Hard to believe it, but we’ve learned that Mahdee, a heavy cruising boat, actually sailed in two TransPac races: We heard from various folks that she’d sailed in a TransPac in the 1960’s and then later in an Ancient Mariners Sailing Society TransPac around 1980.

I corresponded with Rich Roberts, Press Officer for Transpac 2007, about the 100 year race history and if Mahdee (under her various names through the years) had ever raced the Transpac. Indeed she did. Rich writes:

“a 53-foot schooner named Privateer owned by David W. Allen of SFYC (and 5 other people named Allen) did sail in 1967 (2nd out of 24 in Class B, 69 boats overall)”

Looking at the .pdf of the race results, we believe Rich meant to say “second from the last in Class B” since her times place her there, not as second in Class B. The classes relate to size so cruising boats as well as racing boats would be together in the class but they would have very different handicaps.

We know that there were light winds in that year’s race and that Mahdee requires heavy winds to do her best. Therefore, we’re amazed she wasn’t at the bottom of the list of all entries!

Read what the Transpac history documents say about the race in 1967… More Here

Click on the Transpac Burgee to see information about the Transpacific Race 2007 and the race history: