YEAR | SUBJECT | DETAILS |
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Total Starters |
51 races: 2,111 |
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2019 | Largest Fleet |
90 yachts |
1932 | Smallest Fleet |
2 yachts |
1953 & 1959 | Largest Yacht |
Goodwill, 161 feet, with a best time of 10 1/2 days |
Smallest Yacht |
Vapor, 25 feet |
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2013 | Oldest Yacht |
Dorade (52-foot Sparkman & Stephens sloop), 83 years |
2017 | Fastest Elapsed Time (Monohull) |
5 days 1 hour 55 minutes 26 seconds |
1997 | Fastest Elapsed Time (Multihull) |
4 days 6 hours 32 minutes 30 seconds |
1939 | Slowest Elapsed Time from San Francisco (Monohull) |
23 days 23 hours 55 minutes 4 seconds |
2005 | Slowest Elapsed Time from Los Angeles |
22 days 11 hours 36 minutes 15 seconds |
2009 | Fastest Doublehanded Elapsed Time |
7 days 18 hours 38 minutes 35 seconds |
2021 | Longest Days 24 Hour Run (Monohull) |
505.75 nautical miles |
1939 | Shortest Days 24 Hour Run |
0 nautical miles (7 miles in 7 days) |
1955 | Closest Boat-For-Boat Finish |
4 seconds |
1973 | Closest First to Finish |
4 minutes 31 seconds |
1973 to 2009 | Most Races By a Boat |
15 races by Ragtime, Spencer 65 sloop |
Most Races Won Boat (Skipper/Owner) |
Lurline:
Grand Illusion:
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Most Race Won on Elapsed Time |
Lurline (1906, 1908, and 1912), and Morning Star (1949, 1951, and 1955). |
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Most Races By Individual |
Roy P. Disney: 25 races from 1975 to 2021 Gary Weisman: 25 races from 1969 to 2021 |
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Most Transpac and Tahiti Races by Individual |
Gary Weisman: 26 races |
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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 |
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Total Hawaiian Entries |
114 |
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Total International Entries |
159 (record of 14 in 2013) |
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International Yacht Trophy Winners |
2015 – Fastest elapsed time (unlimited) – Wild Oats XI (R/P 100), Australia 2013 – Fastest elapsed time (unlimited) – Ragamuffin 100 (Elliot 100), Australia 2013 – First, Div. 7 – Ten Quarter (First 40), Japan 2011 – Fastest elapsed time (unlimited) – O Canada (Open 60), Canada 2011 – Fastest elapsed time (multihull) – Espiritu Santi (Atlantic 57), Mexico 2011 – First, Div. 1 – Peligroso (Kernan 70), Mexico 2009 – Fastest elapsed time: Alfa Romeo (R/P 100), New Zealand 2003 – Second overall corrected time – Beau Geste (Transpac 52), Hong Kong 1997 – First, multihull – Explorer (86'), France 1995 – First overall – Merlin (Lee 66), Canada 1995 – First, Div. 1 – Merlin (Lee 66), Canada 1995 – First, Div. 2B – Exile, British Virgin Islands 1979 – Second overall, Class B – Miyakodori, Japan 1967 – First to finish – Stormvogel, South Africa 1951, 1953 – First, Class B – Chiriqui, Balboa Canal Zone |
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International Ports Represented |
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Start Locations |
The race started in Los Angeles every year except 1928 (Newport Beach), 1923 and 1932 (Santa Barbara). |
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1993 | First Multi-Day Starts |
The first multi-day staggered start of the race |
Transpac Races Skipped Due to World Wars |
The race was run every even-numbered year from 1906 through 1936, except for 10 years during World War I. It then changed to odd-numbered years in 1939 so as not to conflict with the East Coat's Bermuda Race. Transpac was not raced from 1942 through 1946 during World War II. |
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1969 | Stern First Finish |
The only yacht to cross the Diamond Head finish line stern-first was the 78-foot ketch Mir, when she lost her mast and was backed across the line with her mizzen. |