Category: History
2014 Archimedes starting Transpac
A slow or fast fleet?
While we have no multihulls or fast rockets like Truth this year, our current fleet’s rating spread is very typical of the race historically.
SHTP 2010 The Start
SHTP 2010 with Warrior’s Wish
SHTP 2010 with Idefix
SHTP 2014 with Elise
SHTP 2012 with Slacker
SHTP Entry Stats
With Jibeset showing 35 boats registered to date, we ask, “Could this be the record-breaking year?”
In the history of the race there have been a total of 335 entrants, 280 finishers, or 294 counting FAD. It is not clear that DNS are not lumped in with DNF in the table above.
(Data table adapted from analysis by Steve Hodges.)
Pictures from the 1978 SHTP
Some more history of the first Singlehanded TransPac. Thanks once again to Jacky for the scans.
Start of the Race SF Bay