Ahoy, shipmates, it's August here. Welcome back to the show. I had the pleasure of meeting up with

Agir Expeditions a couple of weeks back when sailing up in northern Norway. And I'm really looking

forward to sharing that conversation with you guys tonight. But first, we're going to check in

with Andy and Emma on Ice Bear. They just completed an exciting passage from Annapolis to Antigua, and they just sent

an audio file.

Some of you guys know Emma.

She's a fantastic sailor and prison, and she's now the full-time mate on Ice Bear,

having taken over for Mia since Axel was born. This was her and Andy's first passage together

as skipper and mate. So how that go? Keelholling, best buds. Let's find out. Okay, we're just doing a

sound check, so tell me what you have for breakfast, Emma. Which breakfast? Pre-breakfast and breakfast. I had

cantaloupe for pre-breakfast and Cheerios for breakfast. Cool. What was that? The rest of the potato

chips after that. The ruffles? Yeah, the ruffles. All right, so we're sitting here in Antigua.

This is the first time we sailed together.

This was like the most, I told you, this is the most accomplished I've felt since we made

landfall in Svalbard, given the difficult nature of the trip with the weather and COVID

and all the uncertainty and everything else.

And here we are.

We made it. How do you feel? I feel good. I told you today that the stress levels at zero.

What was it before the trip? It was an eight. An eight. Yeah. We decided to do this debrief,

like, format where we go through all these different topics. And at the end, we added, the score of the passage what was the degree of difficulty of the passage what was the stress level

for the crew for us crew skipper mate before the passage and after it and i think this was like

for me a model of how things should go at 59 north yeah we, we scored the passage a 93 out of 100, so a solid

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