IN PURSUIT OF A DREAM
Project manager and lifelong sailor Scott Fickling bought this Guillaume Verdier-designed Class 40, first launched in 2008 as Desafio Cabo de Horno, with an eye to refitting her for short-handed racing. The plan was just about to swing into action when the first covid lockdowns hit in 2020, but in late January this year, after nearly two years of work, she finally re-entered the water as the bright-pink-liveried Vixen Racing.
The 40-footer first came to New Zealand while being sailed two-handed round the world in the 2010 Global Ocean Race by Ross and Campbell Field, under the name . The pair were leading the race when Ross Field injured his
