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All sorts of things are happening in the ARC!

I hope I am not stepping on somebody's toes who might have posted this already somewhere.

Have a look at http://arc.worldcruising.com/en/news.asp?chco_id=15044

for their latest news updates.

One rather sad news story today is that another yacht has been abandoned - this time because of rudder failure. This is the S/Y 'Arnolf' - I wont mention what type of boat she is, you can find out for yourself!
 
The mast and spinnaker retailers in the Carib will be doing a bit of business then.....

Sounds very rolly out there, and what a performance from the Italian Maxi.
 
So now we have Compromise and Arnolf making their own way across the Atlantic, drifting..... unless someone does come across them and salvage them - I do hope so!

That Italian Maxi certainly stormed across - 11 days is fairly trucking - although not an outrageously high daily average if they sailed approx 2,800 - 3,000 miles in total. And I hate to think what the cost of two new spinnakers for her will be....

BTW, I wonder if anyone knows of any other 40' yacht that crossed the pond in 14 days or less? Some pals sailed Blackfoot (their aluminium drop keel Maracuja sloop) across 17 years ago from Canaries to Barbados in 14 days flat - they had poled out twin genoas, and just surfed, with the keel wound up, averaging a steady 200 miles a day.
 
Blimey...

One of the double-handed crew on Allegria had suffered a breakdown and jumped over board. In the dark, and with an 8ft-10ft swell running, yachts Tracker My Way, Macnoon and Sunrise began a search, as well as co-ordinating communications with MRCC's Falmouth (UK) and Fort de France (Martinique).

Sunrise also transferred two crew to Allegria to help sail the yacht. After approximately 4 hours, the casualty, a 30-year old Belgian male was recovered onboard the Allegria.

What must have been going through this chaps mind to leap overboard in the dark in the middle of the atlantic!

What's even more amazing... they got him back!
 
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One rather sad news story today is that another yacht has been abandoned - this time because of rudder failure. This is the S/Y 'Arnolf' - I wont mention what type of boat she is, you can find out for yourself!

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It doesn't say what type of boat she is, but her rescuer was one of those solidly built German boats we hear so much about.
 
Sorry, they do say what type of boat Arnolf is, you just have to dig a bit more deeply to find it.......

OK, here is a clue, both rescuee (correct spelling?) and rescuer were built by the same company.....

Re Captain Haddock's comments above, yes, I am very impressed that the MOB was found successfully, at night, with quite a sea running - and it sounds like he was in the water for at least 4 hours.
I 'tip my lid' to all the boats and crews involved - excellent seamanship.
 
Better write off Contests as well then since a 48' has also lost it's rudder - 0h and a Trintella 42 lost a shroud and two other boats have lost their mast.

So problems don't seem to have been restricted to the lederhosen boats.
 
Yea but Arnolf is reported to have hit something during the night, maybe a whale. How many modern rudder designs, be-it Bav, Halberg, Ben or Contest, would survive that sort of treatement?
 
agreed. I was just trying to point out that it's not just the one Bav which has encoutered a problem this year on the ARC. Plenty of other boats seem to have suffered in the conditions too. Hitting an underwater obstruction can of course happen to any boat but that won't stop the Bavbashers natch. Incidentally, the ARC logs seem to mention an unusually large number of whale sighting this year.
 
Well frequently there are calls for the departure date to be later because the trades have not properly established by then (or in our case last year, barely started!). This year, they have been there, but a little bit stronger than expected with bigger seas too. Apart from maybe expected kit breakages, two people suffering mental problems, in different boats (one ARC, one NARC) is very strange.
 
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