How Big Yacht To Sail Across Atlantic. Thats a 20 beam on a 40 boat. I believe there were about a dozen yachts in the rally.
The North Atlantic shouldnt even be crossed in the winter by the largest of ships. I assume they were pretty stressful and not much fun. An experienced sailor can do with less.
Every year between October February more than 1500 sailboats are making the Atlantic Ocean crossing from Europe to the Caribbean.
Every November since 1986 the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers ARC has set sail from Las Palmas bound 2700 nautical miles westward across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Virtually all of the experienced builders especially the European builders who must sail their boats transatlantic to their bases in the Caribbean have settled on a minimum length to beam ratio LB of approximately 50. Heres How Big your Sailboat Should Be to Cross the Atlantic. We crossed the Atlantic from Mindelo to Barbados in 18 days and 1 hour.
