Clint Wells // Newbie Trans-Atlantic
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2014
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
#39. Andy sits down in person with one of his best friends in Oslo, Norway to reminisce about sailing across the North Atlantic. Clint, a non-sailor, joined Andy & Mia in Halifax for the cruise up the Canadian Maritimes and across the pond to Ireland, a 23-day passage, and the first time Clint was at sea. In between jokes and fun memories, Clint comes up with some great pearls of wisdom for anybody looking to cross an ocean, but might not know what to expect. He's honest, funny and sincere about how the experience changed his life for the better.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to... |
| 0:02.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:03.0 | It's okay. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. |
| 0:08.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | It's Andy back again, back on the boat in Sweden after an awesome weekend in Oslo, which I'll get to in a second. |
| 0:19.0 | I want to thank returning sponsor Caligo Marine |
| 0:21.9 | and my good friend John Franca for sponsoring the podcast this week again. You can check out Coliggo's |
| 0:26.9 | website on Caligomorin.com. John and Coliggo are the gurus of synthetic rigging for cruising boats. |
| 0:34.2 | Arcturists has used the Caligo Ducks Ringing since 2010, I think now, and I believe |
| 0:39.2 | we were the first boat to cross the Atlantic, first monahole, sorry, to cross an ocean with |
| 0:43.6 | ducks rigging. I'm a huge fan of it. As you'll see, we've got a podcast episode with John coming |
| 0:49.1 | up. We talk a lot about the technical aspects of ducks and how it works compared to wire rigging and everything. |
| 0:55.1 | And I'm trying my best to make everyone understand that it is something that is going to be on cruising boats. |
| 1:01.0 | And it's just a matter of understanding a new material. |
| 1:03.4 | But awesome stuff. |
| 1:04.5 | He's got some furling gear for spinnickers and drifters, that sort of thing, |
| 1:10.5 | as well as some really neat |
| 1:11.7 | hardware ideas, fair leads, fittings, different stuff, really cutting edge, lightweight |
| 1:19.0 | stuff that's good for racers and cruisers. We use a lot of it on our boat, simple stuff, |
| 1:23.4 | high-tech, not expensive. Check it out on coligomorine.com. |
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