Andrew Bedwell // Crossing the Atlantic in a 1-Meter Yacht
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In less than a month, Andrew Bedwell from the UK will set sail on his homemade yacht, Big C, in a daring attempt to break the World Record for the smallest boat to ever have sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. The previous record has stood for thirty years, and if Andrew is successful, his record will be very hard to beat indeed. His boat is one meter long, and the voyage is 1,900 nautical miles.
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| 0:00.0 | So all we're trying to do is build people's, get them to experience life and enjoy it. |
| 0:08.0 | On our gravestones, we've got a date when we were born, there's a date when we die, |
| 0:13.0 | and in the middle there's always a little dash. |
| 0:16.0 | And life is about filling that dash with as much as you've got. |
| 0:19.0 | And when you've finished with life, your dash wants to be full of stuff that you've achieved |
| 0:24.7 | rather than going to the grave thinking, oh, I wish I'd done that. |
| 0:28.5 | I wish I had that. |
| 0:29.2 | How many people put off doing things? |
| 0:33.4 | They quite often, they go, oh, I'll do that when they're a time, when I've got a bit more time. |
| 0:37.1 | But when you've got that time, you're dead. |
| 0:40.6 | Ahoy, everyone. It's August here. |
| 0:43.3 | Good to be back on the On the Wind show. |
| 0:46.3 | Hope everybody is doing great. |
| 0:49.2 | I've just returned from a really fun offshore training camp on East Beyond that I did here on the |
| 0:56.5 | west coast of Norway. That's been really fun. We had all kinds of fun weather and got to do |
| 1:04.6 | a lot of fun stuff. So that has been great. And well, there's also tons of other things happening here at 59 north |
| 1:15.0 | you might know that the quarterdeck sailing podcast is also in season right now so I'd recommend |
| 1:22.2 | that one we're doing a really fun season this time around where we talk to 59 North staff about their favorite cruising rounds and sort of their tips and tricks for different areas that you might want to check out on your sailing adventures. |
| 1:43.4 | So go check that one out that's quarterdeck dot 59 |
| 1:47.1 | norty-com also we are now getting ready for the seamanship seminar at the annapolis boat show so |
| 1:56.7 | tickets for that is now available so you can secure your tickets to that already. |
| 2:04.2 | That is also available on our website, which is 59.org.com. |
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