The 2700 nautical mile passage on the NE tradewind route takes on average between 14 and 21 days. The largest trans ocean sailing event in the world, every year the ARC brings together well over 200 yachts from all over the world. The ARC has a special flavour, which successfully combines racers with cruisers, old with young, and provides entertainment for all. A wide ranging program of entertainment takes place both before the start and after the finish.

Joining the ARC fleet will be a fun and safe way to cross the Atlantic. Please download a detailed ARC 2012 description with possibilities, dates and prices. Our guests will have a unique opportunity to share in this (at least) once in a lifetime experience. Join us on our ocean passage in style in with good company.

Read more about the possibilities to join us as guest and crew member by downloading a detailed regatta description with dates and prices.

Lady Ann is available for charter for the Heineken Regatta, starting on the 1^st of March till the 4^th. We offer her either on a full boat charter for a group of friends or for a company charter. Alternatively she is available for charter by up to 14 guests, based on individual bookings.

Please read our newsletter Ann-mail 3 for more information on the yacht, the regatta, for dates and prices.

Mustique, at least equally beautifull as its’ neigbouring islands, is rather unique in the Grenadines as it is privately owned with just under one hundred private residences. There are some glamourous and illustrious names under the (former) home owners, including Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch and the late Princess Margaret. It is still being visited by English royalty, as Lady Ann’s visit coincides with William and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, vacationing on the island.

The island urrently has just one hotel, The Cotton House, a grand old colonial building on a former plantation, an ideal place to relax in their spa, or to have a leisurely lunch at the beach cafe. The islands’ only and rather fancy guesthouse is famous for its’ martinis and champagne cocktails. But there is yet another good reason to visit Mustique, the annually held Blues Festival. Every year in January famous Basil’s Bar hosts world reknown artists like Zach Prather, Paddy Milner, Lewis Cohen, Veronica the Ukelele singer, Dana Gillespie and The London Blues Band. Two weeks of amazing music in an enthralling setting would be an experience of a lifetime in itself.

Lady Ann is now heading towards the Tobago Cays, a group of small, deserted islands, protected from the sea by ‘Horseshoe Reef’. A heavenly spot for snorkelling and diving, for sundowners on the front deck, and for whiling away sipping cocktails in the cockpit, gazing at the stars till well after midnight.

Our next island, after an easy tradewind sail south, was Bequia, the first island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Making our landfall we felt we had just sailed fifty years back in time, with a standard of living in shrill contrast to St. Lucia’s modern day luxuries. Exploring the island by rental car proved an interesting and leisurely drive. We made some great hikes around the beautiful hills, and paid the turtle sanctuary on the east side of the island a visit.

We are now making our way south towards the home of the rich and famous, to glamorous Mystique. The trade wind is blowing us gently towards the island now just visible on the horizon. Who knows, perhaps we will stumble into Mick Jagger on the beach. Or perhaps we will share an idyllic reef to snorkel with a suntanned David Bowie, and a couple of spiders from Mars.

“Quietly indeed they sailed along, with gentle breezes that wafted them generally westwards at something in the nature of seven miles in the hour, westwards to even warmer seas. Little activity was called for, apart from the nice adjustment of the sails, and although the exact routine of the ship was never too relaxed nor her very strict rules of cleanliness, these long sunny days with a sailor’s wind seemed to many the ideal of a seaman’s life – regular, steady, traditional meals with the exact allowance of alcoholic spirits; loudspeaker music during nightly watches, the deep melody and reverberation of the Captain’s voice singing opera like (convinced the crew to be asleep), and the cheerful sound of the cook preparing dinner; the future lost in a haze somewhere west of the next meridian where the clock will have to be set back yet another hour.”