arcona

I began sailing in my Dad’s Alacrity. In
1990 I bought my own Alacrity Chevy Chase ) which I
refurbished and kept on drying moorings in Beadnell
Bay. We sailed the Farne Islands, Holy Island and up
to Eyemouth – she was probably the best value boat
I’ve owned.
In 1997 we bought Typhoon (a Sigma 33) for round
the cans’ racing and cruising and entered the RNYC
Bass Rock, a 155 mile race from Blyth round the Bass
Rock in the Firth of Forth and won the Royal Northumberland
Cup (Bass Rock) in 1998.
In 1999 we bought Orion, an Oceanis 411, a fantastic cruiser in which we travelled over 20,000
miles in the following ten years. We began to enter
her in round the cans and inter‐island racing in the
Canaries and in the ‘Alta Nivel’ series.
In 2009 I bought a First 40 we named Typhoon (after
the Sigma 33), entering her in more of the local and
inter‐island races and in the ‘Infanta Christina’ in
Santa Cruz before sailing her back to Hamble in 2011
to be sold.
Arcturus is an Arcona 430 which we picked up in
Kungshamn, Sweden in June 2012. We’ve sailed over
8,000 miles in her (Jan 2014). She’s fast, responsive
yet manageable for short‐handed cruising despite
her size and powerful

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