As it does every four years, the Route du Rhum has re-awoken your dreams of heading over the horizon, and crossing the Atlantic. Your childhood dream is revisiting your nights, but maybe not just while you’re asleep. A break from the routine, leaving the path between university and retirement, to at least once in your life, hoist the sails and let slip the lines! OK, so this famous Transatlantic, which can be as enjoyable as it can be worrisome: how should it be approached? With the family or single-handed? Join a rally or do it with friends? There will be a solution for you. There’s no excuse not to go.
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Publié le
16/12/2016
Par
François Trégouët
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So you’ve decided you’re going to do it. Your beautiful multihull has been pottering up and down your local coast for the past three seasons. Sure, you’ve had a great time, but wasn’t your boat designed, dreamed about and bought because you wanted to go further afield? The little builder’s plate on the hull reminds you every day: Design Category A - Trans-ocean! So now the kids have grown up and you’ve got sufficient hindsight in your professional life to take a little time off. You have to go. Whether from East to West to enjoy the winter sun in the West Indies, or from West to East to make t…
