Matt Rutherford // A Near-Sinking En Route to Bermuda

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

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4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Matt Rutherford returns yet again to the podcast, this time from his outpost in the Philippines. It's always fun to catch up and shoot the shit with Matt, but this time I really wanted to hear about his near-sinking on a Caribbean delivery last fall. Matt talks through the entire ordeal, from riding out a gale with all the pumps running, to nearly losing the rudder out of the bottom of the boat, to ultimately his safe landfall in Bermuda.

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0:00.0	And when this thing passes and the wind calms down a bit, we're going to make for Bermuda under other smaller sea state, less pressure on the rudder. Also, because that stainless piece had shifted up the rudder shaft, it was clunking around. Like, not just was it not creating the watertight connection, but it was allowing the entire rudder post to clunk hard.
0:22.2	So it was clunking so hard that if you were standing in a cockpit, you could feel it through your feet.
0:28.6	Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Andy. Sunny Day here in Sweden today.
0:33.7	Beautiful outside. Last day of February, hard to believe. Adrian, that Swan 70 that we have
0:39.9	chartered from Gura Cranes. They just made landfall in the Canaries yesterday or the day before
0:45.0	yesterday. I haven't yet debriefed with Eric, but I'm very excited to hear about their trip. They
0:48.5	were at sea for 17 days sailing north around the Azores High. So that was a cool trip. It sounds like we're going
0:54.4	to be doing more on Adrienne. So stay tuned to the quarterdeck and our mailing list. If you
1:00.2	want to hear about opportunities when that opens up. Um, don't know exactly what is available
1:06.7	on the bunk front, but as usual, go to 59-north.com slash bunks to see that. I do want to make and mention that we've been doing, I've been doing quite a bit of stuff on the quarterdeck lately. So if you want to support the podcast, the best way to do that is to go and be a member on the quarterdeck. You get all kinds of content archive on there that me, August, Mia, and the rest of the gang have
1:27.8	produced over the years. We've been doing this for five years now, I guess, as well as the
1:32.1	interactive chat with other members, access to myself personally, and August and Mia, and all
1:36.1	the rest of that. So check out quarterdeck.59-north.com, and we hope to see you on there,
1:42.2	our online platform for all things, Seamanship.
1:45.2	This episode's another one with Matt.
1:47.5	It's, as usual, Matt is fantastic.
1:50.1	I need to make a recommendation.
1:52.1	The story Matt tells today, he told basically in real time on his podcast, which is called
1:57.4	single-handed.
1:58.9	So Matt had his recording equipment on during this delivery
2:01.7	and was like recording updates as this was happening
2:05.0	and put it together as a podcast.
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