Sailing the Baltic // Seminar

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

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🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

#141. It's only been a week since our last episode, but when we went bi-weekly, I promised an interview every two weeks. Episode 140 is a live seminar I recorded from Toronto on Sailing the Baltic. Not an interview, of course, so sort of a bonus episode this week. I highly recommend going to 59-north.com/baltic to follow along with the slides from this talk. You'll also find a load of show notes and links that will be useful if you ever plan to sail in the Baltic yourself.

In this episode, Mia and I discuss sailing in the Baltic from our own perspective. We spent three summers in the Baltic on Arcturus, mainly sailing the Swedish coast, but also covering the Baltic islands of Aland and Gotland. This talk is full of practical notes and inspirational stories from our experiences there.

Before we get to it, a few notes from us. Many of you have requested lists of books I talk about, and I finally got around to building a books page on the website. Go to 59-north.com/books to see all my favorites, sorted by category - some technical, some inspirational, and some having nothing at all to do with sailing! There's also a form there if you have any you want to recommend yourself!

Finally, we just sold the last crew space on the trans-Atlantic passage from Newfoundland to Ireland, which means we have just two spaces left to crew on Isbjorn for all of 2016. Those are both on our Ireland-Lisbon passage in mid-September. That'll be a challenging Bay of Biscay crossing late in the season, with some potential for heavy weather, but at least it'll get warmer as we sail south! For those of you from the US, it's easier and cheaper than you think to fly to and from Europe, so don't rule this one out because of the distance! Read details about the passage and signup on 59-north.com/offshore.

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0:00.0	Andy, you're the man. Thank you for an incredible experience on one of the most beautiful race courses on the planet.
0:10.0	Pushing East Bjorn on the Roarck 600 was an amazing experience. The Sparkmanvens was designed to charge upwind and uh the boat would take
0:27.1	all we could throw out it was the crew that uh needed to maintain our strength and and and you were a
0:35.0	big part of that so thanks for sharing your passion with us
0:37.6	and thank you for giving me the opportunity to to race offshore with you it was a memorable
0:44.3	experience hey this is anna winners live from sweden welcome back to the
0:50.0	ffah okay hey this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.
1:04.4	That was Keith Jacoby, crew member on the recent Caribbean 600 race. Big thanks to Keith for helping us promote how cool it is to sail offshore on East Bjorn.
1:14.4	I'm Andy Schell, of course, and this is episode number 140 of 59 degrees north, the podcast
1:20.5	about sailing.
1:25.7	My good friend, my good friend Forbes Horton is back this week to sponsor the podcast.
1:32.9	This week's ad is a little longer than usual, a sort of mini interview on buying a boat in Europe,
1:37.9	why that's a bad idea, and why Annapolis is such a good place to start looking.
1:42.6	The problem with buying a used boat in Europe is really twofold.
1:48.0	I mean, the cost to get it back here is roughly $30,000.
1:52.0	It's about 19 and change to ship it.
1:56.0	And then if you've got delivery crews on either end to get the boat to wherever you need to get it.
2:02.6	You've got import taxes that are due. You've got some other port fees, things like that.
2:08.6	And the second thing is really to do with the systems on board.
2:12.6	The European boats are wired for 230 bolt.
2:14.6	And in order to bring them into the states where we're on the 220
2:19.3	you've got to change battery chargers compressors you know any of your
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