Seahorse Magazine technical editor Dobbs Davis reviews the progress of the fleet in the 2021 LA-Honolulu Transpac. The first starters are well off the coast and enjoying cold, rough but fast sailing, and the second group has started today in perfect SoCal weather to get quickly offshore to join them. The weather forecast look fairly stable for a fast start to the race for this group.
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Los Angeles, California – A second wave of 15 entries has started today in perfect breeze and sunny skies on their way to the finish 2225 miles away in the LA-Honolulu Transpac. This classic biennial ocean race, in its 51st edition, has 26 teams on the course now, with 12 more ready to start tomorrow at 13:00 local time.
A building westerly breeze of 9-12 knots has helped propel the Division 5, 6 and 7 entries off to a fast start on their first leg of the trip, leaving the West End of Catalina to port before leaving the mainland behind with the next landfall being at Diamond Head in Honolulu.
Read moreSeahorse Technical Editor Dobbs Davis gives his Day Two analysis of racing in the 2225-mile LA-Honolulu Transpac. Today's show highlights the Division 8 fleet's getting off the coast in their first 48 hours of racing and reaching the strong offshore northerlies that are now propelling them what towards Hawaii.
Read moreSeahorse Technical Editor Dobbs Davis gives an analysis of how the Division 8 fleet has faced their first day of racing in the 2225-mile Transpac. The YB tracker is used to show boat positions, weather and early standings based on elapsed and corrected time. This show also introduces new viewers to the use of the YB tracker browser version tools to follow the race.
Read more1080 Media TV is a multi-award-winning company and is the official Host Broadcaster for Transpac 51, producing a 25-minute TV show of the race which will be available to a worldwide audience.
However, we are aware that many people will be shooting videos on the race, capturing the best, and worst, of the experience, so we thought we’d offer a few suggestions about how to get the best results. We’d love to share your footage and use it to tell your story in the TV show too, and explain to viewers what you and your team went through on this amazing race!
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Los Angeles, California – After over a year of careful planning, tremendous uncertainty, yet dogged determination to run this race, the Transpacific Yacht Club today unleashed the first wave of entries on their long westward journey to Honolulu in the 51st running of the Transpac. This biennial 2225-mile race from LA-Honolulu, first run in 1906, is an ocean racing classic.
Seven entries ranging from 37 to 57 feet in length were on the start line today, set one mile south of San Pedro’s Point Fermin lighthouse. Weather conditions early this morning were uncertain, with local thunderstorms in the area, but this stabilized by midday to provide an 11-knot thermal westerly breeze. Even in this initial upwind leg towards the first of only two marks of the course – the West End of Catalina, 25 miles away – the fleet seemed to split with some opting to head north and others choosing to take the closer tack towards Catalina.
Read moreThe slides from the July 10th Skippers Meeting are available online for review. This year's meeting was held on Zoom.
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