31 Multihulls set out from Las Palmas, bound for Saint Lucia
900 participants of 38 different nationalities crossed the startline of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers on November 21st. Ahead of them, 2,700 nautical miles of Atlantic Ocean and then Saint Lucia.
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Publié le
26/01/2022
Par
Emmanuel van Deth
Numéro :
182
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2022
The 31 multihulls in the rally were the first to set off after the starting gun was fired, and as with the 110 monohulls following them, they had to tack to cross the line and were on a beat to reach the southern tip of the island of Gran Canaria. Unusually, a south-easterly wind of 10 to 15 knots had set in, as opposed to the typical north-easterly trade winds. The competitors were forecast to experience very light weather, most of them having victualled sufficiently to “maintain” themselves for 18 to 20 days on passage. Among the fleet of multihulls, we found former winners of the event such…
