EP#375 @Sailing_With_Phoenix to sail Around the World
October 15, 2025 · 49 min · 3K views
What this video covers
Oliver (Sailing With Phoenix) announces a plan for a solo nonstop circumnavigation departing the U.S. West Coast, and host Jerome Rand — who completed his own solo nonstop in a Westsail 32 named Mighty Sparrow in 2017–18 — agrees to coach and train him for the voyage.1:21 The planned route runs south across roughly 10,000 miles of the Pacific to the Southern Ocean, across another 10,000 miles past Cape Horn and through the Indian Ocean, then north past New Zealand and back across the Pacific — approximately 30,000 miles total in eight to nine months.0:24 A target departure of late September or early October is discussed, timed so Cape Horn is reached before the worst season and the Indian Ocean is transited at the peak of Southern Hemisphere summer.28:25 Oliver currently sails a Compact that cracked a bulkhead rounding South Point, Big Island, in 30-knot winds and 6–10-foot seas, convincing him the boat was breaking before he was.6:36 The refit is expected to take four to five months, leaving four to five months for sea trials and skills training on the circumnavigation boat before departure.27:28 The conversation covers Southern Ocean low-pressure strategy, the importance of sleep for solo sailors, paper chart lamination for position plotting, watermaker failure at sea, and the mental discipline of solving only the immediate problem rather than projecting ahead.25:38
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