Team Profiles - Warlock (2020)
Profile
Type: Baltic 51 CB
Skipper: John Garfitt
Class: Racing Class, Fully Crewed
Hailing Port: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hull Colour: Blue
LOA: 50.92
Beam: 15.25
Draft: 6.0
Designer: C&C Design
Builder: Baltic Yachts
Rig: Sloop, masthead
Status: 1m entered
John Garfitt is a mechanical engineer and executive who has returned, in retirement, to what he loves most: sailing. He is currently the Technical Director of Quality Assurance at ISPA,and also a senior Instructor Evaluator.
John has 27 years of single-handed sailing and sailing instruction experience and 75,000 nm under the keel. He brings professional marine engineering experience and wisdom to the table. He is also an artist in paint media.
John's current vessel, S/V Warlock, which he bought with the intent to sail around the world, is a 1982 Marconi-rigged Baltic 51 centreboard cutter built in Jakobstad, Finland. Having purchased the yacht in September, 2018, and changing the name to “WARLOCK,” the boat spent the past year in refit to make it one of the best-equipped, high-performance ocean racer/cruisers on the West Coast. With four cabins and 2 cockpits, Warlock can accommodate 6 – 8 crew in comfort and safety.
John is offering ISPA Yachtmaster Ocean International Certificate of Competency on the 2020 Vic-Maui race (6 positions) and on the return voyage (6 positions) later in the summer of 2020. PS: Aboard WARLOCK, we all report to Wiggle.
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Red Sheilla is the first boat to enter the 2022 Vic-Maui!
Red Sheilla previously competed in the 2010, 2012 and 2016 Vic-Maui races. In July 2022, Red Sheilla skipper Jim Innes will sail in his fifth Vic-Maui, following the pioneering course sailed by his father JG (Jim) Innes in 1965.
The first Vic-Maui was sailed in 1965. The race was a dream of Royal Vancouver Yacht Club member JG (Jim) Innes who, at that time, was a Captain for Canadian Pacific Airlines. Jim 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 the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club with the 45' sloop "Velaris", Ron Ramsay of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club with the 45' ketch "Norena of Wight" and Boo Paskel from Seattle Yacht Club with his 73' ketch "Tatoosh". The 1965 race and weather were typical; Westerlies in the Juan de Fuca Strait, a left turn down the coast to about the latitude of San Francisco, followed by a right turn under the North Pacific High and a gybe with the Northeast trade winds filling spinnakers for the sunny run to Maui. "Long Gone" won the first Vic-Maui with a time of 15 days, 6 hours and 55 minutes. Records have been broken many times since 1965.
The current record holder is "Valkyrie", skippered by Gavin Brackett of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, who completed the race in 8 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes in 2016.
Follow Red Sheilla on Facebook (including her blog posts) at: http://www.facebook.com/redsheillasailing.
This fall, Red Sheilla will be entered in Cascadian Convoy, Round The County followed by 2022 Southern Straits, PNW Offshore and Swiftsure.
In 2022 Vic-Maui will be marking the next 50 years of Vic-Maui. We invite you to join us!
