Peter Gibbons-Neff // Completing the Mini-Transat
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Peter Gibbons-Neff returns to the podcast to talk about the successes and failures of his Mini-Transat racing campaign. "PGN" and I sat down face-to-face in Annapolis where he told me about losing a rudder shortly after the start in the Canaries, the hardest part about solo sailing a 21-ft. boat, how the mini-class doesn't allow even basic electronics, his military background and how that helps him offshore — plus his plans to one day win the Mini-Transat! https://www.pgnoceanracing.com/blog
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| 0:00.0 | So I got in at 10 o'clock. |
| 0:02.3 | My goal was to leave at 10 o'clock that night. |
| 0:04.8 | But of course, like the Harbor Masters, like, no one's going to tell you out. So I was able to get one of the cruising boats. He like left his dinner, got on his little dingy, and towed me out of the harbor with his little dingy at 10 o'clock at night just so I could get back on the race course and not wait for, you know, the Harbor Masters rib the next morning. Oh, boy shipmates. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm your host, Andy Schell. get back on the race course and not wait for the harbor master's rib the next morning. |
| 0:22.2 | Ahoy, shipmates. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:27.9 | Falcon just made landfall in Antigua. |
| 0:30.3 | Some fun stats from their transatlantic. |
| 0:34.6 | This is, I think, the fifth transatlantic Falcon has done since we bought the boat two years ago. |
| 0:38.5 | They sailed a total of 3,017 miles. |
| 0:41.6 | They were at sea for 16 days and four hours, |
| 0:44.7 | average speed of 7.76 knots, |
| 0:48.1 | and a top speed of 16.3 knots. |
| 0:49.6 | That doesn't show up on the map. |
| 0:53.2 | That is a surf record that Mia noted from the blogs. |
| 0:56.8 | You can see the recreation of the passage on Maps.59-north.com where all of our former future and current tracking takes place. There's a |
| 1:02.7 | really cool site there that our friend Chad has built for us. You can also read the blogs. |
| 1:07.0 | Go to 59-north.com slash logbook. They've been sending a ton of blogs in from at sea on on this transatlantic. If you want to sail with us, we've got some openings this year. I'm just going to pick one that I think is really cool from the open bunks page. That's 59-north.com slash bunks. Not sure why there's still openings on these, honestly. faro islands to lofoten trip that's passage |
| 1:28.3 | number two on east bjorn that's in the end of april early may this year uh those are two |
| 1:34.1 | spaces available and reserved for women but that is a nice offshore trip from the faroe |
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