ARC yachts

[tarik]

Evening all,

Am trying to follow the leader board etc re the ARC boats, would be very interested in following some of the smaller boats, can anybody give me a couple of names to look out for.

cheers

David

 

[sailorman]

Sestina (249) sailed by MichaelW of this Parish & his delightful wife Jean.
Sestina is an Oyster Heritage 37 they plan to be away 2 yrs & they "Done the Atlantic" last time in a Contessa 33 & none of that Nancy bring her home on a Ship stuff either

 

[White_Lady]

Mojomo ,a cat is also of the 'gang'. Doing well also!

 

[braehouse]

Friends of mine James and Lesley on a Hallberg 38 called Coba Libra are worth a look. Were about 13th in their division and approx 95th overall. Young couple in their 20s on a round the world, started last year.

Cheers

Chris

 

[Bajansailor]

There is an excellent tracking chart for the ARC here - http://live.adventuretracking.com/ARC2010

If you click on a boat number, that will show the routes to date.
And the default appears to bring up everybody at once, hence it looks very congested in that particular part of the North Atlantic! But you can 'thin them out' by getting rid of all the classes you dont want in the column on the left.

Sestina (249) mentioned above appears to be taking the scenic route via the Cabo Verdes.
They have threatened to bash 100 miles to windward to Barbados after abusing their livers with the ARC rum punches to come and say hello to us here - looking forward to meeting them!

There is a Norwegian couple on a Sweden Yachts 40 called Viking Crusader (214) - they were in the first ARC in 1986 as well, that time on a Sweden Yachts 34 (also called Viking Crusader) with two little kids under 7 as crew.
And then there is that indefatigable German lad Manfred with another Swan called Albatros (38) - he was in the first ARC, and this is apparently his 17th......

And I have a pal on a Dufour 44 called Piccolo (162) who is I think working a passage back to her own Dufour who is currently laid up ashore in Grenada.

The leader by a huge lead is in fact a mobo, Wind Horse (24) trundling (galloping?) along at 11 knots with only 500 miles to go to Rodney Bay - they are delighting in posting very smug reports on their B-log each day about what a comfortable passage they are having - http://setsail.com/category/dashew-blog/

 

[Twister_Ken]

Evening all,

Am trying to follow the leader board etc re the ARC boats, would be very interested in following some of the smaller boats, can anybody give me a couple of names to look out for.

cheers

David

Smallest boat in the fleet is Honningpupp II, a Comfort 32.