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Final Tahiti 2012 Race Standings

Rage defeats Beau Geste in the 2012 Tahiti Race.

Beau Geste finishes Los Angeles to Tahiti Race

After a few days of very light winds and slow sailing, Beau Geste got the bone back in her teeth and finished the Tahiti race in style. They finished in 14 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes, 22 seconds.

Jim Ewing Passes

And another sad note... Our very good friend and Vice Chairman of the Honolulu Committee of Transpac passed away this week. In addition, Jim had been Commodore of the Waikiki Yacht Club. Sail on Jim, your friends and family will all miss you. Aloha!

Rage takes corrected time victory in 2012 Tahiti Race

Rage finished tonight just after Sunset, correcting out to win the Transpac Fritz Overton Trophy.  Beau Geste who finshed just two days ago took line honors but no record times.  Both boats suffered with light winds, but Rage got the better share below the Equator as Beau Geste stalled above the Tuamotus.  Although the breeze was going light again at the finish, Steve Rander's Rage held on to her corrected time.

“Only” 3700 miles!

People who like boats just naturally want to take a boat ride every now and then, so how about a 3,700-mile boat ride, Los Angeles to Tahiti?

With the clock winding down to the start, 1 pm Friday from Point Fermin, Rage skipper Steve Rander was sounding nonchalant. “We’re just sitting around trying to think of anything we’ve forgotten,” he said.  “I’ve done 23 Transpac crossings, all between the West Coast and Hawaii. Now it’s time for something different.” And if that something different, all the way to French Polynesia, turns out to be a race with only two boats entered? “You have to commit a long way ahead,” Rander said.  With a veteran crew of longtime friends and family (“no rock stars”) the argument comes down to doing it now, regardless, “because if not, we’ll be too old.”