Offshore Sailing Today with COSS: Recent Episodes
Chesapeake Offshore Sailing
The team at Chesapeake Offshore Sailing Services (COSS) presents interviews with noted offshore racers, brings you tips, tricks and advice on how to prepare your boat for offshore sailing, and shows you how to “win the race to the starting line” and beyond! Since we are both cruisers and offshore racers, we will cover aspects of both activities and show how cruisers can make better racers and racers can make better cruisers!
Some tips and tricks and general advice on buying an old fixer upper for you and your family.
A long discussion about crew dynamics in offshore racing. Observations on how folks act and interact and how to help orchestrate a fun and memorable offshore race. Tips for the owner and the racer on how to not be a dick.
COSS describes how to avoid rig failure and what to do if it happens. Don’t lose the mast!
Discussion of top ten failure modes and how to prepare your boat for common failures offshore
COSS presents the first of a multipart series which discusses common failures offshore. We discuss how to upgrade, prevent and mitigate these common failures offshore.
Discussion of how and why you might want to go cruising without the fridge. Go simple go now!
We discuss the Golden Globe Race, the controversy surrounding the sole American Entrant And his stop for repairs
Dry Run with Junior Sailor Zane. Just testing the equipment and interface! Not that it's not a great interview!