Morning Light Page #9

at these guys down here, Samba Pa Ti,

it looks like we've been given

a lottery ticket.

So I'm not, um, opposed

to just taking this down

and getting just in front of their nose.

And if it lifts... we're clean.

They're behind us.

If it knocks, we're on the mark.

In the bank.

- [Van Os] Yeah. [laughs]

- In the bank.

- Hang on to your butts.

- Oh.

Let's get these guys.

- [Schubert] Roll call is a dogfight.

- [Tulloch] Is it?

It's a friggin' dogfight.

[Wilmot] I'm gonna catch this boat up

in front of us, like it was my business.

We want both trophies. We want

to be the first TP52, and we want to...

Trim! ...win our... win our division

as well. That would be sweet.

[Kane] Have you seen

the squall over here?

[Kirby] Tropical squalls

can be critical.

You can gain dramatically

on competitors by playing the squalls.

[Fielding] There we go.

[Branning] Twenty knots.

That's directed to the reef.

[Wilmot] The sky's about to go boom.

- [Fielding] Who's the boom king?

- I'm the boom king!

Oh, baby!

- Hey, mister!

- Twenty-four knots.

[Towill] Hey, well,

why don't you just race, guy?

- [Wilmot] We're like modern pirates.

- [Towill] Pirates, man.

[Wilmot] We don't even own this boat.

[Kane] Breaking up

like an '80s band, baby.

[Schubert]

They'll have a comeback tour.

[Kane] Of course.

[Schubert] That's how

Behind the Music always ends.

[Branning] Yep, it was fun

while it lasted.

[Kane] Rainbow, baby.

It's getting close.

[Wilmot] Let's keep it

going fast. All day.

- I think I see land.

- Yeah.

- Whoo.

- I think I see a volcano.

- [Enright] Yeah.

- [Kane] Yeah!

Yeah, you can just see the edge of Maui

right on the bow right now.

[Schubert] That's Maui.

[Tulloch] Are we less than 12 hours?

[Kane] I'm going to the top of the rig

one last time.

One last time, forever.

[Welch] Turtle, let's take you

to the paradise city.

[Kane] Oh, my God.

It feels so good.

Gotta love it. Whoo!

[Towill] Maui right behind us.

Very, very excited to be back home.

Been 11 days of just seeing the horizon,

we're finally seeing the islands.

And... I...

...really have a lot to say,

and I just can't say it.

Um...

Whoo!

[Welch] A little happy

little Turtle up there.

[Van Os] Break out the inscription tool!

[Fielding] Spike yourself away!

[Kane] I'm lovin' this!

[Wilmot] So here we are,

we're in the famous Molokai Channel.

It feels really good to be here.

We, uh... we don't really know

where our competitors are,

'cause all the tracking devices

are lost or malfunctioning.

So we're sort of coming down here with

our eyes closed on our competitors.

[Sanderson] One thing these guys

are gonna have to be conscious of

is what we call "channel fever."

There's a good chance

that they'll be a little over-tired

and a little overexcited and they'll

starting to be thinking about...

Uh, about hitting the dock.

[Will] I'm excited to see my family.

All I wanna do is go to Oahu.

I just wanna get to Honolulu.

Dude, I want mai tais.

Would anybody like an espresso?

- [laughs]

- I'm making some downstairs.

[Sanderson] This race has been won

and lost on the last day before.

[Wilmot] You know what's really

interesting right now?

I'm coming down to the finish

and I have planned for nothing

after this finish.

This finish has been

my, like, whole year,

like, my whole life up to this point.

- [crowd cheering]

- [horns blaring]

[man] Aloha, Samba Pa Ti!

Transpac Yacht Club

welcomes you

and congratulates you

on your successful race.

I'm sure Mr. Kilroy thought that,

he had a superior crew, superior boat,

and would beat them handily.

But, that's not the way it came out.

[Kilroy] It was just give

and take for quite a while.

I think it was Robbie Naismith

saying, "Come on, guys.

We can't let these kids beat us. We

couldn't live with that on our rsum."

You know, saying it kiddingly,

but, yeah,

you know, that's just sailboat racing.

Yeah!

[man] Diamond Head control,

Diamond Head control,

This is Diamond Head Light.

Samba Pa Ti crossed the line at 0156.

Congratulations, Samba Pa Ti.

[Wilmot] It's sort

of mind-blowing for me.

I just take it all in, especially now,

ten miles from the finish line.

You, uh... you can't

really contemplate it.

It's pretty heavy.

Now I'm gonna go steer my boat home

for the last time ever.

[sounding horn]

[Wilmot] Keep trimming, Towiller.

Not there yet, mate.

- [Branning] Pull string in.

- [Wilmot] Pull!

- It's there.

- [Tulloch] Red buoy!

See that red buoy? You were a dinghy

sailor before, weren't you?

- It's there. [laughs]

- Oh!

- [Fielding] You ready?

- [Van Os] Ready.

[Towill] Wow, this is gonna be sick!

[Wilmot] Here we go, home!

- [bell clanging]

- Oh! We made it!

Not yet, not yet.

- [foghorn blaring]

- [cheering]

[man] Nice work, you guys.

- [Kane] Yes, we're home! Yeah, buddy!

- Whoo!

[crowd cheering]

[man] Aloha, Morning Light!

Transpac Yacht Club

welcomes you to Honolulu

and congratulates you

on your successful race.

[Disney] When I did

this thing the first time,

it changed me for the rest of my life,

but I don't think

I knew that at the time.

I think it kind of

comes to you later on.

You have a resource

that you can look back on

and say, "I dealt with life and I dealt

with it well and gracefully."

That's what it really means in the end.

It's about the journey.

[Fielding]

This is gonna be an epic story.

This is gonna be our first story.

This is gonna be probably

our favorite story.

How it all began.

[crowd cheering]

[Wilmot] Here we are, day 14

of the Morning Light adventure,

except this time, we're on land.

Finally, believe it or not, we're here.

Wow. It's, uh...

Yeah. I'm not gonna be

able to, uh...

I don't think I could find a team

like this ever again, so...

...it's, uh... [inhales] Yeah, it's...

It's emotional. These guys are...

Hang on.

Yeah.

I need a minute.

Sad! Oh, I'm so sad.

Yeah. [groans]

Wow.

If they put this

in the film, I'll kill 'em.

- Of course it's going in.

- Yeah. [sniffles]

I was just telling Robbie,

I was like, you know,

I thought I was gonna be all broken up

and upset when you're leavin',

but... I'm gonna see all you

guys again in like a month

and like, constantly after that.

- I'm not worried about it at all.

- [Wilmot] Yeah.

Once again, BZ to the rescue.

Just a sign-off to my team.

Last day as skipper.

Last day, uh, steering my boat,

and, uh, let's go for a ride.

OK, boys! Let's go.

One last time.

Together.

[Tulloch] When the race was over,

it basically was over for us.

We had spent so long with each other

and the finish was what we had

always dreamed of and hoped for

and wished for and then

we crossed the finish line,

and it was like, "What next?

Wh-Where do we go from here?"

[Schubert] The best thing was just

this sense of accomplishment at the end.

If we had won the race we would have

thought that the Transpac was easy.

You have to respect that race a lot.

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