The Salty Dawg Incident of 2013 // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
#Bonus. This one is a bit more serious than last week, and looks at some of the 'rules' of ocean sailing from the perspective of two events from last fall - the Caribbean 1500 rally, and the Salty Dawgs. You'll recall that six Salty Dawg boats issued distress calls last year, two of which were later rescued by the Coast Guard. The incident made national news, and was a hot button issue among the offshore sailing community. I wrote down my own thoughts immediately afterwards, but didn't publish them until now, after lots of time to think it over and make a fair assessment of what happened. There's a lot of opinions in here, so buckle up! What did you think about the incident and what lessons did you take from it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to... Sorry. |
| 0:02.8 | That's okay. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell. |
| 0:08.6 | Hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. It's Andy here. |
| 0:12.9 | Another essay episode for Friday. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm recording the intro right now from the cabin of Arcturus. |
| 0:19.2 | We're finally back in the water here in Erdogan, Sweden and enjoying a nice very nice evening and about to go sailing this weekend |
| 0:25.2 | for the first time on the boat this summer so that's really cool for us um big thanks to the |
| 0:31.0 | people that have been given me feedback on the podcast i've had a lot of great emails lately as well as an |
| 0:36.0 | offer for uh to send me some coffee from a guy called sean back in Pennsylvania. So, Sean, if you're listening, thanks for that. I'm really looking forward to getting your coffee. And everybody else that's given feedback, I appreciate it. If you like these essay episodes, please let me know some topics you'd like to discuss or like to hear about or whatever. And if you don't like |
| 0:54.2 | them, let me know that too. And again, if you like the podcast, please rate it on iTunes. |
| 0:58.9 | Anyway, this episode very quickly is about the 2013 Salty Dog Rally incidents when a bunch of boats |
| 1:06.7 | were called Maydays and had to be rescued, and you probably have heard about it. |
| 1:12.8 | This is the first time I've given my own thoughts about it publicly. |
| 1:16.7 | So just to be clear, I think there's room enough for an event like the Salty Dogs and the Caribbean |
| 1:22.6 | 1500 to coexist, though I do think they're vastly different entities. And I have some pretty strong feelings |
| 1:29.2 | about seamanship in general and how that seamanship and that knowledge is disseminated among |
| 1:34.6 | groups of people that go offshore. So this is a long one, just myself again, another essay episode. |
| 1:41.3 | So I'd love to hear some feedback on what you guys think about what happened last |
| 1:46.1 | year and about your guys thoughts on seamanship in general and going offshore in a group versus |
| 1:50.2 | alone or all that good stuff so send that feedback to andy at 59 dash north.com or hit me up on |
| 1:57.3 | Facebook or Twitter I'm at 59 North sailingailing on Twitter. Thanks for listening. Hope |
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