Onward to Hawaii!

2015 Transpac coverage as seen in SAILING magazine

Last Betsycam shot of the day ...

 "Reality television show producers could not have dreamed up a more cockamamie set of obstacles than what the 2015 Transpacific Yacht Race served its 60 entrants, racing from Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, in July.
During the last of three starts there was rain, thunder and lightening—unheard of in California mid-summer. A hurricane threatened; the fleet was becalmed. Fires, failures and things-that-go-bump-in-the-night peppered the course. And if that wasn’t enough, during two of the busiest nights for arrivals, entrance to the Ala Wai Marina was shut by a raucous south swell that rolled huge breakers down the channel. Dozens of racers, eager for the traditional greeting of mai tais and leis, were forced to stand off until dawn. "It was a trip to the Twilight Zone,” said Randy Smith ..."
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