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Notice of Race published, first entry is John Raymont’s Fast Exit II

The Transpacific YC is pleased to announce that the entry process is now open for the 2023 edition of the Los Angeles to Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Race. Known as the Transpac, this will be the 52^nd edition of this classic 2025-mile ocean race held biennially since 1906.

The Notice of Race (NOR) detailing the terms and conditions of the event is now available online at www.transpacyc.com. The race is open to entry for offshore-capable racing and cruising monohull yachts from 30 to 100 feet in length that also meet other criteria listed in the NOR.

Transpac 2023: Save the Dates

Los Angeles, CA – The Board of Directors of the Transpacific Yacht Club are pleased to announce that start dates are now chosen for the 52nd biennial running of the Los Angeles to Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Race, better known as the Transpac. The first edition of this race was run in 1906 and it is one of the longest and oldest among the world’s classic ocean races, with a start line at Point Fermin in San Pedro and the finish line lying 2220 miles away at Diamond Head in Honolulu.

For the 2023 edition three start dates have been chosen: the first is Tuesday, June 27th 2023, the second Thursday June 29th and the last will be on Saturday July 1st. Once divided into divisions, entries will start in a trend from slowest to fastest in order to have more boats together on the race course and come closer to finishing together at Diamond Head.

The Official 2021 Transpac Race Video

Cliff Webb and his team at 1080Media did a fabulous job with this descriptive story of this year’s 51st race to Hawaii. The storytelling is all the more remarkable considering neither he nor his team were allowed to travel from their base in the UK to California or Hawaii during the time of the race due to Covid restrictions… so a scramble of the media teams on site at the starts and finishes, along with footage provided by the racing teams, helped to piece together this great tale of a great race.

Final Aloha to Roby Bessent

Transpacific Yacht Club is saddened to report the passing in fall, 2021 of our steadfast and long-serving member of the Board of Directors, Roby Bessent. Roby was 88 years old, a marine surveyor who for many years served as Chief Safety Inspector for the Los Angeles-Honolulu Race, one of the most vital functions a race officer can serve. Roby was a 30-year member of TPYC and was in Honolulu for the finishes of every Transpac race over the last 20 years. In accordance with his wishes, his ashes will be spread near the finish line at Diamond Head after the next Transpac race.

Transpac 51 – An interesting but successful and fast year

Having “interesting” races in the 115-year history of Transpac is not unusual. In the 51 times this race has been run since 1906, there have been numerous circumstances that had an effect on most if not all competitors.

However, the great majority of these were related to natural events, such as passing hurricanes, unusual positions and strengths of the Pacific High, or effects related to El Nino. Another was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan that left lots of floating debris throughout the North Pacific, affecting numerous entries in the 2013, 2015 and even the 2017 races with impact damage to hulls and appendages.