Rick & Julie Palm // Monohull vs. Catamaran
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2016
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
#136. is Rick & Julie Palm, live from Cruiser's University in Annapolis way back in October. Rick & Julie Palm have been mentors of sorts for Mia and I. They had the role of event managers for World Cruising Club before we took over and have been active in the Caribbean 1500 basically since its inception under Steve Black, who was a dear friend of theirs. And they are consummate ocean sailors. If you want to follow the lead of a successful and humble ocean sailing couple, you can't beat these two. They started cruising on a Tayana 37 and then upgraded to a Tayana 52 and completed a circumnavigation. Recently, now in their 70s, they bought an Outremer 51 catamaran. Comparable to the Gunboats in flat out speed, their new boat, Archer, is capable of speeds over 20 knots and is a true performance catamaran.
In this episode Rick, Julie and I talk to a Cruiser's University class about making the transition from monohull to catamaran, delving into Rick & Julie's cruising history and what it's like sailing over 20 knots in their new cat! If you're in the Caribbean or Maine, look for the Ferrari red cat called Archer and say hi.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, once you kind of say, I'd rather look at the performance ones, yeah, you go around and say who has dagger boards. |
| 0:07.0 | I mean, that's the most, the other manufacturers will say, oh, ours go just and fast, but the real quick way to tell whether a boat is a little more performance areas, look at the dagger boards, look at the size of the trampolines, and look at the |
| 0:22.1 | pointy end, how it enters the water. And that narrows it down very quickly in the marketplace. |
| 0:29.7 | I think we were down very quickly from the whole array of monoholes, or of cats to maybe five or six. |
| 0:37.5 | Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome back to the... |
| 0:42.3 | Okay. |
| 0:46.8 | Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome back to the 59 North Saline podcast with your host and a show. |
| 0:55.0 | Enjoy the show. Greetings. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Shell. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:03.2 | Greetings. Welcome back to 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing. I'm your host, Andy Shell, and this is episode number 137. This episode is sponsored by 59 North. |
| 1:13.6 | Yep, that's Mia and I once again. |
| 1:17.5 | 2016 is our first year with a full calendar of ocean passages scheduled aboard East Bjorn. |
| 1:22.9 | That's Swedish for polar bear, by the way. |
| 1:25.3 | Our classic Swan 48. |
| 1:27.5 | We're sailing about 10,000 miles this year, including an Atlantic crossing via Nova |
| 1:32.8 | Scotia, Newfoundland, and Ireland that will retrace the route we took on our tourists back in 2011. |
| 1:38.9 | The trips are filling fast. We take four crew members per passage who complement Mia and I, |
| 1:44.0 | and the price includes |
| 1:45.4 | all onboard food, drinks, PFDs, and safety equipment. As of this recording here in Toronto |
| 1:52.3 | on January 14th, we only have eight crew bunks left for the year. One for Grenada to BVI |
| 1:59.0 | in February. Three left for QS to Annapolis in April, one on the |
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