by First Class Sailing | Nov 24, 2025 | Antigua - Portsmouth, ARC Rally, Atlantic Adventures, Mile Building Sailing Trips, Portsmouth - Gran Canaria
Part of our Mile Building Sailing Trips series. Three Epic Voyages – One Atlantic Adventure Our Offshore Adventures form part of our wider Atlantic Circuit. Sail from Portsmouth to the Canary Islands, join the famous ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers) from the Canaries...
by First Class Sailing | Oct 10, 2025 | ARC Rally, Atlantic Adventures
The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers: An Ocean Adventure Like No Other The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) 2026 is one of the most iconic events in global sailing — a spectacular transatlantic rally that attracts over 200 yachts and sailors from all over the world. In...
by First Class Sailing | Mar 19, 2021 | ARC Rally, Atlantic Adventures, Experiences and Challenges
The ARC Rally – Atlantic Rally for Cruisers is on the horizon for November 2021. This is a friendly race for sailors seeking a Transatlantic challenge and participants come in a huge variety of vessels and experience from salty old seadog to TransAtlantic...
by First Class Sailing | Jun 23, 2020 | ARC Rally, Atlantic Adventures, Courses, Experiences and Challenges, Fastnet Race, Learn to Sail, RYA Competent Crew, RYA Courses
260 thousand miles and counting…. Ricky Chalmers talks about his sailing career to date Ricky discovered the thrill of sailing relatively late in his life after booking a sailing holiday on a whim for his family and completing an RYA Competent Crew Course. He...
by First Class Sailing | Dec 11, 2019 | ARC Rally, Atlantic Adventures
Back on dry land You will no doubt be glad to hear our intrepid crew have safely made port in St Lucia after an epic trip across the Atlantic. Here at First Class Sailing it has been my honour to post the blog daily and most of the time I have merely posted the...
by First Class Sailing | Dec 10, 2019 | ARC Rally, Atlantic Adventures
Only a day away With the crew of Challenger 2 around a day from the finish line today their thoughts are turning to being back on dry land, seeing loved ones and of course sampling some of the local rum! We wish them good luck for the final few miles of an epic trip...
