Team Profiles - Turicum (2014)
Profile
Type: C&C 44
Skipper: Warren "Hale" Hale
Class: Racing, Fully Crewed
Hailing Port: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hull Colour: White
LOA: 43.98'
Beam: 13.19'
Draft: 8.62'
Yacht Club: Vancouver Rowing Club
Designer: C&C Designer Group
Builder: C&C Yachts
Launch Date: 1987
Rig: Sloop
Sail Number: 74257
Website: http://www.sailcraft.com/Turicum.htm
Status: ZZ-2014 Turicum
Sailing for the Vancouver Rowing Club and skippered by Warren "Hale" Hale, Turicum is a C&C 44 built with balsa-cored fibreglass. Turicum has been actively racing for over fifteen years and has done countless local and distance races, including three of the Vic-Maui Qualifying Races: the Van Isle 360, Swiftsure and Southern Straits. She has competed in seven of the eight most recent Vic-Maui's and won her division in the 2008 race.
Hale hails from Richmond, BC. Turicum's crew will be drawn to the race by the challenge of preparing boat and crew; the adventure of sailing more than 2,300 miles to beautiful Maui; and the teamwork that makes it all possible.
Hale comments “I am looking forward to racing to Maui, again, with a great bunch of sailors. We look forward also to being embraced by the hospitality of the Lahaina Yacht Club and enjoying the Magic Isle as we regain our land legs.”
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