Two Atlantic Crossings // Andy's Essay

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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#40. Essay Friday - What I learned in two Atlantic crossings. The first, of course was in 2011 aboard Arcturus, which I discussed at length with Clint Wells in Tuesday's episode. The second, which I haven't written much about, was the following year, on Kinship, a Saga 43 that Mia and I skippered in ARC Europe, crossing the Atlantic via Bermuda-Azores-Portugal. Both were very different experiences and taught me valuable lessons. This is what I wrote following the second crossing in July 2012. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to... Sorry.
0:02.9	That's okay.
0:04.6	Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell.
0:08.6	All right, here we go.
0:09.6	Welcome back to the 59 degrees north podcast.
0:12.3	It's Andy Schell here coming at you from the cabin of Arcturus again.
0:16.9	We're docked at KSSS.
0:18.7	That's the Kungliga Segel.
0:20.8	Yeah, sorry, Kungliga Svenk Segel SelsSSS. That's the Kungliga-Segel. Yeah, sorry, Kungliga-Svansk Segel-Selskop.
0:24.3	That is Royal Swedish Yacht Club to those that speak English, including myself.
0:29.4	We move the boat out here from Stockholm this morning and are on our way out into the archipelago over the next couple weeks when we head out for vacation.
0:37.3	This is episode number 40.
0:39.4	It's another episode Friday.
0:41.8	It's basically on what I learned from two different Atlantic crossings.
0:46.3	And I originally wrote this back on July 17th in 2012.
0:50.8	I was back in the U.S. at my dad's house.
0:53.3	It was right before Mia, myself, and my dad would fly back to Europe to pick up Arcturus
0:57.7	in Northern Ireland for the leg up to Scotland and across the North Sea to Sweden.
1:03.3	This was a year after we crossed Atlantic with Clint, which I talked about on Tuesday's
1:07.5	podcast.
1:09.2	It was over two years ago now, but I have to say that I still agree very much so
1:12.7	with the points that I made back then.
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