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FAQs added for Life Rafts, Staggered Start Dates

by Gaylean Sutcliffe, January 25th, 2012

2012 Fleet Update & Race Entry Deadline

by Shackles and Cotterpins, January 20th, 2012

The 2012 Vic-Maui fleet is taking shape. Currently, more than a dozen boats have entered or have entries pending. There is an exciting mix of boats ranging from 35 to 50 feet long, with returning and first-time entrants from both Canada and the United States. Read

2012 Preparation Seminar & Dinner Social Scheduled for January 15th

by Gaylean Sutcliffe, November 15th, 2011

Vic-Maui skippers, race crew, shore support crew and potential race entrants will learn valuable information, ideas, and techniques to help get ready for the challenge, adventure and teamwork of the Vic-Maui 2012 race. Read

Marine Offshore First Aid scheduled for Nov 4/5

by Gaylean Sutcliffe, October 7th, 2011

The 2012 Vic-Maui Race has partnered once again with the Academy of Emergency Training, and Dr. Cheryl Holmes, Critical Care Physician and medical advisor to the Vic-Maui Race, to offer a Marine Offshore First Aid course that will provide the certification needed to meet the First Aid requirements of the 2012 Vic-Maui Race. Read

Vic-Maui Info Session At Swiftsure

May 25th, 2011

Attention Sailors: Vic-Maui Info Session At Swiftsure. Vic-Maui will be hosting a drop-in information session at Swiftsure this Friday May 27 from 1030 to 1230. Location is the Bimini Information Center, right in the center of things at Swiftsure. Committee members and veteran Vic-Maui skippers and crew will be there to field questions. Please come and join us. Read

The BC Sailing Safety at Sea program offered its inaugural course this past weekend, April 2-3.

by David Sutcliffe, April 4th, 2011

The BC Sailing Safety at Sea program offered its inaugural course this past weekend, April 2-3. Read

2012 Notice of Race

by Technical Committee, February 18th, 2011

The 2012 Vic-Maui Notice of Race is now available! Read

2012 Vic-Maui Race ANNOUNCED!

November 19th, 2010

The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and the Lahaina Yacht Club are pleased to announce the 2012 Vic-Maui International Yacht Race. The 2012 Vic-Maui race, the twenty-third edition of this ocean racing classic, will start from Victoria, British Columbia. Class starts will be staggered, with starts commencing as early as June 28, 2012. The race will finish near Lahaina, Maui, a great circle route distance of 2308 nautical miles. Read

Welcome

Aloha and welcome to the 2012 Victoria to Maui International Yacht Race

Your Committees from the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and the Lahaina Yacht Club have been preparing for your participation since September 2010. Come and enjoy a fun filled week of pre-race activities in Victoria, the Capital City of British Columbia and one of the most beautiful harbours in the world.

From there we give you a rare ocean race that takes both flat out racing skills and strategic decision-making. The determination of the location of the Pacific High will lead you to the strategic decision of when to turn right, haul on those spinnaker halyards and lay back and enjoy.

The Victoria to Maui International Yacht Race, first contested in 1968, is the pinnacle of Pacific Northwest ocean racing. Vic-Maui runs every second year, starting in June or July off Victoria, British Columbia and finishing near Lahaina, Maui, a distance of approximately 2308 nautical miles.

Vic-Maui challenges navigators to demonstrate their weather routing and navigational skills. Understanding the weather is critical when making decisions on navigating out of the Straits of Juan De Fuca and along the Washington, Oregon and Northern California coasts to get to the trade winds first. Success depends on the navigators skill in predicting where the Pacific High pressure zone will be.

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