Contemplating Prison in Grenada // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2014
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
#62. Andy recounts a tale about a run-in with immigration authorities in Grenada that nearly cost him a weekend in prison. This is from his 2009 experience skippering Broadreach's Arc of the Caribbean adventure travel program.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the... |
| 0:05.0 | 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. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:23.1 | We've got another essay episode Friday for you. |
| 0:25.8 | A big podcast day for me today. |
| 0:28.2 | I didn't record, but I published the second part of the forum today. |
| 0:31.3 | Just got done talking to Jeff Weddick of the Escape Pods podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | He came by the House in Lancaster and interviewed me for his podcast. |
| 0:39.7 | Also going to use it on this podcast. So check for that next Tuesday. And now I'm recording this |
| 0:44.1 | story for tomorrow. This was written back in 2009. Mia and I were working for Broadreach. |
| 0:51.1 | I keep coming back to this company that we worked for teenage adventure travel |
| 0:54.5 | trips. We were on their arc of the Caribbean program, started at the Broadreach Pad in St. Martin. |
| 1:00.1 | We were on a 50-foot Benito, myself, Mia, and 11 teenagers. Boys and Girls ranged 16 to 18. |
| 1:07.7 | It was an island hopping trip from St. Martin down to Trinidad, stopping at most of the |
| 1:12.5 | leeward and windward islands along the way south, and then the kids have the option to |
| 1:17.1 | do the delivery sale back with us from Trinidad direct to St. Martin. So in total, we were |
| 1:22.8 | on board this boat for 39 days with between 6 and 11 teenagers, depending on the trip back was a few |
| 1:30.2 | less than the trip down. No booze the whole time, 39 days without alcohol, probably still |
| 1:35.3 | since I started drinking the longest I'd gone without having a beer or less wine. So I mentioned |
| 1:43.1 | tropical stupor in this story, |
| 1:44.7 | but it literally means languishing in the heat has nothing to do with booze. So just so you know that. |
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