With the help of strong winds, the Mighty Merloe and Comanche set multihull and monohull records in the 2017 Transpac race on Monday. The boats started the 2,225-mile course in Los Angeles and H.L. Enroe’s Mighty Merloe crossed the finish line first at 5:02:30 for an elapsed time of 4 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 30 seconds — 26.5 hours faster than the previous multihull record set in 1997. Crew members included Steve Calder, Jay Davis, Artie Means, Loic Peyron, Franck Priffit, Will Suto and Jacques Vincent.

The next two boats to finish, Lloyd Thornburg’s Phaedo and Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati, also broke that record.

Jim Clark’s Comanche sailed in at 11:55:26 and set a course record for monohulls with an elapsed time of 5 days, 1 hour, 55 minutes and 26 seconds. Comanche Skipper Ken Read, navigator Stan Honey and a crew of 15 beat the 2009 record by half a day.

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