Webb Chiles // Sailing Legend
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
#84. Webb Chiles is a sailing legend. Andy and he spoke about his sailing philiosophy, what it's like to survive for 26-hours floating in the ocean, rounding the Horn and whether or not religion plays a role in sailing (yep, it's deep).
You may not have heard too much about Webb, and that's kind of by design. Webb is an artist as much as he is a sailor (read his work at inthepresentsea.com), and he's about as pure as they come in the sailing world. He's been around the world a full five times, and set a myriad of records, including first American to sail solo around Cape Horn, and fastest aorund the world alone, beating Sir Francis Chichester's record in the 1970s (which has of course since been demolished).
In his 70s now, Webb is about to embark on his sixth circumnaviagation, this time in a 24-foot light-displacement day-racer, which he's been sailing for a while (luxurious compared to his lap of the globe in an 18-foot open yawl).
Want to go ocean sailing with Andy? Book a berth on Sojourner at 59-north.com/events.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Vinners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, hey, welcome back to 59 degrees north. I'm your host, Andy Schell, and this is episode number 84. |
| 0:16.4 | We've got a new trip announced on Sojourner next fall on 59-north.com slash events. My dad will be |
| 0:24.2 | skippering that trip. We've got three crew berths available for the Caribbean 1500 rally. He's |
| 0:30.0 | going to take Sojourner back down to Tortola next fall. So that just opened up on the events page |
| 0:35.2 | of the website. I just got back from Toronto. |
| 0:38.8 | Actually, as I record this, I haven't been there yet. |
| 0:41.3 | But when you hear this, I will have just gotten back from the Toronto Boat Show. |
| 0:44.7 | So I hope all of my seminars there went good. |
| 0:47.8 | And if you came and said, hi, it was very nice to see you. |
| 0:53.5 | If you're interested in that sort of thing, we have our March seminar in Annapolis, which is open on worldcruising.com slash training. |
| 1:00.3 | That's a two-day seminar. |
| 1:02.3 | You get two nights in the hotel there at Ocallahans on West Street, and we have a bunch of speakers in from former cruisers to sail magazine editors. |
| 1:09.8 | Myself and industry experts around Annapolis |
| 1:12.2 | to cover in-depth everything about ocean sailing, from buying a boat to outfitting it, to crew |
| 1:17.5 | training, watch schedules, this, that, and the other thing. It's great, good fun. So check that |
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| 1:47.5 | We've got the coffee up there, as usual, and hopefully by the time this gets up there, |
| 1:51.8 | I will have added the Columbian roast. |
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