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At the end of a year when the calendar has been mostly crossed out or marked provisional, families who stuck to their cruising plans to make an Atlantic crossing or even advanced them, were breaking free, as Elaine Bunting recently discovered
The Covid-19 pandemic derailed the plans of around two-thirds of the crews planning to take part in the annual ARC Atlantic crossing and ARC+ from Gran Canaria to St Lucia, but 76 crews made it despite the difficulties (24 in ARC+ via Cape Verde and 52 in the non-stop ARC). These included a number who advanced longer term plans when they realised that going this year might be better than staying.