Sailing our Catalina 22 with a tiller is so confusing to me
Ep. 45. The clock is ticking for us to move into our future home on a catamaran to sail all the seas and we are no where closer to Claudine being able to drive our little Catalina, than we were a year ago. So that's where we're at.
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That's ok though because she's convinced herself manning the helm on a 44' cat will be easier than a 22' monohaul. I guess we will all be in for a surprise one way or another.
00:00 ~ Intro Claudine at the helm
06:02 ~ Donovan at the helm
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