The run-up: Summer 2017
In June, we left from Terschelling to sail in stages to the start of the ARC. In June we sailed via the British South Coast to Brest , where we left the boat for a couple of weeks. From Brest we crossed the Bay of Biscay to Bilbao to reach Gijon, La Coruna, Bayona, Porto and Cascais Lagos in the weekends of July and August. At the end of September we sailed in 4 days from Lagos to the Canary Islands.