VELELLA was designed by San Francisco's Tom Wylie and launched in San Diego in 1979.
She has a great history - cruising to the South Pacific with her builder/owner in the early 1980s, then returning and circumnavigating the Pacific over 7 years with Garth Wilcox and Wendy Hinman in the early 2000s. Ryan and Autumn Helling have owned her since 2012 and race and cruise her in Pacific Northwest waters.
