In 2024 James delivered his Regina 43 ‘Arkyla’ from its winter base of Valencia in the Med to the Caribbean. In this talk, based on his Hanson Cup winning log, he will touch on exiting the Med and negotiating Orca Alley but will concentrate discussion on the Atlantic phase of the journey. This will include blue-water fit-out, crew choices (and issues), the pros and cons of joining the ARC+ rally, and the trans-Atlantic passage itself from the Canaries to Grenada via Cape Verde. The central theme will be ‘preparation’ and how this helped to overcome mid-ocean problems including shredding the Parasailor spinnaker and structural damage to rudder and skeg following a whale strike 1000 nm from land.
Please note: lectures can be watched live online but we do not generally make recordings available after the event, for a number of reasons relating to time and copyright issues.
Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025
Time: 19:00
Place: CA House or, for the webinar broadcast via Zoom, your own home or boat
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Tickets (to attend at CA House): Members £4, non-members £7.
Booking (to join the webinar via Zoom): The webinar broadcast is open to members, including Crewing Service members, only. You will need to login to see the details below.
Zoom link TBC . There will be no charge for viewing online.
