Yves Gelinas RECYCLED // Single-Hander

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

#181: Yves Gelinas is a French-Canadian single-handed sailor and inventor of the Cape Horn wind vane, the simplest, most robust, and most elegant solution for self-steering on an offshore cruising boat. Yves invented and perfected the gear while circumnavigating nonstop via the Great Capes in his beloved Alberg 30 Jean du Sud in the 80s. During that voyage, he filmed Around the World with Jean du Sud, which quickly came to be considered the greatest sailing movie ever made. Yves still builds the Cape Horn units himself from his workshop in Quebec & still sails Jean du Sud, most recently voyaging to Martinique in 2015.

On the Wind is presented by Weems & Plath.

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0:00.0	adopted that witch
0:01.1	the witch handle
0:03.0	there was only two
0:05.2	I don't know what you're out to make
0:06.6	but Vlad Jr.
0:08.8	Hey team
0:09.5	me and I are back on East Bjorn
0:11.9	As I record we're on anchor
0:14.0	in Falmouth Antigua getting the boat ready
0:15.9	for the Rourke Caribbean 600 race
0:18.1	we'll be in the thick of it by the time you hear this
0:20.5	you can follow us live via the tracking on the race website at Caribbean600.org.
0:25.6	You can join us on East Beyond for a taste of ocean sailing yourself. Go to 59-north.com
0:32.6	slash offshore to see our full passage calendar. We've only got three spaces left for all of 2017.
0:39.5	All of those are on our final passage of the year in Baltic in August. Then we've got lots of
0:45.1	options open for our Arctic passages in 2018. Hope to see you on the high seas.
0:51.8	And don't forget, if you want to support the podcast, contribute directly to us at
0:55.6	on the wind.co, just click the big blue fund button. Or if you're a member of Patreon, go to
1:02.4	patreon.com slash on the wind and subscribe to us there. Huge thanks to those of you who continue to
1:08.4	support us.
1:26.6	Last but not least, don't miss our new podcast Sailing Stories, hosted by Lee Cumberland and narrated by Duncan Hood.
1:29.3	I'm super excited to say that the show's been a hit from day one.
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