Bruce Schwab // Vende Globe
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2015
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
#83. Bruce Scwab is the first American sailor to complete the legendary solo, nonstop Vendee Globe ocean race. It was his second solo circumnavigation onboard Ocean Planet, the boat he designed and developed on the west coast.
Bruce grew up in northern California and started sailing with his dad a young age, eventually working at a rig shop for many years where he honed his skills on the owners boat as a solo racing sailor, winning the first event he ever entered.
DON'T MISS Bruce's YouTube channel with some incredible footage from the Vendee, including a horrendous Southern Ocean storm.
'In hindsight, I realized that for my entire life I'd been training for the Vendee and didn't even realize it,' Bruce says. The lightbult went off and he started putting together a program with the nonprofit Ocean Planet, who funded the boat. He tells the whole story - and then some - here on the podcast.
Bruce now lives in Maine and specializes in outfitting cruising boats with alternative energy sources and high-end batteries, and is on the forefront of marine energy technology. Check him out at bruceschwab.com or oceanplanet.org.
Want to go ocean sailing with Andy? Book a berth on Sojourner! Summer Annapolis-Lunenburg & fall Caribbean passages available on 59-north.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Vinner's live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.3 | Happy New Year and welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast. I'm your host, Andy Schell, and this is episode number 83. |
| 0:16.7 | Before we get into it, just a few things. We have no sponsor this week. So that said, anybody that wants to sponsor the podcast, get in touch with me. |
| 0:24.2 | I've got special sponsorship offers and details to check you out about. |
| 0:27.9 | So since we don't have a sponsor this week, I'll spend a little bit of time just talking about how you guys, the audience yourself, can support the show. |
| 0:34.9 | I've got new trips announced on Sojourner for next fall on 59-north.com |
| 0:40.3 | slash events. You can book a crew berth to take the boat down to the Caribbean with my dad. I will not |
| 0:46.4 | be sailing that as I'll be running the Caribbean 1500. But there's three spaces available on the boat |
| 0:51.6 | if you want to do a passage from Norfolk to Tortola. |
| 0:56.8 | Also that said, there's some passages in the summertime that I will be on. |
| 1:00.5 | July we're going up to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and back again from Annapolis. |
| 1:05.7 | The first leg is full, but the second leg, starting around July 12th or so so will sail from Lunenburg back to Annapolis |
| 1:12.9 | you can fly into Halifax meet the boat there's three spaces available for that so check that out |
| 1:17.9 | i'll be at the toronto boat show this week with mea for world cruising club where i'm speaking on |
| 1:24.3 | friday saturday sunday and monday so if you're in the area in Toronto and want to come say hi, come see one of my seminars |
| 1:30.6 | or I'll be at the speaker's booth on the show floor from about noon each day. |
| 1:35.9 | So come and say hi and I'd love to see you at one of my seminars. |
| 1:40.0 | Also, World Cruising Club has the ocean sailing seminar, a two-day event in Annapolis this spring. |
| 1:45.4 | That is now open on worldcruising.com slash training. |
| 1:49.2 | So check that out. |
| 1:50.0 | I'll be leading the seminar, but we'll have speakers talking on a range of subjects, |
| 1:54.2 | everything related to ocean sailing from outfitting your boat to power management, |
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