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Pied Piper’s Journey

So much of the Transpac experience is not in the race itself, but the journey taken to get to the race.

Jack Jennings and his team on the Santa Cruz 70 Pied Piper had a long journey in this year’s 51st edition of the race, starting in 2019 in Southern California, followed by Portland, Oregon for repairs and modifications, and then down to LA for the start.

Dave Powlison wrote for Sailing World magazine a great article about this journey not only of the boat, but of Jack and the evolution of his crew.

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Back Offshore with Chris Snow and Triumph

Steve Sellinger's Santa Cruz 52 Triumph sailed the 2021 Transpac with the fastest SC52 elapsed time in Transpac history. Hear about sailing professional Chris Snow's first Transpac Race experience from his own perspective on www.thefavoredend.com.

Someone’s tugging on my foot. What the %^&*? It’s my crew mate, Brad Wheeler, and I hear a muffled “You can sleep when you’re dead, Chris, you’re going to want to see this, get up.” I am hearing him through the foam ear plugs I am wearing to muffle the sound of the primary winch that’s 12” over my head, not exactly sure I’m hearing him right. Nevertheless, I slither backwards out of the quarter berth I’m in. It’s hot and sticky down below and I’m shirtless and shoeless, I can smell myself. It’s not good. I poke my head out of the hatch. It’s just barely getting light. Brad’s close by and I give him a nod. I keep my head low to not block the instruments, so the helmsman can see their red glow in the darkness. Astern, to the east, the edges of towering tropical clouds are just becoming visible. Ahead it looks black, scary black. Squall cloud black and that’s not what you want to be sailing toward in this part of the Pacific. I’d only been asleep for a couple hours.

J/125 Nereid’s 2021 Transpac Race

J125, Nereid video logs from the 2021 Transpac Yacht Race from LA to Hawaii.

Pacific High: Sailing Magazine

It was more than just the steady breeze across the 2,225-nautical-mile course that made this year’s Transpac a spirited race. And it was more than just the tenacity of intrepid sailors who waded through pandemic protocol, masked up and voyaged to Hawaii anyway. It was the ghosts of Transpacs past, carried by the team of the Farr 57 Ho’okolohe, who whispered to the winds and made the 51st Transpacific Yacht Race a truly spirited affair.

Cecil Rossi’s Ho’okolohe carried a crew of nine plus the cremated remains of five others to the finish line off the island of Oahu.

Jesse Osborn is Rudiger Award winner and Ocean Navigator special offer

August 20, 2021 - Honolulu, Hawaii - After careful review of the materials submitted to support his application, a review panel from the Transpacific Yacht Club have determined that Jesse Osborn wins the Mark S. Rudiger Celestial Navigation Trophy for the recently completed 2021 Transpac. Osborn was navigator aboard Justin Waite's Stevens 47 Mikmaks.

The trophy is awarded to the navigator who submits celestial navigation worksheets or evidence of traditional navigation to the finish inspectors immediately after finishing, and whose work is selected as the "best" by an impartial panel of judges. First awarded in 2011, the trophy itself is an antique brass 1905 T. Hemsley & Son silver-vernier A-frame sextant, donated by Stan Honey, which receives plaques for each winner.