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Everything continues to go well on the good ship Rock 'n Roll. Conditions are excellent and fast--blasting along at 14-15 knots in 20 knots of breeze for the past day and trying to hunt down Bolt. The observant may have seen a tracker report that we were only going 6 knots at one point, but that never happened--just an oddity as the tracker took two positions before and after a gybe.

Our trusty A2.5 spinnaker which was painstakingly sewn back together a few days ago just finally gave up for good in a spectacular show of shredded cloth. So we are down to just two spinnakers and hopefully that will do.

Bryon Ehrhart’s LUCKY Retires from Race 30nm From Finish With Rudder Failure

At about 1320 HST the Judel-Vrolijk 72 LUCKY retired from the race, reporting a broken rudder at about 30 miles from the finish. All crew safe on board, and organized a tow to Honolulu. Lucky had been projected to be a top 10 overall finisher and had been ranked first in Class 1 at Friday morning's roll call.

Transpac Race Analysis 23 July

Transpac 23 July race analysis with Seahorse Magazine technical editor Dobbs Davis. Today's show celebrates the first-to-finish achievement by Roy Disney's turbo Volvo 70 team on Pyewacket, along with the second across the line, Cecil and Alyson Rossi's Farr 57 Ho'okolohe. Weather continues to be strong, perhaps too strong in the Molokai Channel that claimed its first victim with the J/V 72 Lucky. And if this race were held one week later, it would have been a very different trip indeed.

Roy Disney’s Pyewacket 70 Wins 2021 Barn Door Trophy

In the early morning darkness on Friday, July 23rd, Pyewacket 70 was the first to finish the 2021 Transpac Race, winning the Barn Door Trophy. Roy Disney has sailed the Transpac Race 25 times now, and this was his fastest yet at 5 days 16:53:20. Pyewacket's elapsed time is the 2nd fastest monohull in Transpac history, 5.5 hours off the 2019 record pace established by Comanche. More Results as teams finish this weekend.

The Storm Trysail Team Scoring is updated with today's positions.

Transpac Race Analysis 22 July

Day 9 race analysis of the 2021 Transpac yacht race from LA-Honolulu with Seahorse Magazine technical editor Dobbs Davis. Today's show highlights the final approach of the first teams to finish in high-speed conditions and an explanation of the live 200 mile radius YB tracker system. Also explained is the system of VPP-based scoring using the Transpac course matrix.