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Transpac Race Photo & Video Packages

Reserve your space for Transpac Race Official Photography packages from Sharon Green and Ultimate Sailing, and Official Videography packages from 1080 media TV.

AT START AND FINISH

Let the official Transpac Photo and Video teams make Transpac 2021 an adventure you will long remember.

Transpac Race Strategy and Tactics Seminar by Stan Honey

World Class navigator and multiple Transpac winner Stan Honey provided his thoughts on Transpac in a recent webinar held for entries in this year’s race, including a detailed analysis of the race in several segments: getting off the start, leaving the coast, lining up in the correct lane to get west, and strategies coming into the islands and making the final approach to the finish at Diamond Head.

There is a lot of valuable information here, not just for this race, but tips for finding relevant resources to help navigate any ocean race.

This seminar was introduced by Heritage Sponsor Whittier Trust.

The Passing of Chris Welsh

Christopher Aiden Welsh
March 6, 1963 - March 15, 2021

You were a flashing lighthouse light in a world often blanketed with storms. May you rest in peace.

This past week we lost a true legend with the sudden passing of Chris Welsh. A man of many passions, who accomplished more in a week than most in a year, he was a modern day Leonardo da Vinci — in business, on the water, and in the air.

On the water, he was the proud owner, restorer, and skipper of Ragtime, a Spencer 65 which he raced to overall wins in The LA-Tahiti race and a division win in the Sydney-Hobart, along with many Transpacs and races in his home ports of San Francisco Bay and Newport Beach. Chris purchased Cheyenne, the one-time Jules Verne record-breaking Playstation, from Steve Fossett, to continue his underwater exploration, using Cheyenne as the mothership for his submarine project, Pentarius, dedicated to exploring the five oceans and committed to doing environmental and scientific research. His most recent adventure was the recommissioning of L’Hydroptere, the speed-breaking trimaran, alongside his partner Gabriel Terrasse, who will continue the project.

Stan Honey Navigation & Strategy Seminar: Thinking Through the Transpac Race

Transpacific Yacht Club invites all skippers and crew registered for the 2021 Transpac Race to a Zoom Webinar hosted on Transpac Race navigation and strategy, presented by Stan Honey.

Saturday, May 8, 2021
9:00 am to 11:00 am PDT
ZOOM WEBINAR (Access information will be sent out to race entries via email)

Transpac 51 welcomes GoodEnergy, its 60th entry

Los Angeles, CA – The 63-foot Reichel/Pugh-designed GoodEnergyco-skippered by George Hershman and Mark Comings is now the 60^th entry in this year’s 51^st edition of the Transpac, the Transpacific Yacht Club’s 2225-mile ocean racing classic from Los Angeles to Honolulu. GoodEnergy joins a strong fleet of similar high-performance monohulls along with a diverse array of many other boat types who will be starting in the race in three waves beginning on July 13^th, 2021.

ORDER NOW: Official 2021 Transpac Reyn Spooner Shirts

In 1886 Hawaii’s King Kalākaua invited the yachtsmen of the US mainland to race across the Pacific to his island paradise. 2021 marks the 51st running of the Transpac race and Reyn Spooner is honored to be the official apparel sponsor. Our exclusively designed and hand painted scenic print commemorates key elements of the transpacific course features notable boats that have participated in the race over the years. Few races have the cultural heritage of an event started by royalty over a century ago and enriched by the participation of thousands of sailors since.

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Scott Abrams, Clarence MacFarlane’s Grandson, racing his last Transpac

Clarence MacFarlane is considered to be the founder of Transpacific Yacht Race because he helped organize the first “Transpac” in June 1906, and he skippered his own schooner La Paloma in that race. Commodore MacFarlane would be proud of his grandson, Scott Abrams, who is sailing his 16^th and last Transpac this year. It will be Scott’s last Transpac because Scott passed away last November after a long and valiant battle with Leukemia.

Whittier Trust – Heritage Sponsor of Transpac 51

For almost 100 years, Transpac and Whittier Trust have shared a commitment to meeting challenges. It was in 1923 that Max Whittier entered his family’s 107-foot war surplus yawl Pointsettia in the Transpac. They were met with the challenge of old, worn-out sails that failed when the wind blew hard, and no engine for when the wind quit.

Nonetheless, the family persevered with a commitment to offshore sailing, enjoying the sport “not because its easy, but because its hard,” as another sailor, John F. Kennedy, once said… OK, JFK was describing space travel, but you get the idea.