Cascadia Sailing: Building a Race-Ready Team, with Joy Dahlgren & Chris Wolfe

What happens when 11 sailors who’ve never raced together take on one of the world’s top women’s one-design regattas? You buy the only IC37 on the West Coast and start practicing.Pete talks with Cascadia Sailing’s Joy Dahlgren and Chris Wolfe about building a battle-ready Canadian-American team for the New York Yacht Club International Women’s Championship. They talk teamwork, offshore lessons, data, communication, the quirks of sailing an IC37—and why Americans and Canadians apparently can’t agree on how to pronounce “buoy.”A lively conversation about talented sailors, steep learning curves and turning 11 individuals into one seriously gritty team.