A questionable morning position report relayed from Samba Pa Ti by another boat indicated that the latter had broken away on a deep dive south in the past 24 hours and sailed 249 miles at 10.4 knots to Morning Light's 201 at 8.4 knots-but lost 33 miles in distance to the finish, now 499 to 530 in ML's favor. The boat's a dream, an old classic.'Īmong boats still at sea, the Transpac 52 match between the young Morning Light team and John Kilroy Jr.'s Samba Pa Ti turned weird. 'I'm not a sailor,' he said after completing his fifth Transpac. Tuesday's finishes were relatively laid back, which fits Black's style, anyway. led the way by more than a day at mid-day Sunday when it rode a 30-knot flyer past Diamond Head, catching locals planning to watch their finish off guard. Chip Megeath's SC52 Kokopelli 2 from Tiburon, Calif. Then came the Santa Cruz armada like grandiose ghost ships from the past, kicking butt as they did in their good old days and ranking third through eighth overall. Bob and Rob Barton's Andrews 56 Cipango finished 26 1/2 minutes ahead of Reinrag2, not good nearly enough to cover the 5 1/2 hours it owed the J/125. Disney's 94-foot winged wonder Pyewacket had won the Barn Door for fastest elapsed time two days earlier in an hour over seven days, followed by Tom Garnier's J/125 Reinrag2 claiming overall honors about 10 1/2 hours later. 'Everybody put in a lot of hard work.'Īn added note: 'This boat used to live here when Don Clothier owned it,' Grant said. 'We had a great time and walked off the boat as better friends,' Grant said. The Swan owed Tower about 16 1/2 minutes but finished more than three hours in front. PDT roll call, about the same time Rancho Deluxe was finishing. 'It was wonderful and beautiful,' he exclaimed after sailing his 28-year-old Stag's Leap Winery-nee Chasch Mer, the first Santa Cruz 50 built-into his hometown Ala Wai Yacht Harbor before dawn Tuesday, the seventh of nine boats in the SC 50/52 division but 11th overall among the 73 starters on corrected handicap time-and unsurpassed in joy.Īlso Tuesday, Mike Diepenbrock's Rancho Deluxe, a dark blue Swan 45 from Sacramento, and Doug Grant's Tower, a Lidgard 45 from San Pedro, Calif., finished in that order after swapping the lead between them for most of the 2,225 nautical miles.īy a quirk of timing, Tower was listed in first place after Tuesday morning's 6 a.m. He was having too much fun in the Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii to worry about such trivialities. Gib Black probably couldn't tell you what his boat's handicap rating is, and he certainly wouldn't care.
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