Transpac Race 2011 has officially ended
by Kimball Livingston on 22 Jul 2011
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Hassle finishing Transpac 2011. Kimball Livingston/Transpac
On a day in which many recently-finished Transpac crews went off exploring beaches or waterfalls, Yoshihiko Murase rallied up his race crew, delivery crew and friends and cast off Bengal 7's lines for a mission of his own. The last Transpac boat still at sea was inbound, and he wanted to be there to greet Larry Malmberg's Hassle at Diamond Head.
Having brought one Bengal or another all the way from Japan for every race since 2001, Murase knows a thing or two about persistence, and the crew of Hassle had been persisting since their get-go from Point Fermin, San Pedro on the Fourth of July. Seventeen days.
Do the math on Bengal. It's roughly 5,000 miles from Nagoya, a port city of two million on Japan's Pacific Coast, to the Transpac start line at San Pedro, California. Bengal 7 is now roughly halfway home on this trip after covering (this is very, very rough) 57,500 miles since 2001 in the name of Transpac.
There were rain showers aplenty in the morning today, coming from the east, so Hassle got the rain first, then Bengal 7. But as things go in at Latitude 21, Longitude 158, everybody was dry by the 1118 HST official finish time for Malmberg's Catalina 38. Murase sailed upwind to a rendezvous point, then downwind alongside . . .
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Hassle crew may not have known they were being serenaded by a ukulele . . .
Dockside at the Waikiki Yacht Club, the Hassle crew was in high spirits (okay, I admit, I was relieved to observe the fact) with lots of toasts to the greatest skipper, the greatest crew, the greatest cook, and so on. Crewman Dennis Wolfe allowed, 'We got here with all our sails. There may be more pieces of them than there were when we started, is all.'
I suppose it is incumbent upon me to record that this is two races in a row in which Hassle has won the tail end charley award. I'm curious if that is a record, but too lazy to do the research at the moment. Reader advice is welcome. Meanwhile, aboard Bengal 7, I snapped a pic of a real photographer, lead Kazi shooter Yoichi Yabe.
Also aboard and working minute by minute was Mayuko Terao, who writes the Bengal 7 blog. She did the delivery from Nagoya, and she'll do the delivery home from Honolulu. We'll be reading, Mayuko.
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And that's my report. No big deal. Just our long-distance competitors from hard-put Japan, adding a little Aloha spirit of their own to Transpac 2011. I thought you ought to know.
Full Standings: http://www.transpacrace.com/docs/2011racedocs/DailyStandings/TP2011.V22.pdf
Transpac race http://www.transpacrace.com!website!
All times below are Hawaii Standard Time (HST)
** = Pau, Boat has Finished
Boat Name |
100 Mile Time |
25 Mile Time |
Makapuu Time |
ETA/Finish |
Bella Mente |
14/2345 |
15/0407 |
15/0515 |
15/05:44:28** |
Espiritu Santi |
16/0321 |
16/1208 |
16/1400 |
16/14:50:32** |
Magnitude 80 |
Email Probs
|
15/0730 |
15/0756 |
15/08:35:07**
|
Medicine Man |
16/0505 |
16/1003 |
16/1102 |
16/11:38:44**
|
O Canada
|
15/1419
|
15/2053
|
15/2218
|
15/23:02:38**
|
Peligroso |
16/0341 |
16/0759 |
16/0908 |
16/09:50:32** |
Pendragon VI
|
15/2044
|
16/0200
|
16/0218
|
16/03:19:06**
|
Paddy Wagon
|
16/1225 |
16/1955
|
16/2106
|
16/22:01:08** |
Patches |
16/1248 |
16/1816
|
16/1950
|
16/20:39:38**
|
Vincitore |
16/1659 |
16/2222
|
16/2354
|
17/00:46:43**
|
Pegasus-Motion X
|
16/1703 |
16/2252
|
16/2356
|
17/00:44:39**
|
NAOS 2
|
16/1819
|
17/0212
|
17/0342
|
17/04:39:20**
|
Alpha Puppy
|
16/1851
|
17/0235
|
17/0406
|
17/05:02:16**
|
Grand Illusion
|
16/1935
|
17/0119
|
17/0220
|
17/02:59:23**
|
Bebe
|
16/2143
|
17/0643
|
17/0818
|
17/09:20:27**
|
Alchemy
|
16/2232
|
17/0427
|
17/0524
|
17/06:02:17**
|
Holua
|
16/2248
|
17/0432
|
17/0548
|
17/06:28:47**
|
Katana
|
17/0111
|
17/0757
|
17/0909
|
17/09:43:00**
|
Truth |
17/0153 |
17/0715 |
17/0848 |
17/09:37:15** |
Pyewacket |
17/0154 |
17/0813 |
17/0914 |
17/09:53:00** |
Peregrine 33
|
17/0318 |
17/1142 |
17/1312 |
17/14:03:54** |
Criminal Mischief |
17/0319 |
17/0945 |
17/1053 |
17/11:37:22** |
Condor |
17/0402 |
17/1105 |
17/1301 |
17/13:05:13** |
Cheetah |
17/0648 |
17/1247 |
17/1422 |
17/15:07:37** |
Celerity |
17/0725 |
17/1531
|
17/1726
|
1718:32:50** |
Alaska Eagle |
17/1005 |
17/1829
|
18/2004
|
17/21:17:36** |
Between the Sheets |
17/1706 |
18/0153 |
18/0342 |
18/04:55:22** |
Sauvage
|
17/2109
|
18/0635
|
18/0823
|
18/09:33:06**
|
Locomotion
|
17/2252
|
18/0450
|
18/0700
|
18/06:54:13**
|
Gracie
|
17/2355
|
18/0847
|
18/1049
|
18/12:00:13**
|
Relentless 32
|
18/0015
|
18/1032
|
18/1117
|
18/1212:33**
|
Bengal 7
|
18/0055
|
18/0651
|
18/0650
|
18/08:47:34**
|
Rapid Transit
|
18/0205
|
18/0823
|
18/0942
|
18/10:27:40**
|
Wind Dancer |
18/0615 |
18/1505 |
18/1657 |
18/17:53:36** |
Horizon
|
18/0700
|
18/1239
|
18/1407
|
18/14:59:56**
|
Bad Pak
|
18/0817
|
18/1556
|
18/1716
|
18/17:56:24**
|
Allure
|
18/0824
|
18/1726
|
18/1820
|
18/19:03:12**
|
J-World Hula Girl |
18/1105 |
18/1928 |
18/2107 |
18/22:23:01** |
Relentless 52 |
18/1145 |
18/1806 |
18/1916 |
18/20:03:39** |
Deception |
18/1223 |
18/1941 |
18/2057 |
18/21:46:09** |
Prevail |
18/1241 |
18/1923 |
18/2039 |
18/21:19:07** |
Wind Dancer |
18/0614
|
18/1506 |
18/1656
|
18/17:53:36** |
CaZan |
18/1614 |
19/0003 |
19/0100 |
19/02:08:35** |
Victoire |
18/1704 |
19/0312
|
19/0505
|
19/06:20:12** |
Paranoia |
18/1809 |
19/0137
|
19/0314
|
19/04:04:13** |
Flaca |
18/1910 |
19/0317 |
19/0448
|
19/05:54:38** |
Traveler |
18/2322 |
19/0931
|
|
19/13:02:55** |
Second Chance |
19/0247 |
19/1123
|
19/1344
|
19/15:25:30** |
ROY'S Chasch Mer |
19/1454 |
19/2150 |
19/2338 |
20/00:52:17** |
Hassle |
20/2205 |
21/0752 |
|
21/11:18:10** |
18/09:33:06**
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