Ep. 887: Nonstop Solo Sail Around the World - Revisited - Jerome Rand
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Solo circumnavigation: Jerome's 271-day, 29,000-mile solo sailing voyage around the world on his Westsail 32 Mighty Sparrow from Gloucester, MA, in 2017-2018 – one of the few to complete the feat on such a small vessel after growing up in Northern Michigan, living in the Caribbean, and hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Originally aired - June 15, 2020
Jerome grew up in Northern Michigan surrounded by water. Reading books about harrowing adventures fueled his mind to live life outside of the box as he grew up. He started his sailing career late, but once he caught the bug, it took off and never stopped.
After living in the Caribbean for years Jerome decided to hike the Appalachian Trail. He admits that it was a blissful time of happiness and fulfillment, but he wanted to do more, and do something on the water.
In October of 2017, Jerome climbed aboard his Westsail 32, Mighty Sparrow, Jerome would circle the globe alone and return to where he started, Gloucester, MA in June of 2018. His incredible adventure has only been completed by a handful of folks in a vessel of that size. The journey spanned 271 days and over 29,000 miles.
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Previous episodes:
- Ep. 721: Sailing Around the World Again Pt. 1 - Jerome Rand
- Ep. 723: Sailing Around the World Again Pt. 2 - Jerome Rand
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. This podcast was made for |
| 0:26.8 | stories like this. This story with Jerome Rand is one of my all-time favorites. It is pure, epic, |
| 0:36.6 | amazing adventure. And Jerome is such a humble person, epic, amazing adventure. |
| 0:38.5 | And Jerome is such a humble person, such a likable personality. |
| 0:42.6 | I can't believe he's the type of person that can be alone this long. |
| 0:46.2 | He seems just so personable. |
| 0:49.0 | But we're going to hear his story about how he sailed around the world by himself. He left from Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| 0:57.3 | in October 2017, and 271 days later, he arrived back in Gloucester and covering almost 30,000 miles. |
| 1:06.3 | Only a handful of people ever have done a solo nonstop sale around the world. And Jerome is now doing it |
| 1:14.2 | again. We interviewed him last year about his trips during COVID that did not go to plan. Some of the |
| 1:21.1 | crazy things that happened, he tried to do a solo sale around the world from pole to pole to pole. |
| 1:26.3 | So kind of perpendicular than going around the equator, which you can't go around the world from pole to pole to pole. So kind of perpendicular than going |
| 1:28.7 | around the equator, which you can't go around the equator that lands in the way, but, you know, |
| 1:32.8 | south of all the continents. Unbelievable adventure, but fog and ice and just COVID threw a wrench |
| 1:40.3 | in the plans because some countries wouldn't allow him to enter their water because |
| 1:44.5 | there would be no search and rescue available if something happened. So they didn't want to take on |
| 1:49.1 | that liability. But anyway, he's out on a trip again. The best place to follow him looks like |
| 1:54.0 | TikTok. He looks like he updates there a lot more than anything else. And Jerome, can't wait |
| 1:59.4 | to have you back on. This is one of the coolest |
| 2:02.3 | talks I've ever had. And the other two episodes, which I will link in the show notes, we |
| 2:07.6 | broke it into two parts. And it was an in-person interview. So we spent like three hours talking, |
| 2:12.8 | definitely worth a listen. Crazy stories. Jerome is a Hall of Fame adventure sports podcast guest. |
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