Week Off // Follow the Boats SOUTH!

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Places & Travel, Sports, Wilderness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Follow ICEBEAR & ISBJORN on their voyage SOUTH to the Caribbean! With the uncertainties of COVID, we're not even sure where we'll end up! Follow our progress and read the passage logs at 59-north.com. New episodes coming next week. Until then, HOLD FAST!

The QUARTERDECK is now open! Go to quarterdeck.59-north.com and sign up to become a member of our new platform where Andy Schell & ISBJORN skipper August Sandberg will explore 'deep dives on the art of seamanship.' First two weeks free. There's nothing like it on the Internet in the sailing world, and we can't wait to share it with you and explore seamanship ideas together. See you on the QUARTERDECK!

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0:00.0	always shipmates welcome back to the podcast i'm your host host, Andy. We are taking the week off this week, mainly because I haven't had time to get an episode together. And crew arrived today on Ice Bear and East Bjorn. It's Thursday, November 5th, the day I am talking to you. And we're getting ready to sail to not sure yet, hopefully Antigua, but as the world is right now,
0:39.7	nothing is quite certain regarding travel and COVID.
0:43.3	So it'll be interesting to see where we wind up.
0:45.2	There's a couple different sort of choose-your-own-adventure scenarios.
0:48.8	Antigua requires a 14-day quarantine on arrival.
0:52.5	However, they count your sea time. So plan A is to go nonstop
0:56.6	from the Chesapeake to Antigua, spend 14 days at sea, get there, clear in, all done and
1:02.2	dusted. If we go out to Bermuda and stop in Bermuda, that counts as a stop on the route,
1:07.8	in which case we'd have to either quarantine in Antigua, because it's only like nine days from Bermuda to Antigua, or we go to St. Thomas in the USVI. The other option is go to Bermuda and just anchor and wait out the weather and not go ashore, so that doesn't count as a stop, and then continue on to Antigua. So there's an old tradition that you never state on a long passage that you're going to a place or a destination.
1:30.9	You always say you're sailing towards it because you don't know what's going to happen on the way.
1:35.9	So you leave that open.
1:36.7	You don't want to tempt the gods.
1:39.3	And in this case, this is never more true than it is right now.
1:42.3	So by the time you listen to this,
1:44.2	we'll be at sea. You can track us on 59-north.com right on the home page. Both boats are going to be traveling in company, although, well, we'll see who's faster. It's going to be an upwind passage out to Bermuda, and then we'll decide if we need to stop for weather or if we can just keep on going. Also, because the boats are going to be in the Caribbean for the winter,
2:02.2	we are going to be in the
2:01.3	Caribbean for the winter, we are going to be able to add some Caribbean trips. Not sure out of where
2:06.0	yet, likely St. Thomas because of the travel issues, potentially Antigua. We're hoping to do the
2:11.4	Carib 600 race in Antigua in the end of February. We'll have more details on that. The easiest
2:16.4	way for you to sail with us
2:18.0	this winter is if you have a group of people or your family and want to come down as a group
2:22.6	because of the COVID testing and all that stuff. It'll be easier to mitigate COVID if everybody
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