Fastest elapsed time (monohull): 5 days 14 hours 36 minutes 20 seconds.  Neville Crichton, Alfa Romeo, Reichel/Pugh 100, 2009.  More than 26 hours were knocked off of the old record that had been set by Hasso Plattner , Morning Glory, Reichel/Pugh maxZ86 in 2005.

Fastest elapsed time (multihull): 5 days 9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds, Explorer (86-foot catamaran), Bruno Peyron, 1997.

Slowest elapsed time (monohull): 23 days 23 hours 55 minutes 4 seconds, Viking Childe (42-foot ketch), William Merry, 1939 (Note: race started in San Francisco; slowest ET from Los Angeles was 22 days 11 hours 36 minutes 15 seconds by Camille (Stewart 42), James and Ann Read, doublehanded, San Francisco, 2005).

Total starters (44 races): 1,700.

Largest fleet: 80 boats, 1979.

Smallest fleet: 2 boats, 1932.

Largest boat: Goodwill, 161 feet, 1953 and 1959.

Smallest boat: Vapor, 25 feet., 1999.

Oldest boats: Alsumar (70-foot Sparkman & Stephens yawl), 73 years; and Odyssey (58-foot yawl), 68 years, 2005.

Oldest full crew: Bubala (Cal 40), six crew members ages 66 to 72 (average 68.3), 2005.

Oldest doublehanded crew: Tango (J/133), Michael Abraham, 70/Phillip Rowe, 70, 2007.

Youngest crew: On the Edge of Destiny (1D35), six crew members ages 17-23 (average 19.8), 2007.

Fastest elapsed time doublehanded: 10 days 4 hours 4 minutes 19 seconds, Étranger (Open 50), Howard Gordon/Jay Crum, 2001.

Longest day's run: 393 nautical miles, Morning Glory, July 18, 2005.

Shortest day's run: 0, Viking Childe, 1939 (7 miles in 7 days).

Closest boat-for-boat finish: 4 seconds, Kawamee over Marie Amelie (for 6th to finish in Class B), 1955.

Closest first-to-finish: 4 minutes 31 seconds, Ragtime def. Windward Passage, 1973.

Most races by boat: 14, Ragtime (first race 1973, latest 2007).

Most Transpac races by individual: 22, Thad Jones.

Most Transpac and Tahiti races by individual: 25, Bob Dickson.

Youngest crew members: Larry Folsom Jr. (Centurion, 1975), 11 years 35 days; Virginia Munsey (Silhouette II, 1957) 11 years 42 days; Samuel (Shark) Kahn (Pegasus, 2001), 11 years 11 months.

Hawaiian entries: 101.

International entries: 124 (record 9 in 2003).