1.   Windquest has made a few changes that are likely to make the yacht go faster in the downwind conditions prevalent in a Transpac race.

2.   Whitbread race instructions allow any boat to stop during an emergency as long as the yacht goes within a mile of shore to do so.

3.   It is unclear where the yacht went or who was sailing it when it left the island.

4.   On the downwind run to the finish line, the two yachts went in opposite directions in search of better wind.

5.   The following year, the yacht went to the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. for an overhaul.

6.   The yacht was going to the port city of Vladivostok for an international regatta, Interfax said.