When the organizers of the ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) offered me the chance to embark aboard a Lagoon 400 S2, to sail from the Canaries to Cape Verde, I didn’t hesitate for long. The story of a 900-mile trip in the trade winds.
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Publié le
16/12/2016
Par
Vincent Bourdin
Numéro :
147
Parution :
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2016
Las Palmas marina, in the Canaries, was agitated. More than 80 boats of all nationalities had met up to cross the Atlantic, via Cape Verde, as part of the ARC+, a new option offered to participants in the ARC, which generally crosses directly to St. Lucia. The departure was just three days away, and when I embarked aboard First Step, the Lagoon 400 S2 belonging to Martin and his son Micha, chaos reigned aboard. The welcome was convivial, even though I felt a certain amount of tension, linked to the imminence of the departure and the list of things to do, which was growing longer. Like many par…
