Onboard in the Caribbean 600 // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
#139. if not THE BEST one yet, it's certainly the one I'm most proud of, for a number of reasons. It's the highly-produced, onboard audio, musically-enhanced storytelling podcast of Isbjorn's crew racing in the RORC Caribbean 600, only last week. Behind skipper Paul Exner, the crew of Dan, Charly, Vanessa, Keith, Ken & Michael and I charged around this most grueling of racecourses. We were in third place until I noticed a structural failure in the rudder bearings, forcing us to retire.
This is the story, narrated by Andy and interspersed with live audio from onboard the boat during the race and music by Blaggards throughout. What do you think of this style of podcast? It's my first, and I hope you dig it!
This episode is sponsored by Forbes Yachts. Visit forbesyachts.com to find your dream bluewater boat.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, what an amazing experience. We've just returned from the Aurora C-600, and it's just an amazing |
| 0:10.4 | experience on several levels. One is just being able to participate in the event, which I think |
| 0:15.0 | Andy and Mia just have made possible for a group of people who, there's no other way we could have |
| 0:20.1 | done this. and the other part |
| 0:22.6 | is having captain paul exner and just being able to crew for him and watch him run a boat and trim a |
| 0:28.5 | mainsail in particular it was really really amazing equally amazing those two things and meeting and hanging out with the people that we've been on the boat |
| 0:41.2 | crewing with I mean it's a you and me have built a natural filtering mechanism to find cool people |
| 0:48.4 | essentially like anybody who signs up for this is going to be really great to hang out with |
| 0:52.7 | and so it's just so much fun on so many levels. |
| 0:56.0 | And we had some rudder problems the listeners probably know about. |
| 1:01.0 | And I don't think 24 hours had gone by by the time we were signed up for RORC 2017 |
| 1:08.0 | because there's an unfinished business here. |
| 1:12.2 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. |
| 1:15.1 | Welcome back to the... |
| 1:16.7 | Okay. |
| 1:21.3 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. |
| 1:24.4 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:30.8 | Greetings. This is 59 degrees north, the podcast about sailing. I'm Andy Shell, and that was |
| 1:38.3 | crew member Dan Shea from the recent Rourke Caribbean 600 race we just wrapped up in Antigua. |
| 1:47.8 | This is episode number 139, and a special one at that. This episode is again sponsored by my good friend Forbes Horton and his yacht brokerage, |
| 2:00.4 | Forbes Horton Yachts. |
| 2:02.0 | I did a series of short interviews with Forbes, the first two of which aired on the previous two |
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