Across the North Sea, Pt. 1 // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
#69. Andy reads from a handwritten log entry during Arcturus' North Sea crossing from 2012. This is the first of a four-part series on the voyage from Scotland to Sweden, the last major offshore passage that Andy and Mia have done on Arcturus since crossing the Atlantic in 2011. Since then, the boat's been in the sheltered waters of the Baltic archipelagos. Stay tuned over the next three weeks for parts 2, 3 and 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Vinners, live from Sweden. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:09.0 | Greetings, greetings, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:14.0 | I am recording this from back in Lancaster. |
| 0:17.0 | This is a real-time recording, so I've just recorded this, although it's not a real-time essay. |
| 0:22.4 | This is episode number 69. This is another essay Friday for you. Tomorrow we are headed down to |
| 0:28.8 | Tortola for the finish of the Caribbean 1500. The boats are currently at sea. You can track them on |
| 0:34.6 | carib-1500.com and click on the fleet tracker. Lots of people have been sending |
| 0:39.3 | logs in, so it's fun to read up on how everybody's doing. Before I get into this episode, a couple |
| 0:44.2 | quick reminders. The celestial course for November was canceled due to a family issue. I've got a |
| 0:50.8 | funeral that I have to be at back home, so that was a bit of a bummer. |
| 0:55.0 | But we've rescheduled it for January, so I'm doing one, January 16th, 17th, and 18th at the |
| 1:02.0 | Annapolis, at the US Sailing Hall of Fame in Annapolis. |
| 1:06.0 | So check out 59-north.com slash events and sign up for the Celestia Nav Workshop. We still have |
| 1:11.9 | six or so spots left, I think. Also, excuse, first of all, my cold. I still have a cold. |
| 1:19.7 | This essay was difficult to read because I can't breathe out of my nose. So apologies for |
| 1:23.4 | sounding like an idiot, but I feel better than I sound, I promise you. Other reminders, we've got the Caribbean adventure sailing on Serenity. |
| 1:32.7 | Serenity is actually one of the boats in the rally. |
| 1:34.9 | I've got two or three berths left for that. |
| 1:37.5 | That's going to be in February. |
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