Transpac
2005 - 68 Entries And A Barn Door Blast: 'Glory
vs. Pyewacket'
March
18, 2005 - LONG
BEACH, Calif.---With the starts still four months
away, the official entry list for the Centennial
Transpacific Yacht Race has soared to 68 boats---the
most in a quarter century---and brought prospects
of a blistering Barn Door battle between sailing
superstars for the record.
Hasso
Plattner's Morning Glory, with three-time America's
Cup winning skipper Russell Coutts on board, is
among the latest to sign in. The German industrial
software magnate will line up against Roy Disney's
Pyewacket in a duel of Reichel/Pugh maxZ86s. They'll
try to beat the fastest elapsed time by a monohull
set by Disney's previous Pyewacket in 1999---7
days 11 hours 41 minutes 27 seconds---or at least
claim the 3 1/2x4-foot slab of carved koa wood
known as the Barn Door that goes to the fastest
monohull.
Philippe
Kahn's Pegasus boats won it in 2001 and 2003,
Disney's Pyewackets the previous two races.
Besides
Coutts, Morning Glory's crew will include world
505 champion Morgan Larson as a watch captain
and all-round world-class competitor Peter Isler
as navigator. Larson sailed on the two Pegasus
winners.
Pyewacket
regulars include Olympic gold medalist Robbie
Haines and record-setting navigator Stan Honey.
There
also are 14 Cal 40s---the 40-year revival seems
boundless---and, in all, boats from six countries
and four continents.
Australians
Jamie and Jenny O'Neill have re-entered The Cone
of Silence, their radical Super 30 that broke
down early two years ago and returned to Long
Beach. They noted that they had completed their
required 160-mile offshore passage: "500
miles out and back in Transpac 2003."
Yoshihiko
Murase's Ohashi 52, Bengal 2, from Japan is back
after a seventh-place Division 2 finish in 2003
when it gracefully accepted the "northernmost"
award for defying conventional Transpac navigational
wisdom.
Also,
Transpac historians believe this race will have
the first doublehanded women's entry: Patricia
Garfield and Diane Murray of San Francisco, sailing
a Catalina 470, Charmed Life.
Both
of the Aloha class winners are returning: Ross
Pearlman's Jeanneau 52, Between the Sheets, in
Class A, and David Kory in Class B, although his
current Barking Spider 3 is a MacGregor 65, a
step up from the 38-foot sloop he sailed last
time.
Entries
close on June 3. Measurement is also required
by that date.
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Transpac
Trivia Quiz
Who
was the first woman skipper to win her class?
Answer below.
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Sailors'
Seminar May 1 at Alamitos Bay YC
Transpac
has scheduled a seminar for all participants Sunday,
May 1, at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club in Long Beach,
from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Subjects
will include communication, weather information,
provisioning, rigging, ratings, insurance, return
boat delivery and ratings.
The
event is free and will be hosted by Commodore
Jerry Montgomery. Experts in various fields are
expected to appear. Lunch will be available.
Those
interested are asked to contact Montgomery at
mmmont@aol.com
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Challenged
America Announces the 2005 Crew
Challenged
America, a team of disabled sailors returning
from its historic 2003 Transpac debut, has announced
its 2005 team selected from 44 original candidates
with disabilities living throughout the United
States and Canada, Mexico, Europe and South Africa.
The crew members are (above from left): Kevin
Wixom, leg amputee, San Diego; Ryan Baker, paraplegic,
San Diego; Joshua Ross, able-bodied, skipper,
San Diego (behind Baker); "B" team member
Linda Woodbury, totally blind, San Diego; Jeff
Reinhold, quadriplegic, Seattle; Urban Miyares,
totally blind, hearing impaired, organ transplant
recipient and diabetes, San Diego; Miyares' guide
dog, Duchess; Jim Halverson, leg amputee and cancer
survivor, San Juan Capistrano,
Calif.
They'll
sail the same Tripp 40, B'Quest, that the original
team sailed in Racing Division 5 two years ago,
finishing in a respectable 13-plus days. Woodbury
is first alternate.
Duchess'
talents will not be needed. "GPS has taken
her place," Ross said.
Challenged
America, based in San Diego, was founded in the
late 1970s by disabled veterans desiring to further
their own rehabilitation. In 1991 they expressed
the intention of racing Transpac. After two failed
attempts due to funding shortfall, the goal became
a reality in 2003 when two of the original founders---Bob
Hettiger, paraplegic, and Miyares, both disabled
veterans---realized their dream with three other
sailors with disabilities, plus Ross, the able-bodied
skipper.
Making
Waves Productions will film the campaign for an
independent documentary. Progress may be followed
with daily
reports on www.YachtRacing.com starting July 11.
More
information: www.ChallengedAmerica.org/
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Trivia
Answer
In
1959, socialite sailor Sally Blair Ames took the
76-foot schooner Constellation to first place
overall in Class A on corrected handicap time.
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Paid
Entries
(listed
alphabetically)
Artemis
(Andrews 53), Louis Bianco, Seattle.
Atalanta
(Tripp 73 ketch), Richard Hedreen), Seattle.
Azure
(Cal 40), Rodney Pimentel, Alameda, Calif.
Azure
(Swan 441), Samuel Beckey, San Diego.
Barking
Spider 3 (MacGregor 65), David Kory, Concord,
Calif.
Bengal
2 (Ohashi 52), Yoshihiko Murase, Nagoya, Japan
Between
the Sheets (Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman, Marina
del Rey, Calif.
Blue
(J/160), Ken and /Cheryl Sears, Nashville, Tenn.
Bolt
(Nelson/Marek 55), Craig Reynolds, Newport Beach,
Calif.
B'Quest
(Tripp 40), Challenged America, San Diego.
Braveheart
(Transpac 52), Charles Burnet, Seattle.
Bright
Wing (catamaran), John Walton, Jackson, Wyo.
Bubala
(Cal 40), Lloyd Sellinger, Newport Beach.
California
Girl (Cal 40), Don and Betty Lessley, Richmond,
Calif.
Callisto
(Cal 40), Jim Eddy, Glendale, Calif.
Camille
(Stewart 42), James Read, San Francisco.
DH-Charmed
Life (Catalina 470), Patricia Garfield, San Francisco.
Cipango
(Andrews 56), Bob & Rob Barton, San Francisco.
Chasch
Mer (S/C 50), Gib Black, Honolulu.
Coruba
(N/M 68), Rob and Suzanne Fleming, Seattle.
Dancing
Bear (Cal 40), Mark Schrader, Sitka, Alaska.
Dasher
(S/C 50), Roger Groh, Sausalito, Calif.
Diablo
(J/35), Reed Barnard, Anacortes, Wash.
Far
Far (Cal 40), Don Grind, Naples, Fla.
Iataia
(Beneteau First 40.7), Marcos Rodriguez, Acapulco,
Mexico.
Illusion
(Cal 40), Sally Honey, Palo Alto, Calif.
Incredible
(Swan 53), Rick Gorman, Los Alamitos, Calif.
Innocent
Merriment (J/160), Myron Lyon, San Diego.
Jacaré
(J/35), Jeff Young/Rich Blackman, San Diego.
Jeito
(J/145), Francisco Guzman, Acapulco, Mexico.
Kahoots
(Andrews 43), Kerry Deaver/Bob Williamson, Newport
Beach.
Locomotion
(Andrews 45), Doug McLean/Melinda Lincoln, Long
Beach.
Magnitude
80 (Andrews 80), Doug Baker, Long Beach.
Medicine
Man (Andrews 61), Bob Lane, Long Beach.
Merlin
(Lee 68), Patricia Steele, Maui, H.I.
Mongoose
(Santa Cruz 70), Bradley Thorson, Bellevue, Wash.
Morning
Glory (R/P maxZ86), Hasso Plattner, Kiel, Germany.
Odyssey
(58' yawl), Audrey Steele Burnand, Long Beach.
Pipe
Dream (CF 37), John Davis, Long Beach.
Plan
B (Peterson 48), David Johnson, Long Beach.
Psyche
(Cal 40), Steve Calhoun, Los Angeles.
Pursuit
(Custom 48), Norman and Rosemary Dawley, Solomons,
Md.
Pyewacket
(R/P maxZ86), Roy E. Disney, Los Angeles.
Radiant
(Cal 40), Fin Beven, Pasadena, Calif.
Ragtime
(Spencer 66), Peterson/Richards/Welsh/Zimmer,
Honolulu.
Ralphie
(Cal 40), Taylor and Davis Pillsbury, Woody Creek,
Colo.
Reinrag2
(J/125), Tom Garnier, Portland, Ore.
Renegade
(Andrews 70), Dan Sinclair, Vancouver, B.C.
Rosebud
(Transpac 52), Roger Sturgeon, San Francisco.
Scout
Spirit (R/P 77), Bill Turpin, Newport Beach, Calif.
Seafire
(Cal 40), John Harrison, Honolulu.
Second
Chance (Express 37), Steve Brown, Crystal Cove,
Calif.
Sensation
(1D35), Gary Fanger, San Francisco.
Serena
(T1150), David Kuettel, Bel Marin, Calif.
Shaman
(Cal 40), Steve Waterloo, Alameda, Calif.
Showdown
(IMX 38), Pete Meade/Mike Luna/ Paul McDonald,
Irvine, Calif.
So
Far (Swan 48), Larry Hillman, Chicago.
Soap
Opera (Hobie 33), Scott Self/Nigel Brown, Rockwall,
Tex.
Spectre
(Cal 40), Lee Rogge, Seattle.
Stealth
Chicken (Perry 56), Timothy Beatty, Rancho Santa
Fe, Calif.
Super
Gnat (Beneteau First 40.7), Cliff Thompson, San
Diego
Tabasco
(1D35), Alamitos Bay Syndicate, Long Beach.
The
Cone of Silence (Super 30), Jamie and Jenny Neill,
Sydney, Australia.
Uproarious
(Olson 40), Robert Bussard, San Diego.
Wild
Radish (J/145), Louis Ravenet, Seattle.
Willow
Wind (Cal 40), Wendy Siegal, Sunset Beach, Calif.
Wind
Dancer (Catalina 42), Paul Edwards, Ventura, Calif.
Windquest
(R/P maxZ86), Dick & Doug DeVos, Holland,
Mich.
DH---Doublehanded.
