Team Profiles - Bravo Zulu (2012)
Profile
Type: Beneteau First 40.7
Skipper: Denny Vaughan
Class: Racing Division, Class 2
Handicap Ranking: 6
Time Allowance: 61
Hailing Port: Seattle, WA
Hull Colour: White
LOA: 39.34'
Beam: 12.34'
Draft: 7.87'
Yacht Club: Corinthian Yacht Club
Designer: Bruce Farr
Builder: Beneteau France
Launch Date: 1999
Rig: Fractional Sloop
Sail Number: 46720
Website: http://facebook.com/people/Bravo-Zulo/100002550640809
Status: ZZ-2012
Bravo Zulu, which means "Well Done" in Navy flag communications, was named by the skipper's family as a tribute to his exceptional 35 years in the US Navy. He spent a lot of those years either stationed in Hawaii or passing through on his way to the Far East and beyond. Now he says he is looking forward to returning by sail while representing the Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle.
Even though his crew is experienced in offshore racing, including participating in all of the qualifying races of Van Isle 360, Southern Straits and Swiftsure, this will be the first time that any of them have raced in the Vic-Maui.
Denny says that one of the compelling reasons for deciding to race in this year's Vic-Maui was that this boat needed to finish what she had started. During the 2008 Vic-Maui, when she was named "Something Wicked" and owned by Kevin and Sandy Reath, she had made it a little over half way when her rudder blew apart, and they had to sail 800 miles back to San Francisco with a make shift steering system.
Having visited Lahaina Yacht Club numerous times this past year, Denny says that the Race Committee and the Yacht Club's members and employees are fantastic and eager to welcome us to Lahaina. His only concern is running into the Japanese tsunami debris field.
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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!
