The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) is an annual transatlantic sailing event for cruiser yachts held since 1986. It also includes a sailing competition for racers. ARC 2018 had started at November 25 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and ended at Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean.
The ARC is the largest trans-ocean sailing event in the world and regularly attracts over 200 boats of many different shapes and sizes. The route takes between 8 and 31 days aided by trade winds, and covers over 2700 nautical miles.
This Atlantic crossing was made on the yacht Rocket Dog 2, GBR 3234L (Beneteau First 40, owned by Nemesis Yacht Racing, [ Ссылка ]) with eight people on board, 2833 nautical miles covered in 16 days and 17 hours.
