World Cruising Club Launches Positive Impact Fund in the Caribbean
The World Cruising Club’s Positive Impact Fund supports community, environmental, and youth projects in Caribbean rally destinations like St. Lucia and Grenada.
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How to Prepare for a Successful Rally Cruise to the Caribbean
It is up to each vessel’s captain to make sure their boat, crew and even provisioning are up to par to assure a successful passage
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World Cruising Club Runs Three Atlantic Rallies This Fall
Whether you like passage-making or transatlantic sails, the Cowes, UK-headquartered World Cruising Club offers a rally that will put you in the sunny islands this winter. Here’s what’s new with the WCC’s three major Atlantic fall rallies. ARC Caribbean 1500 Over 70 yachts are expected to depart Portsmouth, Virginia, on November 8th, en route…
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World ARC 2014-15 ends in Saint Lucia
Achieving the dream of circumnavigating 15 months ago, the World ARC 2014-15 fleet set out from Saint Lucia to sail around the world. Amongst the crews were many nationalities, backgrounds and reasons for taking part. Since then, they have sailed well over 26,000 nautical miles, crossed 3 oceans and visited more than 17 countries. As…
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Cruising Rallies Ho!
The southeast coast of the United States offers a wealth of idyllic cruising grounds. However, when the desire strikes to venture further offshore to ports south such as those in the Caribbean, one question may be what is the best way to accomplish this goal as safely as possible. Many southeast sailors choose to cruise…
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The Volvo Ocean Race Village Officially Opens in Miami
This May marks the second year that the ARC Europe event, run by the UK-based World Cruising Club, will depart from Hampton, VA (see article in our VA regional section this issue). At the time of writing, 36 yachts were registered for the event as a whole (a record), which sees the fleet across the…
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ARC Europe ready to Depart from Hampton VA
For the second consecutive year, a portion of the ARC Europe fleet will depart from Hampton, VA, bound ultimately for the shores of Portugal, an ocean away. At press time, thirty-six yachts were signed up to take part in this year’s event, organized by the World Cruising Club, which was originally founded in the 1980s…
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The Twin Realities of The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers
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.
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Changes to ARC Europe and Atlantic Cup in 2011
This spring marks the first time that the World Cruising Club (WCC) will head both the ARC Europe and the Atlantic Cup, which was under the domain of the Caribbean 1500 Cruising Rally Association until last year.
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World ARC Circumnavigation Rally Goes Annual
World Cruising Club are delighted to announce that from 2014 the World ARC round-the-world sailing rally will become an annual event; starting every January from Rodney Bay in Saint Lucia.
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World Cruising Club takes over noonsite.com
Caribbean news from around the region for August 2008
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Caribbean News – Mar 06
Caribbean News from around the region for March 2006
