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Enormocast 329: Cole Brauer – Every Day the Sea Part 2

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On Episode 329 of the Enormocast, I resume my conversation with sailor, Cole Brauer. Cole made history and won the internet when she raced solo around the world in 2023. She live-streamed and updated often from her 130 day journey alone, finally coming in 2nd in the Global Solo Challenge. She was the first American woman to race nonstop around the globe. Then her personal doldrums set in as she resumed life onshore. Lost and bewildered by modernity and celebrity pressures, it took a year or more for Cole to return to the joys of sailing and racing. In the meantime, she finished her book, First Light, and eventually found the sea again. When opportunity knocked, Cole took a chance and joined Team Malizia and started racing one of the most high-tech boats on the ocean. First Light is in stores now.

Cole Brauer – Every Day the Sea Part 1

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Enormocast 323: Cole Brauer – Every Day the Sea Part 1

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Cole Brauer joins the Enormocast after becoming the first American woman to race solo around the world in the Global Solo Challenge in 2023. The 30,000‑mile circumnavigation pushed her through storms, gear failures, sleep deprivation, and the kind of isolation only found in climbing in places like Baffin Island. During the race, Cole became its breakout star, documenting the journey with disarming honesty and a surprising amount of joy. On this Enormocast, we talk about how a kid from Long Island ended up skippering a Class40 sailboat alone across the world’s biggest oceans, what its like to embrace being alone in a roiling sea, and how landfall after the race was perhaps the scariest part of all.

Cole Brauer – Every Day the Sea Part 2

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