Podcast Interview with fellow Westsailor James Hodge
1 de marzo de 2024 · 1h 4m · 513 visitas
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James Hodge, a Westsail 32 owner and stand-up comedian, joins Jerome Rand for a podcast conversation covering boat selection, refit projects, offshore passage planning, and navigation tools.
Hodge chose a Westsail 32 over a Contessa 32 specifically for offshore capability and structural strength, buying a boat needing full refit at significantly under six figures.0:32 His engine is a Perkins 4108 rated at 50 horsepower — more than the hull needs — reaching hull speed at 1,000–1,100 RPM; he wants to replace it with a 38-horsepower Beta diesel.6:32 A persistent cap rail leak on his boat was finally sealed with two coats of 3M 4000 UV compound. He and Rand plan to be yard mates in South Carolina working on their respective Westsails.8:51
Rand describes a planned South Atlantic garbage patch survey voyage departing late October or early November, spending two or more months crisscrossing the South Atlantic High around 25–30 degrees south latitude towing collection nets, with Starlink enabling data uploads.24:42 Both discuss layering paper charts with Navionics after Hodge found a power line crossing the Albemarle Sound visible on paper but absent from Navionics at standard zoom.35:49 Storm attenuation in the Carolinas' inland waters — Albemarle and Pamlico sounds — is cited as a reason to keep a boat there over the Chesapeake.56:31
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