Across the North Sea, Pt. 4: Landfall // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2014
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
#75. This is Part 4 of Andy & Mia's last big offshore passage on Arcturus from 2012, when they sailed direct to Sweden from Scotland. If you missed Parts 1, 2 & 3 they were the last two Friday episodes, so you'll want to hear these in order.
Thanks to the Blaggards for the music! Check them out at blaggards.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Viners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:09.0 | Siena, Siena, welcome to back to 59 Nord Sailing Segling's podcast. That's another attempt at my Swedish, which you may have noticed from last week. I'm recording this one right after the |
| 0:21.4 | one I recorded earlier today, which is part three. So I'm in that Swedish mood again. It's about |
| 0:26.8 | 30 degrees here in Lancaster. We just got home from Tortola last night, and I am feeling |
| 0:30.7 | very Swedish today and very, very much enjoying the cold weather. This is the fourth and final part |
| 0:36.6 | of our Across the North Sea essay. It's also the shortest part. This is the fourth and final part of our across the North Sea essay. It's also |
| 0:39.0 | the shortest part. This was a very emotional time for us when we finally made it to Sweden. I |
| 0:44.8 | didn't mention this in the article, but I think Mia actually cried a little bit when she raised |
| 0:48.4 | the Swedish flag from the starboard spreaders for the first time, indicating that we were |
| 0:53.3 | visiting Sweden as a as a |
| 0:56.3 | country which was really really cool um yeah so you can hear the last part of this here i won't waste |
| 1:02.1 | any more time i'm going to do the blaggards thing again thanks to them for the music you'll hear |
| 1:06.4 | the intro song after this and then you'll hear the remainder of that song which is called foggy |
| 1:10.7 | do at the end of this podcast it's's a freaking awesome song, so I hope you guys enjoy it |
| 1:15.3 | and listen to it the whole way through. Also, thanks again to Caligo Marine for sponsoring this |
| 1:19.7 | episode. Check out Caligomarine.com, and really appreciate John and his gang sponsor in the |
| 1:25.5 | podcast. They've been awesome to work with. |
| 1:50.0 | So, without further ado, enjoy the final installment of Across the North Sea. Because down the glan, one Easter morn, to a city fair old eye. August 11th, my last evening watch before we'd make landfall in Marsstrand. |
| 1:55.0 | I had one more dawn watch, 0500 to 0900 the following morning. |
| 2:00.0 | We were less than 100 miles from Sweden. It was easily |
| 2:03.4 | the nicest day of the passage, blue sky, bright sunshine, and shorts and t-shirt warm. A welcome |
| 2:09.0 | reward after the eventful night before. On the evening of the 10th, I had predicted that the wind |
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