Some Transpac 2013 overview coverage video during the last few days from Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach.
Gayle Anderson was live in Long Beach for the 47th Transpacific Yacht Race or Transpac 2013, as the second set of yachts prepare to disembark from Point Fermin in San Pedro at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, July 11th and the third set on Saturday, July 13th. You can see the yachts before they set sail at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach near Gladstones.
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Category Archives: Boating
Transpac Video (First Start of 3) Start 2013
Here is the first of many videos of the Transpac 2013 Race.
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3 Generations of The Bell Family have sailed the Transpac
In 2013, a third generation of Bells are racing Westward in Transpac. Westward will sail in her first Transpac since 1981 with six crew, all family, aboard.
We invite you to join us in our adventure. Learn about the crew, the race, and the work that went into readying the boat for her first ocean race in over 30 years. During the race, you will be able to track us on the Transpac site, and when we can, we'll also update this site.
Follow their journey here.
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Transpac Race
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The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is an offshore yacht race starting off Point Fermin, San Pedro, near Los Angeles, and ending off Diamond Head Lighthouse in Honolulu, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560 mi; 4,121 km). Started in 1906, it is one of yachting's premier offshore races and attracts entrants from all over the world. The race is organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club.
The race is famous for fast downwind sailing under spinnaker in the trade winds.
More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpacific_Yacht_Race
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... Transpacific Yacht Race 2013: 59 boats race towards Hawaii this July – this is Transpac
Hawaii Reporter
Report from the Honolulu Transpacific Committee - It has been described as a life changing adventure, a whirlwind of unbelievable competition and a seafaring challenge unlike any other in the world. This is Transpac. In just under 1 month on July 8, 2013 there will be 59 skippers racing their boats towards Hawaii from Long Beach, along with novice, intermediate and professional crews. As of June 20, 2013 Transpac has received four entries from Hawaii-based boats, Pyewacket, Kahuna, Casch Mer and Grand Illusion. Of course, Hawaii’s very own James McDowell, skipper of Grand Illusion, was the winner in the last Honolulu Race (2011) of the King Kalakaua Trophy awarded to the First Corrected Overall yacht. Hundreds of sailors from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, California, Mexico, Chicago, Japan, San Francisco, and now a late entry from Thailand, along with many other ports of call, will very soon head across the Pacific Ocean in this historic yacht race
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EPA Releases Non-Copper Boat Paint Study Results
The Log
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the California Department of Toxic Substances Control a $96,000 grant to test a wide variety of safer non-biocide alternatives to copper-based antifouling boat paint. Tests took place in San Diego, Newport Beach and San Francisco from November 2009 to December 2012 -- and now, the results are in.
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From the Boathouse: Watch out for suspicious boats
By Mike Whitehead - The Daily Pilot
Ahoy, and summer officially begins next Friday!
Does anyone find it surprising that a sailboat carrying 80 to 90 bales of marijuana was beached in Newport Harbor after a brief chase by the Coast Guard? This occurred at 1 a.m. on June 3 after the drug smugglers entered the harbor and refused to allow the Coast Guard personnel to board the sailboat. Finally, the boat was run aground on Balboa Island, and two people leapt from the vessel only to disappear in the night.
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Shoreline Marina Fuel Dock Reopens to Boaters
The Log
LONG BEACH -- Boaters needing to refuel at Shoreline Marina can now once again use the Shoreline Marina fuel dock -- for the first time after several years of closure.
The fuel dock reopened Friday, May 24, just in time for Memorial Day weekend and the busy boating season.
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LONG BEACH -- Boaters needing to refuel at Shoreline Marina can now once again use the Shoreline Marina fuel dock -- for the first time after several years of closure.
The fuel dock reopened Friday, May 24, just in time for Memorial Day weekend and the busy boating season.
Continue Reading...... Dana Point Harbor Boat Show Opens May 30
The Log
DANA POINT -- More than 125 boats are set to appear in the water, along with 60 trailerboats and PWCs on land, at the 13th annual Dana Point Harbor In-Water Boat Show, May 30-June 2 at the Dana Point Sail & Events Center, at Ensenada Place and Dana Point Harbor Drive.
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LB Commission Recommends Slip Fee Increases
The Log: by Ambrosia Brody
LONG BEACH -- Boat slip tenants in Long Beach marinas may get a rent hike, if the Long Beach City Council approves a Marine Advisory Commission recommendation to raise slip fees by .5 percent for boaters using older wooden docks and by 2.224 percent for boaters using concrete docks. The 2.224 percent increase corresponds to the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Commissioners voted several times on five options provided by Marine Bureau manager Mark Sandoval during a May 9 meeting. The advisory group pondered how to ensure that the marina maintains adequate funding for future upgrades while not imposing too big of an increase on local boaters.
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