Allan Palmer // Tall Ship Capt.
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2013
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
#1. We're kicking things off with Allan Palmer, captain of the brig 'Tre Kronor' out of Stockholm, and native of Mariehamn, in the Aland Islands. Andy and Allan discuss the 'International Association of Cape Horners', what it's like to rig a traditional square-rigged ship, and how he's trying to save some of the old seafaring traditions in the Baltic. We recorded the episode in the captain's quarters aft on the 'Tre Kronor', at a small wooden desk beside the nav station. Very cool.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.0 | Greetings, Andy Shell here. Welcome to the 59 degrees North podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | We're going to kick things off with Alan Palmer. He's the captain of the tall ship Treja Kronor in Stockholm. |
| 0:16.0 | He's also a traditional yacht rigger and he comes from the Orlin Islands in the Baltic Sea, |
| 0:22.6 | which is technically a part of Finland, but they speak Swedish and they have their own flag. |
| 0:26.6 | Alan's father was a Cape Horn captain on the sailing ships that sailed the grain route from Australia to England. |
| 0:34.6 | So this was a really cool episode. I think it's going to be really exciting to kick |
| 0:37.9 | off this new podcast that's going to be sailing related only. And hopefully we'll be with you |
| 0:43.1 | once a week. I'll have some guest hosts on now and then, some of my sailing friends from around |
| 0:48.2 | the world and Annapolis and all different places. So I hope you enjoy the new podcast. You can find |
| 0:53.8 | me on Twitter at 59 North |
| 0:55.9 | Sailing and of course on Facebook and all the other places on the interwebs that you normally |
| 1:00.6 | find people. So look forward to hearing from everybody and hope you enjoy the first episode |
| 1:04.8 | of the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. Cheers. So there was this international Cape Horn Association, which was, of course, of obvious reasons, ended 10 years ago. |
| 1:35.3 | Okay. |
| 1:36.3 | Because there were hardly any Cape Horners left. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.3 | So they had to give up. But then it was decided to form a |
| 1:47.0 | what should you say, an organization with relatives or friends or people who wanted to keep on a bit of the tradition of the old Cape Horn Association so we formed a new one |
| 2:05.6 | and my father was the last president of the Olin section okay he passed away three years ago |
| 2:12.6 | and a few others in the in the in the who formed this new group had relatives or |
| 2:22.2 | had been involved in the in the premium the original organization so we thought |
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