By Paul Kortenkamp
Virtual Cruising
98 Latitudes & Attitudes pg 98-103 Virtual CruisingR - MKC.indd 2
Cruise anywhere in the world, with friends new and old, from any screen, without getting seasick! YouTube now offers a new way for sailors with camera talents and storytelling skills to share “Being Out There.” These cruisers bring us, in the same season, to the remotest of islands and locations all over the globe. As some of the very best have found ways to be funded by their viewers, the quality of the shows has improved. Amazing streaming content is made weekly from distant shores. These channels are excited by the many inquisitive readers of Lats & Atts, and this new article of “Virtual Cruisers.” This issue, we catch up with two heavily-subscribedto sailing channels on YouTube: Capt Rick Moore on Sailing Sophisticated Lady (currently in Columbia), and the Wynns on Gone With The Wynns (currently in Fiji). These two content leaders came from very different starts, but both have been doing this for over ten years — which is pretty much forever in the world of streaming video. Over cruiser bar-style conversation done in the new normal — w w w . L at s A t t s . c o m
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