Anchors Aweigh! // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2014
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
#48. This is the Voice of Experience piece I wrote for SAIL magazine back in 2013 about my experience losing an anchor on my first-ever charter as a 20-year-old in New Zealand. Without further ado, enjoy this weeks (embarassing) Essay Friday. What's some of your stupid mistakes onboard?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to... Sorry. |
| 0:02.8 | That's okay. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:10.2 | Greetings, greetings. Welcome back to 59 North Sailing Podcast. I'm your host, Andy Schell, and this is episode number 48. |
| 0:17.7 | All right, this episode is an essay that I wrote for Sale magazine. |
| 0:21.3 | A while back they had asked me to write my own voice of experience article, which they do each month, highlighting something that someone's done wrong or stupidly or both and what you can learn what you did right and what you did wrong from that experience. |
| 0:35.9 | I was sort of hesitant to write this |
| 0:37.5 | in the first place because I don't like to, it's an ego thing, but I don't like to admit when I've done something wrong. But then I thought, ah, what the hell? And I'm trying to be more honest with myself and with my audience as in terms of those sort of things. Obviously, everybody does stupid things, myself included, and this is by far not the only example of that. I'm sure if you ask |
| 0:57.2 | Mia, she would give you... Obviously, everybody does stupid things, myself included, and this is by far not the only example of that. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm sure if you ask Mia, she would give you a whole list of stupid things that I've done sailing or otherwise. |
| 1:02.0 | But anyway, this is the story of how on my very first charter, I was 20 years old, I was in New Zealand. |
| 1:08.0 | First time I was really on a boat without my dad being the one in |
| 1:11.7 | charge. And this is how we lost our anchor. Yes, there's the long story behind that, but this |
| 1:19.0 | is it. So enjoy this episode. Another essay Friday on the 59 North Sailing podcast. I'd love to hear |
| 1:25.5 | stories of your own stupid mistakes, sailing. So send me email |
| 1:28.9 | Andy at 59-north.com or tweet at me on at 59 North Sailing or you know where to find us on |
| 1:35.6 | the website, 59-nash-North.com. Be really cool to hear other people's experiences of doing dumb |
| 1:40.1 | things on their boats and what they learn from it. So thanks again for listening. |
| 1:44.0 | And we'll be back very shortly after we get back from vacation. |
| 1:47.8 | I'm recording this on August 7th, so it's a little bit old by the time you hear this, |
| 1:51.8 | but we'll be back in September with some more current intros and episodes and interviews. |
| 1:58.6 | So thanks for listening and enjoy episode number 48. |
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