I suppose we're all waiting with bated breath for the final results; here are yesterday's results, the last received before the boats start arriving in Honolulu:

1st SOAP OPERA
2nd BROWN SUGAR
3rd SUPER GNAT
4th BQUEST
5th SHOWDOWN
6th DIABLO
7th IATAIA
8th JACARE'

UPDATE:
SOAP OPERA (ETA: 09:30) and SUPER GNAT (ETA: 09:30) have both made their 100 mile reports. No word from the rest of Division 5!

UPDATE II:
SUPER GNAT: ETA 9:50 hrs
SOAP OPERA: ETA 11:00 hrs
BROWN SUGAR: ETA 20:20 hrs

UPDATE III
SOAP OPERA: Final Recorded Time of 11:10:45 hrs (1st)
SUPER GNAT: ETA of 14:45 hrs
BROWN SUGAR: ETA of 20:20 hrs
BQUEST: ETA of 22:30 hrs

UPDATE IV
SUPER GNAT: Final Recorded Time 13:58:12 (2nd)
BROWN SUGAR: Final Recorded Time 18:39:23 hrs (3rd)
BQUEST: ETA of 23:30 hrs
SHOWDOWN: ETA of 01:30 hrs

Sunday's position report didn't look so go for our team, at least from the "bean counter's" perspective. My dad assured me that everything was all right, that "race tactics" were being employed.

...kind of like the way my dad shoots pool, I suppose, or why Lance Armstrong doesn't wear the yellow jersey on each stage of the Tour de France. Somehow those two always come out on top when the game is coming to a close, though; cheer on!

Go Brown Sugar!

1st SOAP OPERA
2nd BQUEST
3rd SUPER GNAT
4th DIABLO
5th BROWN SUGAR
6th JACARE
7th SHOWDOWN
8th IATAIA

Map and Another Map

Looking back on Saturday (hope everyone had a great weekend!) these were the standings:

1st SOAP OPERA
2nd BROWN SUGAR
3rd BQUEST
4th SUPER GNAT
5th JACARE
6th DIABLO
7th SHOWDOWN
8th IATAIA

Now, let's look at Sunday's standings...

A great comic strip worthy of inspection, Day by Day.

Today's Position Report

Today I discovered that I was looking at a smaller group of vessels (got to learn how to read that position report properly, huh?), so I enlarged the tracking to the 8 vessels listed under Division 5.

1st BROWN SUGAR
2nd SOAP OPERA
3rd BQUEST
4th JACARE
5th SUPER GNAT
6th DIABLO
7th SHOWDOWN
8th IATAIA

Map, Another Map,

Today's postion report is right here

1st BROWN SUGAR
2nd BQUEST
3rd SHOWDOWN
4th SUPER GNAT

map, another map

Plus a silly picture that my Dad and Peter whipped up.

Here is today's position report and photo

Yesterday's photos were off because the coordinates were in minutes and I plotted them in decimal. :) I think I'll keep only the most recent map up each day, so expect me to take this one down tomorrow.

Go, BROWN SUGAR!

UPDATE: Removed old charts

Paul, a good friend of my family, is currently Sailing in the TRANSPAC '05, the 43rd annual Los Angeles to Honolulu race.

My dad is closely following the race and I promised him that I would post the daily position report for Paul's entry, BROWN SUGAR, here on the blog.

BROWN SUGAR (5B) is an Express 37 and is racing in Division 5.

POSITION REPORT: 050712 0800hrs PST

UPDATE: The pictures I posted here were wrong; when dad gave me the Lat Long I thought they were in decimal, they were in minutes.