Newport Harbor Nautical Museum leaders welcomed their newest exhibit, the elapsed-time record trophy for the Transpacific Yacht Race, to the museum Wednesday. Roy E. Disney, former vice chairman of Walt Disney Co., commissioned the trophy and attended its unveiling for the museum.
“It’s been needing a permanent home for quite a while,” Disney said in a phone interview. “I think they are very specifically going to have a Transpac section in the museum. It just seemed like a really natural, logical plan.”
Disney offered the trophy to the museum on permanent loan, though it will travel to Hawaii whenever someone breaks the elapsed-time record.
