Clint Wells RECYCLED // Sailing Newbie
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
#189: Clint Wells is one of my best friends, and Isbjorn's first mate when Mia can't make a passage. He was there when I first met Mia in New Zealand, and he sailed across the Atlantic with us on Arcturus back in 2011. Clint is NOT a sailor - or at least wasn't, until joining us. I spoke to him a few years back about our Atlantic crossing together and the challenges he faced - both physically, and even more so mentally - as a new-to-sailing crew member stuck on a 35-foot boat for 23 days in the North Atlantic. For those of you new to ocean sailing, Clint has some words of wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | because you really get to know everyone's habits and bad points and what makes a |
| 0:04.9 | hit for me exactly and you have a choice do you if you're feeling a bit low do you push their |
| 0:09.1 | bad point just just just because the boats donk don't oh let's just see what happens if i |
| 0:14.7 | probably can push this one we're not going anywhere let's just express human nature isn't that |
| 0:18.6 | i mean you just you kind of play around a little bit so some of the |
| 0:22.0 | low points is you can't leave there's nowhere to go you know the furthest point you can go is a few |
| 0:28.0 | meters one direction welcome back gang it's a recycled episode this week mea is looking at me |
| 0:34.6 | and making me smile so if i sound extra happy this morning, that's why. |
| 0:38.8 | When this airs, we'll be in Tortola getting ready to sail north to Bermuda on our first leg |
| 0:43.1 | across the Atlantic. This is episode number 189. On the Wind is presented by Weems and Plath, |
| 0:50.2 | makers of fine nautical and weather instruments since 1928. All winter we've been dabbling with |
| 0:55.2 | celestial navigation in the Caribbean, practicing for this passage north to Bermuda, which we're doing |
| 0:59.8 | entirely on celestial. Mia is going to keep a GPS log just in case of emergency, but she'll be the only one |
| 1:05.8 | aware of it. Myself and the rest of the crew will be taking sights, running our DR plot, and |
| 1:10.8 | navigating us north by the sun and stars. |
| 1:13.6 | Whims and Plath makes a very useful Starfinder, really a super old-school analog version of the Sky View app you probably have on your iPhone. |
| 1:21.6 | The Starfinder is a really cool way to impress your friends, if nothing else, and a very useful tool for predicting where you're |
| 1:27.8 | going to find stars at dawn and dusk when you're actually practicing celestial. Essentially, it |
| 1:32.9 | allows you to determine the bearing and altitude above the horizon at a given time of day |
| 1:37.0 | of the most useful navigational stars, so long as you have an estimate of your own longitude. |
| 1:42.3 | The really cool thing is those neat apps on your phone |
| 1:45.2 | that do the same thing essentially by simply pointing it at the sky. Those wouldn't exist if not |
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