Largest boats with the longest waterlines already burning up the miles to Hawaii.
The 20 biggest, fastest boats racing in the 2025 Transpac began their offshore sprint from Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, today. Ranging in length from 51 to 88 feet, these boats are competing in four divisions and also aiming to win the race’s two most prestigious prizes. The Barn Door Trophy honors the boat with the fastest elapsed time across the 2,225 nautical mile racecourse, while the King Kalakaua Trophy is awarded to the team that posts the fastest corrected time using the Offshore Racing Rule handicap system.
Today’s start was the third and final of the 2025 Transpac’s three pursuit-style send-offs, held on July 1, July 3 and July 5. The biennial race is organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club and is considered one of the world’s greatest offshore events.
Read more48 hours into the 2025 edition of the Transpac, SAIL’s Lydia Mullan virtually hops on board with Alli Bell, about 400nm off the coast of Los Angeles. It was a good, but lumpy first stretch and the crew was happy to have some of the most challenging conditions in its wake. Alli talks sail changes, navigation predictions — and peanut butter pretzels. Then, we hear from Ava Wilson, crew aboard the 68ft Gunboat, Convexity², as she prepares for her Saturday start.
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Seventeen boats begin the 2,225-mile Pacific Crossing in light air conditions in Transpac's second start
The chase is on in the 53rd edition of the 2025 Transpacific Yacht Race, with 17 boats in three divisions departing Los Angeles today on their 2,225-mile journey to Honolulu. While these boats are competing within their own divisions, they are also chasing down the 16 entrants that started on Tuesday, July 1—preparing to be chased by 20 more that start on Saturday, July 5.
Today’s starters, with longer water lines or sportier features compared to Tuesday’s starters, should enjoy faster rides to the finish line off Honolulu’s Diamond Head, but—as is always the case in ocean racing—Mother Nature has the majority share vote in determining dockside bragging rights.
Read moreAnd they're off! The first 16 starters in the 2025 Transpac have set sail for Hawaii. Host Lydia Mullan, Managing Editor of SAIL Magazine, takes us to the racecourse for drone footage of the start accompanied by a weather forecast and analysis of the live Pasha YB race tracker. Just before this fleet set sail, Transpac Onboard visited Cal 40 Restless on the docks and met skipper Alli Bell.
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Sixteen boats hit the line for the first start of three in the 2025 Transpac. Next stop: Hawaii.
The 16 boats that crossed the starting line today in the 2025 Transpac are up against the challenge of a lifetime. As the smallest yachts in this year’s 53-strong fleet, they are about to endure the greatest number of difficult days at sea, but they also have the greatest—and longest—opportunity to enjoy the splendors of sailing across the Pacific. After all, the more time one spends at sea, the more exposure one has to its moods and its majesty.
Four divisions began racing today at 1320, local time, on the waters off of Los Angeles’s Point Fermin. Organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club, the biennial event is considered one of the world’s premier ocean races. It uses three pursuit-style starts spread over five days (July 1, 3, and 5, 2025) to help all 53 boats finish within days of each other at Honolulu’s Diamond Head. With boats ranging from 35 to 88 feet, the staggered starts favor smaller vessels first so the fleet can make landfall in Hawaii around the same time.
Read moreTaking a breather from pre-race prep on the largest boat in the fleet, Stan breaks down all three race segments and provides a pre-race weather report.
In the first episode of 2025’s Transpac Onboard, we meet legendary navigator Stan Honey in the cockpit of Bryon Ehrhart's Lucky, where he is preparing to race across the Pacific in the 2025 edition of the Transpac.
According to Stan, there are 3 ways to win (or lose) this race: getting into the synoptic breeze off the start, choosing the right slot across the Pacific, and gybing to hit the finish optimally.
Stan breaks down all three race segments and provides a pre-race weather report.
Tune in, get your bearings and follow @transpacrace on social media. We’re coming live 'til everyone arrives in Hawaii!
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It’s not every day that serious offshore sailors get the opportunity to party aboard a decommissioned WWII battleship—but it’s also not every day that world-class sailors gather to race across 2,225 miles of open Pacific Ocean. The 53rd edition of the biennial Transpacific Yacht Race, established in 1906 and organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club, celebrated the official start of 2025 festivities at last night’s Aloha Send Off Party, hosted by race partners Fess Parker Winery and Third Window Brewing. Aboard the retired battleship USS Iowa, docked in San Pedro and within a stone’s throw of the 53 yachts preparing for departure, sailors and friends enjoyed great food and libations from Fess Parker and Third Window and a welcoming Mount Gay Mai Tai.
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Get your tickets and invite your friends and family.
A proper race deserves a proper sendoff! Get your tickets now for the 2025 Transpac Aloha Sendoff, sponsored by Third Window Brewing and Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard.
Join us on Saturday, June 28, 6:00-9:00pm, aboard the USS Iowa in San Pedro to celebrate the skippers and sailors racing in the 2025 Transpac and wish them fair winds and best of luck.
Enjoy excellent craft beer, world-class wines and Mount Gay Rum from our sendoff sponsors, plus other culinary delights and entertainment.
In Hawaii, don’t miss the Hana Hou Party at Kaneohe Yacht Club on Saturday, July 19, to celebrate a successful passage and award trophies!
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