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Organising the World's Largest Offshore Sailing Event
- 1. Organising the ARC 675,000 nautical miles; 250 yachts; 1,250 people and 30 languages! JEREMY WYATT www.worldcruising.com
- 2. A look at the infrastructure behind World Cruising Club, organisers of the world’s largest offshore sailing event – the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers - and how they go about organizing and supporting their clients, including preparation and typical equipment that is carried onboard the sailing yachts crossing the Atlantic.
- 3. WCC Organise Sailing Events • Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) • ARC Europe • Rally Portugal • World ARC • Caribbean 1500 • Cruising Seminars
- 5. Around the World in 2012
- 7. The ARC – some statistics 1986 - 2009 • First ARC was in 1986 • 4,460 yachts • Over 17,000 crew • Over 30 nations annually • Largest to date 1999: 235 yachts • 25th Edition this year: 250 yachts expected
- 8. The ARC – some statistics 1986 - 2009 • If all the ARC yachts were laid end to end, the line would stretch for over 39 nautical miles or almost halfway around the island of Gran Canaria. • In the period, over 17,000 crews aged from babies to almost 80 have taken part.
- 9. How Long Does It Take? The ARC Course Record: 2006 11 days 05:32:30 Capricorno Maxi 2003 11 days 13:12:20 Spirit VOR 60 2001 11 days 23:41:43 Spirit of Diana Farr 65 2000 12 days 18:07:20 Multicap Caraibes Open 50 1998 13 days 02:58:02 Yes! Sydney 60 The Slowest: 1986 33 days 21hrs Dunkers Achilles 24 due to breakages had to hand steer for the last 1,300nm. A Typical Crossing: An ‘average’ cruising yacht will take 19-21 days and can motor as required.
- 10. What is a typical ARC yacht? The average ARC yacht in the last 5 years is: • 14.2m LOA (45’-46’) • 9 years old • Monohull: Beneteau Oceanis 46, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45, or Hallberg Rassy 46 • Catamaran: Lagoon 440 • Crew: 5 adults • Families: 10% of the average boats will have two children onboard
- 12. How We Run WCC
- 13. Reaching Our Clients • 99% of client enquiries via website • Offers news, yacht logs, photos and yacht positions to involve family and friends
- 14. Reaching Our Clients • Clients can enter and pay online • Organise their crew, access event information, get special equipment prices etc via Member’s Area • Forums allow sailors to share information, find crew, buy/sell spare equipment.
- 15. Reaching Our Clients • Supporters can follow yachts via our website
- 16. Reaching Our Clients • Each year we have over 24 staff on the team for the start of the ARC in Las Palmas • Speaking 7 languages!
- 17. Working With Sponsors • Over 30 Corporate Members plus event and port sponsors around the world.
- 18. Equipment on the yachts
- 19. ARC Equipment Survey • Real experiences from 200 yachts each year • Typically reviewing equipment used for over 900,000 nautical miles • Steering & power; sails; navigation; top 5 items • Equipment Rated for: – Reliability – Ease of Use – Value for Money
- 20. Electronic Equipment As organisers, WCC require yachts to have: • E-mail at sea (via SSB radio or satellite phone) • Installed VHF radio (25w) • EPIRB (min. 406MHz) • Positions tracked via Iridium transponders
- 21. Communications at Sea ARC Communications Equipment Fit 60% 50% 40% % of fleet 30% 20% 10% 0% 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Year SSB Only Satellite Only SSB & Satellite
- 22. Data at Sea ARC 2009 Data at sea System Type 2007 2008 2009 Iridium 80% 79% 80% 70% Inmarsat MiniM 6% 6% 1% 60% Inmarsat Fleet 33 14% 6% 6% 50% 40% Inmarsat Fleet Broadband 0% 9% 13% % 30% 20% • Iridium is cheaper • Fleet BB growing 10% 0% em d um 7 er an -7 • New iSat phone may th od di 33 db O Iri M tF oa B sa Br SS ar et m le In tF make an impact sa ar m In Type
- 23. Other Equipment - Navigation NAVIGATION - methods Nr Replies Response Ratio Paper charts 100 54.3% Fixed plotter 148 80.4% Computer 70 38.0% Total 184 100%
- 24. Other Equipment - Radar RADAR- type Nr Replies Response Ratio Furuno 33 16.8% Raymarine 116 59.1% Simrad 4 2.0% JRC 1 <1% Other 6 3.0% No Responses 36 18.3% Total 196 100% Used on average for 8 hours per day
- 25. Other Equipment - Radar RADAR: rate for: Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. Poor OK Good Superb 6 42 71 33 Reliability 4% 27% 46% 21% 5 45 66 31 Ease of Use 3% 31% 45% 21% 6 57 59 22 Value for money 4% 39% 41% 15%
- 26. Other Equipment - AIS AIS- What make is fitted Nr Replies Response Ratio Comar 16 8.1% Digital Yacht 10 5.1% EasyAIS 10 5.1% Furuno 11 5.6% NASA 11 5.6% Raymarine 37 18.8% Simrad 7 3.5% Other 14 7.1% No Responses 80 40.8% Total 196 100%
- 27. Other Equipment - AIS AIS: rate for: Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. Poor OK Good Superb 9 21 42 42 Reliability 8% 18% 36% 36% 6 18 41 49 Ease of Use 5% 16% 35% 42% 8 23 38 41 Value for money 7% 20% 33% 36%
- 28. Power Generation Onboard • 58 fitted wind generators – (17 Rutland) • 24 yachts had a water powered (towed) generator onboard (of which 12 were Duogen) • 53 yachts fitted with solar panels – ave. 200W • 90 yachts had diesel generators: (Onan 23, Fischer Panda 22, Mastervolt 11) • 99 yachts used main engine for charging; with an average of 3 hours per day usage.
- 29. We asked all ARC 2009 Skippers to list their 5 most important items of equipment onboard The suggestions were wide reaching. Some more unusual responses were: yogurt maker, self- inflating airbed and vodka for killing fish! We ranked all the suggestions by popularity and the top 10 favourite items voted for by ARC 2009 skippers were……………………………..
- 30. Top 10 equipment items: 1 autopilot 2 watermaker 3 satphone 4 generator 5 chart plotter 6 radar 7 AIS 8 fridge 9 SSB Radio 10 spinnaker pole