On this week of Cape Horn to Port, host Ronnie Simpson interviews friend and weather router Jason Christensen of Seattle, Washington, USA. Jason is an avid sailor who works professionally as a coach, instructor and weather router with his company Racing the Wind. In 2023-24, Jason was Ronnie's weather router during the Global Solo Challenge race, and the duo plan to continue working together in the future.
Also in this episode, the Globe 40 fleet re-starts from Chile, bound for Brazil. The RORC Caribbean 600 is just a few days out, Guirec Soudee and his maxi-trimaran MACSF opens up her gap over the reference time for going around the world the wrong way, and the maxi-trimaran Gitana 18 hits the water.
Ronnie shares a campaign update where he is headed to Spain in a few days for a Global Solo Challenge related event and he has just signed on a major sponsor with Oakley Building Company of Baltimore, Maryland and new technical partners AkzoNobel and Sea Hawk paints.
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