Leslie Graney

Age at start of race: 67

Yacht Club: Opua Cruising Club

Hull Category: Monohull

Design: Outbound 46

LOA: 14.02m

Race Number: 17

Sailing CV: Logged over 125,000nm. Sailed across Pacific five times, Indian Ocean two times, Atlantic two times. ASA Instructor, VSCG – 100T

• Charter yacht skipper 44 Kalik, 1987-1991 Caribbean
• Delivery skipper 1991-2020, various vessels, Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.
• Sailing instructor 1992-2003 week long learn and cruises around the San Juan Islands and Gulf Islands, Pacific Northwest.
• Owner of BROAD REACH SAILING, 2003-2014 sailing school for women, San Diego, CA.
• Yacht salesperson, San Diego CA 2003-2014
• Crossed the pacific from west coast USA to NZ 2001-2024 five times in my own yachts varying from a 1946 wooden gaff schooner to 2007 Outbound 46.

Personal Goal / Quote: “Life is an adventure, or it is nothing.” I wanted to enter the race because life was getting a bit mundane, I am now a first time home owner and live in Opua, with my favorite human, Peter, and a strange little dog Scuppers.