Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the...

Okay. Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.

Greetings, greetings and welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast.

I'm your host, Andy Schell.

This is part two from the Ocean Sailing Forum that we did in Annapolis last Saturday.

Sorry for the delay in getting this out, but you can imagine how busy we were following the

boat show.

And I was doing some test sales on the new Hansa 575 on Tuesday,

so I was out sailing in Annapolis, just got home to Lancaster, and blah, blah, blah, you know how it goes.

Anyway, this is part two of the forum, so we pick up where we left off. Like I mentioned in part

one, the weather discussion got cut short because we had a technical difficulty

during the recording, but we only missed about five minutes of it, so you missed a little bit of

discussion on weather, but maybe I'll save that for the essay Friday tomorrow. In fact, that's

a very good idea if I can get that done in time. Anyway, part two, we delve more into

life at sea, watch rotations, crew selection,

what to expect offshore, that sort of stuff. There's less of a sales pitch in the beginning of

this. We just get right into it and move right on into the end of the forum. A couple quick

announcements. The Caribbean adventure sailing, offshore sailing that I'm doing on the Shannon 43 in February is definitely happening.

The first birth sold today.

So welcome aboard to Gil, who's going to join us for the trip back from Grenada to BVI.

If you'd like to join him, please sign up now on 59-north.com slash events.

Those berths are going to go fast, and there's only a limited space available.

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