As the well-established Salty Dawg Rally that goes from the US East Coast to the Bahamas and the Caribbean, continues to attract experienced offshore sailors, over in England three new transatlantic rallies, Odyssey I, Odyssey II, and the Barbados 50, are flexing their muscles. The Salty Dawg Rally The Salty Dawg Rally hosts two rallies,…
In this month’s All At Sea, we take a look at the season’s crop of sailing rallies, from the east coast of the USA and from Europe to the Caribbean, and we have come up with some interesting news. Jimmy Cornell, the man who founded the highly-successful Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) and then sold…
It is the largest (race? rally? cruise?) organized transoceanic sailing event ever staged, with 234 vessels participating in 2007 and nearly 5,000 overall during the intervening 26 years.
Cornell watched as on November 25, 1986, the starting cannon was fired from a Spanish Navy frigate and 204 yachts from 24 nations set sail on the inaugural ARC on the largest trans-ocean race ever staged.