2012 is set to be a busy year for World Cruising Club.  The third edition of World ARC is underway with 31 boats en route from Saint Lucia to Mackay in Queensland Australia.  Other rallies are filling-up fast, with a bumper entry for ARC Europe 2012.

Come and see us at the London Boat Show on stand A135 North Hall from 6 to 15 January 2012. 
Whether you are interested in joining a rally in the future, or are already signed-up, come along and say 'hello' - we'd love to meet you.

CLICK HERE to find out about our Ocean Sailing Forum on Saturday 7th in the boat show - get the top tips from the experts!  Only £20 including a boat show ticket.  Tickets strictly in advance!

London Boat Show stand A135, North Hall
Excel London - DLR stop Prince Regent
www.londonboatshow.com

Demand from Cruisers Drives Extra Dates
World Cruising Club are delighted to announce that from 2014 the World ARC round-the-world sailing rally will become an annual event; starting every January from Rodney Bay in Saint Lucia.

The photo shows the World ARC 2010-11 fleet at anchor in Port Resolution, Tanna, Vanuatu

Enthusiasm to join sailing rallies, whether as a boat owner or crew, continues to grow. World Cruising Club, the world's leading organiser of cruising rallies, have just experienced the busiest January ever for enquiries and entries.  Some top news:

• ARC 2011 is now fully booked, well ahead of the expected date.
• Ocean Cruising Seminars in UK and USA are sold-out.
• Malts Cruise re-launched after a year's absence.
• World ARC will become an annual event from 2014.

The World Cruising Club Corporate Member’s scheme is a unique way for businesses to become involved as sponsors of World Cruising Club events, without the expense of title sponsorship. The result is a wide-ranging group of companies all better able to meet the needs of their clients and offer products and services to World Cruising Club members.   Welcome to UK Solutions, pyd, YachtCom & SailCom

The Cruising Rally Association (CRA), best known as the organiser of the annual Caribbean 1500 Rally from Hampton VA to the British Virgin Islands, and World Cruising Club (WCC), organisers of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Saint Lucia, are joining forces to become the largest global organisation dedicated to the sport of passage-making.

Since its inception in 1986 thousands of cruising enthusiasts have enjoyed crossing the Atlantic with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC). This year is a significant milestone for the rally, as the 25th edition of the ARC will set off from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia this November.

Last weekend World Cruising Club hosted its three day Ocean Cruising Seminar at the Holiday Inn, Guildford. It was a great opportunity for delegates to listen to a number of chosen lecturers and meet fellow sailors, many of whom have similar sailing ambitions and plans. Delegates had travelled from across the UK and further afield including Portugal, Netherlands, Monaco and Finland. 

World Cruising Club, the cruising rally specialists best known for the popular transatlantic sailing event the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), has now opened its entry lists for a host of 2010 events including ARC Europe, Rally Portugal and the ARC. Interest is already high and all events are expected to fill up quickly.

In a significant new development for 2010, yachts in all World Cruising Club offshore rallies from June 2010 will carry satellite tracking units, capable of automatically reporting the yachts’ positions, anywhere in the world.

As part of World Cruising Club’s ongoing website development, an online Member’s Area has recently been introduced to provide a central hub for all rally information, across all of our events.

World Cruising Club members can now benefit from exclusive prices on nautical charts and publications. Our members can view and/or purchase charts, books and nautical software online via our new online shop. There’s an extensive range of Imray nautical publications, as well as books and charts from other publishers including the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

noonsite.com – the global website for cruising sailors - has joined forces with marine environmental group MEER (www.m-e-e-r.org) to launch a worldwide survey of collisions and near misses between cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and sailing yachts.

Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK: World Cruising Club, organisers of the famous Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), have announced today – 2 June 2008, that they have taken over noonsite.com – the global website for cruising sailors, from its founder, the author and sailing “guru” Jimmy Cornell. Noonsite.com is the culmination of Jimmy Cornell's work on the global cruising scene for three decades and a distillation of his best-selling books World Cruising Handbook and World Cruising Routes