Evolution of a Dream // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2014
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
#77. I wrote this piece in 2008, long before I got into any of this sailing stuff professionally (or even otherwise). I was dreaming of going offshore, and this is how I put that initial dream into practice. It's read in the present tense, but remember, was written in 2008, so it's not what I'm thinking now, but what I was thinking then. Hopefully it can inspire you to put your own dreams into action!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Vinner's live from Sweden. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.7 | Greetings, greetings. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm your host, Andy Schell, recording this one live on Friday, December 5th, so almost in real time. |
| 0:17.8 | Sorry for the delay today. |
| 0:19.0 | I got backed up this week. Thanksgiving holiday, |
| 0:21.6 | all that stuff. Anyway, you get a Friday podcast anyway. Just a couple of reminders, |
| 0:26.6 | Celestial navigation course coming up next month in January in Annapolis. Signups for that. |
| 0:31.6 | There's still a few spaces left on 59-north.com slash events. Also, I'm really pushing hard these three sailing opportunities I have coming up next year. |
| 0:41.3 | The first in February, Caribbean Adventure Sailing on a Shannon 43. |
| 0:45.8 | We've got a couple spaces left on both legs of that trip, which is BVI to Grenada and back. |
| 0:51.6 | Then we've got a Swan 57 delivery from BVI to New York. That starts |
| 0:56.7 | around April 11th or so. I'll have more information on that if you want to sign up. I've taken |
| 1:03.0 | deposits for that one at the moment. And then of course Annapolis to Lunenburg on my dad's boat |
| 1:07.6 | of Ocquay 38, leaving Annapolis on July 5th and sailing nonstop about 600 miles up to |
| 1:13.7 | Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Also taking deposits for that. We've only got two more spaces left, |
| 1:18.8 | so get on those if you want to come along. It'd be great to have some folks along for some offshore |
| 1:23.2 | sailing. This is an interesting article. It's not really an article. It's thoughts that I wrote |
| 1:28.9 | way back in 2008, long before I did any of this podcast stuff, long before I was published in any |
| 1:35.4 | magazine, long before I crossed any oceans on Arcturus. I think at the time I'd only done one |
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