Transpacific Yacht Club, Al Garnier, Commodore
Starts July 9, 12 and 15, 2007; WEB site http://www.transpacificyc.org/
July 15, 2007
No breeze, no Disney for Transpac's final start
No breeze, no Disney for Transpac's final start
LONG BEACH, Calif.---Roy E. Disney's powered-up Pyewacket, with America's Cup skipper Dean Barker on board, will be among the final 23 of 74 boats in the 44th biennial Transpacific Yacht Race that head for Hawaii Sunday. They'll receive a boisterous sendoff from Rainbow Harbor in downtown Long Beach at 10 a.m., followed by their start eight miles west off Point Fermin in San Pedro at 1 p.m.
A few hours after his news flashed around the docks at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, the fleet met balmy southeast zephyrs of only 3 to 4 knots off the Point Fermin start line in San Pedro that left the high-powered racers gasping for air. With what little wind there was coming from 170 on the compass and the west end of Santa Catalina Island to the right at 215, all 23 boats quickly tacked to port after the gun.
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