Update from the Lending Club team on day 2 of their Transpac record attempt

Team Tritium/Lending club sailing at speed

Transpac update, Team Tritium/Lending club arrive in Honolulu

Team Tritium/Lending Club have arrived in Honolulu after completing the Transpac race.  They ended up being outside the record time with the boat having suffered considerable damage from impacts with debris along the route.  Congratulations guys well done and maybe next year you'll smash the record.

Here they are ! In 5 days, 11 h 52 min 38 s...great performance regarding the collisions the boat has had to suffer. Well done guys !

Transpac update, Team Tritium/Lending Club approaching the finish line

Team Tritium/Lending Club have now overhauled the whole Transpac fleet and are approaching Honolulu.  They are still making good progress despite a daggerboard which has been reduced to carbon splinters by multiple debris impacts.  A snapshot from the tracker shows them with a little over 200nm to go.  There is a 6 hour delay on the tracker so they are probably closer than that now.  They have AIS onboard so if it's switched on as they approach Honolulu it may be possible to follow them on http://www.marinetraffic.com

Transpac update, Team Tritium/Lending club video

Transpac update, Team Tritium/Lending Club still in with a chance of improving multihull race record

From the following article on Latitude38

http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2013-07-16#.UecbC8hAp8S

Latitude just got off the phone with multihull designer/sailor Gino Morrelli of Newport Beach. He had just come off the helm of the 72-ft trimaran Tritium  Lending Club, which is about halfway from Long Beach to Hawaii in hopes of setting an elapsed time record in the 47th TransPac. Here's the gist of our conversation:

38: Are you guys still on a record pace?
Gino: Right now we're about one hour off of it. We don't need too much wind, but we're hoping for a little more. We have about 12 to 14 knots of true wind right now at 135 degrees true, and we're able to do 15 to 18 knots. We're trying to sail as deep as possible. What we really need is about 14 to 18 knots of wind.

38: What's the forecast for the rest of the way?
Gino: A little on the light side.

38: What's the top speed so far?
Gino: I think Howie Hamlin hit over 30 knots the first night out.

read more here

Also an article posted on Sailing Anarchy news page

http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/07/17/what-its-like/

Transpac Yacht Race, Team Tritium/Lending Club tv spot on KITV

John Sangmeister and crew on Team Tritium/Lending Club still have a chance of taking the longstanding Transpac record set by Bruno Peyron on Commodore Explorer.  TV spot on KITV and interview with John.

http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/Former-Hawaii-resident-attempting-to-break-prestigious-record/-/8905354/21010756/-/g7kq3yz/-/index.html

Tranpac Race, Tritium/Lending Club still in with a chance on record despite multiple impacts on daggerboard

With the unfortunate dismasting of the Gunboat Phaedo, Tritium/Lending Club are the only multi left in the race.  The water is full of debris most likely from the Japanese tsunami and they have suffered several serious daggerboard impacts which have damaged the board but not the case (good crashbox design there).

From a Facebook posting by Ryan onboard Tritium/Lending Club

https://www.facebook.com/TritiumRacing?hc_location=stream

Last message from Ryan onboard Tritium Lending Club :

IT WAS A BIG AFTERNOON ON LENDING CLUB.

We have been vmg running since around midday, with the gennaker and J2 as a staysail, averaging around 20 knots. The record is within reach still, although a couple more knots of wind would be nice.
...
We had some problems with old trees today, logs in the water that we have run into. Guess we should have picked up a Garmin sonar to go with all the other instruments!!

Unfortunately one of the impacts was quite severe on the daggerboard, and instead of breaking the log in half as we did a couple times, we destroyed the daggerboard. WE had another slow down this afternoon and put the board in upside down, keeping us sailing properly, but creating terrible vibration throughout the boat.

Here's hopiong the next couple days are uneventful, we have all had enough of the slowdowns and repair work.

Everyone is eating well, and the stars are out in force tonight, along with a beautiful breeze in the mid teens.

Ryan

and a video recap of the race so far:

Transpac update, Lending Club/Team Tritium ahead of record pace and Team Phaedo dismasts

Update from Lending Club on Sailing Anarchy.  Ahead of record pace but suffered some float leakage problems which they have now fixed.

http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/07/15/99-problems/

Update from the Gunboat Team Phaedo unfortunately after a fantastic race so far and setting a record 24hour run they have dismasted.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Phaedo/190043577700851?hc_location=stream

Phaedo dismasted on day 3 of Transpac

Official report from boat:
At 1830 UTC (1130 PST) Phaedo dismasted in location 28 58.247N 130 09.576W.

Everyone onboard is fine, we have secured the boat, cutting away the mast and section of the boom, and are now heading towards the LA area under engine.

At the time of the dismasting we were sailing under A4 at around 16kts.

Phaedo dismasting from Richard Langdon on Vimeo.

Tritium Racing depart on their Transpac Race record attempt

Team Tritium have departed on their Transpac Race record attempt. You can follow them on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/TritiumRacing

The Race Tracker is here Team Tritium are running under the name "Lending Club":

http://yb.tl/transpac2013 

The Transpac website is here

http://www.transpacyc.com/

Transpac Race, final preparations for Tritium Racing team

The Tritium Racing Team equipped with their offshore racing trimaran the very special modified ORMA trimaran Tritium are making their final preparations to compete in the 2013 Transpac.  The team are also hoping to smash the record in the process

The Transpac website is here and a tracker will be available once the race starts:

http://www.transpacyc.com/

Team Tritium's Facebook page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/TritiumRacing?fref=ts

72' modified ORMA 60 trimaran being prepared for Transpac by Tritium Racing

Tritium Racing are refitting the ex Artemis AC test trimaran for an attempt at the LA to Honolulu Transpacific record.  You can follow their rebuild of the 72' trimaran at the address below.  This trimaran has quite an interesting history originally being the ORMA trimaran Bonduelle constructed for Jean Le Cam later being renamed Gitana XII.  It's great to see this boat live on and take on new challenges. 

https://www.facebook.com/TritiumRacing

Photo courtesy of the Tritium Racing team