Transpac 2011 first start underway

1:44 AM Tue 5 Jul 2011 GMT

'Celerity at the start. Photo by Kimball Livingston - Transpac' Kimball Livingston

The first wave of Transpac 2011 starters left Point Fermin today, bound for Honolulu with a seabreeze in the low teens to get them 'off the beach' and many a quiet prayer for the breeze to hold through the night. There is ample wind offshore for a fast passage, 'if we can just get to it,' as Celerity crewman Kelson Elam put it. Elam is one of two lake-sailing Texans aboard Harry Zanville's Santa Cruz 37, a crew of five Transpac first-timers who looked very good at the start as they ignored the jam-up at the committee boat-end of the ...

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by Kimball Livingston