Young Cruisers' Association
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
#383. Young Cruisers' Association exists to connect like-minded folks through sailing and cruising. They define themselves as "a collection of young, salty vagabonds forming a community of the sea". Emma talked with three of the five people behind YCA: Caroline, Logan, and Brian.
Logan and Caroline Rowell brought the Young Cruisers Association to life back in 2012, while they were out cruising on their boat. Brian Currier joined soon after, and recently, Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu of La Vagabonde came aboard too. The original YCA started in the 1970's among liveaboard sailors, and its legacy is now being carried by new generations. The YCA is now over 6,000 members strong.
Learn more at youngcruisers.org
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, like we would be, you know, anchored in a harbor and we'd see a boat coming in and we'd have our binoculars out and we'd be like, ooh, they kind of look young. |
| 0:10.1 | Like, maybe we should go over there. |
| 0:13.2 | Hey, on the wind, listeners, and happy holidays from all of us at 59 degrees north. |
| 0:18.8 | We are winding down from a big year and we're wrapping up this podcast |
| 0:24.1 | season. There will be one more episode next week with Andy. And then we'll take a little bit of a |
| 0:30.2 | break to enjoy Christmas and New Year's with loved ones and get away from our computer screens |
| 0:36.3 | for a moment. And I hope you all get the chance to do that |
| 0:39.6 | too. If you're still looking for a Christmas gift and you haven't checked out the quarterdeck yet, |
| 0:45.1 | I recommend you go do so. That's at quarterdeck.59-north.com. And it's our platform for all things seamanship. So we take deep dives into all sorts of |
| 0:57.1 | technical topics, but we also talk about bigger decision making and we also hang out on there. |
| 1:04.5 | So come check it out. There's always a two-week free trial and we also offer scholarships |
| 1:09.7 | so that everyone can get involved. |
| 1:12.0 | We also just announced a Celestial Navigation Workshop for 2023. |
| 1:16.6 | And he's going to be leading that in Annapolis in June. |
| 1:20.0 | And you can join in person and even stay on Falcon, our new FAR-65, that is getting launched |
| 1:25.8 | as I speak. |
| 1:30.0 | And you can also join virtually from anywhere in the world. So check that out, 59-north.com slash celestial. And last thing, if you're not |
| 1:39.2 | signed up yet for our Skippers Briefing newsletter, you can go to 59-north.com slash news to do that. |
| 1:46.7 | And I will be writing our December newsletter. |
| 1:50.0 | And in it, I'm going to talk a little bit about my next steps, |
| 1:53.5 | which are going to take me a little bit away from 59 North. |
| 1:57.1 | I'll still be hosting the podcast and sailing as mate on some passages next summer. |
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