Offshore to the Bahamas // Seminar (Andy)

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

#90. This week's episode features another LIVE lecture from the Toronto International Boat Show about sailing offshore to the Bahamas! The tried and true route is down the ICW from the Chesapeake. But that takes weeks! Which ic great if you have the time to meander and enjoy the nice towns along the way.

But if you're really keen to get to the islands and enjoy that time there, there's a much faster way, and it's in the ocean. In five days from Norfolk or Beaufort, you can be sipping rum and laying back in the Abacos! The focus of today's episode is getting over the fear and trepidation of going offshore in general, and then planning specifically for a Bahamas-bound passage. What weather to expect, where to make landfall, etc.

Want to go ocean sailing with Andy? Book a berth at 59-north.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden.
0:03.0	Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Shell.
0:07.0	Enjoy the show.
0:08.0	Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Andy Schell, and I am recording this live from the Philadelphia Airport.
0:17.0	I am on my way to St. Thomas. It's Thursday, February 12th. Getting ready for my first, well, first trip of the year anyway, taking Serenity is Shannon 43 from Tortola to Grenada and back. So meeting the crew down there on Saturday and we'll get underway on Sunday. But of course, by the time this is released, we will already be hopefully in Grenada and on the way back.
0:39.2	This is episode number 90.
0:41.5	And this is going to air on, let me see here.
0:44.7	It's going to air on...
0:46.6	When is it going to air?
0:48.9	It's going to air on the 24th.
0:50.5	So you're listening to this on Tuesday, the February 24th.
0:53.4	I'm recording on the 12th.
0:56.0	By the time this comes out, there will have been some extremely exciting news that we've announced through our newsletter.
1:02.3	So if you're not on the newsletter, subscribe to that at 59-north.com slash news. And you'll be able to see it.
1:09.2	That news will be announced on the podcast sometime in early
1:11.9	March. So if you don't subscribe, you'll have to wait until then to hear it. Anyway, this episode
1:17.1	is a seminar that I recorded live in Toronto back in January and it talks about sailing offshore
1:22.9	to the Bahamas. It incorporates a bit of the mental preparation talks that I've done before and then some specific weather and routing information for the Bahamas. It incorporates a bit of the mental preparation talks that have done before, and then some specific weather and routing information for the Bahamas passage.
1:32.3	At some point, I hope to get the slides online for that, but at the moment it's audio only.
1:37.3	So anyway, enjoy this one. And like I said, sign up for the newsletter. You can read about the very exciting news that is coming out on Friday the 13th. So it would have come out by the time you hear this. Check that out on the newsletter archive on the website. Once you sign up, you'll get a password for that, and you can see where that's all about. As usual, send me comments and questions, Andy at 59-north.com. And please, if you would, review the podcast on iTunes.
2:03.2	It's very helpful for the ratings and stuff on that.
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