Crossing the Gulf Stream // Seminar
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2013
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
#13. I had some fun with this one. We recorded this at the Caribbean 1500 start in Portsmouth, VA back in November (and frankly, I'd forgotten I had the file, or I'd have posted it sooner!). It's my seminar on crossing the Gulf Stream, as told to the 2013 Carib1500 skippers. Yes, we're missing some of the visual aids I used (though you can see some of them online at 59-north.com), and at times it's hard to hear the questions that come up, but overall I think it works. If you've never been offshore, the Gulf Stream is one of those major challenges that everyone coming or going to the American continent is going to eventually have to face. Hopefully this chat eases the tension a bit, and sheds some light on that challenge.
Read on for some of the slides that accompanied the talk, which will hopefully shed some more light on the subject and clear up some of the stuff I mentioned in the podcast. And here is the link to the Ocean Navigator article I reference, and the rest of my archive. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello again and welcome to 59 degrees north podcast. This is a kind of a recording that I'd forgotten about that I even had. It's about crossing the Gulf Stream. And what I did and the reason I forgot that I had it was this was from a lecture I gave before the Caribbean 1500 back in October, |
| 0:22.4 | which at this point seems like years ago, but actually wasn't that long ago. |
| 0:27.7 | And this is a seminar that I gave about crossing the Gulf Stream and about the weather that you're going to encounter |
| 0:32.8 | and just the tricks and tips about getting across the Gulf Stream in a good weather window on the way south to the Caribbean. |
| 0:39.7 | I want to share this with everybody. It's not just specific to the Caribbean 1500. It's specific to anybody going offshore, to the Bahamas, if you're going around Hatteras, that area. |
| 0:50.6 | There's a lot of good info in here. I'll talk quite a bit about things i'm referring to on the screen |
| 0:56.9 | so what i'm going to do is actually |
| 0:58.6 | put up a few of the slides that i had |
| 1:01.3 | with me when i was talking about this put that up on my website |
| 1:04.3 | so you can see that at five nine dash north dot com |
| 1:07.5 | uh... there'll be a post with the podcast here as well as the slides and stuff. |
| 1:11.6 | So it'll make a little more sense if you want to see some of the visuals. |
| 1:15.6 | I use some grip files and some Gulfstream animations and this and that. |
| 1:18.6 | Nothing too rocket science-y, but kind of makes sense when I'm talking about it. |
| 1:23.6 | Anyway, yeah, this is a really cool one. |
| 1:26.6 | The recording turned out |
| 1:28.2 | pretty clear is a little difficult to hear some of the questions that came from |
| 1:31.9 | the audience |
| 1:33.3 | uh... but i think it's okay and i think i'm pretty happy with it so this again is |
| 1:37.8 | about crossing the golf stream |
| 1:39.7 | and uh... you can find us online |
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