Russ & Laurie Owen // Catamaran Cruisers
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
#10. Russ & Laurie Owen sat down with me on their catamaran 'Nexus' in Tortola last week. They had just completed the Caribbean 1500, and are on their way to St. Lucia now to sail around the world with World ARC. I warmed to Russ & Laurie straightaway in Portsmouth at the start of the rally - they're just genuine, nice people! Russ is very proud of the refit he's done on the boat - he's an aerospace engineer by trade, and one look at the 'guts' of his boat will tell you that he's thought it all through and then some. We chatted about their plans, how they got into sailing and what motivated them to make the leap and embark on such a long adventure. Thanks Russ & Laurie!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.7 | Hey, hey, and welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. This is Andy here. That noise |
| 0:11.3 | here in the background is the fan at the nav table on my dad's boat Sojourner. We're sitting in |
| 0:16.5 | Guadalupe right now on our way from Tortola down to St. Lucia after the Caribbean |
| 0:20.8 | 1500 and it is hot as hell. So we came in here and got a dock. Me and I have to do some work |
| 0:26.5 | today for the Caribbean 1500. So we got a dock in Guadalupe, got the AC going, get the fan going, |
| 0:31.7 | and finally are cooled off for a little bit. So nice to have a few luxuries on board. |
| 0:37.0 | This episode is with Russ and Lori from a catarmeran called Nexus. |
| 0:40.3 | They were participants in this year's Caribbean 1500 and are actually on their way also to St. Lucia |
| 0:46.3 | to participate in the World Arc, which starts in January. |
| 0:49.3 | So they'll be taking Nexus around the world with the next World Arc event in January. |
| 0:55.0 | So they're pretty excited about that. |
| 0:57.0 | Really, really cool people. |
| 0:58.0 | They bought the boat last spring and sailed it north to Georgetown on the Sassafras River on the Chesapeake |
| 1:04.0 | and did the whole refit for about three months and just did a remarkable job on the boat. |
| 1:09.0 | So we talked about the refit, their plans, how they ended up deciding to do this around the world trip, and a little bit about what motivates them. This is a shorter episode, only 30 to 40 minutes, I think, this week, as we were a little time jammed. I did this on their boat in Tortola at Nanny Key Marina right after the 1500. But it was a good one. It was a fun one. |
| 1:29.5 | If you want to follow their progress in WorldArk, you can find the WorldArk website, |
| 1:33.5 | caribbean, or sorry, worldcruising.com and click on rallies and under WorldArk, and you can follow |
| 1:39.8 | them along. They'll have a blog on there and photos and a tracker and all that good stuff. |
| 1:43.4 | As usual, you can find me on Twitter at 59 north sailing or on the facebook and all that other good |
| 1:49.2 | stuff um thanks again for listening and we'll see you next week |
| 1:52.3 | so cool so i just kind of wanted to talk to you guys about, you know, you did the |
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