'08 race entries

[Eyrie]

Hey Jim/Haulback,

Thanks! You beat me to the announcement about the new additions to the web site. My thanks go out to Rob/Tigerbeatle ("She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah....") for getting the postings, well..., posted!

Please have a look. Pull up the calculator and enter your PHRF cert data (or your competitors) in the yellow boxes at the top, and BINGO, your PCR rating is crunched before your very eyes (aye aye said the pirate) and pops up in the yellow box at the bottom. It's computer magik.

Another major addition to the web site is the list of all the corrected Trans Pac race results since 1978. Special thanks to Peter/Aotea and to Stan/Illusion for gathering and collating. This will pop up in an excel spread sheet so you have the power to sort the data on corrected time, elapsed time, year, boat type. Golly, just hours of fun!!

Let's see, there is also a page showing the emergency rudder designs for most of the race entrants, soon to be completed as I get the remaining drawings and photos. And an inspection check list, thanks to Bill/Ergo for putting that together.

Also, please note on the entry list that we broke the 20 barrier and are currently at 21. With about 1 week to go before the entry deadline, there are still a handful of racers on the fence, so a good chance of getting this years race into the #2 spot for participation. #1 spot is 1980 with a starting count of 38!!! #2 is 2004 with 24, and #3 has a tie at 23 for 1978 & 2000. As I mentioned in a previous post, the deadline for mail-in entries is next Saturday, Tres de Mayo, but the deadline of hand-in entries (accompanied with a 'rita on the rocks no salt) is at the next seminar on Monday, Cinco de Mayo (arriba arriba) at the Spinnaker YC in San Leandro, CA. If you get your entry forms and fees in by this 10 week deadline, that will buy you 7 more weeks of boat prep time until the June 21st deadline for refund requests. That time extension will only cost you $200, but giving up now will cost you much much more.

Come on boyz and girlz, it's rally time!!

Synthia/Eyrie

[sleddog]

[QUOTE=Eyrie;
so a good chance of getting this years race into the #2 spot for participation. #1 spot is 1980 with a starting count of 38!!! #2 is 2004 with 24, and #3 has a tie at 23 for 1978 & 2000.
Synthia/Eyrie QUOTE]

Sorry to put a correction on the SHTP participation records. But the first SHTP in 1978 had 36 entrants. 30 of those crossed the starting line in two classes. Of the 30, six small boats and one big boat retired during the race, leaving 23 boats that ultimately reached Hanalei.

Two of the late "finishers," (although they never crossed the finish line in the proper direction) missed Kauai altogether and sailed west past the Island before realizing their mistake and turning back......

So my question to historians is: does SHTP "participation" count entrants, starters, or finishers?

~sleddog

[Eyrie]

Well sleddog, you were there so you should know, but why do the results only show 23 starters for the 1st edition of the solo TransPac. That’s a significant discrepancy!! Could there have been that many “unofficial” starters? Where there a pile of very late finishers that were not included? Please search through your notes and give us the low down on who's missing from the list.

That's the real beauty of making all this info public, the discrepancies can be ferreted out and corrected. Knowledge for all!!

Synthia/Eyrie

[sleddog]

For Those Who Went Before. 1978 SHTP Fleet Entrants
1) Doug Akerson SVENSKA retired, first day fatigue
2) Skip Allan WILDFLOWER finished 14 days, 3 hours
3) Amy Boyer ROBERT QUINN 18 years old, disallowed to start at last minute.
4) Karl Burton MAGIC (Columbia 57) Injured, (broke ribs) finished under power
5) Bill Cannon FLYER retired first day, hit submerged object, broken windvane (Moore 24)
6) John Carson TAYLOR'S LANDING 15 days 11 hours
7) Robert Coleman SHIVOO finished under jib. age 63 (oldest entrant) 18 days 5 hours
8) Bill Collins ROBERT QUINN washed OB twice, broke arm, overstood finish 23 days 4 hr.
9) Phil Cushing ABLE SUGAR (Santana 22) 17 days, 15 hours "never again"
10) Darrell Davey UHURU 16 days, 16 hours
11) Richard Flint RUNNING CLOUD trimaran entered, but DNS
12) Jim Gannon GOLDEN EGG 13 days, 3 hours (Freya)
13) Thomas Garnier REINRAG entered/ DNS (A later REINRAG won 2007 Transpac)
14) James Grey FREYA entered/ DNS
16) Mike Harting CHALLENGE 16 days, 2 hours (aluminum hull)
16) Gene Haynes PRETZ I retired first day with deck leaks
17) Brian Heller RADICAL 21 yr. old student. tore left shoulder, retired first day
18) Don Keenan LANI KAI 17 days, 1 hour (rolled twice on return passage)
19) Thomas Lindholm DRIFTWOOD 17 days, 1 hour
20) Mike Lintner MY STAR (Westsail 32) 16 days, 4 hours
21) Mike Pyzel CABALLO BLANCO 16 days, 5 hours
22) Mel Richards GOSSIP 30 yr. old PCC restarted 3 times, sinking each time, no record of finish
23) Noel Rosen KIWI II entered, DNS
24) Kent Rupp NEREID 16 days, 12 hours
25) Alan Rutherford QUEST (Cal 40) 13 days, 5 hours
26) Norton Smith SOLITAIRE (SC-27) 13 days, 3 hours (Winner, first SHTP)
27) Bruce Stevens TRIESSENCE trimaran entered/DNS
28) Larry Stewart THALES Peterson schooner 15 days, 14 hours
29) Roger Townsend SI BON retired second day due to damage in gale.
30) Harold Upham JOSHUA H 16 days, 9 hours (two open heart operations)
31) Sam Vahey ODYSSEUS 16 days, 6 hours rebuilt broken vane with bunk parts
32) Jay Varner TATOOED LADY 15 days 8 hours
33) Hans Vielhauser MACH SNELL 15 days 16 hours lost electric AP, hand steered
34) David White INTENTION 14 days 16 hours
35) Robt Whitney GYPSY put in Monterey 4 repairs, restarted 1 week later, finished 23 d.
36) Robert Wohleb ESPIAL 15 days
* Jesse Diggs BELLE-DE-NUIT non-entrant. Boat found adrift 480 miles out. no one aboard. RIP
** G.A. LaFrance ALCYONE non-entrant. Boat found adrift 750 miles out. no one aboard. RIP
*** all elapsed times listed above rounded to nearest hour for editing.

[Eyrie]

For Those Who Went Before. 1978 SHTP Fleet Entrants
1) Doug Akerson SVENSKA retired, first day fatigue
4) Karl Burton MAGIC (Columbia 57) Injured, (broke ribs) finished under power
5) Bill Cannon FLYER retired first day, hit submerged object, broken windvane (Moore 24)
8) Bill Collins ROBERT QUINN washed OB twice, broke arm, overstood finish 23 days 4 hr.
16) Gene Haynes PRETZ I retired first day with deck leaks
17) Brian Heller RADICAL 21 yr. old student. tore left shoulder, retired first day
18) Don Keenan LANI KAI 17 days, 1 hour (rolled twice on return passage)
22) Mel Richards GOSSIP 30 yr. old PCC restarted 3 times, sinking each time, no record of finish
29) Roger Townsend SI BON retired second day due to damage in gale.
31) Sam Vahey ODYSSEUS 16 days, 6 hours rebuilt broken vane with bunk parts
33) Hans Vielhauser MACH SNELL 15 days 16 hours lost electric AP, hand steered
35) Robt Whitney GYPSY put in Monterey 4 repairs, restarted 1 week later, finished 23 d.

* Jesse Diggs BELLE-DE-NUIT non-entrant. Boat found adrift 480 miles out. no one aboard. RIP
** G.A. LaFrance ALCYONE non-entrant. Boat found adrift 750 miles out. no one aboard. RIP

Gulp, sobering.

Heck, solo sail to Hawaii in the summer? Nothing to it..
Don't assume it's a cake walk!

Synthia/Eyrie

[John Hayward]

Bet the owners of the boats found adrift felt "harness, I don't need no stinking harness."

Wonder what there thoughts were when they watched their boats sailing away without them? Probably not a good feeling.

If you and your boat are prepared for the race then I believe getting separated from your boat presents the only real danger of dying. Harness/tether is a pain, but I never leave the cockpit without it and in bad weather, wear it in the cockpit too.

"Rolled twice on the return trip" That doesn't sound like fun either, but beats RIP after your entry.

John
Dream Chaser

[AlanH]

Wow...what Bill and John said. I didn't know there was so much carnage on the first one, and didn't know that two folks in the fleet, even if they weren't registered, didn't make it at all.

[AlanH]

Wow...what Bill and John said. I didn't know there was so much carnage on the first one, and didn't know that two folks in the fleet, even if they weren't registered, didn't make it at all.

[Eyrie]

As of the entry deadline, the 2008 fleet count is 24!

We got a few last minute entries at the seminar and one surprise lurker entry over-nighted to the PO Box. The web site should be updated shortly after the webbeetle gets back from his travels so stay tuned for a complete run down of the fleet. But in the mean time, a few stats:

returning vets: 14 (58%) vs. 1st timers: 10 (42%)
local boats: 16 (67%) vs. out of area: 8 (33%)
age range: 37 to 78, with average age: 53
PCR range: -58 to 286, with average PCR: 144
length range: 20' to 60', with average length: 34.8'

Synthia/Eyrie

[AlanH]

As of the entry deadline, the 2008 fleet count is 24!

We got a few last minute entries at the seminar and one surprise lurker entry over-nighted to the PO Box. The web site should be updated shortly after the webbeetle gets back from his travels so stay tuned for a complete run down of the fleet. But in the mean time, a few stats:

returning vets: 14 (58%) vs. 1st timers: 10 (42%)
local boats: 16 (67%) vs. out of area: 8 (33%)
age range: 37 to 78, with average age: 53
PCR range: -58 to 286, with average PCR: 144
length range: 20' to 60', with average length: 34.8'

Synthia/Eyrie

I am so TOTALLY average, here.

right about the average age
right about the average PCR
sheesh