ARC update from Challenger 4. Less than 2000 miles to go! Thursday 26 Nov Race Day 4 A word form the crew So, we are 4 days in to our Atlantic crossing. In typical offshore sailing style our few days at sea have merged in to a series of four and six hour watches,...
The latest update from our ARC crew. 2125 miles to go Wednesday 25 Nov Race Day 3 A word from the crew The first big activity of Tuesday evening was dropping the spinnaker on watch change as the wind increased. Unfortunately this pushed back dinner and a couple of...
ARC Crew get off to a lively start. 40 knot winds, 1 meter swells above the helm, shooting stars.. Monday 23 Nov 2015 Race Day 1 of the ARC Carnage of sea, big boats and spray at the start of the race. Challenger 1 crossed the line astern and kept pace with us for a...
Skipper Ricky Chalmers, narrates Sunday's start to the ARC 2015. Casting Off. We slipped from our stern-to mooring early to avoid the crush of 205 ARC boats and numerous spectator boats and some kamikaze Sea Kayakers who were to join a shore line full of eager...
All summer the crew for the 2015 ARC Rally has been building and it won’t be long before they will be leaving the Canaries and crossing the Atlantic for St Lucia. During the race Challenger 3 will be sending us some updates as they cross the ocean and, as a taster of...
Sailing has long been a shared hobby for me and my husband, Paul. There’s nothing like the experience of leaving dry land and getting away from it all. Having retired from our jobs and moved from Nottingham to Cowes on the Isle of Wight, we decided we wanted to spend...
Preparing the yachts It had been a long-held ambition of mine to cross the Atlantic Ocean. I’d had several opportunities over the years, but sadly none of them came to fruition. Technically it’s a race, but the vast majority of competitors are there to simply have fun...