Mentally Preparing to go Offshore Sailing // Seminar
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2014
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
#29. Welcome back! This week is a seminar Andy recorded at the Cruiser's University in Annapolis during the Spring Sailboat Show. People talk endlessly about preparing their boats to go offshore, but what about their brains? Andy spends over an hour going through the stages of a voyage, from preparation through to landfall, and discusses the common anxieties, what to expect, and how to keep it all in perspective. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show. Good morning and welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. I'm Andy Shell. Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing too much sailing lately. I had three back-to-back deliveries. One was actually a motorboat trip, but nonetheless, been spending a lot of time on the water and haven't had any time in the office, office with quotes around it, to get this podcasting stuff done like I'd like to. |
| 0:26.5 | And I'm actually not in the office now. I'm out sailing on my dad's boat, Sojourner as part of the Arc Del Marva rally. |
| 0:32.7 | So we just got into Port Smith, Virginia, after coming down the bay, long trip down the bay, upwind the whole |
| 0:38.0 | way. But nonetheless, we're here and time to do some work today. There's a few cool things |
| 0:43.1 | going on with Mia and I and 59 North that I want to just talk about before I get into this episode. |
| 0:47.8 | This summer, we're going to be sailing our boat, Arcturists, in the Baltic, around Stockholm and |
| 0:52.1 | Sweden, so check out our website to follow along on our little |
| 0:55.7 | adventures on that. That's immediately following the Newport Bermuda Race. We're sailing on the |
| 1:00.8 | J-37 Sleigh Ride. So check out Bermuda Race.com. That kicks off from Newport on June 20th. You can |
| 1:07.5 | see how we do in that. And then the big news is that next February, 2015, |
| 1:12.8 | it sounds like a long way off, but it's going to be here before you know it. I'm doing an |
| 1:16.6 | adventure sailing program in the Caribbean aboard the Shannon 43 Catch Serenity. We're doing |
| 1:22.4 | three legs. Each leg's about a week long. The first one, St. Martin to Dominica. |
| 1:28.2 | Then Dominica to Trinidad. |
| 1:30.0 | And then finally, Trinidad back to St. Martin, nonstop, will be more of a delivery sale. |
| 1:34.4 | The first two legs will do some island hopping, some hiking, some exploration, visit |
| 1:38.3 | some of my favorite places down in the Caribbean. |
| 1:40.6 | And there's births available on that boat. |
| 1:42.6 | We've got four bers available for each leg. |
| 1:45.0 | So either two couples or four individual folks. If you check out, if you sign up for 59 degrees north news, |
| 1:53.0 | sign up for the newsletter, you can see the old newsletter. I announced that a few weeks ago to my mailing list. |
| 1:57.0 | Otherwise, I'm going to post it shortly on the website. This is episode number 29. |
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