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7/16/10   Pegasus-MotionX sets 403 mile 24 hour record in crossing from San Francisco to Hawaii
     
7/18/09   Pegasus-MotionX, with Philippe Kahn and Mark Christensen smash double handed Transpacific record by more than 2 days
     
7/30/08   Pegasus Sets New Double-Handed San Francisco to Hawaii Record
     
7/27/08   Pegasus sets new San Francisco to Hawaii record and wins Pacific Cup 2008 first to finish.
     
3/29/08   Double-Handed Farallon Race
     
1/28/08   Pegasus wins boat of the day at Key West Race week for Melges 32
     
7/18/07   Pegasus wins double-handed Transpac
     
6/15/07   Pegasus Wins the 18' Skiff European Championships
     
5/14/07   Pegasus Wins 2007 Fullpower Melges 24 World Championship
     
11/17/06   Countdown to Fullpower Melges 24 Worlds
     
11/14/06   Finn Gold Cup 2009, San Francisco
     
8/27/06   Hamlin wins 18ft skiffs in San Francisco
     
8/21/06   18' Skiff International Regatta - The Greatest Show on H20
     
3/01/06   Naugural Rolex TP52 Global Championship
     
1/20/06   DAVE ULLMAN ON PEGASUS RACING WINS KEY WEST RACE WEEK
     
9/19/05   Pegasus Wins St. Francis Perpetual Trophy
     
8/06/05   Pegasus Wins Waikiki Offshore Series
     
7/11/05   Pegasus Racing wins 29er Worlds
     
6/12/05   Pegasus Racing Wins 18ft VelamareSkiff Cup!!!!!
     
2/22/05   'Eat My Wake'
    Forbes Life - Daniel Fisher
     
02/16/05   'SHARK ATTACK'
    -SSANGYONG JJ GILTINAN 18ft SKIFF CHAMPIONSHIP
     
01/21/05   Victory For Pegasus Racing at Key West Race Week 2005!
- International Melges 24 Class Association
     
09/23/04   Tough Love in the Kahn-test; Sherratt's Steadfast in First
- Rich Roberts
     
09/22/04   Shark Makes It Unsafe for Mumm 30s on the Water
- Rich Roberts
     
09/21/04   Father First, Son Fourth in Bell Mumm 30 Worlds Kahn-test
- Rich Roberts
     
09/14/04   Bell Joins Mumm 30s for 8th World Championship in Toronto
- Rich Roberts
     
09/2/04   Can Kahn Plan End U.S. Medal Drought?
- The Log
     
08/4/04   Big Melges line-up in Sweden
- Yachting World
     
05/16/04   Harken / Team McLube interview with Philippe Kahn
- www.harken.com
     
01/23/04   Dutchman flies to Farr 40 Victory at Key West,
Shark Wins Again, But France's Col Collects Melges 24 Title

Samual "Shark" Kahn, the current world champion, won four of nine races
and led most of the week.
- www.Premiere-Racing.com
     
01/23/04   Pegasus Racing has strong showing at Key West Race Week
With only five points separating Col and second placed Shark Kahn it was still wide open going into this final race and the spectator boats were out in force to watch them fight it out.
- International Melges 24 Class Association
     
01/22/04   Sebastian Col Leads Shark Kahn By Five Points
Going Into The Final Day In Key West

With just one more day to go, the fight for supremacy in the Melges 24 fleet at Terra Nova Trading Key West 2004 is going to go all the way. Day four saw the race committee run two more excellent races despite a second day of shifty offshore winds of 12-16 knots. The completion of race seven today meant that the discard came into play and suddenly its all change on the leader board.
- International Melges 24 Class Association
     
01/21/04   Pegasus Racing and Shark
Still Leading On Day Three In Key West

It was a day of ups and downs in the Melges 24 fleet at Terra Nova Trading Key West today. The breeze was much shiftier and lighter than on the first two days and the change in conditions really put the sailors to the test.
- International Melges 24 Class Association
     
01/20/04   Shark Leads Philippe
In The Kahn Family/Pegasus Racing Key West Battle

Day two at Terra Nova Trading Key West provided the Melges 24 fleet with two more beautiful races. The battle between father and son Philippe and Shark Kahn cranked up a notch today and with four races completed the fourteen year old Shark now leads his father by 8 points.
- International Melges 24 Class Association
     
01/19/04   Pegasus Racing and Philippe Kahn
Leads On Day One In Key West

The fifty-eight strong Melges 24 fleet opened their regatta at Terra Nova Trading Key West with two excellent races today. The only disappointment of the day was the weather, which failed to delivery the traditional Key West sunshine until mid afternoon and instead brought overcast skies and light showers.
- International Melges 24 Class Association
     
10/17/03   Pegasus Racing at Melges 24 Worlds
Shark Bites!
     
10/16/03   Pegasus Racing at Melges 24 Worlds
All Change On Day Four In San Francisco
     
10/15/03   Pegasus Racing at Melges 24 Worlds
Two More Bullets For Harry Melges On Day Three
     
10/14/03   Pegasus Racing at Melges 24 Worlds
Harry Melges still leading by 3 points after 2 days
     
10/13/03  

Pegasus Racing at Melges 24 Worlds
Two Bullets For Harry Melges On Day One In San Francisco

     
07/15/03   Pegasus Racing and Pegasus 77 Sails To Transpacific Win
Pegasus beats Pyewacket by nearly five hours.
- Long Beach Press Telegram
     
07/15/03   2003 Transpacific Yacht Race
A full moon lighted the way past the Diamond Head finish line for Philippe Kahn's Pegasus 77 and a second consecutive Barn Door victory in the 2003 Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles early yesterday.
- Sailing.org
     
07/15/03   Pegasus 77 Finishes On The Fly
Boat Deftly Navigates 2,225-mile Crossing From L.A. To Honolulu To Win 42nd Transpacific Yacht Race By Nearly Five Hours
- Los Angeles Times
     
07/15/03   Tech entrepreneur Philippe Kahn wins yacht race
LightSurf founder and chief executive officer Philippe Kahn won the 42nd Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
- Santa Cruz Sentinal
     
07/13/03   LADY BLEU II THE TOAST OF WAIKIKI FOR A DAY
     
07/12/03   WIND AT LAST --- DOOR OPENS A CRACK FOR A TRANSPAC RECORD
     
07/11/03   IT'S NO ILLUSION---A CAL 40 MAY WIN TRANSPAC OVERALL AGAIN
     
07/10/03   OUT OF WIND, OUT OF PATIENCE, BUT THERE'S HOPE AHEAD
     
07/09/03   A FLYING HORSE ON A SLOW TRACK TO HAWAII
     
07/08/03   PYEWACKET'S DAY OF RECKONING IN THE WIND GAME
     
07/07/03   PEGASUS 77 BETS ON THE LONG WAY TO HAWAII
     
07/06/03   PYEWACKET LEADS PEGASUS 77; TWO BOATS DROP OUT
     

07/05/03

 

PEGASUS 77 AND PYEWACKET MATCH UP ON SUNDAY

   
06/22/03  

Pegasus Wins Coastal Cup, crushes record by 6.5 hours and beats Pyewacket for the second consecutive time

     

07/15/01

  In a Tight Transpac, Pegasus Makes Right Moves
The California-based technology entrepreneur Philippe Kahn and his all-star crew aboard Pegasus won the Barn Door trophy in the biennial Transpac Race.
- The New York Times
     
04/15/01   Entrepreneur Sails in Free Time
Philippe Kahn, the California-based technology entrepreneur who in the last two years has come out of the clear blue to become a major force in the sport of yacht racing...
- The New York Times
     
03/27/01   Pegasus 77 launched
Pegasus is the latest Transpac sled to come from the drawing board of Reichel Pugh.
- BoatingOZ
     
03/16/01   Philippe's interview in MadForSailing.com
The US Farr 40 Admiral's Cup trial winner talks about his new-found love of sailing. (he's only been racing for two years!)
- madforsailing.com
     

Racing and Sailing News

6/20/03   PEGASUS 77 - RECORD TUNE-UP FOR TRANSPAC 'MATCH RACE'
HONOLULU - The rivalry stands at 2-0 after last weekend's 13th annual Coastal Cup race
when Pegasus 77, a Reichel/Pugh 77, ran away from Pyewacket, an R/P 75, in
the record time of 26 hours 24 minutes 55 seconds for the Encinal Yacht
Club's 360-nautical mile race from San Francisco to Santa Catalina Island.
With early strong winds fading to a drifter, Pyewacket dropped out 25 miles
from the finish 2 1/2 hours after Pegasus 77 had finished.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club
     
4/20/02   Philippe, Pegasus 55, wins first-to-finish trophy at Single Handed Farallon Race 2002
Aprils 20th 2002, San Francisco, was the single handed Farallon Race, windy, big waves and fun. I was lucky and won the first to finish trophy...
- Singlehanded Sailing Society
     
1/13/02   MELGES 24 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW
With almost 80 entries from 10 nations and 3 continents the 2001 Melges 24 World Championship, being held in association with Terra Nova Trading/Yachting Key West Race Week from 20-25 January 2002, will be the biggest Melges 24 event ever held in the USA.
- INTERNATIONAL MELGES 24 CLASS ASSOCIATION
     
1/12/02   Key West, January 2002, Team Pegasus at Melges Worlds with two Boats
     
07/10/01  

Now it's a Numbers Game
HONOLULU - The Barn Door is settled. Now comes the scramble for handicap honors. With Philippe Kahn's Pegasus tucked safely in its slip at Ala Wai Yacht Harbor with honors secured for fastest elapsed time in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race, several smaller boats were due to finish before the Hawaiian sun sets Tuesday. This is when a calculator becomes more important than a GPS.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/09/01  

Pegasus Wins Barn Door, One Hour Ahead of Pyewacket
HONOLULU - Philippe Kahn, a, French-born software developer from Santa Cruz, Calif., Monday won it on his second try when he sailed his 75-foot ultralight sloop Pegasus past the finish line off Diamond Head after 8 days 2 hours 34 minutes 3 seconds. Pegasus was an hour and three minutes ahead of Disney's Pyewacket to climax an epochal three-way battle across 2,225 nautical miles from Los Angeles that also included Bob McNulty's boat Chance.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/09/01  

Pegasus Flying Towards the Barn
HONOLULU - Pegasus increased its lead on Pyewacket over Sunday night and was 16 miles ahead with 92 miles to go at Monday morning's roll call in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/08/01  

No One Asleep on the Deep on Final Night
HONOLULU - There was little change in their relative positions through the day Sunday as Pegasus, Pyewacket and Chance answered evening roll call and sailed into their final sleepless night of the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/08/01  

Three-Way Sprint to a Possible Sweep
Break out the brooms. The tactical pas de trois among Pegasus, Pyewacket and Chance in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race has taken off into a headlong sprint to the finish and a possible rare sweep for the winner.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/07/01  

Pegasus, Pye Even: Shanakee II a Winner in its Own Way
Shanakee II became the first boat to finish the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii early Saturday morning, but because of a head start on other classes it won't win the Barn Door trophy for fastest elapsed time.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/06/01  

Hawaii's Doyle Living Big Dream in Smallest Boat
Dan Doyle is almost halfway home and having the time of his life on the smallest boat in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii. He could almost smell the islands as his 30-foot sloop Two Guys On the Edge soared southwest in the trade winds Friday.
.- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/05/01  

Pegasus: A Bold Move Under a Full Moon
Philippe Kahn's Pegasus slipped from first place to third in Division 1 of the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race, position reports showed Thursday, after making a tactical move south in a tight battle among the three fastest boats.
.- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/04/01   Japanese Boat SHowing the (New) Way
For Bengal II, the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race is just a way of island-hopping home. The Japanese entry sailed all the way across the Pacific to start the race and now is leading the way back along a risky route that has brought it nearer Hawaii than any of the other 24 boats in the four racing divisions
.- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club
     
07/03/01   Shanakee II First in Luxury - and Looking to Finish First
Thanks to a six-day headstart, a new 75-foot sloop with all the comforts of many homes apparently will be the first boat to finish the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii. Housing developer Jim Warmington's Shanakee II, a David Pedrick design, started June 25 with the Aloha Division and flew past the two-thirds mark Tuesday after reporting a position only 809 nautical miles from Honolulu.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club
     
07/02/01  

Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Boats in a Tub
When the sun broke over the western Pacific Monday morning the crews of Pegasus, Chance and Pyewacket looked out on tranquil seas and saw . . . Pegasus, Chance and Pyewacket. The three super sleds were within three miles of one another virtually drifting in winds too light for stretching their legs or even dreaming of setting a record in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
07/01/01  

Little Wind but Plenty of Action for Final Start
There was barely a breath of air but a rambunctious start punctuated by a protest Sunday as the last 12 boats set sail in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club

     
06/30/01  

Race for a Record to Start; Two Guys get a Reprieve
Some of the newest and fastest monohull sailboats in the world will start the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii Sunday, but for human drama they may not be able to match their smaller colleagues who started Saturday.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club.

     
06/29/01   Smallest Boat has Major Mission in Transpac
The smallest boat in the 41st Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii will be Dan Doyle's 30-foot Two Guys On the Edge, which will start with the Division III and IV fleets Saturday at 1 p.m. off the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club.
     
06/28/01   It's a Whale of a Sail - and Maybe a Chance for a Record
The morning roll call of Transpacific Yacht Race competitors was interrupted Thursday when Stardust reported an unusual incident. Peter and Patricia Anderson's Wylie 46 from Laguna Beach, Calif. had just hit a whale
- L.A.-Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Club.
     
06/23/01   A Good Way to Ruin a Perfect Day
At the first windward mark of the day's second race, Alexandra Geremia's Crocodile Rock, sharing first place with John Kilroy's Samba Pa Ti at the time, crashed into Mike Condon's Endurance to knock the latter boat out of the regatta with two races remaining Sunday.
- Premiere Racing
     

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