Why do the ARC? // Cruising Rallies
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2013
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
#12. Andy talked to Tom & Susie from the ARC yacht Adina about just what makes the ARC rally so special. For 27 years now, the event has attracted upwards of 200 boats. And 2013 marks the first-ever ARC+, that saw 43 boats head to the Cape Verdes before continuing across the Atlantic. Tom & Susie offered some excellent insight into just what it takes to complete such an audacious undertaking, and why they felt doing it with the ARC was a perfect fit for them. Thanks guys!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.6 | Greetings and welcome to a bonus episode of the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. I'm in St. Lucia right now. |
| 0:11.6 | It's the second to last day of the Ark rally. We've got the prize giving tomorrow. |
| 0:15.7 | And all but a handful of yachts have made the finish line here in St. Lucia, all of which everyone that started in Las Palmas and didn't stop is here, and the few yachts that are still at sea stopped in Cape Verdes on the way. |
| 0:29.4 | Anyway, yesterday I was working on a feature story for the website about why people do the arc and what makes this event so popular and i had a short interview with tom and susie from adena |
| 0:41.7 | uh... they signed up for the ark and actually heading around the world with |
| 0:44.9 | world arc |
| 0:46.0 | and get some really interesting insight into you know |
| 0:49.2 | what the mindset of somebody that really |
| 0:52.4 | wants to be a part of this rally is all about and what makes |
| 0:55.5 | it so special for them. Every year the arc since it started has had over 200 yachts and they're |
| 1:01.2 | in their 27th year now. First year that they've started the arc plus rally. So obviously there's |
| 1:06.8 | something to this thing and I just kind of wanted to find out what that was. You know, of course you've got your rally detractors and this and that. But, you know, I always say to each his own, if you want to sail on a rally, that's great. And nobody should be trying to argue against that because there's some really, really cool people down here and there's some really, really cool stories that you hear in the do. And after talking to Tom and Susie, it's kind of impossible |
| 1:28.7 | not to feel the same enthusiasm that they do. So I wanted to include this just as a bonus episode, |
| 1:34.3 | sort of accompany the article that I put on the website. So thanks for listening to this. And yeah, |
| 1:41.9 | again, this is Tom and Susie from Ad adena and this is a bonus episode number twelve |
| 1:48.1 | from uh... fifty nine degrees north |
| 1:50.2 | you can find me online at twitter uh... at fifty nine north sailing |
| 1:54.4 | or on the facebook all that other stuff |
| 1:56.5 | and one quick thing uh... anyone was in the u s we're gonna be in chicago during |
| 2:00.6 | the strictly sale chicago show january twenty third to twenty sixth And one quick thing, if anyone was in the US, we're going to be in Chicago during the Strictly |
| 2:01.1 | Sale Chicago show January 23rd to 26th. |
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