World Arc 2010 - Entry Open Now
by Peta Stuart-Hunt on 15 Apr 2008
Quasar V of Lleyn - cruising the Marquesas - 11 April 2008 SW
World ARC, the flagship event in the global portfolio of World Cruising Club (WCC) rallies, is building on the success of the current 2008 Rally with the announcement that the entry list has opened for a second edition, the 2010 World ARC Rally.
Billed as an adventure of a lifetime, World ARC 2010 will leave the Caribbean in January 2010, cruising across the World's great oceans on a circumnavigation of the globe, returning to the Caribbean 14 months later.
Ever since the concept for the inaugural World ARC Rally was first announced by World Cruising back in 2006, there has been a continual stream of international enquiries coming into the WCC Cowes-based office. World Cruising really has created the adventure of a lifetime, with careful planning and using up-to-date routing information and the skills acquired over 20 years of running ocean sailing events.
Forty-one yachts from 13 nations are participating in the 2008 Rally, which set off from St. Lucia back in January. Since then they have cruised into the Pacific via the Panama Canal, down to Ecuador and on to the Galapagos Islands and the Marquesas.
The accompanying photos have been sent back by participants now in the Marquesas and Tuomotos. You can see more stunning photos by going to the World Cruising Club website
After the Tuomotus, it will be on to the Society Islands before departing from Bora Bora in mid-May and heading towards the Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji and Vanuatu. Then it's across to Cairns, Australia and a cruise inside the Great Barrier Reef, before regrouping for the leg
across the top of Australia to Darwin and the start of the Indian Ocean stage.
From Bali, the Rally calls at the remote island of Cocos-Keeling to reach Mauritius in October. Then on via the French island of Reunion, to arrive in South Africa at Richards Bay, cruising slowly southwards to be in Cape Town for Christmas 2008. In January 2009 the fleet heads out from Cape Town to Brazil, via the tiny mid-Atlantic island of St. Helena. From Salvador de Bahia, the route cruises north along the coast to Recife, where crews can enjoy the frenetic sights and sounds of Carnival Brazilian style. Late March sees yachts back in the Caribbean and they will have sailed approximately 25,000 nautical miles.
The daily logs being uploaded onto the World ARC website provide terrific insights into the many and varied highlights and the occasional 'low' as participants share their experiences
Anne Myers from the Amel Supermaramu Harmonie, summed up the voyage thus far in her log:
'Distance travelled from Galapagos to Marquesas: Approximately 2,980nm
Total Time: 17 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes
Average Speed: 7.14 knots
Total Time Motoring: 35 hours, 48 minutes (8.6% of total time)
Total Time Sailing: 381 hours, 27 minutes (91.4% of total time)
Degrees of longitude travelled: 49 degrees to the west
Degrees of latitude travelled: 9 degrees to the south
Time zones crossed: 3 1/2
Highest wind speed: 29 knots
Lowest wind speed: 3 knots
Highest waves: 8 feet
Record High Temperature: 90.8F (29C)
Record Low Temperature: 78.8F (23C)
And then, arrival in Polynesia; ahead lay some of the most exotic locations of the voyage, remote islands to explore, new cultures to experience and what some would describe as the first 'real cruising' of the rally. Landfall was at Atuona on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas archipelago....'
You can read more and find out how to enter World ARC 2010 by logging on to World Cruising Club's website www.worldcruising.com/worldarc
or contact World Cruising Club on: +44 (0)1983 296060.
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