Wicked Weather: Bare Poles Edition

FROM CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS TO BATTLING THE SOUTHERN OCEAN, STEVE BROWN HAS SEEN A LOT. HE’S LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT THROUGH SOUND STRATEGIES AND PREPARATION, BOTH TECHNICAL AND MENTAL.

Theresa Nicholson

T here cannot be many yachtsmen who can claim to have been knocked down and driven ashore inside an active volcano, and even fewer while their boats are covered in inches of snow and ice. This is a claim that I would rather not make, but our arrival inside the volcanic caldera at Antarctica’s Deception Island is not easily forgotten.—Steve Brown, Cruising Club of America Steve Brown knows a thing or two about heavy weather. Throughout his sailing career, Brown and his wife, Trish, took on a four-year circumnavigation aboard their Oyster 56, Curious, sailed a 30,000-mile circumnavigation of the Americas—sailing north from Camden, Maine, and then an east-to-west transit of the Northwest Passage—and spent more than his fair share of time in the Southern Ocean. Brown is up for debating…

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