Olly Cotterell // Clipper Race
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
#184: Olly Cotterell is one of the youngest Clipper Race skippers ever, sailing to a podium position in the 2013-2014 edition of the RTW race onboard OneDLL. He currently skipper's the prototype, foiling racing yacht 'Maverick,' which recently won her class in the RORC Trans-Atlantic Race. Olly & I have a connection in that we've both worked for Broadreach. We met up to record this episode in person in Antigua, ahead of the Caribbean 600. Olly has an amazing story that includes growing up on a sailboat in Bermuda, working up the ranks as an RYA instructor, surfing at 35 knots in the Southern Ocean in the Clipper Race and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Just watch when we're pulling the ropes as well, or releasing them. |
| 0:12.1 | Okay, guys ready to attack? |
| 0:13.4 | Ready? |
| 0:14.5 | Ready. |
| 0:15.3 | Ready? |
| 0:16.1 | All right. |
| 0:17.4 | Hey team. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm recording from Antigua on board East Bjorn. |
| 0:23.0 | Still here after the Caribbean 600 race trying to get ahead on these podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | The audio you hear in the background is from the race itself. |
| 0:30.7 | Rory was recording from the bunk down below while Paul was leading the gang on maneuvers in the cockpit. |
| 0:36.5 | So it kind of gives you a little feel for what it's like out there. |
| 0:39.3 | Tell my traveler up. |
| 0:41.3 | Traveler up, sorry. |
| 0:47.3 | Like I said last episode, we crossed the finish line and that was huge, |
| 0:52.3 | but we've learned a lot and we're |
| 0:54.3 | hoping to come back and be more competitive in 2019. |
| 0:56.8 | One, two, three. That's good. That's good. Thanks, Ray. Yeah, you can't do that. |
| 1:04.9 | Of course, you can join us on East Bjorn for a taste of ocean sailing yourself. Go to 59-north.com |
| 1:10.8 | slash offshore to see our full calendar. We've only got a couple of ocean sailing yourself. Go to 59-north.com slash offshore to see our full calendar. |
| 1:13.5 | We've only got a couple of spaces left for 2017 in the Baltic in August. |
| 1:18.2 | Then we've got lots of options open for the Arctic passages in 2018. |
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