Offshore Passage Debrief with Les & Jim
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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#97. At about 0200 in the morning last Wednesday, after we'd tied the dock lines up in Little Creek VA, I got out the recorder and we debriefed the passage north on Sojourner from Marsh Harbor to Annapolis. The crew were myself, my dad, and Les and Jim, two podcast fans who'd signed up for the expedition online!
The trip was ideal sailing - broad reaching under a full moon for most of the way, and warm, dry and comfortable (at least until we got back into colder water on the Bay). Aside from one night, that is. Early Easter Sunday morning we experienced a violent frontal passage, with 50-knot initial gusts and sustained winds overnight in the 30-40 knot range. Easily the strongest weather I'd encountered in my offshore career, and a hell of an experience for Les and Jim who'd never been offshore before. So we talked about it. Here's the tape.
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| 0:00.0 | And the lines chafed a little bit, and the whole basket of fruit fell on me in the middle of night. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey, this is Anna Vinner's live from Sweden. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:13.3 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:14.8 | Greetings. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome back to 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm your host, Andy Sch Shell, and this is episode number |
| 0:22.0 | 97. Big thanks to our returning sponsor, Forbes Horton Yacht Sales. I just returned from |
| 0:28.8 | Portsmouth, Virginia last night after delivering a 53-foot Celine Ocean Trawler down from |
| 0:35.3 | Annapolis with the boat's new owner. Forbes had put together the deal |
| 0:39.5 | for this guy's dream boat, and after a summer of getting used to living aboard, the owner and his |
| 0:45.2 | wife are planning on steaming south to the Bahamas next winter and beyond. Forbes Horton Yacht sales, |
| 0:52.0 | facilitating your dreams. Check out ForbesYots.com to see what's on offer now or to contact forbes about listing your own boat for sale thanks again forbs this episode is also brought to you by uh you the listeners one of the accidental consequences of starting with this podcast hobby of |
| 1:14.1 | mine was the way it connects me to the people that actually listen to it. So, a big thanks to |
| 1:20.2 | everyone who emails in, who donates through the website, buying the ODark 30 coffee, we get $5 |
| 1:26.5 | from every coffee sale, comes to us for that. |
| 1:29.3 | And especially to those of you that I've met at workshops and on sailing passages, |
| 1:34.4 | which I hope there'll be lots more of you in the future. |
| 1:37.5 | To that end, we've got a ton of exciting stuff coming up. |
| 1:41.2 | Another celestial workshop I have planned for September 11th to the 14th in Annapolis. |
| 1:47.8 | That one's actually a weekend course, Saturday, Sunday, with the option of doing an extra day on Monday. |
| 1:54.8 | I had some feedback from the last course, so we're going to try that. And we've got a full calendar |
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