Sailing to Cuba // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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#158 Isbjorn sailed to Cuba in April. Finally, my full-length essay on the experience in Havana. This one is for the dreamers, filled with descriptions of what it's like at marina Hemingway, chasing signs of Che, Fidel and the Cuban revolution, drinking daquaries at La Floridita, sipping Havana Club rum, smoking cigars, driving around in old cars and everything else that defines the Cuban experience. Don't miss the music too, recorded locally.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey gang, Andy here. |
| 0:09.0 | The music you'll hear during parts of the show was recorded by our crew member Greg in Havana. |
| 0:16.0 | And I get to the story of where we recorded it towards the end of the essay, but suffice it to say the local musicians in Havana are extraordinary. |
| 0:28.6 | On the Wind is sponsored by Weather Routing Inc. WRI, as are known, is a private forecasting company specializing in marine |
| 0:39.4 | weather for over 50 years. WI provide marine weather forecasts and routing advice to yachtsmen |
| 0:45.4 | worldwide for trans-ocean crossings, coastal transits, area cruises, and day trips. Indeed, we use |
| 0:52.3 | WRI on all of our ocean passages aboard East Bjorn. I can personally |
| 0:57.0 | attest that they are the real deal, and having WRI just a sat phone call away helps me sleep |
| 1:02.1 | better at night offshore. WRI, Oceans of Experience. Visit them online at WRIWX.com. |
| 1:12.3 | Two quick notes before today's show. |
| 1:14.8 | First, I'm hosting a Celestial Navigation Workshop in Annapolis on the weekend of October 22nd. |
| 1:21.3 | So join me and my friends for a weekend of traditional navigation and some storytelling |
| 1:25.7 | and to learn the dying art of the true |
| 1:28.1 | navigator go to 59-north.com slash celestial for details and to register second drum roll please |
| 1:36.8 | eastbjorn will officially be featured in the annapolis sailboat show this fall so come say hi to |
| 1:43.3 | mea my dad and i and a bunch of our crew |
| 1:46.4 | members, and check out our beautiful Swan 48. You'll find us at the head of Eagle Alley, side |
| 1:51.8 | two on the concrete bulkhead just across from the market house downtown. And I think, this is not |
| 1:58.0 | confirmed, but I think you can actually buy your show tickets directly from us to help support the business. |
| 2:03.3 | Either way, all the information will be on 59-north.com |
| 2:06.7 | slash boat show. |
| 2:08.5 | So check that out to learn more. I'm Andy Shell, welcome to On the Wind, my podcast about offshore sailing. |
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