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The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. Fermin buoy in San Pedro, California and ending off Diamond Head in Hawaii, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560 mi; 4,121 km).
The Earl Dalhousie is a full-rigged sailing ship, built in 1862, that transported British settlers in the 1870s to Australia. It was the fifth ship to participate in the Portuguese immigration to Hawaii when it brought contract laborers in 1882 from the Azores Islands to work on the Hawaiian sugarcane plantations. [1] [2] [3]
The Pacific Cup (formerly the "West Marine Pacific Cup") is a yacht race from San Francisco, California to Kaneohe, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. [1] The enjoyable exercise in yacht racing is run in even-numbered years by the Pacific Cup Yacht Club, while in odd years the Transpacific Yacht Race sails for Hawaii out of Los Angeles.
SS Independence was an American built passenger liner, which entered service in February 1951 for American Export Lines.Originally, she plied a New York-Mediterranean route, specializing in a high-end clientele, sailing one way while her sister ship, SS Constitution, plied the route the opposite.
Hawaii is seeing a seven-day average of more than 500 cases a day and a test positivity rate of 7.25%, Ige said. Those figures a month ago: 60 cases a day and a test positivity rate of 2.25%.
SS Constitution on a visit to Haifa on March 10, 1953. Commissioned in 1951, she started her long career sailing on the New York City-Genoa-Naples-Gibraltar route to Europe. . Following service on American Export's "Sunlane" cruise to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, the two ships sailed for American Hawaii Cruises and American Global Line for many years in the 1980s and 19
Returning to her original identity as the Hawaiian Chieftain, she joined up with the Lady Washington on February 25, 2006 to provide joint education and sail training up and down the west coast of the United States. [3] In February, 2020, GHHSA announced they would be retiring Hawaiian Chieftain to focus on operation of Lady Washington. [4]
First contested in 1965, since 1968 the Vic-Maui has run in even-numbered years, [2] [3] starting in June or July off Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and finishing near Lahaina, Maui, United States, a distance of approximately 2,308 nautical miles (4,274 km). [4] [5]