Offshore Weather // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2014
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
#65. Andy discusses his way of getting and interpreting weather forecasts offshore, and why he thinks people tend to overanalyze it to the detriment of their enjoyment of ocean sailing. This is apart educational, part rant, and part just what works for Andy & Mia. What works for you when it comes to offshore weather?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the... |
| 0:05.0 | Okay. Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:27.8 | This week's essay is about weather and my opinionated thoughts on weather forecast, |
| 0:29.6 | weather routing, how to deal with weather offshore. |
| 0:32.7 | Again, this is specific to offshore sailing, as most of my essays are. |
| 0:35.3 | Quick thing about the coffee. |
| 0:38.8 | I've gotten mixed response from this coffee idea, and I'm going to have a long podcast with Sean Firestein, uh, I hope I'm pronouncing his name right, uh, |
| 0:44.4 | from Fat Puppie Coffee Roasters in Myers Town. This is a really cool thing, I think. Um, I'm trying |
| 0:49.8 | to offer, I need to monetize this podcast somehow. This is a ton of time and effort that I put into it. |
| 0:55.4 | And I thought doing something like this would be better than asking for a straight-up donation |
| 0:59.2 | from the listeners. My thought is most people drink coffee and why not buy it from us and support |
| 1:05.7 | the podcast? The other side of this is I really, really like coffee. It's one of the daily |
| 1:10.1 | rituals that I do. And it's something that's very close to me. So people are asking, how does it have anything to do with what you guys are doing in the sailing world? Well, not only is it a daily ritual, but it's something that I enjoy more than anything else offshore. There's nothing I like better than getting up, waking up, making a cup of coffee, going outside on my |
| 1:28.1 | watch and sitting there. So it's as much a part of ocean sailing as reading books. |
| 1:33.8 | Anything else, it's like what you do when you're offshore, at least to me. And I'm also |
| 1:38.2 | passionate about supporting local businesses and local stuff. So I found this guy, Sean, |
| 1:42.8 | who's been a big fan of a podcast. He got in |
| 1:45.1 | touch with me. And we went up to his place in Myers Town, which is about 45 minutes from Lancaster. |
| 1:51.2 | He has his own coffee roaster out in his garage. And he started this four years ago or so. And |
| 1:56.7 | he does like 20 pounds at a time, sells to some local cafes and stuff. |
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