ARC+ 2024

Our ARC+ videos:

St-George's  -  Port Louis Marina  -  Clarkes Court Boatyard & Marina  -  Paul Tetlow Interview   -  Piment Rouge Interview 
-  Grenada Tour

According to Paul Tetlow, General Manager of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, the Mindelo stopover has many advantages - especially for family crews. The route, although longer overall, is in fact two legs shorter (11 to 16 days for Mindelo - St. Georges) than the ARC's “direct” transatlantic passage and features a generally more clement southerly route. The stopover also serves to strengthen the bonds between the crews. Arriving in Grenada, in the far south of the West Indies, means there are no questions about the Caribbean program: you're heading north until May, and that's that!

This year, no fewer than 91 yachts ranging in size from 36 to 72 feet (11 to 22 m) docked at Grenada's luxurious Port Louis marina. Among them were no fewer than 27 catamarans - a ratio that is steadily increasing in favor of multihulls. On the dock, 434 sailors of 26 different nationalities shared their ocean experience. 37 children took part in the adventure: among them, Lauren, Rebecca and Michela, aboard the Dutch Excess 11 AtC, looked after Archie, the ARC+'s teddy bear mascot...

The ARC+, deliberately oriented towards cruising, has no racing division, whereas the ARC does, but only for monohulls. All multihulls are therefore authorized to use their engines, but they are required to declare the times they use them, and an hourly penalty is logically assigned. It can be strategically useful for getting out of an area of calms more quickly and optimize passage time. As a consequence of this “motor-driven” regatta, it's the compensated time that motivates the crews and interests us. Note that 10% of the fleet did not use their engines at all. See below for the leg 2 results for both multihull classes!

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Class A
1/ Piment Rouge – Catana Ocean Class
2/ Nargana – Aura 51
3/ O’Vive - Catana Ocean Class
4/ Oxane – Outremer 49
5/ Twin Joy – Lagoon 50
6/ Salto – Outremer 52
7/ Atlas – Outremer 51
8/ Duet – Excess 14
9/ Appa – Outremer 52
10/ Salt – Excess 14
11/ Sizzle – Outremer 55
12/ Avanti – Bali 5.4
13/ Imi Ola – Saona 47
14/ Nakula – Dixon 69

Class B
1/Yggdrazil - Nautitech 40 Open
2/ Helios – Lagoon 380 S2
3/ Athena – Nautitech 44 Open
4/ AtC – Excess 11
5/ Valhere – Nautitech 44 Open
6/ Questor – Astrea 42
7/ Myrto – Lagoon 400 S2
8/ Ocean Crosser – Lagoon 42-2
9/Qualia - Lagoon 42-2
10/ Tomcat – Lagoon 46
11/ Ulys 1 – Lagoon 42-2 (RTD)
12/ Perle III – Leopard 38 (DNS)
13) Kaia II of Vancouver (DNF)