Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
From ARC Website
" This annual transatlantic rally starting each November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has now become the most popular way to cross the Atlantic. The largest transocean sailing event in the world, every year the ARC brings together over 150 yachts from all over the world. The Caribbean destination is Rodney Bay in St.Lucia, one of the most beautiful islands in the Lesser Antilles. The 2700 nautical mile passage on the NE tradewind route takes on average between 12 and 24 days.
Conceived as a friendly race for cruising yachts to make the Atlantic crossing both safer and more enjoyable, participating yachts must carry a range of safety equipment including a liferaft, EPIRB and VHF radio. Daily radio nets contribute further to the safety of participants. The presence of experienced sailors is another incentive for those with little offshore experience. "
Conceived as a friendly race for cruising yachts to make the Atlantic crossing both safer and more enjoyable, participating yachts must carry a range of safety equipment including a liferaft, EPIRB and VHF radio. Daily radio nets contribute further to the safety of participants. The presence of experienced sailors is another incentive for those with little offshore experience. "
Monday, October 15, 2007
october The Plan for the ARC
Well this is my first time with a diary AKA blog so I think that it might take me awhile to get the hang of this thing and pretty up the settings and visuals. I will do my best to keep it interesting and free of detritus.
The week of Thanksgiving I fly from Portland to London, spend the night in London to change airports and then off to the Canary Islands, on Thanksgiving day. For those of you who are not so sure where the Canaries are, they are off the coast of Morroco, North Africa, and are a province of Spain. The weather in the Canaries is considered to be some of the most temperate in the world with temperatures from 65-75 all year round. This will occur after the hurricane season and the weather/wind should be at our backs for most of the trip. This does not however mean that we couldn't have and probably will have some big water.
We are leaving on Saturday in a large international rally of something like 200 sailboats of all sizes in the annual ARC or Atlantic Rally Crossing. The boats will be of all sizes but ours will be a 47 foot Catamaran owned by my friend Lee Adamson and co-captioned with his partner Wendy Fredell. They spent the last 6 months chartering the Med. At this point I am not sure if there will be anyone else on the passage with us.
Being in the ARC will be interesting because I believe that every day all of the boats will check in with their SSB radios, and give positions, fish caught, problems etc.
We can't know how long it will take to cross back to St. Lucia, in the Carribbean, but we are guessing at maybe 2 weeks, ish, give or take, if we are lucky....
That is the plan.
The week of Thanksgiving I fly from Portland to London, spend the night in London to change airports and then off to the Canary Islands, on Thanksgiving day. For those of you who are not so sure where the Canaries are, they are off the coast of Morroco, North Africa, and are a province of Spain. The weather in the Canaries is considered to be some of the most temperate in the world with temperatures from 65-75 all year round. This will occur after the hurricane season and the weather/wind should be at our backs for most of the trip. This does not however mean that we couldn't have and probably will have some big water.
We are leaving on Saturday in a large international rally of something like 200 sailboats of all sizes in the annual ARC or Atlantic Rally Crossing. The boats will be of all sizes but ours will be a 47 foot Catamaran owned by my friend Lee Adamson and co-captioned with his partner Wendy Fredell. They spent the last 6 months chartering the Med. At this point I am not sure if there will be anyone else on the passage with us.
Being in the ARC will be interesting because I believe that every day all of the boats will check in with their SSB radios, and give positions, fish caught, problems etc.
We can't know how long it will take to cross back to St. Lucia, in the Carribbean, but we are guessing at maybe 2 weeks, ish, give or take, if we are lucky....
That is the plan.
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