Reasonable time frame to sail Rhodes to Grand Canaria

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Figuring out our route to take to get to Grand Canaria for the start of the ARC, I am trying to get a reasonable estimate of time frame.

Shorthanded, lots of day sailing with the occasional night thrown in.

I know its aagainst the prevailing winds so was going to set off from Rhodes at the end of August with the intention of getting to Grand Canaria at the beginning of November. Is two months enough to do it like this?

thanks
 
Will you be going direct from Gib (or thereabouts) to the Canaries? If so, that's about five days, so you're effectively looking at Rhodes-Gib during your two months. That's certainly doable, but you might find yourself burning lots of diesel. And I wouldn't concern yourself over much about prevailing winds (Aegean excepted): they come from pretty well all quarters. But you'll need patience (and the time to exercise it) if you hope for fair winds on the longer legs.
 
Oscarpop said:
Shorthanded, lots of day sailing with the occasional night thrown in.

thanks
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Hi,

Perhaps you'd better map out your itinerary! You are going to be needing to do quite a bit of night sailing, or take a very long time about it? You may be able to day sail as far as the Peloponese but beyond that you are going to have to make some major diversions (up to the Italian coast, Sicily, Sardinia, where after that?

Day sailing you can really only cover about 40-50 nm in a day, and there will be some days you won't want to move on for one reason or another. This is much harder work than getting out there, and staying out there, continuously. If you are day sailing, you have to find yourself into port, or anchor, and get going again the following day. It all takes time and energy?

Rhodes to Gran Canaria is around 2400 nm as the dizzy crow flies between resting spots without going around the houses. That equates to 60 days without rests or breaks for weather, (but of course from Gibraltar on you are going to be sailing continuously anyway?).

So map out some longer legs, perhaps, and do around 5/6 legs and get into practice for the ARC!
 
Many thanks again.

we just spent 6 weeks cruising and were achieving an average of 6.5 kts.

On the long passages we were averaging 150 miles in 24 hours. I figure that we do have over 2,000 miles to get through and it will involve a zig zag west to Gib.

one other plan we have is to split it over 2 years and winter somewhere, then take our time.
 
You must use your engine a lot - that's not our experience in the Med and I suspect Fuga is around the same performance. Its 2400, as I measured it without popping in and out of ports!

I would have thought that the ARC would be subscribed and paid up by this stage in the proceedings?

If you dig on our web site we did Greece to Sardinia in 2007, Turkey to Sardinia in 2010, Sardinia to Portugal 2011, Sardinia to Turkey in 2008. The summary journals have ports, distance travelled.
 
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