Pegasus-MotionX
0600 PDT
8:44 AM, July 16th, 2011Position is: 23 20 N, 153 24 W
TWD 072 @ 15, Swell 2 m from NW, Sky 80 clear, 1019mb
275 Nautical Miles to Honolulu
Squalls, seen from the spinnaker’s point of view
5:10 PM, July 15th, 2011Asymmetrical Kite, Staysail sailing the tradewinds
Jibing for the next squall
4:52 PM, July 15th, 2011Lots of jibing in this squally race. Here is a quick one.
Squall Busting
1:22 PM, July 15th, 2011Squalls everywhere: A challenge yet an opportunity. We have lots of miles to make out.
The Moon-Bow. If you haven’t seen one, go look for one!
2:20 AM, July 15th, 2011This I can’t take a picture of. But it’s cool and rare. There is an essentially full moon that makes the whole Ocean glitter. Moving across our track, diagonally, with more or less the speed of the wind are squall clouds. And then… the rarest thing had us all in awe. Our rookie, Seth-the-Santa-Cruz-Surfer spots it first… A Moonbow!!!! (Rainbow of the night) You don’t see those often, you can’t see them on photographs. The bright light of the moon playing with the giant prism encapsulated in the raindrops of a huge squall. Low, gigantic, totally mysterious. If you haven’t seen one, you must. Somewhere, over the Moon-bow….
Sailing Paradise with iPhone and Jambox
12:25 AM, July 14th, 2011Paradise needed a sound-track, got my Jambox and Iz. What else do we need!
Sailing the Trades
9:12 PM, July 13th, 2011Nice waves, warmer, refreshing breeze, it’s starting to feel like Paradise.
Looking for more wind
3:18 PM, July 13th, 2011Looking for more wind: everything seems a bit warmer and less windy. Squalls are already forming in the early afternoon.
0600 PDT – July 13, 2011
6:00 AM, July 13th, 2011Position is: 24 18 N, 139 38 W
TWD 050 @ 11, Swell 1 m from NW, Sky 75% cover, 1019mb
The Hawaiian Koa‘e
10:39 PM, July 12th, 2011The Tropicbird, Hawaiian Koa‘e, just greeted us, 1000 miles off any land. This very elegant bird likes to come and hunt flying fish while staying in the air for weeks at a time. They’ll also dive for prey if they spot any. The genetic lineage of the Tropicbird is a bit of a mystery. A gorgeous site that had the whole team on watch in awe.
Position Update: July 12, 6:00pm
6:00 PM, July 12th, 2011Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing with you the following track:
| Name: | Transpacific 2011-4 | |
| Start Date: | July 8, 2011 1:33 pm | |
| Map: | View on Map | |
| Total Distance: | 1,195 nautical miles | |
| Elapsed Time: | 100:28:39 | |
| Avg Speed: | 11.9 kts | |
| Max Speed: | 20.5 kts | |
| Avg Pace: | 05’03″ per nm | |
| Min Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Max Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Start Time: | 2011-07-08T20:33:46Z | |
| Start Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 33º 38′ 19″ N | |
| Longitude: | 118º 22′ 07″ W | |
| End Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 24º 27′ 20″ N | |
| Longitude: | 137º 08′ 58″ W | |
Where we are in the Transpac Race:
3:42 PM, July 12th, 2011We’re sailing to a tough handicap with a beautiful Santa Cruz 70 vintage design variation. So we need to be smart navigators. We are navigators. That’s what we do on the water, but that is very much our profession at Motionx-Fullpower. At MotionX we are leaders for In-Car navigation, Pedestrian navigation, Runner navigation and much more
That’s what we do. We are navigators building the best navigation tools.
We like to say that the vision for MotionX-Fullpower, our company, is to be the Navigators of the 21st century. To us it’s more inspiring than be the leaders for “display advertising” or some market-inflated “Formula” tied to a commercialism-hyped bubble. We craft what we have passion for. Real technology innovation .
Now on Transpac, we are sailing South while most of the fleet is still to the North. Let’s see how this all works out in a couple of days. We will sail more distance to go faster! If you play chess, it’s the equivalent of a gambit. Sacrifice some short term gains to invest in the long term future.
This race allows for some interesting tactical moves. We just made one. A bit of luck and it may all work out.
Fly Pegasus Fly!
The Key Tool
2:49 PM, July 12th, 2011When we navigate we all have our preferences. After 13 Trans-Pacific races, 3 double-handed ones and records/victories in all the classics the tool that I would not go without for this race is a super accurate barometer. We at MotionX can’t wait for the first CE devices to have pressure sensors. There is so much we can do!
On Transpac, we’ve now developed the use of the Vaisala barometer. It’s so accurate that we absolutely sail by it. In this picture you can see that we’re running at 1021+, which would have been acceptable if the high had been like the forecasters had said: 1036+. Bu now that all the models show a slightly weaker high, we’re back at a sub-1020 target, which means South. This Vaisala unit sits right in front of our eyes. Analysis courtesy of MotionX predictive signal-processing. Enjoy. There is more to navigation than downloading weather charts and running routers. Thanks Goodness!
Position Update: July 11, 8:00 pm
8:00 PM, July 11th, 2011Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing with you the following track:
| Name: | Transpacific 2011-3 | |
| Start Date: | July 8, 2011 1:33 pm | |
| Map: | View on Map | |
| Total Distance: | 976.8 miles | |
| Elapsed Time: | 79:20:50 | |
| Avg Speed: | 12.3 kts | |
| Max Speed: | 20.5 kts | |
| Avg Pace: | 04’52″ per nm | |
| Min Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Max Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Start Time: | 2011-07-08T20:33:46Z | |
| Start Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 33º 38′ 19″ N | |
| Longitude: | 118º 22′ 07″ W | |
| End Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 26º 54′ 20″ N | |
| Longitude: | 134º 44′ 12″ W | |
0600 PDT
6:00 AM, July 11th, 2011Position is: 27 25 N, 131 37 W
TWD 035 @ 15, Swell 1 m from NW, Sky 100% cover, 1020mb
Position Update: July 10, 6:00 pm
6:00 PM, July 10th, 2011Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing with you the following track:
| Name: | Transpacific 2011-2 | |
| Date: | July 8, 2011 1:33 pm | |
| Map: | View on Map | |
| Distance: | 653.8 miles | |
| Elapsed Time: | 52:20:24 | |
| Avg Speed: | 12.5 kts | |
| Max Speed: | 20.5 kts | |
| Avg Pace: | 04’48″ per nm | |
| Min Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Max Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Start Time: | 2011-07-08T20:33:46Z | |
| Start Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 33º 38′ 19″ N | |
| Longitude: | 118º 22′ 07″ W | |
| End Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 28º 08′ 23″ N | |
| Longitude: | 128º 58′ 48″ W | |
We’re using Imarsat for data connection, and for navigation: MotionX, existing and future versions.
5:12 PM, July 10th, 2011There’s nothing like a fresh orange…
6:40 PM, July 9th, 2011Position Update: July 9, 6:00 pm
6:00 PM, July 9th, 2011Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing with you the following track:
| Name: | Transpacific 2011-1 | |
| Date: | July 8, 2011 1:33 pm | |
| Map: | View on Map | |
| Distance: | 332.3 miles | |
| Elapsed Time: | 26:16:28 | |
| Avg Speed: | 11.8 kts | |
| Max Speed: | 19.1 kts | |
| Avg Pace: | 05’06″ per nm | |
| Min Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Max Altitude: | 0 ft | |
| Start Time: | 2011-07-08T20:33:46Z | |
| Start Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 33º 38′ 19″ N | |
| Longitude: | 118º 22′ 07″ W | |
| End Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 30º 33′ 16″ N | |
| Longitude: | 123º 36′ 55″ W | |
Mario
4:36 PM, July 9th, 2011Pressure Drop – Q and A time With Pegasus’s Philippe Kahn
9:47 AM, July 9th, 2011Erik did this short interview during last night’s ride away from the California Bligh.
Pegasus 70 team on their way to Honolulu!
7:07 PM, July 8th, 2011We passed Catalina and just changed from the #1 jib to the #3. Doing 10 knots at 225 true. The course to Honolulu is 255 true. We are to the right of the fleet. We expect a right shift. Life is good.
Getting ready to start the Transpac 2011
1:40 AM, July 8th, 2011Transpac 2011
Sailing Team:
Philippe Kahn
Mark “Crusty” Christensen
Bruce Mahoney
Curtis Florence
Darren Jones
David Giles
Hayden Goodrick
Jeff Madrigali
Mark Golsh
Seth Larkin
Zan Drejes
Boat Project Management:
Zan Drejes, Bruce Mahoney, David Giles
Onshore Pegasus Racing team:
Zan Drejes, David Gilles, Bruce Mahoney, Mark Golsh, Jana Madrigali, Seth Larkin, Cameron MacDonald, Rich McCarthy, Jade Allen, Tyler Greedy, Kathye Cattera
Online Presence:
Caleb Dolister, Peter Spaulding, Arthur Kinsolving, Joe Dolister
Sailor’s Food:
Bonnie Willis
A happy Pegasus Pack
2:24 AM, July 18th, 2010A happy Pegasus Pack. A fantastic adventure. With an astounding 403 Nautical Miles in 24 hours! We at Pegasus-MotionX tried to share the adventure with all of you and give you a feel for that a fantastic sport offshore sailing is. The last great adventure!
Landfall
7:59 PM, July 17th, 2010FaceTime with Philippe in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
3:40 AM, July 17th, 2010FaceTime from the middle of the Pacific. Arthur and Peter, my MotionX colleagues are in the office in Santa Cruz, California and get video-taped doing FaceTime between Pete’s iPhone 4 in Santa Cruz and my iPhone 4 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean one of the most isolated spots in the world. When it came up, it was like magic! To paraphrase Arthur Clarke, Great innovative technology and magic are literally indistinguishable. This is what the Camera-Phone was designed to do.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pacific Cup 2010 – Position Update 13
2:20 AM, July 17th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 013
Date: Jul 17, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 17.3 kts
Current Course: 215ºT
Distance since last update: 183 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 212 nm
Bearing to Finish: 244ºT
Location:
Latitude: 23º 02′ 21″ N
Longitude: 154º 20′ 39″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 12
2:52 PM, July 16th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 012
Date: Jul 16, 2010 2:00 pm
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 16.5 kts
Current Course: 208ºT
Distance since last update: 152 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 377 nm
Bearing to Finish: 229ºT
Location:
Latitude: 25º 41′ 03″ N
Longitude: 152º 40′ 45″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Loose Stitches…
1:09 PM, July 16th, 2010Crusty’s stitches: Crusty and I are both paramedic trained and stay current. Crusty insisted in stitching up his left index with his own right hand. After three days, the stitches are a bit loose, but it’s clean without an infection. So we’re just going to dress it up.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 11
2:16 AM, July 16th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 011
Date: Jul 16, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 14.3 kts
Current Course: 205ºM
Distance since last update: 161 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 527 nm
Bearing to Finish: 221ºM
Location:
Latitude: 26º 56′ 43″ N
Longitude: 150º 13′ 44″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Top of the mast
7:16 PM, July 15th, 2010Yes, we had to do another rig check. And this time Zan took his iPhone with him and got us this fantastic footage. You can see the rig, the sail, the deck. Gilesy is in black tailing the halyard that keeps Zan in the air and yours truly is steering the boat as steadily as possible. Because any motion with a 75 for mast from the deck could accelerate Zan into orbit.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 10
2:08 PM, July 15th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 010
Date: Jul 15, 2010 2:00 pm
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 15.3 kts
Current Course: 203ºM
Distance since last update: 177 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 681 nm
Bearing to Finish: 217ºM
Location:
Latitude: 29º 10′ 05″ N
Longitude: 148º 31′ 51″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Speed Demons, Squalls everywhere
1:20 PM, July 15th, 2010Speed Demons, Squalls everywhere…. Entering a fun part of the race. We’ve positioned ourselves to use the energy of a line of strong squalls giving us up to 33 knots of wind with a high heading on port jibe. Straight to the mark. Either something will give or we will get there fast. Beautiful ride.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 9
2:16 AM, July 15th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 009
Date: Jul 15, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 14.8 kts
Current Course: 208ºM
Distance since last update: 180 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 854 nm
Bearing to Finish: 214ºM
Location:
Latitude: 31º 29′ 58″ N
Longitude: 146º 27′ 19″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Strategy update:
6:49 PM, July 14th, 2010Strategy update: Here is an annotated chart that shows what we are trying to achieve. We want to stay in 20 knots of pressure if we can all the way to Honolulu. We are willing to sail extra distance for that. The star is where we are now. The red line is our proposed trajectory.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 8
2:51 PM, July 14th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 008
Date: Jul 14, 2010 2:00 pm
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 14.6 kts
Current Course: 198ºM
Distance since last update: 146 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,029 nm
Bearing to Finish: 212ºM
Location:
Latitude: 34º 02′ 14″ N
Longitude: 144º 32′ 30″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Sailing along and a series of unfortunate events…
1:37 PM, July 14th, 2010Blood oranges, three stiches, trash in our oceans… Every one is fine and sailing fast!
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 7
2:26 AM, July 14th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 007
Date: Jul 14, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 16.7 kts
Current Course: 273ºM
Distance since last update: 154 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,161 nm
Bearing to Finish: 217ºM
Location:
Latitude: 34º 41′ 32″ N
Longitude: 141º 42′ 18″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Licking our wounds and fixing everything
12:20 AM, July 14th, 2010When we jibed we realized that something was wrong with our mast. Putting a mate up 75 feet above the deck (yes our rig is gigantic for a 50 foot boat!) is taking their life in your hands when it is blowing 25+ with 30+ foot waves. It takes a lot of mutual trust and confidence. Crusty and David hoisted Zan up and I steered the boat, as steady and smooth as possible. Yes, sailing an average of 16.8 mph for 24 hours with a max-speed of 27 knots on the GPS takes a toll on the equipment and the team. After a couple of heavy weather jibes, we realized that something had tangled up at the top-end of the mast. All solved now, with good team work, focus and some acrobatics. With just 4 of us on board, we’re very busy and have to take some calculated risks. Now time for a dark and wet night. A good one!
Crusty is filming with his iPhone 4, Zan is on top of the mast and you see me at the end of Crusty’s clip steering.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 6
2:32 PM, July 13th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 006
Date: Jul 13, 2010 2:00 pm
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 14.6 kts
Current Course: 192ºM
Distance since last update: 197 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,313 nm
Bearing to Finish: 219ºM
Location:
Latitude: 35º 56′ 20″ N
Longitude: 138º 58′ 02″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
IMOCA Open 50 24 hour record: We did 403+ Nautical Miles.
8:39 AM, July 13th, 2010Wow! We broke the IMOCA Open 50 24 hour record: We did 403+ Nautical Miles. This is really impressive because we broke that record by close to 80 nautical miles and the 400 mile mark was a huge unattainable barrier for a long time on sailboats of any size. We knew it was a fast around the clock ride, and extreme. Now the numbers show them. Here are our two reporting positions 24 hours apart. You can verify my calculations:
lat 36.59 N
lon 128.36 W
lat 36.07 N
lon 136 53 W
This gives me a Distance of 403.1 Nautical miles at a course of 262º, 36′.7 True
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 5
2:31 AM, July 13th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 005
Date: Jul 13, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 15.7 kts
Current Course: 252ºM
Distance since last update: 203 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,485 nm
Bearing to Finish: 224ºM
Location:
Latitude: 36º 11′ 53″ N
Longitude: 134º 55′ 12″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Extreme conditions 24 by 7, wet and wild, no way to stay dry. Fast ride!
3:38 PM, July 12th, 2010It’s howling, and a giant surfing roller-coaster. Quite awesome.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 4
2:44 PM, July 12th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 004
Date: Jul 12, 2010 2:00 pm
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 17.6 kts
Current Course: 244ºM
Distance since last update: 203 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,674 nm
Bearing to Finish: 229ºM
Location:
Latitude: 36º 33′ 06″ N
Longitude: 130º 44′ 38″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Fast, wet and wild!
8:12 AM, July 12th, 2010At daybreak, fast wet and wild. We found all the wind and the waves that Aeolius and Poseidon had for the Pegasus!
Navigating with MotionX
7:00 AM, July 12th, 2010Doing all the navigation with MotionX. My iPhone 4 has great battery life, a fantastic screen, a much more accurate GPS sensor and is always on my pocket in it’s protective waterproof case.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 3
2:42 AM, July 12th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 003
Date: Jul 12, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 15.2 kts
Current Course: 241ºM
Distance since last update: 99.1 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,875 nm
Bearing to Finish: 233ºM
Location:
Latitude: 37º 27′ 58″ N
Longitude: 126º 40′ 06″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Wind is coming!
8:34 PM, July 11th, 2010Gale coming… We are headed West, on this 96 hour forecast, at roughly the latitude of San Francisco. So in the next couple of days we expect to get into more and more wind, until we find too much wind. This is going to be an epic ride. Until the we are relentlessly focusing on going fasr and utting corners to sail less distance.
Watching carefully, ships go by. Still whale weather.
5:45 PM, July 11th, 2010In our second day. No sleep in the last 32 hours, trying to find every breath of wind that Eol and Posseidon are will to send our way, watching ships go by… And avoiding them carefully. Easy in the daylight. More challenging in the pitch black night with the new Moon and the fog.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 2
3:14 PM, July 11th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 002
Date: Jul 11, 2010 2:00 pm
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 1.5 kts
Current Course: 345ºM
Distance since last update: 64.5 nautical miles
Distance to Finish: 1,973 nm
Bearing to Finish: 235ºM
Location:
Latitude: 37º 46′ 53″ N
Longitude: 124º 37′ 26″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
On port jibe on Southerly winds! Strange!
10:51 AM, July 11th, 2010Sailing in very little wind and making the best of it! We are migrating with the whales.
Night encounters: Dolphins, Whales and …
5:24 AM, July 11th, 2010It’s been an amazing night. Daybreak is right here. Dense fog. Very close encounters: Whales. Large ones and then suddenly out of nowhere our much larger competitor “Limit” with over 12 crew. Here they are, when we thought that they would be gone. David finding Goliath. No slingshot, just elegantly ghosting past them. We’re pretty sure that a things pick-up they are already well ahead of us. Tricky sailing. We love that.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 1
3:30 AM, July 11th, 2010Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position:
Name: Position Update 001
Date: Jul 11, 2010 2:00 am
Map: Google Maps
iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application
Current Speed: 2.5 kts
Current Course: 345ºM
Distance to Finish: 2,036 nm
Bearing to Finish: 236ºM
Location:
Latitude: 37º 58′ 15″ N
Longitude: 123º 17′ 09″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
First iPhone 4 video from the open ocean!
7:57 PM, July 10th, 2010Our first iPhone 4 video wireless, where, going to the heart of the Pacific, where no iPhone 4 has beeen before! Now we’re headed Northwest.
Bonnie, Crusty’s little winds up our grinder for good luck!
12:36 PM, July 10th, 2010San Francisco, Friday July, 9th 2010
7:58 PM, July 9th, 2010This is the start of this Skipper’s Log for the 2010 passage between San Francisco and Hawaii. We start Saturday July 10th at 2 PM right by the Golden Gate in an ebb tide.
This year things are unusual. The weather is unsettled and it won’t be a record pace year. However, in my 12 trans-Pacific crossings, this will be the more interesting year. This is truly a Navigator’s race this year. It’s really confused and complicated. There are large areas of no wind to the South, a gale developing North of our anticipated trajectory and we can expect everything to change very rapidly. We are also competing with much larger boats and in principle we have no chance. But this is sailboat racing, “It’s never like this!”
Our three last crossings were double-handed. Just the two of us Crusty and I last year for Transpac, from Los Angeles to Honolulu. We were fortunate enough to obliterate the record, completing the passage in less than 8 days. We also hold the record from San Francisco to Oahu.
For the last 5 years, two of our team members, Zan Drejes and David Giles, have been performing miracles in preparing preparing the Pegasus 50 for our races. Crusty and I work 24 by 7 at Fullpower/MotionX, designing, architecting and developing the MotionX solutions. These guys make it possible for us to go racing. This year, given the weather pattern and the opportunity, we decided to take Zan and David with us. We will sail with a team of four. This will be different and a lot of fun. It’s small boat for us and not much room for all of us, yet we will be very busy. For perspective, the other competitors in this race are sailing with team of 10 to 15 sailors. We have our work cut-out for us: Small boat, and a team a third of the size. We love the challenge.
Welcome aboard Zan and David an let the fun begin.
Pacific Cup 2010
2:22 PM, July 5th, 2010Sailing Team:
Philippe Kahn
Mark “Crusty” Christensen
Zan Drejes
David Giles
Boat Project management:
David Giles, Zan Drejes, Bruce Mahoney,
Onshore Pegasus Racing team:
Bruce Mahoney, Mark Golsh, Jana Madrigali, Seth Larkin
Online Presence:
Caleb Dolister, Peter Spaulding, Arthur Kinsolving, Joe Dolister
Sailor’s food:
Bonnie Willis
Pegasus sets the new Transpac double-handed world record!
6:38 AM, July 13th, 2009The record for double-handing the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu has been broken. At 4:38:35 am HST today, Philippe Kahn and Mark “Crusty” Christensen, crossed the Diamond Head finish line in the Open 50, Pegasus 50, in a record time of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds. They shaved over two and a half days off of the previous record set by Howard Gordon and Jay Crum in 2001 also with an Open 50, Etranger in the most enduring and greatest ocean race in the world covering 2,225 nautical miles from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
Last Sunset…
10:30 PM, July 12th, 2009Last sunset at Sea, 100 miles out
The bird at the top of the mast
The Otter Box
MotionX-GPS Waypoint: Track across the Pacific
9:30 PM, July 12th, 2009Philippe uses MotionX-GPS on the iPhone 3G and is sharing with you the following waypoint:
Name: Track across the Pacific
Date: Jul 12, 2009 9:23 pm
Location:
Latitude: 22º 20′ 12″ N
Longitude: 155º 53′ 52″ W
Altitude: 5 ft
Click on this link to display the waypoint in Google Maps. This link will be valid until Aug 11, 2009 9:28 PM PDT.
If you are viewing this message on your iPhone or iPod touch, use this link to view the waypoint in the Maps application.
Here is a chart of our race so far. We are on track to beat the long standing record in a similar boat set in 2001 by ov er two days! That’s more than a 20% gain. We’re pleased but focussed on the last 12 hours of this race. They count just as much as the prior 168 hours!
MotionX-GPS Waypoint: Layline to Molokai Channel
3:00 PM, July 12th, 2009Philippe uses MotionX-GPS on the iPhone 3G and is sharing with you the following waypoint:
150 miles to go, finish line on the bow
Name: Layline to Molokai Channel
Date: Jul 12, 2009 7:42 pm
Location:
Latitude: 22º 35′ 01″ N
Longitude: 155º 37′ 12″ W
Altitude: 9 ft
Click on this link to display the waypoint in Google Maps. This link will be valid until Aug 11, 2009 7:47 PM PDT.
If you are viewing this message on your iPhone or iPod touch, use this link to view the waypoint in the Maps application.
ETA
1:00 PM, July 12th, 2009From what we can tell, with our electrical back, around 9 am PST ( 6 am HST) is a good guess for our finish, just inside 8 days, something like 7 day, 20 hours and something. Sunrise in the Molokai channel.
There is still a lot of sailing to be done. That’s a reasonable guess.
Engine fix and Katayama-San’ lucky sextant returns
7:15 AM, July 12th, 2009Engine fix and Katayama-San’ lucky sextant returns
Update
6:17 AM, July 12th, 2009Update: We expect/hope to be fully recovered by Noon. Then we’ll jibe for a lay-line to the tip of Molokai and have our final jibe there. Trying to minimize jibes. Big relief.
Progress
5:15 AM, July 12th, 2009Progress: Sailing along fast. Found faulty regulator and alternator. Good start. Thank you for all the great support!
Down to flashlighs
11:28 PM, July 11th, 2009All down – Down to flashlighs, mechanical compass and add-on batteries for iPhone MotionX and hand held iridium. Trying to fix.
MotionX-GPS Waypoint: Night falling, batteries not charging
11:10 PM, July 11th, 2009Hello,
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS on the iPhone 3G and is sharing with you the following waypoint:
Pitch black night, pure feel sailing in 20+ knots. Crusty working fixing batteries now.
Name: Night falling, batteries not charging
Date: Jul 11, 2009 11:10 pm
Location:
Latitude: 23º 16′ 58″ N
Longitude: 151º 48′ 20″ W
Altitude: 0 ft
Click on this link to display the waypoint in Google Maps. This link will be valid until Aug 10, 2009 11:25 PM PDT.
If you are viewing this message on your iPhone or iPod touch, use this link to view the waypoint in the Maps application.
Just enough power to send emails.
10:15 PM, July 11th, 2009Just enough power to send emails. We have not regained anything yet. Lost some more.
Dark and squalls with no electrical – Bad. Safe but bad.


















































