Vic-Maui Qualifying Races
The 42nd Annual Southern Straits Race has joined the VIc-Maui Qualifying Race program.
05/13/2009: Swiftsure Joins Vic-Maui Qualifying Race Program. Vic-Maui is pleased to announce that the Swiftsure International Yacht Race has joined our Vic-Maui Qualifying Race program. Thank you to the organizers of Swiftsure for their participation in this new program.
05/11/2009: The first Vic-Maui Qualifying Race to sign on - the Save On Foods Van Isle 360 International Yacht Race. Thank you to the organizers of the Van Isle 360 for their leadership with this new program.
About Vic-Maui Qualifying Races
Vic-Maui has announced that selected overnight distance races will be designated as qualifying races under a new program dubbed "Vic-Maui Qualifying Race". Potential Vic-Maui crew members are encouraged to participate in one or more of the qualifying races as part of their personal preparation for the pinnacle of Pacific Northwest ocean racing, the Vic-Maui race. Individual crew experience with overnight racing is important to skippers when selecting crew, and combined crew experience with overnight racing is important to the race committee when considering Vic-Maui entries. Boats planning to enter the Vic-Maui race will still be required to meet all Vic-Maui entry requirements as outlined in the official Notice of Race.
Vic-Maui and each qualifying race will actively support each other's promotional activities, and the qualifying races will be authorized to display our new Vic-Maui Qualifying Race logo:
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News & Updates
2010-07-18: "Challenge ● Adventure ● Teamwork!" is the Vic-Maui motto. Add to that tales of perseverance and courage, high performance sailing and navigational challenges and you have the recipe for an adrenalin-rush race - Vic-Maui 2010. Regular blogs and emails from most of the fleet allow us to put together a detailed picture. [More Info]
2010-07-15: Please note that we are experiencing problems with the data feeds from the satellite transponders tracking the yachts. [More Info]
2010-06-29: Please email stories@vicmaui.org with any stories, photos and videos that we can share with other followers of the race through the vicmaui.org and the Shackles & Cotterpins email list. [More Info]
2010-06-18: AHOY! Tickets are now available for the Victoria Send-Off Dock Party [More Info]
2010-06-13: Sailing Instructions are available. [More Info]
2010-06-02: Vic-Maui t-shirts, polo shirts, hats, and more can now ordered online! Read more if you'd like to order your Logowear now! [More Info]
2010-02-04: The Vic-Maui committee is pleased to confirm the following boats have submitted their race entry forms within the race entry deadline and are actively preparing for the race: [More Info]
2009-10-21: Sail-World.com posted an article on the upcoming Vic-Maui 2010. Click here for the article. [More Info]
2009-05-13: Swiftsure International Yacht Race Joins Vic-Maui Qualifying Race Program. [More Info]
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Red Sheilla
Type: Beneteau 49Skipper: Jim Innes
Port: Vancouver, BC
Blog: 1 articles posted
Sailing for the Waikiki Yacht Club and skippered by Jim Innes, the first entrant for the 2010 Vic-Maui race is Red Sheilla, a Beneteau 49. Jim hails out of Surrey, BC and is the son of Vic-Maui's founder Jim Innes. Filing Red Sheilla's entry papers early, Jim says that "I've sailed on blue water passages between BC, Hawaii and the South Pacific several times. This will be my second Vic-Maui race and I'm very much looking forward to continuing the family tradition in 2010".
The first Vic-Maui race was sailed in 1965. The race was a dream of Jim's father, RVYC member Jim Innes, who at that time was a Captain for Canadian Pacific Airlines. Jim apparently talked incessantly about the idea of such a race originating in Victoria and ending some 2308 nautical miles away in Maui. He convinced three other skippers to start with him off Brotchie Ledge in 1965. With Jim in his Lapworth 36' "Long Gone", there was Lol Killam of RVYC with the 45' sloop "Velaris", Ron Ramsay of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club with the 45' ketch "Norena of White" and Boo Paskel from Seattle Yacht club with his 73' ketch "Tatoosh". The race and the weather were typical for most of the races to follow. Westerlies in the Juan de Fuca Strait, left turn down the coast to about the latitude of San Francisco followed by a right turn with the northeasterly trade winds filling spinnakers and the downhill sun run to Maui. Three boats finished the race some 15 days later at Kahalui Harbour on the north coast of Maui with the fourth "Tatoosh", having used the iron spinnaker greeting the three arrivals with Mai Tais. During their stay in Maui they met up with the originators of what would become the Lahaina Yacht Club. Upon returning to BC waters both Jim and Lol proceeded to convince the RVYC and the newly organized LYC to jointly sponsor such a race and thusly the Vic-Maui International Yacht Race was born. The first official race was in 1968 with some 14 boats entered. It has been held every even numbered year since 1968 with 2010 being the 22nd race. Jim Innes passed away on November 9, 2001 but the race goes on as part of his legacy.
