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Transpac Blog Themes for Foodies |
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Media and News -
General Transpac News
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Written by Lynn Fitzpatrick
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 17:16 |
Los Angeles (July 9, 2009) – Professional crews, especially those who are making the trip with a diet of freeze-dried food, don’t talk about their meals. They talk about what sails they have up and how many miles they have ticked off every day. The frontrunners are keeping track of the records they are setting or have the potential to beat. Assuming they can find time to boil water, pour it into a pot, stir it up and ladle it out, they are not talking about it. The crew that finished completed a nine-month circumnavigation during the Volvo Ocean Race only to catch an airplane and join Alfa Romeo are hoping that Alfa Romeo will be dockside before they dive into their stores and pull out the “stainless steel tuna”. That’s what the crew that refer to the freeze-dried food that they acquired from Ericsson’s left over Volvo Ocean Race provisions.
All male crews with no galley slave and hundreds of thousands of sea miles among them spend a lot of time devising a party theme to make their meals seem more interesting.
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Media and News -
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Written by Lynn Fitzpatrick
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 17:03 |
Los Angeles (July 9, 2009) – Alfa Romeo has been averaging 16.5 knots, which is over 2 knots faster than the Los Angeles to Hawaii Transpacific Yacht Race previous monohull record pace set by Morning Glory in 2005. The super maxi clipped off 431 nautical miles over the 24-hour period, breaking the Transpac 24-hour record that it established earlier in the week. Not only are Neville Crichton and his Alfa Romeo team eyeing the course record for monohulls, if they keep it up, they could squeak in under the wire and beat the multihull record. (Don’t forget, Murray Spence reported pinning Alfa Romeo’s needle at 35 knots during a delivery.)  Philippe Kahn and Mark “Crusty” Christensen are doing a phenomenal job setting Open 50 speed records, keeping the pedal to the metal so that they clobber the previously held double handed record … by days. Kahn and Christensen are demonstrating to all of us how easy it is to use MotionX to navigate, post their progress to the web and prance through the water faster than Michael Phelps at the US Swimming National Championships.
If you haven’t been tuning into www.Pegasus.com and clicking on the videos, we hope that you are finding them directly on YouTube. This is a rare chance to feel as if you are part of small team that is really enjoying their magical ride atop the waves and under the stars from Los Angeles to Hawaii.
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Pegasus Update - Another Record Set |
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Media and News -
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Written by Lynn Fitzpatrick
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 09:29 |
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 This just in from Philippe Kahn and Mark "Crusty" Christensen who are tearing up the Transpac race track.
Reports Kahn, "In the last reporting schedule, Mark and I broke the 24 hour record for Open 50s. It was 325 nms, we did 339.3.
That's exciting."
That's an understatement!
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Media and News -
General Transpac News
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Written by Lynn Fitzpatrick
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 05:49 |
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Los Angeles (July 9, 2009) - Alfa Romeo and Pegasus have picked up the pace. They are flying along and could smash monohull, multihull and doublehanded records.
During the night Alfa Romeo was trucking along at over 20 knots. Extrapolating her ETA, she could arrive as early as Friday evening. If she crosses between the Diamond Head LIght and Buoy before 7:18:28 pm HST, it looks as if she will set an all-time Transpacific Yacht Race record.
Philippe Kahn managed to take one hand off the helm during the middle of the night and post video of Pegasus' cockpit instrument panel showing her prancing along at close to 15 knots. Pegaus could annihilate the doublehanded record by three days.
Only nine boats have held an elapsed time record for the Transpacific Yacht Race since the first race in 1906. The names of the boats are inscribed on the Clock Trophy, a 55" tall, several hundred pound trophy that is on permanent display at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum. Half models of the hulls of the record breaking yachts are also mounted on the trophy.
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