Humbling and rewarding

Peyton weigel

Newport to Bermuda was difficult and rewarding. My first time captaining a boat on a big offshore sail. First Gulf Stream crossing for everybody on board. Followed weather routers advice and never found the downstream gulf current and suffered for it with 10’ breaking waves in a very confused sea. Had lots of sea sickness on board which through or watch schedule out the window. Probably slept a total of 12 hours. Regardless though of how hard it was I learned a lot, kept crew safe, kept the boat safe, and the only thing that broke was the coffee maker(RIP). I feel very accomplished and am excited to continue on. In Bermuda for a few days for some much needed rest and looking to jump south on Friday.

Boat & Crew

Azurite

Oyster, 56

Casey Joerndt

Bartender

Melissa Valentini

Hitching a ride

Julie Dauer

Deckhand

leanne schliesman

First Mate

Peyton weigel

Owner