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Third wave of fastest boats get fastest start in 2021 Transpac by Transpacific Yacht Club 17 Jul 22:35 UTC From July 13, 2021 Powered by the best breeze of the week - 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin - today's final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted off the start line towards Honolulu, 2225-miles away, in the 2021 Transpac. These are the fastest boats in the fleet entered in Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4, and vary from 52 to 77 feet in length, with all expecting a speedy passage ahead. The current monohull course record set by the VPLP 100 Comanche in 2017 is 5D-1H-55M-...

Two Men of San Pedro Details AT LENGTH-Over the past four decades, I’ve had every kind of person enter my offices, including, paupers, politicians, procrastinators, princes, pickpockets and plutocrats. This has given me some extensive experience in judging human character as not all or perhaps even many of these people were what they appeared to be upon presenting themselves at the counter. Some of the most honest and honorable of these have frequently been the ones with the least financial resources — the ones who stand out, have something that can’t be boug...

63-foot Reichel/Pugh-designed GoodEnergy co-skippered by George Hershman and Mark - Transpac © Transpacific Yacht Club The 63-foot Reichel/Pugh-designed GoodEnergy co-skippered by George Hershman and Mark Comings is now the 60th entry in this year's 51st edition of the Transpac, the Transpacific Yacht Club's 2225-mile ocean racing classic from Los Angeles to Honolulu. GoodEnergy joins a strong fleet of similar high-performance monohulls along with a diverse array of many other boat types who will be starting in the race in three waves beginning on July 13th, 2021. Having just bou...

Lights and sirens! Bells and whistles! Today, Los Angeles fills your ears and eyes with noise and light, the rush and whoosh of cars and buses and trains, the pinging and ringing of millions of phones, the music that’s not to your liking leaking from other people’s earbuds, and the perpetual glimmer and glare from headlamps and streetlamps and storefronts. And oh, are you ever wistful for the years of yore, for a Los Angeles that surely cherished civilized silences and decent darkness. Boy, have you got the wrong place. Advertisement That L.A. was definitely not taking vows of silence, or...

Deaths of man, woman at base of cliff in San Pedro deemed accidental Share this: DAILY BREEZE The deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found on rocks near the shoreline at the bottom of a cliff near Point Fermin in San Pedro were determined by the coroner to be accidental. They were identified as 23-year-old Brandon Escobar of San Pedro and 21-year-old Rayana Valdez of Covina, according to coroner’s officials, who listed as the causes of death “multiple traumatic injuries.” Los Angeles police have said there were no signs of foul play. The reason the deaths were ruled accidental...