Pacific Cup 2008:
Win and New San Francisco Hawaii Record!

Melges 24 Nationals

Transpac 2009
Double Handed Record Attempt

505 World Championship 2009
San Francisco

Pacific Cup 2010
Double Handed

Finn World Championship 2010
San Francisco

July 3, 2009
The finishing touches get put on the Pegasus 50 in preparation for the 2009 Transpac. More...

July 2, 2009
Getting ready for the Transpac double handed record.
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July 30th, 2008
HONOLULU, HI--(Marketwire - July 30, 2008) - The Waikiki Yacht Club announced today that Skipper Philippe Kahn, with co-skipper Richard Clarke of Canada, set a new record for the 2008 Pacific Cup race of 7 days, 15 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds. The prior record was set by Volvo Ocean Race winner Stan Honey in 1992. More...

July 27th, 2008 - Win!
In 1992 Stan Honey and Paul Simonson, on a custom Santa Cruz 70, set the doublehanded elapsed time record for the Pacific Cup, completing the race in 8 days, 20 H 47:16. Phillippe and Richard, finished in 7 days 15 H 17:50 minutes and won Pacific Cup 2008 - Fastest Passage.

Philippe Kahn and Richard Clarke set new double handed
record from San Francisco to Hawaii

July 18th, 2008
Rudi, Mark Rudiger, passed away today. We sailed over 10,000 miles together. Rudi always knows the best and fastest way to sail "all the way". Many of us learned most of what we know, from Rudi. I learned celestial navigation, current, waves from Rudi and just the simple magic of being out there, offshore. Rudi, I know that you are safe and fast wherever you're sailing. Until we meet again, surfing down a wave, or riding down the snow, I'll be missing you. This Pacific Cup ride is for you Rudi, Lori and Zale. Be in peace. Sail fast.

Mark Rudiger, Rudi 1000 nm from Honolulu, July 2002

Pegasus Wins the 18' Skiff European Championships
The last two days of the European 18ft Skiff Grand Prix on Lake Garda have had mixed conditions. Wednesday bought with it some lighter conditions, with the only race of the day sailed in a building 6-9knot breeze. But no change at the front of the fleet as the ever consistent Pegasus Racing (USA) posted another bullet.
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Pegasus Wins 2007 Fullpower Melges 24 World Championship!
How tough was it on the last day of the 2007 Fullpower Melges 24 World Championship, hosted by the Santa Cruz Yacht Club? So tough, with Monterey Bay cranking up 30 knots of howling chaos, that Dave Ullman, the winner, said, "We weren't racing at the end, just surviving."
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Finn Gold Cup 2009, San Francisco
Hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club. More...

Hamlin wins 18ft skiffs in San Francisco
The 18' Skiff International Regatta wasn't quite a changing of the guard, Howard Hamlin, 53, was the winning skipper for the third time in five years -but if runner-up Samuel (Shark) Kahn, 17, is the wave if the future, that's fine with Howie. More...

18' Skiff International Regatta - The Greatest Show on H20
SAN FRANCISCO---Last year's top three finishers have returned to San Francisco Bay for the fifth windy, wet and wild 18' Skiff International Regatta Tuesday through Saturday. More...

Naugural Rolex TP52 Global Championship
International yacht racing at its highest, most competitive level comes to Miami for the 2006 Rolex TP52 Global Championship. Set for March 7-12 during Acura Miami Race Week, the inaugural championship welcomes a fleet representing England, Ireland, Hong Kong and the U.S, abounding with the world’s top sailors from the America’s Cup and Olympics. More...

Pegasus wins Key West Melges 24 2006
20 January 2006, Key West, FL • Congratulations go to Dave Ullman aboard Pegasus 505, one of three Pegasus racing yachts on the Melges 24 course. Ullman won the 2006 ACURA Melges 24 Key West Race Week. More...

Pegasus Wins St. Francis Perpetual Trophy
St. Francis YC -- There were 103 boats racing in four IRC and five one-design classes at the Rolex Big Boat Series on San Francisco Bay, and they got what they came for. More...

Pegasus Wins Waikiki Offshore Series
The 2005 Waikiki Offshore Series finished Saturday with two windward leeward races off Waikiki. The medium trade winds and small seas were a welcome relief from the 8 - 12 foot seas and 35+ kts winds that challenged the racers all week. More...

Pegasus Racing wins 29er Worlds
Australia’s Jacqui Bonnitcha and Euan McNicol have taken out the 29er World Championship that was sailed on San Francisco Bay this past week.
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Pegasus Racing Wins 18ft VelamareSkiff Cup!!!!!
'Pegasus Racing' made this regatta their own by winning the two final races of the series yesterday afternoon (Friday). The emphatic nature of their victory was all the more remarkable for the fact that they won five of the ten races in the series. More...

'Eat My Wake'
The preferred sport of father-son team Philippe and Samuel Kahn isn't sailing. It's beating each other's brains out. More...

'SHARK ATTACK'
15-years-old American sailor Samuel 'Shark' Khan will become the youngest person ever to skipper an 18ft Skiff when he lines up on Saturday in the first heat of the JJ Giltinan (world) Championship on Sydney Harbour.
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Victory For Pegasus Racing at Key West Race Week 2005!
The final day of Melges 24 racing was nothing short of fantastic with Bill Hardesty at the helm for Philippe Kahn on Pegasus 575 taking home the title of Key West Race Week Melges 24 Champion! On board with Hardesty was 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Kevin Burnham, Freddy Loof — Olympic Bronze Medalist, Star World Champion and multiple Finn World Champion, Mark Ivy — 4-time All American College Sailor of the Year and Midge Tandy making the perfect combination for success on one of the most invigorating sportboats in the world — the Melges 24! More...

Shark Makes It Unsafe for Mumm 30s on the Water
TORONTO, Canada---One doesn't hear about many shark attacks on Lake Ontario, but there aren't many 15-year-olds devouring major international one-design classes the way Samuel Kahn is sailing the Bell Mumm 30 World Championship. More...

Philippe First, Samuel Fourth in Bell Mumm 30 Worlds Kahn-test
TORONTO, Canada---Last year Samuel Kahn, then age 14, stunned the sport when he sailed a Melges 24 to the class world championship on his first try. Tuesday, four inches taller at 6-2 but still too young to own a driver's license, he finished third and first before stumbling to 17th in the third race on the first day of the Bell Mumm 30 World Championship---his first day racing one of the 31-foot sloops after sailing it only three days in practice.

Do you think . . . ?

"I'm kind of surprised," he said. "I didn't think we'd be doing so well."

Then someone handed him a score sheet of the day's results.

"Cool," he said. "Dad's leading."

That would be Philippe Kahn, the California and Hawaii-based software developer whose steady 5-3-5 string earned him a one-point lead over one of the local hopes, Fred Sherratt, sailing Steadfast for the host Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and two points over Tom Ritter's Tramp, which won the opening race. More...

Bell Joins Mumm 30s for 8th World Championship in Toronto
The Bell Mumm 30 World Championship will be contested out of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club with Canada's national leader in communications as the title sponsor...

The fleet includes three teams fresh from the Farr 40 Worlds at San Francisco last week: Deneen Demourkas of Santa Barbara, Calif.; Australia's Richard Perini and California-Hawaii software developer Philippe Kahn, the father of the camera phone...

Richard Clarke, a Toronto native and three-time Olympian in the singlehanded Finn class, will be sailing with Kahn's 15-year-old son Samuel, a.k.a. "Shark." The younger Kahn will sail a second Mumm 30, also named Pegasus, for the first time in competition, and rivals would do well not to take him lightly. When he was only 14 he won the Melges 24 class world championship.

Meanwhile, he sailed on his father's maxi sled Pegasus when it won first-to-finish "Barn Door" honors in the last two Transpacific Yacht Races. More...

Can Kahn Plan end the U.S. Olympic Medal Drought?
Despite an expansion in classes from seven to 11, there have been only eight U.S. medals total in the three Olympics since.Philippe Kahn thinks there’s a problem. So does Mark Reynolds. More...

Harken / Team McLube interview with Philippe Kahn Question to Philippe Kahn:
How do you think we can grow participation in sailing?

Philippe Kahn:
When you show a kid an Optimist, they think that it's a floating bathtub. It's a great platform to learn a certain type of sailing. But sailing has to become more like the X-Games and that's why we must promote windsurfing, kite-boarding, skiff sailing and capture the imagination of the kids. Times have changed and the platforms need to change. Speed and adrenaline will bring sailing to the masses. More...

Shark Bites!
Pegasus Racing wins the 2003 Melges 24 World title.
17 October 2003 - Fourteen year old Samuel "Shark" Kahn sailed into the record books today becoming the youngest person ever to win a Melges 24 World title and probably the youngest open international class world champion as well. More...

Pegasus Racing wins its second consecutive Transpac 2003
A full moon lighted the way past the Diamond Head finish line for
Philippe Kahn's Pegasus 77 and a second consecutive Barn Door victory in the 42nd Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles early Monday.

Kahn's archrival later described the path laid by the lunar reflection on
the water as "like sailing down the moon river," but Roy E. Disney and his
crew aboard Pyewacket were nearly five hours behind in a match of equally
powerful sailing machines.

The Barn Door is a 3 ½-by-4-foot slab of carved Hawaiian koa wood that goes to the boat with the fastest elapsed time for the 2,225 nautical miles.

Finishing at 2:31 a.m. local time, Pegasus 77's time was 7 days 16 hours 31
minutes 17 seconds, the fourth fastest ever for the race. A day earlier, with no more than 18 knots of breeze, Pegasus 77 completed a 24-hour run of 356 miles, breaking the record of 353 set by Magnitude in 1999.

"Records aren't something you can control," Kahn said. "Either the weather
was going to cooperate or not. We did break a record for the daily run, and
what was interesting about that is we did it without a lot of wind. "

Check out the Skipper's Log for a full account of the race.

Pegasus Racing is a highly competitive sailboat racing team led by our fearless leader Philippe Kahn, made up of some of the finest sailors in the sport that are successful in Olympic sailing, the Volvo Race, The America's Cup, the Transpac the Admiral's Cup. Pegasus Racing focuses on sailing a diverse fleet of boats in the most competitive races around the world. Our successes range from winning the Transpac, Pacific Cup, single handed Farallon and other races and regattas. We've set trans-Pacific course records as well as records on classic courses like San Francisco to Los Angeles (Catalina).

Pegasus Racing competes in one-design classes such as Melges 24, Star, Finn, Mumm 30, Farr 40 as well as offshore events such as Transpac, Pacific Cup, Coastal Cup, Windjammer races.

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