Heavy Weather Sailing // Seminar
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
#186: Today's episode is a recording I made of my seminar on Heavy Weather Sailing I gave at last weekends Ocean Sailing Seminar, hosted by World Cruising Club in Annapolis. While I'm lucky not to have too many gnarly heavy-weather sea stories of my own, I've studied the subject for years and enjoying talking about it theoretically. What follows is a discussion on what I feel are the 'best practices' for handling heavy weather, of course brought to life by a few of my own sea stories. Follow along with slides from the presentation at 59-north.com/heavyweather.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Buenos days, amigos. Mia and I are in San Juan, following our long weekend in Annapolis, waiting to fly over to Tortola and get back to the boat. |
| 0:10.0 | We were back in town to MC the World Cruising Club's annual ocean sailing seminar, which was a blast as usual. |
| 0:17.0 | In fact, today's episode was recorded during it, so it's still fresh in my mind. |
| 0:22.6 | By the time you hear this, though, we'll be back at sea on our last trip in the Caribbean before |
| 0:26.4 | starting the jaunt across the Atlantic. Before we dive into this week's show, I want to mention a few |
| 0:30.9 | events coming up that Mia and I are hosting that I think you will dig. We just confirmed our |
| 0:36.4 | spot at the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October. |
| 0:39.5 | East Bjorn won't be there this year, but we've got the same space reserved. |
| 0:42.9 | We're putting in two wooden floats instead. |
| 0:45.4 | And we'll be co-hosting an offshore sailor's hangout with Kokomo and Co. |
| 0:49.6 | A little creative project by our good friend and one of East Bjorn's sailing mates, Jake Albano. |
| 0:56.1 | Anyway, the point is to create a space where like-minded sailors can come hang out, share |
| 1:00.0 | stories and meet cool people. We're just in the planning stages now, but we know for sure |
| 1:04.4 | we'll be featuring some live music. There will be plenty of libations on hand, and I'm rounding |
| 1:08.8 | up my ocean-sailing friends to pop by and share some |
| 1:11.3 | stories. Boat Show starts October 5th this year, so plan on coming by to say hi. You can check out |
| 1:17.4 | details and updates at 59-north.com slash boat show. Also, Mia and I will be around Annapolis for the |
| 1:25.0 | whole month of October. We're speaking at the Harrington Harbor Marina on the evening of October 12th, |
| 1:30.3 | and we've got two seminars lined up for the weekend following boat show. |
| 1:34.4 | October 14th and 15th will be our new hands-on rigging and sail repair workshop |
| 1:39.3 | with special guest and author of the Riggers Apprentice Brian Toss himself, |
| 1:43.9 | who's flying out from the |
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