2016 Single Handed TransPac

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Notes From Boats July 11 Late Evening

Ugh seas building and building, very hard to steer as deep as I need to without rounding up and so forth. And the AP has to deal too. Wind building and gusting to 30. Not at all what the GRIB promised. And much nastier than any of my other Hawaii trips. It’s all reminiscent of the last day of LongPac 2015 — going deep, wind building, steep seas. I didn’t have a jib up , I wasn’t sure how reefing would go with out it. In fact, it was pretty easy. I remembered how in 2015 I had single reefed, and then later really wished I had gone all the way to double. To tonight I went full double reef, no headsail, wind in the 20s but now the big seas are over running me more than they were before. But at least the smaller sail won’t over power the tiller, and I think that the double reef sail also has a center of pressure closer to the mast, so less moment to round up the boat. There is a big wad of sail hung off the boom, the wind prevented flaking it symmetrically and binding it up. So there it is. Is this a race? Funny configuration for one. I admit I am egotistical enough to check the position reports and see that I could afford to slow down a bit in the interest of peace of mind and possibly safety.

David Nabors

Olson 34' Temerity

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Temerity Monday Afternoon

Still running w/o spin after yesterday’s drama. Making good time though, I think. I looked at my speed log from before and after the crash, and the spin actually does not add as much speed as you might think, though of course you feel fast during those 10 second 13 kt surfing runs. But it took me hours to clean up after, and that’s not fast either. Today dark and cloudy all day winds 18 – 26 kts up and down, short steep wind-wave driven seas. I can steer faster than the AP but it is tiring. Wave after wave of rain clouds passing through, I got pretty wet. Not exactly ‘Champagne Sailing’! And the solar panel could use the light too. Once again the GFS/GRIB is calling for a big storm (Celia) to swing on to the course. In the previous two cases, the lows melted away before they could get to us. I hope that GFS is again exaggerating. Either way, I am conscious of racing to beat the storm and have the storm well to the East as I am reaching Kauai. I really hope she melts though for all the other boat’s sake

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7:40PM PST July 11th 30deg 11′ N 144 deg 06′ W Major rudder failure last night. I discovered I lost the upper pin of my starboard rudder around 3AM. I had to stop the boat completely and immediately then figure out the way to replace the missing pin. I ended up setting up a fortune solution which I have been sailing with since then. I spent the whole day building other pins so I am ready if my first fix fails. Situation is under control and I have been able to sail normally all day with good average speed. As the repair I made with large screws and lashings starts to weaken I am getting ready to apply my plan B fixes which might end up being a better fix… All this happened a couple hours after the halfway party which I did enjoy! Thanks SSS for the nice presents and to my wife for the big box of treats! Keeping the rudders together and the boat sailing at a decent speed. Trade winds have been nice and strong.

This is SV Libra out

Gregory Saramite
Pogo 2 Libra

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Spoke to TAZ this Monday morning July 11, 10:00 ish CA time. He said, “I slept like a rock and when I got up, I tackled the wrapped twins successfully with some tag lines on both clues and running them the pole’s down haul line.” The twins are in the repair shop. A #3 or #4 poled out will help keep the noise downwind to aid the autopilot and minimize another wrap. I know George to be persistent and quite good at unwrapping, untangling and Macgyvering the crap out of stuff. We laughed about some other stuff and he is in good spirits ready for breakfast, water and another day. From Joe B. Archimedes.

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[Cleveland Steamer]

Rudder damage does not seem like a good thing.

[Prince of Whales]

Its a good thing the Pogos come with an extra rudder!

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Kato Under 500 Nautical Miles



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The 1st of the SHTP boats to eclipse the 500 NM mark is Jeri Senkyrik aboard his Olson 30' Kato!







Boat Updates July 12 Mid afternoon:


Day 10 update: 31.20n 140.20w c220 s6.1 – Main 7 poled out jib. trying to make as many miles as possible with the rolly conditions and keeping my eyes on the squalls more now since they are getting more serious and as we’re now in the official trade winds. should hit the halfway mark tomorrow, not for days (thank goodness) but for miles! saw a large black albatross today and watched him fly around the waves and boat for about 30 min. pretty amazing birds to be so far from any land and how they can skim just above the surface of the waves. my autopilot was making some creaking noises so opened up the area of it to add some lubrication and it seems to have helped. good to see my old back up tiller arm worked fine while I had the other primary one apart. hadn’t used the old one in over a year at least. ok, back to trying to play the wind shifts and keep my balance on my rolling world. xo,

Randy Leasure

Westsail 32' Tortuga


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George ( e-27 TAZ!!) reported at 09:22 PDT, 8.2 kts, COG 239M, 25 degrees, 52.071 minutes, 144 degrees, 56.537 minutes. Overcast for a few days has has him closely monitoring batteries. Two LiFe batteries, at least 160 amps total. One battery dipped below 12 volts and another approaching low 12’s. He will adjust solar panel angles, sail trim, and AP response to help. As some of you may know, the West Marine X5 does not like to approach 12.0 volts, the ram will stop moving and the control head will loudly alarm with, “BEEP, BEEP, BEEP…BEEP and read something like “I am hungry, feed me or take over human!” From Joe B. Archimedes.


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Slept a lot, nearly 8 hrs, in part thanks to finding the ‘good’ earplugs which had been mislaid. Sea state in morning much improved but still kind of hairy. I considered shaking the 2nd reef, but then some more clouds, light showers, and more wind rolled in. Winds 18 – 25 kts gust to 30. So I held tight and charged the battery, again. Fuel use much higher than planned due to AP load and amount of use, and lack of sun over last several days. So today I will try to play with course for best CMG and maybe try to find a more balanced sailplan. Haven’t checked overnight standings, they must be coming out later this morning.

Dave Nabors

Olson 34' Temerity

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Hi everyone.

Well, it’s been rough & windy for a few days now. Right now it’s 20-25kts, seas 8-15′. It’s raining off and on. Last night the Mainsail traveler exploded because of a poorly done gybe. This morning showed that it was a goner. Now to figure what to take its place with. I moved the main sheet to the Starboard genny track, and made another tackle that I took to the Port track. Haven’t tried it because we are going just fine with only the Blast Reacher up. Bit short on words today. Tough to type when you have to struggle to stay in the chair.

Joe Barry

Express 37 Pakala


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Day 9 update: 32.28n 138.22w c235 s5.5 DTF 1280. reefed main, poled out jib. its been super super rolly all day today with a large cross swell hitting the boat at different angles making it uncomfortable. still making good progress today. thought about getting the spinnaker up again but with the sea state it would prove to be very difficult so opted to keep it simple and just make miles on the rhumb line. at radio check in that latest is that Dave on Saraband is about 60 miles in front of me and Gary on Elizabeth Ann is about 5 miles behind me. Not sure where Lee on Patience is relative to all the other Westsails. There are a few other heavier boats in the pack too with Mouton Noir and Owl in and around our same finish time. Just need to work on getting more distance between Tortuga & Elizabeth Ann. No way I can catch Dave at this point. He crushed us is the light wind are really put miles out front of the other Westsails. hopefully I can finish around Wednesday at this point. I would have liked to beat my own 17 day passage time from 2012 but with the light winds the first few days, its just not in the cards.

Randy Leasure

Westsail 32' Tortuga

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Day 9 Halfway and Trades

Well, Day 9, and most of the fleet have reached the trades and the halfway point and have enjoyed their goodies. The front half of the fleet appears to be encountering Blas’s leftover spit up lunch and some folks are reporting un-fun seas and higher winds, but folks are nearing the hula dancers, and the warmer weather of the east to west trade winds.

Race Committee is on its way tomorrow as well and the count down to the first to finish will begin! Cue Hawaiian music and Mai Tais. Nothing goes to weather like a 747, so RC’s trip will be a bit milder, wink. Today the Pac Cup started, which for those unfamiliar is the crewed race to Hawaii, and they have better wind today than our fleet had and have gotten quite away off the coast already. Some of the fast boats (70 feet plus!) might catch up with the tail end of our fleet. Maybe there will be grey poupon sharing, but don’t blink or you’ll miss them. Vic-Maui (Victoria, BC to Lahaina) boats are also under way, having started on Saturday and they look to have light wind because Pac Cup stole it all. Well not really.

Here’s wishing the fleet a safe and not too rocky evening as they coast on into the night and ever closer to the Garden Isle.

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0900 July 13 Position Updates



0900 July 13 Position Updates: The entire fleet is now west of the 140 Longitude Line
http://www.pinnacletracking.com/live/Map.aspx?shtp




Kato is charging hard for the finish, now just 373 nm to go. Nina is leading the corrected time race







Seazed Asset is the frontrunner in the Lono Division 584 nm to sail, Dolphin has corrected time tiara for now





Pakala has move into 1st in real time and corrected in the Ku division and has 571 nm to go





Saraband leads the Westsails in corrected and real time, and is now 870 nm out

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Notes from Boats July 13 AM Report

Tuesday, July 12, 8:30 p.m. CA time. All is OK, brought batteries back up some today. 3-4 squalls, full out rain in afternoon and Everything is soaking Wet including me, I am soaked to the inside of my boots and bones, no dry spot on my body. My body heat is steaming up the inside cabin. Will warm up with some chow, but it will be a cool night. Hydrating well, eating well, sleeping well, 24 dry cookies left. Tore twins again as mentioned in an earlier post, but tore ’em again, so this will be my second repair, it will have to wait until July 13 morning. Reached midpoint sometime July 11 morning. Now, 760 miles to go and it can’t come fast enough. ETA roughly Sunday. #3 poled out with 2 reefs, 20-25 knots. Sky and sea angry most of this race. This passage has been a handful. Hugs to All! I’m racing here!

George Lythcott
Expressly Wet 27' TAZ!!

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Subtropical Waters

This afternoon the sun came out, and the nasty steep mixed seas sorted themselves out into longer, lower swells. It started to feel more like I remembered; like one might be approaching Hawaii. The wind is still over 20, so I didn’t set a spin. But it looks from the position report that I might have been getting complacent about the competition. Right now there is a classic squall going on, and hopefully calming down in a few minutes — very sudden onset, wind veered 30 deg from 75deg to 105 deg in a few minutes, and kicked up in speed to 25 gusting 30. Pouring rain. Right after I changed all my clothes to dry. Well kids there is no way I can handle that kind of action by myself in the dark with the spin up. So I think at night I will stick with a ‘duck and cover’ strategy (also known as ‘cower and whimper’) and the race will have to take care of itself. I never could figure out what those strategy guys would talk about, how you had to “exit stage left” or whatever it was. Or maybe it was, when the squall hits, get on port pole so you can ride it all night long? It has something to do with the squall itself not moving in the direction of its surface wind. I’ve also heard the saying ‘you win the race at night’. Maybe someone can explain it to me in Hanalei.

Dave Nabors
Olson 34' Temerity


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Main 7 poled out jib. trying to make as many miles as possible with the rolly conditions and keeping my eyes on the squalls more now since they are getting more serious and as we’re now in the official trade winds. Should hit the halfway mark tomorrow, not for days (thank goodness) but for miles! Saw a large black albatross today and watched him fly around the waves and boat for about 30 min. Pretty amazing birds to be so far from any land and how they can skim just above the surface of the waves. My autopilot was making some creaking noises so opened up the area of it to add some lubrication and it seems to have helped. Good to see my old back up tiller arm worked fine while I had the other primary one apart. hadn’t used the old one in over a year at least. Ok, back to trying to play the wind shifts and keep my balance on my rolling world.

Randy Leasure
Westsail 32' Tortuga


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update from Seazed Asset

After the Night Squall episode I have a few more trails and tribulations. Set the chute a couple mornings ago. Had it up about 9 am, and by noon, I had stopped counting the squalls after 7. Then about 1230, with the chute up, had a round up and put the boom tip in the water, then a round down and the spinnaker pole tip in the water. Thought I had escaped that squall, when WHAM, accidental jibe. That was all for me and the chute, got it down and put away. No damage except my pride, and I felt extremely lucky. Went the rest of the day with white sails. Yesterday went to set the chute and had a bad wrap. It had two complete twists inside the spinnaker sock. They must have been left they from the day before A real mess took me an hour to get it down. I had to stand to the top of the bow pulpit, in the middle of the Pacific, winds blowing 20 knots and big waves. I had my harness on, one clipped to the jack line the other around the furled Genoa. I was exhausted and went with white sails again. The sun arrived yesterday It was a pleasant day after the bad spinnaker set. I lost a bit of time, but not a lot, at least I think. I was sailing DDW at or close to hull speed, on the great circle route. Had my fishing lines out and hooked two Mahi Mahi, lost both right at the boat Set the chute today and its going well. According the my weather GRIBs I can stay on this tack all the way to HI. Right now I am pointed right at the Palm Trees.

Vance

Seazed Asset

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Too Fast to Fish

Very very bright day out here and hot too. The flying fish were popping out of the water all around, and the terrified looks on their little fishy faces told me that they were being pursued by game fish. So I thought to give fishing another go. I used the same lure and setup as before. My speed was 6 – 8 kts, which should be OK. After about 90 minutes after putting the rig in, I heard the ‘clunk’ of the hand reel banging on the coaming, and saw the elastic shock absorber was stretched out. Fish on! I started to bring him in on the reel, and as I did, a puff and a wave put my speed momentarily above 9 or 10 kts. Snap. The 80lb test woven line broke, and I lost the fish. This trolling thing really only works from 4 to 8 kts. So I am again saved all that cooking and cleanup time.

Dave Nabors

Olason 34' Temerity

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Notes From Boats July 14




Hi Everyone,

We will go under 500 miles as I type this. Almost there. My brother Tom had a nice comment about the trip. Beside other things he says “you’ll be back sitting in Calif traffic wondering if this was a dream.” This is a dream. To be able to do this race, after all the dreaming, lists, planning, spending, working-to get to the last 500 miles…. Ring, Ring, Ring. Reality check. You still have to sail home. And that takes longer. Oh yeah, that’s right. In 501.29 miles, I’ll be half way. But the good part is, the blog will continue for that part of the trip from Hawaii to Dana Point, Ca. We live in Dana Point, so it makes emotional sense to go there rather than Marina del Rey where the boat is docked…500.84 miles. This morning was spent changing sails again. Presently using the Jib Top and full main, broad reaching toward Hawaii. Winds are 20kts, true, waves 6-8′, and kind of mixed. Sails bang a lot. Took a bucket bath, and boy did that feel good. It’s amazing what smells can come from around the human body. But we have Joy dishwashing soap, and all can be fixed. Hope there’s a Fluff & Fold in Hanalei. Would you believe that with all the planning and packing etc that goes into a sailing voyage to HAWAII. The falling to sleep thinking about this voyage to HAWAII, that one would be prepared with clothes you would use in HAWAII. Not this Bobo. Who goes to Hawaii without an Hawaiian shirt, or maybe a few, and what would be at the top of your list? Trunks. You could be from Indaianapolis, and know you would bring trunks. ( there’s a whole another story about Hawaii & Indianapolis, but that may wait for the trip back) But not this Bobo. All of his kids work in the surf apparel industry. Bobo here is having Marissa Fedex some trunks & a couple of my Hawaiian shirts to her friend’s Mom who will bring them to the dimwit. Dinner tonight is from the day 7 bag, which we just opened. Drum roll… Santa Fe Chicken with beans and rice. Didn’t I just have that? I could change it with spaghetti with meat sauce from the spare pile, but the problem is, I only have a spoon. No Forks. We’ll see, I’ll tell ya tomorrow… 499.27nm. I missed it while talking to you guys. Yayyyyyyyyyy!! Less than 500nm. I can smell the plate lunches now. Oh Shit. I gotta take a picture to send since it takes forever for this to get to Marissa, and the bun.

Bye. Pakala (If you look real close, you might see Kauai!)


Joe Barry
Express 37' Pakala


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Hello
half- half day after a quiet night, get up early and put Code 3 up. not much pressure, upgrade to Code 2. then the fun started. 20/30 knots in the squalls in the rain (more like a shower). impressive. Max SOG 17kts.

Tried to teach Ray (his full name is F____G Ray Marine X10) how to drive with a kite. the guy is stupid. he does not get it.
after 4 hours I was tired. kite down, lunch, then Kite up (code 3) as it was 20+ again and I wanted to give another chance to Ray (the same idiot) with a smaller sail. Ray did a little better. I have to say that the Code 3 was hard to stabilize trying to go deep)

Afternoon was just bad bad bad. light wind, turning at each cloud, some rain... kite down, jib down, main up, autopilot in compass mode (my wind mode is dead). I stay inside and look at the AWA on the screen to make sure I am more or less going in the right direction. I think my night is going to be like that. watching AWA to avoid unexpected jibs of my main. TWD is changing constantly ± 60 degrees !

Position at 7:30 PM Pacific :25 45.431N and 148 59.723... heading 252. and 613NM to go... it is taking so long
take care

Yves Vergnolle
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Day 12 update: 29.33n 145.06w c224 s6.8 been getting a lot of good boat speed today with the first part of the day squally and then in the late afternoon it looked like it was going to be another long rolly DDW night but i was able to jibe and have been on a broad/beam reach into the night on course with the asym up. we’ll see if this lasts into tomorrow. saw some albatross which is always cool, and what I think are storm petrels. also had a visit from a flying fish into the cockpit, he much have tried really hard to get out because there were scales everywhere. still trying to make up the miles i am behind Saraband and Elizabeth Ann, it seems like when i get some good boat speed it makes the gap even more. very frustrating.


Randy Leasure

Westsail 32' Tortuga


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Giant Slayer smells the barn


My preparations for finishing and navigating towards the finish line are done. The finish is very near shore, as might be expected, but I have had a lot of room to play out here and now real navigation and routing is needed. I have both the nav computer and the ship gps programmed, and I have a plan in case one or the other sail will not come down. I have had the same spinnaker up now for 4 days, so 1 day out, it will come down, and then right back up, or depending on actual wind, I may switch to the Little Man spinnaker just for the last 12 miles. I plan on jibing for the finish to port tack at 12 miles from the finish. This puts me close to Maui for many hours of sailing. Remarkably no wild life this trip, just a few birds. None came buy to visit. Today I dumped more water, had a bath, and cleaned up the boat and crew. Everyone is happy about that. Winds have moderated, and I’m contemplating the bigger spinnaker, but I will observe the conditions, as swapping up and then back in the night could be trouble. With under 500 miles to go, which is still a very very long way to go mind you, mistakes and risk must be weighed. I am getting a very nice sunset tonight, the first nice one of the trip. Tomorrow being Thursday, a new adventure may be reveled in the fortune cookie. I sense that the fortune cookies fortunes on board have been sifted to make sure they are all happy, good for someone at sea, and may not be as guiding as the normal cookie. My 27 feet of world is doing fine, and all the technology is working which is fantastic. I have had just one shackle fail, and that was in my hand as I was attaching it to a sail, which i think i mentioned already. Somehow, i managed to not have any candy, chocolate, or any sweets at all. How is that possible? No ding-dongs, cupcakes, nothing. 🙁 So, we on the boat have been telling stories, and keeping ourselves entertained, and thinking up new fun adventures, and new shirts, you know t-shirts like “Every Dave is a new opportunity”, and “Don’t let one Dave go by that you don’t try something new”. I think I have about 200 more Dave Shirts. As the weather is changing, and not matching the forecast, I will down load a fresh one, and I can always just look outside too, check the barometer, it is raising when the forecast has it falling, usually, that means that Marry Poppins will be coming to dinner, or that the forecasted low is stalling. The GRIBS tell all. OK, planning on hand driving and I may switch up the XL spinnaker, or I may just keep reading all the books i brought. haha.


David Garmin

SC 27' Giant Slayer

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Dried out Finally, TAZ!! Express 27, George Lythcott


Spoke with George by Sat phone on Wed, July 13, 8:53 p.m. CA time. He sounded strong and full spirited. 625 miles to go, 7.8 kts and sometimes planing to 11 kts under twins., 209M. Playing it safe and not going too deep to prevent boat rolling and rounding up. Cold slumber last night. BUT, SUN FINALLY TODAY!! Batteries charged and I am dried out finally too. Flew chute today and twins are my choice for dinner and sleep. Port pole tonight. Everything OK. Only one failure – Sidekick wireless router bit the dust or humidity more like it. Technical support told me to go buy an ethernet cable – yeah right! I’m Racing Here! Relayed from Joe B. Archimedes

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Hanalei On The Horizon!



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Kato is humming along at 5.40 knots and just hours from the finish!

Ventus is currently 31.8 nm away from Hanalei doing 5.8 knots and Nina is 62.2 nm away and making 6.5 knots!


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The wind had held to the mid to upper teens all day and boat speed was not great under mainsail alone. There hadn’t been and squalls last night or yesterday day, and the seas were reasonable. Time to nerve up and try another spin run. I had stripped all the spin gear after the blowup of several days ago, and it took nearly 4 hours for me to get everything out, sorted, led properly , untangled, re-led, checked, detangled, uncoiled, recoiled, and ready to launch. One of my twing line/blocks had apparently gone overboard, perhaps at night after all the fun of last time, so I had to make up a new one. I was taking frequent water and heat breaks, as it was blazing hot. The shy kite was dead; that left the next choices the near-new Quantum medium reacher S3, and the very old red 3/4 oz (?) runner. In moderate air I used the S3 fairly deep, notably in the LongPac, and I though it was OK to use in the teens. Finally, after a lot of sweaty work and careful checking, I hoisted in about 17 kts. So far so good, though kind of floppy and unstable compared to the shy kite.

It is also kind of hard to get the jib back down without crew to help ease the halyard in a controlled way. I got a pretty bad wrap, but was able to tease it out in about 5 minutes. No spin net up. I needed to sail deep, so I set up heading and trim for best course to the finish. I popped down below to get the camera to take the picture above, and also saw from the instrument log that the DDW spin-speed was not much better than main alone. I got another wrap, worse than the last, and screwed around and finally got it out. And then I felt the raindrops. Squall. A small one, only going to 25 kts, and it didn’t last long, but hard to manage with that sail. I had a bad roundup with me on the low side, water coming in, hanging on to the tiller for dear life. I thought I wasn’t clipped in, although in fact I was.

OK, enough of this. At some point the spin sheet had again magically jumped out of the twing snatch block, and the sail was more unstable than ever. Also, on the spin sheet a place where the cover was badly chafed broke, although the line core held. I probably should have put the healthier sheet on that side. As soon as the wind dropped below 20 and things settled down, I went forward to prep the jib for raising. Jib up, lazy guy in hand, and a more or less successful conventional douse. Then I tried to lower the jib while still running very deep, and this time it was the jib’s turn to wrap its top. I forgot you can’t do that without a crew to manage the drop. More trips to the bow. To add insult to injury, by the time all this was all done the wind was back down to 13kts. I guess I can say I tried. I’m not sure about that red 3/4 oz runner, and now I seem to be short a proper spin sheet. I know that most people regard these Hawaii races as spinnaker Nirvana, but without that shy kite I don’t think I can handle conditions over 20 kts, which can pounce at almost any time. And it doesn’t always work to say, well I’ll just hang on till it drops, because sometimes it doesn’t drop for many hours. So I guess I will be back to grinding along straight DDW for now. I’ve still got those twins to try.

David Nabors s/v Temerity


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From the depths of despair on Haunani



5 am July 14. Beautiful sunrise out here! We are moving really well!! 738 miles to go!

July 10 3:50am

Roughest conditions of the whole trip so far. Wild and fun and terribly uncomfortable. At least there is wind!!!! 24-29 knots of it!!!!! Gonna hunker down now!!


Margie Woods

Haunani

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The last few days have been pretty focused on sailing and Althea and less on gourmet meals. Things are going pretty well as I push to have a solid finish. We need to keep driving hard to get west of Celia before she rolls over the course, otherwise I am afraid we’ll be caught in her calms or in her nasty backside. This mornings breakfast was a large helping of spinnaker wrap. 5am, bright and early, the foreguy slips of the primary winch jaw and the pole slams into the headstay. Althea rounds up, then backs off a little to aggressively after she gains her feet and we gybe. Sheet was wrapped pretty high up not allowing me to bear off and have it sorted itself out. Within 90 minutes the kite was hoisted again and we were on our way. I was pretty happy about that all things considered. The patched up kite has otherwise been doing well. The guy has been banished to a cleat. I’ve also been fighting with the autopilot who seems hell bent on returning us to San Francisco.

Everytime the wind hits near 20 she gets afraid and tries to turn around. Not helping our cause for sure. This has led to a hand steering when the blow picks up. There’s an ingress of water through the shaft log leading to needing to pump out the bilge at least twice a day. I don’t leave the pump on as to not wear through my battery with all the cycling and have been pretty good about remembering. I’m not crazy about crawling back there to tighten the gland so it’ll just be. Saw the port nav light was ripped off this morning. What took that so long? All minor things considering how well Althea is doing. It’s amazing the amount of force exerted on her… I know my buttocks are seized up from all the clinching. Listening to: Van Morrison and the Chieftains

Brett Suwyn

Althea

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Only 400 more miles. My best finish time guess is late Saturday night to early Sunday morning. In the dark Hey, that ok, its time to get the trip over with. Set the 1.5 chute yesterday at 0900, carried it all night. Winds kept shifting after sunset, so I was up most the night trimming sails. Switched to the .75 chute at 1100 today. Need the bigger sail and its only blowing 14 knots. I figure is good for .25 knots and that is 5 hours at this distance. Last night was the FIRST night without fleece! Hot and humid today, I am hiding in the shade. What I want when I finish, in no particular order. A bed that is not constantly in motion, cold drink, my girlfriend, and of course a shower Right now its pretty darn calm, no surfing at all. I had a bit yesterday, today no big swells. Good boat speed, 7-7.5 steady. Good for the longer waterline boats like me. The anorexia (ULDB) boats cannot surf in these conditions. Need to get a GRIB, tried this am was unsuccessful. Bad conditions for the SSB. Lasts nights GRIB has me on port pole to the finish, yea! Here to aiming at the Palm Trees!!

Vance Sprock

Seazed Asset


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As the leading wave of the fleet approaches Kauai, it is starting to feel like endgame as boats set up for their most favored jibes to finish. The scale of the race makes it easy to forget looking at the chart how far the race still has to run. For me, at 400nm from the finish, I still have the equivalent of an entire LongPac to run. And a lot can happen in that time and distance. Last night I experienced a pretty big lefty wind shift, which woke me with the banging of a near jibe. So I suited up, jibed, and got more on a VMG course, whereas before I had been cutting over north to hopefully get set up for a better angle on the extended forecast Easterly. Of course GRIBs are often not so accurate, and I make many mistakes in eyeball-routing off them. Wind now is light, about 15 kts. Other news from last night — not a single squall. Clearly we are in a different air mass. The sky was about 50% clear, it was nice to start seeing stars, and the moon is more than half full and waxing. I am so beat though that I slept through my alarm on three separate occasions — even using my new trick of setting up the alarm on the iPod and playing the alarm tone through my earplugs. I really should have found something louder or more violent, perhaps involving electric shock. For most of the race a simple kitchen timer has allowed my to wake up every half hour to two hours to check wind direction and so forth. It’s also getting pretty warm, and spending time in foulies is pretty uncomfortable. Some goretex rainpaints or other superlight wear would also have been a good idea. OK, off to see how I can get sailing faster.

Dave Nabors

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Wow, you were asking about the blue a few days ago. Well, we found blue and clear sky and sweet sailing at 6 to 7 kts.

Last night we spent surfing in the middle of a squall. Never a dull moment. Got the boat up to a little over 10 kts.

This is more like it!

Mike Cunningham

Jaqueline


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Hello half- half day after a quiet night, get up early and put Code 3 up. not much pressure, upgrade to Code 2. then the fun started. 20/30 knots in the squalls in the rain (more like a shower). impressive. Max SOG 17kts. Tried to teach Ray (his full name is F____G Ray Marine X10) how to drive with a kite. the guy is stupid. he does not get it. after 4 hours I was tired. kite down, lunch, then Kite up (code 3) as it was 20+ again and I wanted to give another chance to Ray (the same idiot) with a smaller sail. Ray did a little better. I have to say that the Code 3 was hard to stabilize trying to go deep) Afternoon was just bad bad bad. light wind, turning at each cloud, some rain… kite down, jib down, main up, autopilot in compass mode (my wind mode is dead). I stay inside and look at the AWA on the screen to make sure I am more or less going in the right direction. I think my night is going to be like that. watching AWA to avoid unexpected jibs of my main. TWD is changing constantly ± 60 degrees ! Position at 7:30 PM Pacific :25 45.431N and 148 59.723… heading 252. and 613NM to go… it is taking so long take care Yves

Yves Vernolle

Minibar

[Alan H]

"....Tried to teach Ray (his full name is F____G Ray Marine X10) how to drive with a kite. the guy is stupid. he does not get it....."

HAHA! Quote of the race goes to Yves.

[Single Hander]

Kato has finished!

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Kato Klaimes Line Honors!



Jiri Senkryrik is the 1st boat in for the 2016 SHTP. Jiri and his Olson 30 Kato crossed the finish line at 08:18:30 HST
completing the 2, 120 nm voyage in 12 Days 23hours, 57 minutes and 30 seconds if our math is correct.

Jiri is an SF techy who rebuilt the vintage boat with the assistance of his girl friend over the past year. This is his 1st SHTP!

Congrats!

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Ventus is in... Finished about 10:00 HST

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Current Results From SSS



It would appear that all the "Kane" (ULDB) boats have finished and the results have been posted



Singlehanded Sailing Society
2016 - Singlehanded Trans Pacific Race (TransPac)
Preliminary Results Race 1 07/02/16 Fleets

01 - Ku Time on Distance
Start: 07/02/16 at 12:05:00 Wind: --- from --- Fleet: 5
Course: 1 Distance: 2121.00 Tide: --- --- Started: 5 Finished: 5
Sail # Boat Name Points Skipper Rating Finish Time Elapsed Time Corrected Time Club Make Comments
28134 TEMERITY 1 David Nabors 125 07/17/16 07:06:16 14:19:01:16 11:17:22:31 sss Olson 34
97090 PAKALA 2 Joe Barry 85 07/17/16 03:18:50 14:15:13:50 12:13:09:05 pssa Express 37
7925 HAUNANI 6 Margie Woods 154 Racing Catalina 34
38101 ALTHEA 6 Brett Suwyn 138 Racing sss Cavalier 39
87227 FAST LANE 6 Barry Bristol 131 Racing Catalina Capri


02 - Lono Time on Distance
Start: 07/02/16 at 12:10:00 Wind: --- from --- Fleet: 7
Course: 1 Distance: 2121.00 Tide: --- --- Started: 6 Finished: 6
Sail # Boat Name Points Skipper Rating Finish Time Elapsed Time Corrected Time Club Make Comments
7818 SEAZED ASSET 1 Vance Sprock 130 07/16/16 16:57:25 14:04:47:25 11:00:11:55 ehyc Cal 40
5166 SHAMAN 2 Tom Burden 130 07/17/16 08:48:02 14:20:38:02 11:16:02:32 sss Cal 40
3 JACQUELINE 7 Mike Cunningham 185 Racing sss Freedom 30
c37 OWL 7 John Woodworth 170 Racing sss Pacific Seacraf
87907 DOLFIN 7 Bill Meanley 172 Racing sdyc Pacific Seacraf
1102409 MOUTON NOIR 7 Michael Jefferson 119 Racing oyc Garcia Passoa 4
38094 WATERMARK 8 Michael Thomson 203 DNC sss Pacific Seacraf


03 - Kane Time on Distance
Start: 07/02/16 at 12:15:00 Wind: --- from --- Fleet: 8
Course: 1 Distance: 2121.00 Tide: --- --- Started: 8 Finished: 8
Sail # Boat Name Points Skipper Rating Finish Time Elapsed Time Corrected Time Club Make Comments
38081 DOMINO 1 David Herrigel 136 07/16/16 06:08:21 13:17:53:21 10:09:45:45 sss Wilderness 30
8344 KATO 2 Jiri Senkyrik 99 07/15/16 11:18:50 12:23:03:50 10:12:44:11 Olson 30
27 NINA 3 Robert Macdonald 99 07/15/16 16:20:10 13:04:05:10 10:17:45:31 sss Olson 29
60 VENTUS 4 Chris Cartwright 92 07/15/16 13:02:56 13:00:47:56 10:18:35:44 sss J/88
59369 GIANT SLAYER 5 David Garman 145 07/16/16 21:18:50 14:09:03:50 10:19:38:05 slooptav Santa Cruz 27
8100 TAZ!! 6 George Lythcott 130 07/17/16 14:51:56 15:02:36:56 11:22:01:26 iyc Express-27
fra822 MINIBAR 7 Yves Vergnolle 115 07/18/16 19:06:11 16:06:51:11 13:11:05:56 pssa Mini Transat 6.
839 LIBRA 8 Grégory Saramite 115 07/18/16 21:00:30 16:08:45:30 13:13:00:15 sss Pogo2

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Singlehanded Sailing Society
2016 - Singlehanded Trans Pacific Race (TransPac)
Preliminary Results Race 1 07/02/16 Fleets
04 - Kanaloa Time on Distance
Start: 07/02/16 at 12:20:00 Wind: --- from --- Fleet: 4
Course: 1 Distance: 2121.00 Tide: --- --- Started: 4 Finished: 4
Sail # Boat Name Points Skipper Rating Finish Time Elapsed Time Corrected Time Club Make Comments
none ELIZABETH ANN 5 Gary Burton 199 Racing Westsail 32
175 PATIENCE 5 Lee Perry 204 Racing Westsail 32
207 TORTUGA 5 Randy Leasure 199 Racing sss Westsail 32
28144 SARABAND 5 David King 199 Racing Westsail 32


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Singlehanded Sailing Society 2016 - Singlehanded Trans Pacific Race (TransPac) Race 1 07/02/16 Crew List
28134 TEMERITY David Nabors
97090 PAKALA Joe Barry
7925 HAUNANI Margie Woods
38101 ALTHEA Brett Suwyn
87227 FAST LANE Barry Bristol
7818 SEAZED ASSET Vance Sprock
5166 SHAMAN Tom Burden
3 JACQUELINE Mike Cunningham
c37 OWL John Woodworth
87907 DOLFIN Bill Meanley
1102409 MOUTON NOIR No Crew List for this boat
38094 WATERMARK Michael Thomson
38081 DOMINO David Herrigel
8344 KATO Jiri Senkyrik
27 NINA Robert Macdonald
60 VENTUS Chris Cartwright
59369 GIANT SLAYER David Garman
8100 TAZ!! George Lythcott
fra822 MINIBAR Yves Vergnolle
839 LIBRA Grgory Saramite
none ELIZABETH ANN Gary Burton
175 PATIENCE Lee Perry
207 TORTUGA Randy Leasure
28144 SARABAND David King
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