch. All of us get excited when brilliant minds go to work on creating new ideas and even new spaces for the sport to grow into. 2003 Results. https://jibeset.net/JACKY000.php?RG=T00134165, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvceqhrTorG9D44EQZFGVEPI2YVQQykksT, https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/hanalei-bay-resort. There are racers who would like to do both. Surprise! Two of my fellow competitors cheered me across the finish line, even though it was well past midnight. He and his wife Darlene spent the rest of the day cutting the spinnaker away. At the time of registration, Skippers of doublehanded boats shall self-certify that they and their crew occupy the same household or social bubble. But Marissa and Chris Neely on Avocet saw a weather window and jumped, making their first big offshore passage the wrong way from Santa Barbara to San Francisco and loving itmostly. This loss ends up being subsidized by members racing singlehanded and single race entrants. Additionally, that impacts the race committee. That man was Clarence MacFarlane,still engaged with his brainchild but entrusting the leg work to an old friend known for getting thingsdone. It can also all happen to you. 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. 2021 Singlehanded Trans Pacific Yacht Race, SHTP 2021 VIDEOS: got one? The current list ranges from Steve Campo's BAZINGA, a Hobie 33, to Manouch Moshayedi's RIO100 to three MOD70 trimarans that will be looking for speeds in the high thirties. Unless it was a perfect year I don't see the ORMA 60s record falling to that boat. 1987 Results. 2013 Results. I was awarded the Perseverance Trophy for this insurmountable challenge to get across the finish line. So you won't follow the SHTP because it doesn't have multihulls, got it. As we approach the end of 2022, weve been working on our financial plans for 2023. Posted February 28, 2023 | Kimball Livingston, Transpac Media, Posted February 24, 2023 | Dobbs Davis, Transpac Media, Posted February 14, 2023 | Dobbs Davis, Transpac Media |, Posted December 29, 2022 | Dobbs Davis, Transpac Media, Posted December 20, 2022 | Dobbs Davis, Transpac Media. Moving the SHTP from even years to odd years seems like a good idea. In the solitude of the vast ocean, there was an exultant thought that peeled back the veneer of my delusions. 1999 Results. During registration you will be asked as skipper if you want a t-shirt. Discussion, questions (and hopefully some answers) for the 2021 race to Hanalei. 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! We will be coveringRigging/Sails/Repairs at SeaYou can register here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvceqhrTorG9D44EQZFGVEPI2YVQQykksTThis registration will be good for this seminar and all following seminars in the series.Full seminar calendar:Dec 14th Power Requirements/Electricity Budgeting/CommunicationsJan 11th Rigging/Sails/Repairs at SeaFeb 8th Returning the boat (By sail or freighter)March 8th Provisioning/Food, Water & MedicineApril 12th Anchoring & Satellite ComsApril 15th Emergency Sea Trails Cruise InMay 10th Weather & Race Strategy. Surprise! Thats when I learned of the outpouring of support coming from Hanalei Bay. 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. We believe that this will be a significant upgrade to the quality and variety of apparel Transpacific Yacht Club can offer its members, boat owners and crews.. 2009 Results. I also knew I wouldnt be able to raise it up in the middle of the ocean with relentless wind and waves. Although the hull actually read more, It was March, and Id made it through another Maine winter. 2009 Results. In even-numbered years the Pacific Cup race starts out of San Francisco and is run by the Pacific Cup Yacht Club. In total back to the $70 for DH single race entry as was the case in 2022 if you get a t-shirt for skipper and crew. 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. Kyle is an example to us all. Please join us for the next Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race seminar on Wednesday,Jan 11that 7:30 via zoom. Einfach Lieben!!! They dont want you to leave your hotel or home. Congrats to Berkeley YC Staff Commodore Falk Meissner . Now on port tack for the first time in days, I started looking for any unusual behavior in the boat. My heart swelled. Tags: Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race. This is how it will work in Jibeset: You sign up for season membership at $170, either during your registration for 3BF or later. The SSS encompasses everyone from a first-time, double-handed sailor to veterans of the Singlehanded TransPacific (SHTP) yacht race. Transpacific Yacht Club (TPYC) is proud to announce a new partnership with LW Regatta Gear for all Transpac related apparel and merchandise. Cliff Shaw on the Crowther 10M Rainbow came in midday on Monday. If you are not planning to race and would like to volunteer, please contact. I let it all out, like a kid. Hed had it up for 10 days straight! The MOD70s are doing the crewed Transpac, different boat. But finish he did, in the middle of the night. There are active forum people that are going but just haven't chimed in yet. JavaScript is disabled. However, for me, there is no greater joy than an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to wake up to a different sunrise. Next year will see the 52nd edition of a race that is famous for delivering a downwind sleigh ride across the Pacific. We are always learning and always sharing knowledge. In 1995, multihulls were invited to participate for the first time, but not eligible for the Barn Door trophy. 1985 Results. 1981 Results. Mission Bay Yacht Club proud!. He provided the following account of his journey: After 18 days at the ocean alone, I grew as a human being with newfound gratitude. Subsequently, the upper bearing of my main rudder had been redesigned and rebuilt completely in metal. If you register as a single race entrant, the same rules will apply. But thats only good to about a 10-minute window. [4], The 2019 edition of 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. Although I think the TP record is held by a stretched 60. Look for the latest information to be posted on the website, with the highlights distributed in the e-Newsletter. Fermin buoy in San Pedro, California and ending off Diamond Head in Hawaii, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560mi; 4,121km). We could have a no-race committee finish and a self-managed finish line where individuals record their time. The start of the 22nd Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race from California to Hawaii on June 19, 2021. If restrictions in Hawaii are not lifted with regards to the 14-day quarantine period, I personally see this as a big problem because people who come to greet the racers are likely to not want to go over there and spend 14 days sitting in a hotel room or house. Stewart Jr. 12:15:51:18, 1949 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:10:13:09 *, 1951 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 10:16:44:33, 1955 Morning Star Richard S. Rheem 9:15:05:10 *, 1957 Barlovento Frank Hooykaas 11:13:02:44, 1961 Sirius II Howard F. Ahmanson 10:10:38:35, 1965 Ticonderoga Robert Johnson 9:13:51:02 *, 1967 Stormvogel Cornelius Bruynzeel 11:14:10:56, 1969 Blackfin Kenneth DeMeuse 9:10:21:00 *, 1971 Windward Passage Mark Johnson 9:09:06:48 *, 1973 Ragtime Ragtime Syndicate 10:14:00:40, 1983 Charley Nolan K. Bushnell 9:01:53:48, 1985 Swiftsure III Nick/Robert Frazee 10:19:21:47, 1989 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 8:12:50:35, 1993 Silver Bullet John DeLaura 9:09:11:17, 1997 Pyewacket Roy Pat Disney (son of Roy E. Disney) 7:15:24:40 *, 1999 Pyewacket Roy E. Disney 7:11:41:27 *, 2005 Morning Glory Hasso Plattner 6:16:04:11*, 2009 Alfa Romeo Neville Crichton 5:14:36:20*, 2015 Rio 100 Manouch Moshayedi 7:05:34:07, 2017 Rio 100 Manouch Moshayedi 6:17:09:09, This page was last edited on 20 August 2022, at 18:50. With incredible sportsmanship and camaraderie, they are offering help to encourage me to get to the final line not so far away.. Desperation, euphoria and fear competed for equal time throughout the voyage. I reduced sail, locked the rudder on centerline and let the Hydrovane do the steering. July 8th, large gathering restrictions will be lifted. Tears started again as I thought about the whole experience and everyone who had supported me. We are grand because we are undeterred by our ephemeral presence, because we are bold enough to exercise our will. My diary from that day reads: SHTP sailors and race committee suggested that, once I crossed the finish line, they would help me diagnose the rudder problem, and even offered to have a flotilla of boats to guide me from Hanalei Bay to Nawiliwili. Also finishing on July 4 were Reed Bernhard on the J/109 Mountain, and toward sunset, Jim Quanci on the Cal 40 Green Buffalo. A singlehanded (edit:Transpacific)race to Japan has been done. It depends on the boat types. 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. If Fiasco was too long for you to finish, or if you want to follow up a great Fiasco, this is your race! The incredible singlehanded sailors! Robert Cleveland and Jan Passion are correct that Rainbow is a Crowther not a Gemini. It was an ultimate test of mental toughness and seamanship, and more than once I was reminded of David Goggins Calloused Mind, in which he writes: You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. The first starts of the 2023 Transpac are just around the corner, and our 55 entries prove that there is no one right boat for Transpac. If you race DH and want a t-shirt for your crew, youre going to have to pay extra for it. Meanwhile, you can follow his incredible story as told through his race journal on Facebook. Ive used it a few times. The 2008 documentary Morning Light is a film about the 2007 Disney-sponsored competitors in the race. Like this year you will have the option to donate (ie, dont want a t-shirt) which saves us the money to buy and print you a t-shirt and we will add that savings to our fund to support local youth sailing programs. I cried because of all I learned about what it takes to be human, to love, to be loved, to have gratitude, to strive to stay alive, to figure things out regardless of challenges, to find joy in adventures, and to lift away hopelessness. How might probability inform policy on pandemics? Spaulding Marine Centers Boatworks 101 is an innovative new apprenticeship program for young apprentices who will spend nine months training at Spaulding Marine Center and six months rotating through partner-employer boatyards throughout the Bay Area. In these pages quite a bit of emphasis is placed on new technologies and designs, and the influence they have. Will that be lifted? 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. Alumnus Will Lees sailing experience has taken him all over the world, and he recently sailed 2,200 milesby himself. Transpac Race; News & Media; Results & Trophies; Transpac YC; Gear; Archives; Contact; Tahiti Race; Race Entries; BOAT NAME TYPE OWNER HOME COUNTRY; Artemis: Botin 65 Raymond Paul USA BadPak: Botin 56 Tom Holthus USA .