The Arrivals

For more than four decades, photographer extraordinaire Sharon Green has captured sailing in a way that is all her own: impossibly rich and colorful images that are always technically perfect and composed. The arriving yachts of the Transpac Race are her favorite subjects, and for this year's arrivals, the elements all aligned.

While there will be exhilarating moments in a distance race, whether short or long, those that stir the greatest emotions are the start and finish.

The magic of the start, however, is often blurred in the frenetic lead up to striking the line-all the planning, the boatwork, the anxiety of getting a clean lane off a crowded line, the uncertainty of what's to come, and the cloud of one's own expectations.

Time and miles pass. Watches change. Position updates come and go. The distance to the finish ticks down nautical mile by mile.