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Bella Mente Takes the Barn Door

Hap Fauth's Bella Mente, re-jiggered to race Transpac, fulfilled her mission just before dawn today, crossing the Diamond Head Light finish line to capture the Barn Door Trophy as first finisher of the 46th Transpacific Yacht Race, Los Angeles to Honolulu. Bella Mente's race began on July 8 at 1300 PDT.  Her official finish time is 0534 HST for the measured distance of 2,225 miles.

Different Boats, Different Bets

As Transpac reporting and transponder tracking switches to Hawaii Standard Time (reminder to navigators), we're seeing not much change in the leaderboard, with the biggest chance of a turnover looming as boats make their tactical gybes to line up for the Molokai Channel.

Dang, The Weather Guys Were Right

Lighter winds, as predicted, and a bit of lane-shifting re-sorted parts of the Transpac racing fleet overnight, but James McDowell's SC70, Grand Illusion, continued to run 1-1, first in the Sleds and first overall, with about 1,200 miles to go at 0800 roll call. Positioning on the north-south line suddenly goes from being very important to Very Important.

46th on the 4th!

At the ready: A few Transpac racers are playing catchup today at the US Sailing Safety at Sea Seminar at Shoreline Yacht Club, while around Rainbow Harbor the other crews of 53 entries in the 46th Transpacific Yacht Race are preparing their boats in various levels of stress. In a few cases, gear is still being installed; in other cases it's about getting a last load of laundry washed.

Tahiti 2012 Announcement

Transpac is hearing from sailors with a yen to race to Tahiti, and they ask—

Will there be another race like 2008?

The answer is yes.