❖ TRANSPAC HAS THE FIRST START TODAY ❖ MONDAY 13 JULY

Schooner Martha
Photo by Louellen McCoy, Orcas Island, WA.

Have a safe trip everyone. 
GO MARTHA, Port Townsend, WA!
Team photo can be seen on their own site
Here is the official YellowBrick tracker site for 2015 (6 hours behind real time).

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TRANSPAC RACE
Swimming in the ocean for thirty hours;

JULY 1951

Yacht L'APACHE crew member Ted Sierks, 
being hauled by a line to the rescue ship, 
USS DOUGLAS A. MUNRO
Press photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.

The alert sailors who first spotted Ted Sierks
in the rough sea and made his rescue possible;
 Sierks waves greeting as the destroyer escort 
MUNRO docks at Honolulu Harbor. 
L-R: Rene Cortex of Texas, 
Transpac sailor, Ted Sierks, and 
Ronnie Peoples of Jonesboro, AK.
Press photo from the archives of S.P.H.S.

Ted Sierks, age 40 greeted by his
mother Alma Overholt after stepping off
a plane in Burbank, CA.
Trans-Pac survivor 1951.

TransPac

July 1949

Part of the fleet of 25 boats crossing the starting line
at the outer entrance to the Los Angeles Harbor
for the 3,000 miles race to Honolulu. 
WESTWARD HO, from Orcas Island, WA was 
a participant in this race.
Largest boat in the race is the
96-ft schooner MORNING STAR, lower left. 
Acme telephoto from the archives of the S.P.H.S.