ARC Rally, Trade Winds reinforce: Picomole, Remax One and GG run strong at the head of the fleet
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The ARC Rally for Cruisers has passed the “mark” of the first week of sailing, with the head of the fleet now past the halfway point. The weather conditions have changed: those to the south, but also the very first boats in the fleet, are encountering a robust trade wind, even up to 30 knots, with a long ocean wave that has registered peaks in the 3-meter range. The averages of the outriders and at least the first half of the fleet are excellent, confirming that the ARC has changed a bit; for many, it is no longer just transfer sailing, but a safe way to make a genuinely sporty crossing with a competitive spirit.
Muscular conditions, but all in all quite usual for an ARC, with weather that this year is respecting a more classic Trade Wind picture, after instead upsetting the patterns at the Transat Café l’Or.
ARC, how Italian boats are flying
It continues to be an excellent regatta for the Italian boats, of which, let’s remember, there are 9 with Italian flags or crews, out of the more than 140 that started from the Canary Islands, and at least three of these are doing decidedly good sailing at the top, or leading, of the fleet.
Leading the Cruising category remains Niccolo Maisto’s Solaris 74RS GG (find out what boat she is), which chose the option of heading north of the orthodromic. From aboard GG our Tommaso Oriani writes us, “The wind has increased and with it also the speed averages almost always over 12 knots with peaks at 17-18. We are always sailing under gennaker, the conditions are good, with great surf on the soft wave of a strong trade wind. All is well aboard and we continue fast to the west.”
Another Italian boat is doing very well is Aldo Fumagalli’s trimaran Rapido 53 XS, first among the multihulls and second over the entire fleet, author so far of a very fast race. Leading the fleet remains the Dutch VOR 65 Nextgen by Jajo.
Also noteworthy is the rise in the rankings of Dario Castiglia’s Baltic 65 Remax One, currently second in the Racing category and 3 in the overall ranking, which is battling meter by meter with Jean Pierre Dick’s Swan 78, the famous French ocean-going yacht.
An ARC that for part of the fleet is anything but a simple transfer to the Caribbean, with many crews tackling it in race mode despite having “normal” and sometimes largely stock boats.
Italian boats racing: Hanse 540 Ahinamà by Massimo Peschiulli, Ita Catamarans 14.99 Edenj by Daniele Sottile, First 40.7 Free Spirit by Daniel Aksenov, Sun Odyssey 419 Mira by Alberto Cavagnini, Rapido 53XS Picomole by Alberto Fumagalli, Swan 48 MKII Whimsea by Simone Pallesi, Solaris 74 RS GG by Niccolo Maisto, Baltic 65 ReMax One by Dario Castiglia, Trilli, Nautitech 44 Open by Emilio Amati.
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