World ARC
During 2008 and the early part of 2009 Asolare is participating in the inaugural World ARC run by World Cruising Club. Asolare has joined 47 yachts to cross the World’s great oceans on a circumnavigation of the globe.
Asolare and World ARC will visit some of the most beautiful places in the world. Leaving from St Lucia in the Caribbean in January 2008, we sail to Panama, for a World Cruising Club organised Canal transit. From Panama we visit Equador and the Galapagos Islands, then on to cruise through the idyllic islands of the South Pacific including Hiva Oa, the Tuamotos, Tahiti, Bora Bora, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga.
By July World ARC reaches Fiji in the western Pacific, before crossing to the volcanic islands of Vanuatu, and then Cairns, Australia. World ARC will cruise inside the Great Barrier Reef, before regrouping for the leg across the top of Australia to Darwin and on to the Indian Ocean. From Bali to the remote islands of Cocos-Keeling and Chagos to reach Mauritius in October. Then on via the French island of Reunion, to Richards Bay, South Africa, cruising south to Cape Town for Christmas 2008. January 2009 we head to Brazil, via the tiny mid-Atlantic island of St. Helena. From Salvador de Bahia, the route cruises north to Recife. Late March sees the end of World ARC back in the Caribbean.
