Abby Ehler // The Magenta Project

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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#327: Abby Ehler has been working in high performance sailing, on and off the water, for over twenty years. She has competed in three editions of the Volvo Ocean Race as boat captain, most recently competing in the 2017-18 race with Team Brunel, the first edition of the Race to actively promote mixed gender teams. When shore side, Abby has worked for the America's Cup and Sail GP. Abby founded and runs the Magenta Project, a collective that develops pathways and opportunities for women in performance sailing. The Magenta Project focuses on establishing networks, fostering mentorships, influencing policy, and raising awareness. Abby also hosts her own podcast, the Sailing Show Podcasts, where she interviews professional sailors.

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0:00.0	Hello on the wind listeners. It's Emma. There's a couple things I want to chat about before we get into this interview with Abby Eeler, who is a really incredible professional offshore sailor and racer, who I feel very lucky to have gotten to talk to. So I am currently sitting on Ice Bear in Hamilton, Bermuda.
0:21.2	We just got in a few days ago now from a passage from Annapolis, where we raced the Pride of Baltimore out to Bermuda, which was a lot of fun.
0:31.4	We also had a little celestial navigation competition with Pride of Baltimore, which the results have not been finalized yet,
0:38.8	so I cannot announce them. I believe Pride of Baltimore is also still at sea heading back to
0:45.2	Annapolis, so I wouldn't want to release the results while they can't hear them. But while we were
0:52.5	doing our celestial navigation on Ice Bear, I was very lucky to learn a lot from one of our crew members, John Bowers.
1:00.0	He lives in Norfolk, Virginia and took Andy's celestial navigation class a couple of years ago.
1:06.1	And then when the pandemic hit, he found himself, found himself spending a lot of time practicing celestial navigation, whether that was, you know, finding the first navigational stars to rise around nautical twilight every night or going out to the beach with his sextant and taking some sights in the morning.
1:26.5	So John taught me and the rest of the crew a lot
1:29.5	on this trip, and he was a wonderful navigational partner to have. And I think one of the big reasons
1:35.6	that we did pretty well in the celestial competition. So I got to sit down with John before he left
1:42.3	Bermuda, and we had a great conversation here in the main salon on Ice Bear.
1:47.6	I'm going to share a little teaser of that with you right now,
1:51.4	and if you want to hear the whole thing and hear more about our celestial competition,
1:56.2	you can go over to the quarter deck for that.
1:59.5	So that's at quarterdeck.59-nore.com.
2:05.7	We had six sites over four days.
2:08.6	There's still a handful that we haven't reduced yet
2:11.4	that are sitting in the notebook.
2:13.1	But average of those six sites over four days,
2:16.7	the average error was 2.33 nautical miles between the
2:21.7	LOP, the line of position we found with our star site or sun site or whatever it was, between that
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