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The record for double-handing the Transpac yacht race from Los Angeles to Honolulu has been broken. At 4:38:35 a.m. Hawaiian Time today, Philippe Kahn and Mark “Crusty” Christensen, crossed the Diamond Head finish line in the Open 50 Pegasus, completing a record time of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds, shaving two and a half days off the previous record of 10 days 4 hours, 4 minutes and 49 seconds was set in 2001 by Howard Gordon and Jay Crum also with an Open 50, the Etranger.
The Transpacific Yacht Race is one of the longest standing and most prestigious ocean races in the world covering 2,225 nautical miles from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
“Double-handing the Open 50 to Hawaii is one of the highlights of my year,” stated Kahn…Â Details
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a sports car? Or is it an Alfa Romeo cunningly disguised as Neville Crighton’s latest boat?
Whatever… here are some exclusive pics of the new 70’ Alfa Romeo, designed by Reichel-Pugh, and pushed out of McConaghy’s shed in China a couple of weeks ago (yes, we’ve been keeping it under wraps).
Congratulations, Neville, on your new TransPac record. And congratulations on being the owner of the only pocket maxi in the world with wing mirrors on the steering pedestals and a sports car stashed down below. Outrageous! Wonderful!
For the record – that’s the coolest nav station Sail-World has EVER seen, and the sassiest engine cover in the world (check out the wheel arches, yup, they’re there!). But can we have just a little padding in the Recaro bucket seats? Please? … Details & Pictures
Proving that seconds can be just as valuable as firsts, the Kailua Canoe Club won the John D. Kaupiko Regatta yesterday at Ke’ehi Lagoon.
It was the sixth regatta of the O’ahu Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association season, and Kailua’s second win of the season.
“To me, it just means that we’re hanging in there,” Kailua head coach Kathy Erwin said. “We had a lucky day. We had a couple of squeaker first places, where we just barely won. And then we had a lot of different crews score points.”
Kailua scored 88 points in the 39-race regatta.
Lanikai placed second with …Â Details