Since 2019, Tiburon, CA-based Greg Dorn has been training and racing his team on his new Dehler 46 Competition Favonius, with some impressive initial success: third place in Class A at the Big Boat Series. Dorn now has Transpac in the team’s sights, saying “We have been planning for the right moment to do the Transpac and building a racing program around Favonius is affording us a unique opportunity. We have been racing her and find that come July 2021 we will be extremely well prepared.”
Among those preparations Dorn says are “optimizing symmetrical and asymmetrical set ups with an additional fractional stay for staysails. We will upgrade the primary winches and some electronics.”
Dorn plans to race with 7 on the team, with Will Paxton named as Navigator. And while this is Dorn’s first Transpac, he is taking a long view of this race, saying they see the 2021 race the first of many future races in Transpac.
“First and foremost, our goals are to learn how the platform performs and have fun,” he says. “I am taking the long view and plan to return in 2023, 25 and beyond so this first race focused on collecting knowledge that will help us sail better in subsequent Transpacs.