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. Hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing

podcast. It's Andy Schell.

Short intro here. This is just the second part of the Brian Toss interview from yesterday.

Hope you enjoyed the first part. We get into more technical rigging type stuff here.

A lot of it geared towards ocean sailing. So I hope you enjoy it.

Farewell, here your bricks and mortar

there well yet aren't she lies

farewell to your gangplains to hell with your overtime

and the good ship flag of often

she's lying on the quay

for a take your pot

put a shuttle on his back to the shores of Bobby Bay and I want, if it's okay, I'd like to kind of transition into some technical talk, because it would be,

as long as it's okay with you, I don't want to take things out of your upcoming book releases,

take away from that, but, but, you know, we, I run the Caribbean 1500 rally now. We've got just about 40 boats signed up for this and they're going to be heading off shore in a month. But, you know, one thing that we always emphasize is, particularly when it comes to ocean sailing, is, you know, you've got to keep the water out of the boat and you keep the rig, you keep the rig standing and keep the sails pulling, and you'll get there.

All things else, if everything else fails, you'll still get there.

Right.

But what's your kind of advice for folks to do a sort of pre-ocean sailing inspection now with still a month to go.

Wow.

What are you going to look for?

And what are you going to look for then offshore as well?

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