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.
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.
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
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.
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, gives sailing its own version of Mark Cuban. Like Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association, Kahn has earned vast…
Philippe Kahn and his crew on Pegasus crossed the line first in the Miami Regatta long distance race, the final race of the first part of the Farr 40 One Design Admiral’s Cup Trials.