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On the Wind Sailing

Dee Caffari RECYCLED // All-Time Inspiring Episode!

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8593 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

RECYCLED #279. Dee Caffari is perhaps the most accomplished sailor I've ever had on the show, and she's easily the most inspiring. Dee has sailed around the world a full 6 times, 3 of them solo and nonstop, and most recently as skipper of the Turn the Tide on Plastic Volvo campaign. There isn't much she hasn't done in racing, whether solo or crewed, as skipper or in another role, but I took away much deeper insights from our conversation on things like leadership, psychology and inspiration. Mia & I met Dee in England to hear her story.

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2023 Passages on both ISBJORN and our new Farr 65 FALKEN are published and ready to book! Go to 59-north.com/2023 to see what's available.

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ON THE WIND is presented by Weems & Plath, makers of fine nautical & weather instruments since 1928. Check out all their navigation tools, clocks, barometers and more at weems-plath.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mia, can you do a sound check and tell me what your name is and what you had for breakfast?

0:04.9

My name is Mia and I had eggs, culles and knackabred for breakfast.

0:10.0

And some homemade, half-the-kecks by my mom.

0:12.7

Nice.

0:13.6

On the Wind is presented by Weems and Plath, makers of fine nautical and weather instruments since 1928.

0:19.1

And recently they introduced the OGM nav lights.

0:22.9

There are these LED navlights.

0:24.4

I've actually had one on East Bjorn as its Masthead lights since long before

0:28.3

Weems and Plath took over production.

0:30.2

But anyway, recently they took over production of the OGM nav lights.

0:33.9

They are super small, super energy efficient LEDs.

0:37.4

And interestingly enough, people tend to think that LEDs are cool. They are super small, super energy efficient LEDs.

0:41.6

And interestingly enough, people tend to think that LEDs are cool.

0:43.4

They actually do produce heat.

0:48.0

And most LED fixtures don't do anything to dissipate that heat. And therefore, the lights don't last as long because if you overheat it, they're going to shorten the life.

0:52.9

So Williams and Plath has sort of ingeniously invented these housings that use different materials and have different

0:59.3

heat sinks in there to get the heat away from the light bulb instead of keeping it in there

1:03.9

and therefore increasing the length of the light in terms of the years that it's usable. So for

1:09.8

example, East Bjorn's Mastead Light is a combination anchor light and tricolor, and when you turn both switches on at the same time, it turns into a strobe light, which is useful when you have a safety issue if you're trying to get someone's attention offshore. And also, it's got a light diode in it for the anchor light. So if you're anchored for a few days, you can leave the switch on, and it automatically turns itself off when the sun comes up. So check out the OGM range of navlights on Weems-plath.com. So previewing next season, this is a rerun episode. I'm not sure who I'm going to pick yet. Who's your favorite, like off the top of your head, one of your favorite episodes? Deekafari. Maybe I'll rerun that one. That's a good one. Were you there for that interview? Yeah, you were there. People can't see the way you're looking at me. It's audio. You don't remember anything. So I just got back home from a long season on the boat, and I was down at the new boat.

2:02.8

We've talked about the fact that we got this far 65.

2:05.9

Do you want to tell everyone what we're naming it or what we've named it?

2:08.6

We have named it Falcon.

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