Down-Island Caribbean Cruising // Seminar (Andy)
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2014
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
#76. We recorded this one live in Tortola at the end of the Caribbean 1500 rally. Andy gives an informal chat on his favorite places to visit down-island in the Caribbean. Basically St. Martin and south - the Eastern Caribbean's Leeward & Windward Islands. (By the way, that sound you hear in the background? It's the waves at the beach where we recorded this!)
If you want to follow along graphically, it's a good idea to listen to this one near a computer and just Google Earth the places I mention here to get an idea of what we're talking about geographically. Better yet, downlaod the Imray app, including the Imray-Iolaire charts for the Caribbean, and follow along (these are the same charts I reference in the talk, and my personal favorites).
I'll also have a page on the 59-north.com site devoted to this talk, with notes, charts and photos, so you can refer to that here.
Want to go ocean sailing with Andy? Book a berth on Sojourner, Serenity or a soon-to-be-announced Swan 57 at 59-north.com/events.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.0 | Greetings, greetings, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast. I'm your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:14.0 | I am getting a bit repetitive because this is the third intro in a row that I've recorded back to back to back, sitting on the balcony here at Nanny Key Hotel. I have to admit it's not a bad place to do some work. I'm looking out of the |
| 0:25.7 | chickens in the garden and some palm trees in front of me. Puffy clouds overhead. It's about 80 degrees. |
| 0:30.5 | Quite pleasant, I might admit, though I do miss the cold from back home. We're heading back |
| 0:34.5 | to Lancaster this afternoon. Anyway, this is another |
| 0:38.4 | sort of seminar that I did. We gathered around the pool deck yesterday with the Caribbean |
| 0:42.8 | 1500 fleet, and I gave a little talk about my favorite islands, down islands, so basically |
| 0:49.1 | from St. Martin, south to Trinidad, where I've stopped along the way and where are the places |
| 0:54.0 | that I really like to go. This one's going to require some notation. So I have a page set up on the website about this with some pictures of charts and drawings and stuff like that, extra stuff. So you don't have to take notes, but there were charts in front of me as I was given this talk. So I'm going to try and reference them on the site so you can kind of follow along. |
| 1:12.2 | Thanks again to caligomarine.com for sponsoring this episode of the podcast. |
| 1:16.4 | Caligo makes synthetic rigging and all sorts of nifty hardware for cruising and racing yachts. |
| 1:22.3 | Less moving parts, very innovative stuff. |
| 1:25.4 | So thanks very much to Caligo Marine for sponsoring this again, |
| 1:28.3 | and you can check them out at coligomorine.com, |
| 1:30.8 | or you can buy some of their stuff on 59-nash-North.com. |
| 1:33.9 | They're big supporters of what we're doing, |
| 1:36.0 | and John has allowed me to be a Caligo distributor. |
| 1:39.7 | So anything you buy from our site goes to support the podcast. |
| 1:46.8 | Yeah, this is a quick one. uh again don't forget about the january celestial nav course february serenity sailing uh i might have this swan |
| 1:53.6 | trip swan 57 in april if if it's going to happen it'll be on the website if not well then ignore |
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