Yachting World sponsors the annual Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) and undertakes an in-depth survey of gear and equipment that they publish in the magazine. Here’s the report for the 2017 ARC.
We surveyed nearly all 290 yachts in the 2016 ARC transatlantic to find out what broke and how it was fixed; what worked and what didn’t. You cannot presume to be able to sail across an ocean without experiencing some problems or breakages with your equipment. We issued the 290 yachts sailing in the 2016 ARC and ARC+, transatlantic rallies with a survey to detail their breakages and solutions.
The first thing you notice from the results is that there were few empty columns for yachts without problems. In total, 167 yachts, or nearly 60 per cent of the fleet, had a breakage. Read more.
