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TRANSPAC 2025: The Winners, The Legends, and the Long Blue Road© Sharon Green

Races26 Jul 20253 min read

TRANSPAC 2025: The Winners, The Legends, and the Long Blue Road

Hawaiian sunshine, stories in the rigging, and rum in hand — the final Transpac 2025 prize-giving brought down the curtain in style on one of the world’s great ocean races. Held Saturday, July 19 at Kaneohe Yacht Club, the last of three awards ceremonies gave crews, skippers, and families a chance to celebrate not just the winners, but the sheer feat of making it across 2,225 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
Who Nailed the Breeze Call in the 2025 Transpac?© The crew of Santa Cruz 52 Heroic Heart

Races16 Jul 20254 min read

Who Nailed the Breeze Call in the 2025 Transpac?

The 2025 Transpac is full steam ahead, and the fleet is chewing through the miles toward that sweet slice of volcanic paradise: the Diamond Head finish line off Honolulu. It’s the 53rd running of this epic 2,225-mile dash across the Pacific — and it hasn’t disappointed. A race born in 1906, Transpac is part marathon, part chess match, part saltwater soap opera. This year’s show kicked off with staggered starts over f
TRANSPAC 2025 UNDERWAY: FIRST BOATS DEPART LA FOR HAWAIi© Sharon Green · Ultimate Sailing

Races4 Jul 20255 min read

16 hit the line for the first start of 3 in the 2025 Transpac.

The 16 boats that crossed the starting line today in the 2025 Transpac are up against the challenge of a lifetime. As the smallest yachts in this year’s 53-strong fleet, they are about to endure the greatest number of difficult days at sea, but they also have the greatest—and longest—opportunity to enjoy the splendours of sailing across the Pacific. After all, the more time one spends at sea, the more exposure one ha
Transpac 2025: Halfway to Hawaii, Full Moon and Full Throttle© The Crew of the Westerly

Races22 Jul 20253 min read

Transpac 2025 - Full Moon and Full Throttle

With just under a week left to run, the 2025 Transpac fleet is officially past halfway, surfing westward across the Pacific towards Honolulu’s Diamond Head. After setting off in staggered starts on July 1, 3, and 5, 53 yachts of every style and strategy—ranging from 35 to 88 feet—have now picked up the trades, leaving behind fickle calms and early retirements (four boats have dropped out). The leaderboard is starting
TRANSPAC, THIRD AND FINAL STARTERS DEPART LA FOR DIAMOND HEAD© Lisa Bronitt

News12 Jul 20256 min read

THIRD AND FINAL STARTERS DEPART LA FOR DIAMOND HEAD

The 20 biggest, fastest boats racing in the 2025 Transpac began their offshore sprint from Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, today. Ranging in length from 51 to 88 feet, these boats are competing in four divisions and also aiming to win the race’s two most prestigious prizes. The Barn Door Trophy honours the boat with the fastest elapsed time across the 2,225 nautical mile racecourse, while the King Kalak
TRANSPAC'S MIDDLE FLEET SETS OFF FOR DIAMOND HEAD© Doug Gifford

News8 Jul 20256 min read

Seventeen boats begin the 2,225-mile Pacific Crossing

Seventeen boats begin the 2,225-mile Pacific Crossing in light air conditions in Transpac's second start The chase is on in the 53rd edition of the 2025 Transpacific Yacht Race, with 17 boats in three divisions departing Los Angeles today on their 2,225-mile journey to Honolulu. While these boats are competing within their own divisions, they are also chasing down the 16 entrants that started on Tuesday, July 1—prepa
Admiral’s Cup and Fastnet Finish Line© Paul Wyeth/RORC

Races2 Aug 20255 min read

Jolt, Van Uden, and the Youthful Dutch Storm the Admiral’s Cup and Fastnet Finish Line

CHERBOURG, July 2025 — The rain eased and the rum bottles emptied as dawn broke over Port Chantereyne, Cherbourg. The tension, the tides, and the spinnakers finally settled after one of the closest Admiral’s Cup battles in decades, with Peter Harrison and Monaco’s own Pierre Casiraghi leading Team Jolt to a dramatic win aboard their TP52 Jolt 3 and the Carkeek 40 Jolt 6. Ten points clear of Karl Kwok’s ever-formidabl
Could a maxi yacht achieve the Rolex Fastnet Race triple?© ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo

Races3 Jul 20255 min read

Could a maxi yacht achieve the Rolex Fastnet Race triple?

The fight to claim the prestigious monohull line honours prize in the centenary edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race is lining up to be a tough one between the world’s fastest 100ft maxi yachts. The winner of the Erivale Trophy for monohull line honours will follow a long line of the most significant offshore racing yachts of all time, such as Rambler 88, Comanche, ICAP Leopard 3, Alfa Romeo, S