OCC member Andrew Cassels discusses circumnavigating the Americas

OCC member Andrew Cassels discusses circumnavigating the Americas © Andrew Cassells

Andrew Cassels, discusses circumnavigating the Americas through the NW Passage and Patagonia with fellow Club member, Paul Trammell.

Podcaster and OCC Member, Paul Willis Trammell, has just published his interview with fellow OCC Member Andrew Cassells about his amazing sailing expedition around the Americas.

Here is a description in Paul's words:

"Andrew recently completed a three-year journey around the Americas including the Faroe Islands, Greenland, through the Northwest Passage, Alaska, Costa Rica, Patagonia, Brazil, and Svalbard, in a JFA 45, an aluminum expedition yacht. We talk about highlights of the trip, as well as difficulties, favourite places, sailing in heavy weather, anchoring in Patagonia and tying ashore, the importance of having a properly prepared sailboat in the high latitudes, foul-weather gear, his boat, electronics, navigation, elephant seals and other wildlife, navigating through ice, a grizzly-bear threat, pros and cons of aluminum boats, properly isolating steel bolts from aluminum, dragging anchor, and more."

Quick Links:

• Andrew’s boat, S/V Draco, is for sale so check out the link
• Episode 222, Andrew Cassels, Around the Americas through the NW Passage and Patagonia

This article has been provided by the courtesy of the Ocean Cruising Club.