Sanuk
Having spent most of his life working in the oil business and travelling extensively, Mike Stevenson decided it was time to settle down. And the best way to do this was to buy a boat and go off cruising!

He decided on a Bavaria 38 after seeing the boat at the 2002 Southampton Boat Show and took delivery of Sanuk in March this year. Mike’s previous experience is limited to dinghy sailing as a kid and sailing on friends’ boats. Sanuk is his first boat, and the ARC will be his first crossing. The ARC was central to his plans from the outset. He liked the idea of the added security of sailing in a large group, and benefiting from all the knowledge of the more experienced sailors he’d meet. "There’s somebody looking over my shoulder, and the social side is good." You can look over Mike’s shoulder as we get regular reports his Atlantic crossing with his son Jonathan and daughter Rhiannon.

"I’d like to go all the way around," he says, "But we’ll see how this trip goes."

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