And the day I found the lighthouse, I did find it, but this front came through, I started heading in through the pass and the rain was just pelting and the wind had me going, and we were ear under, and the reefs were crashing on both sides.

It was like, I can't do this, and turned around and spent two more days pacing in front of the entrance to the Great Barrier Reefs,

I was just going to go home in a 747. I was done. Hey, this is Anna Viners, live from Sweden.

Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.

Greetings, friends, and welcome back to 59 degrees north podcast about sailing. I'm your host again,

Andy Schell and I am recording this live from the JFK International Airport. Another podcast, another

airport. I flew back from Bermuda this morning and I'm on my way to Stockholm tonight.

Arc Europe just set off today and the boats are headed to Horta and the Azores.

I just got done posting the details for the first Caribbean passage on East Bjorn for 2016.

On January 23rd, we'll be sailing from BVI to Trinidad, stopping at Ilda Saints along the way.

One of my favorite, one of my favorite small groups of islands south of Guadalupe, between Guadalupe and Dominica. They belong to Guadalupe. They're French. They're small. They're not, they're sparsely inhabited. Fantastic nature. Fantastic cuisine ashore. Really cool deal. It's a 10-day trip. Cost $3,500 per person. So check out those details on 59-north.com

slash offshore. And of course, we still have a couple spots left on the Loonenburg trip back to Annapolis,

and one spot left on the Caribbean 1500 in the fall. So check that stuff out there as well.

Episode number 104 is sponsored this week by Weems and Plath.

Check out all their nautical instruments at Weems-dashplath.com and use promo code 59 North for

30% off their entire catalog. It's also supported by Collego Marine, Caligo Ducks synthetic rigging, which we've

got on Arc Tourists, and we'll be putting on East Bjorn as well. So check them out at

Caligomarine.com. Thanks to both you guys for supporting the show. All right, episode number

104. This is a really cool one. It's Tanya Abbey. Of course, everyone ought to know Tanya as the youngest girl to sail solo

around the world at the time. This was back in 84. I think she started her trip. Tanya wrote the

classic book, Maiden Voyage. I couldn't think of the name, actually. It's the first book

that I bought for Mia when we first met. It kind of was a big inspiration to me and a big inspiration to her as well,

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