Jade & Ben // Sailing the Northwest Passage
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Jade Couturier recently completed the Northwest Passage on their Navy 44 Caprivi. They bought the boat in 2016, looking to make it their traveling home. Ben and Jade took Caprivi through an impressive rebuild while living aboard and working in the Florida Keys. In June 2022, they set sail, and have covered a lot of distance since. In May 2023, they left Antigua and aimed the bow north, quietly planning to sail to Alaska via the Northwest Passage. Emma caught up with Jade and Ben just a week after they arrived in Seward, Alaska. They're now part of a group of just under 400 boats reported to have completed this voyage.
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| 0:00.0 | It could also quickly turn into an epic failure as well, like at any moment. |
| 0:05.5 | And that's what you have to be ready for. |
| 0:06.9 | And I would say that that was the number one thing. |
| 0:09.1 | Really, you have to go with. |
| 0:11.1 | If you get bad really fast, so can, you know, equator trip on the Pacific. |
| 0:19.7 | Greetings, fans. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome back to another episode of On the Wind. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm your host, Andy Shell, normally, and... |
| 0:26.9 | Mia Carlson is sitting next to me in my dad's basement in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:30.6 | We just got back from Boat Show last week. |
| 0:33.3 | What was your favorite memory, Mia? |
| 0:35.8 | Oh, man, so many. |
| 0:58.0 | I think, I mean, of course, seeing so many people, both, like, new people we never met before, they listened to the podcast, but also people sail with us. I mean, some people, one guy came up, and he was with us, I think the very first year, Mike, he sailed with us when you had your appendicitis. Just having people coming up that'd be known for, like, crude with us for like seven years. I think that's so cool. And also realizing when you meet people, how, what a relationship we have with people. Like, we've known, |
| 1:03.7 | I've met you in 2006. And my first time in Annapolis was 2007. So we've known people for like |
| 1:10.6 | 18, 17 years now, which is |
| 1:12.8 | really, I think that's really cool to me to see how many good, deep, old friends we still have. |
| 1:18.4 | Annapolis is always going to be our spiritual home port. And it is cool because just by like kind of |
| 1:24.9 | coincidence, the same people that were doing the things back then are the same |
| 1:28.9 | people still doing those things now, like Jenny from Heli Hansen, was the store manager, Chuck |
| 1:33.3 | the sailmaker, Jan on the Woodwind, John Frantha. Molly from Spinsheet, like all these people |
| 1:38.5 | that were there 17 years ago are still there and it's this really neat little community. |
| 1:43.0 | And I love like I call the make the rounds |
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