Team Profiles - Ion (2016)
Profile
Type: Beneteau 43
Skipper: Bill Jones
Class: Racing, Fully Crewed
Hailing Port: Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Hull Colour: White, with grey boot stripe
LOA: 43'
Beam: 13.5'
Draft: 7'
Yacht Club: Nanaimo Yacht Club
Designer: Berret Racoupeau
Builder: Beneteau America
Launch Date: 2009
Rig: Sloop, Fractional
Sail Number: 74424
Website: billjones430.wordpress.com
Status: Entered f
Ion, a Beneteau 43 from Nanaimo, BC, is ready to take on the challenge of racing to Maui and sailing back safely in 2016. The skipper is a veteran of five Van Isle 360’s and several Swiftsures and Southern Straits races. Score three Oregon Offshore adventures as well, and a Vic-Maui seems the obvious “next step.”
While only one member of the crew has done the Vic-Maui race before, the team has been practicing hard and Ion's preparation for the event has been evolving over the past couple years.
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Type: Nauticat 39Skipper: Patrick Fenton
Port: Vancouver, BC Canada
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Pat Fenton and his crew are excited and looking forward to the 2022 Vic-Maui aboard Outbreak. They raced together previously in the 2013 Van Isle 360 and in several Swiftsure races. However, this is the first Vic-Maui race for Outbreak and it’s crew. Pandemic permitting the plan is to book some sailing hours polishing skills and checking out the boat off Vancouver island in August this year. Team Outbreak is looking forward to the whole experience including the preparation work and training but especially a safe fun sail to Maui.
