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ARC+ 2018 Day 7

When we say day 7, in reality its only day 6 of sailing as we’ve included the Sunday we left[…]

Well what an amazing ocean, yesterday we were visited by the largest pod of Dolphins we have ever seen, there[…]

Well here we are at day 5 already, certainly getting warmer the further south we travel, although its 24-5 degs[…]

You can never have enough power all the friends that have gone cruising before us said – and they couldn’t[…]

Well as the song goes, “what a difference a day makes” from hardly anything to 20-25 knots, from flat calm[…]

Well that was a fairly non eventful first night, wind dropped about to zero about 3am, much to our disappointment[…]

The – Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) is an annual transatlantic sailing event for cruiser yachts held since 1986. ARC starts at[…]

Well, we just about managed to pull ourselves away from Marina Rubicon and make the 96-mile journey across to Gran[…]

Rubicon – (def) A limit that when passed or exceeded, permits no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment. I’m not[…]

The whole of the European Leg of our trip was to culminate in our longest time at sea, the crossing[…]