Jo Ivory

Jo Ivory was born in Marlborough New Zealand and has sailed over 100,000 nm on the water / oceans around the world. In 2003 she sailed their 53 foot yacht from Hawaii to Picton NZ put it into survey and skippered it around the Marlborough Sounds for ten years as a luxury charter, with many voyages to the Pacific Islands included. In 2011 she completed the two handed around the North Island of NZ race with another woman. The last five years she has been working in the marine industry in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, including many deliveries across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Jo is back in Auckland and very honoured to be working with the NZ Sailing Trust with youth training on NZ’s most iconic yachts, Sir Peter Blake’s Steinlager 2 and Lion NZ.