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On the Wind Sailing

Andrew Hesketh // Corporate to Cruiser

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8593 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Andy Hesketh, aka Andy H. is the founder of the Odyssey Sailing Festival and host of the Ocean Cruiser's Podcast. Andy lives aboard his Jeanneau Sun Odyssey called VOYAGER and has been sailing full-time for several years. He wasn't always a sailor though, leaving a corporate life behind to pursue wider horizons. I talked to him last fall when he was aboard is boat in Greece.

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0:00.0

But yeah, I always thought, you know, I used to look at this small fish tank I had in my bedroom.

0:04.2

I used to love the ocean, love water, love traveling, love meeting new people.

0:08.5

I love fish.

0:09.2

It would be great if I could live in the aquarium because that would be my favorite place.

0:14.1

Impossible still.

0:16.4

But a boat is probably the closest thing.

0:18.2

So I think it was like if I can pull up somewhere and then just jump straight in the water and just be surrounded by fish, I'd absolutely love it.

0:27.0

Oh, hoi, shipmates. Welcome back to On the Wind. I am a very tired host this morning. I'm Andy, of course, I'm recording from Mission Control in Sweden.

0:36.8

Beautiful day outside today. I'm inspired. The reason I'm tired, I was up until'm recording from Mission Control in Sweden. Beautiful day outside today. I'm

0:38.6

inspired. The reason I'm tired, I was up to 1 a.m. last night watching the Eagles game.

0:43.3

I'm a huge Eagles fan. I grew up in Pennsylvania. And those of you that are football fans or Eagles fans will know why I'm tired. It was a nail biter at the end.

0:53.3

But I'm very glad I stayed up.

0:54.8

The game started at 9 p.m. here in Sweden, didn't get over until 1230. And I just about had a heart attack at the end there. So it took me about a half an hour to decompress before I could fall asleep. Thankfully, Axel slept until 8 a.m. and I managed to have a little bit of a sleep in, but I'm still going to need a nap today. So trying to get some work done before then. I'm

1:11.5

recording this the day before the podcast comes out, by the way. Okay, this is one I recorded back in the fall with Andy Heskith. I was actually on his podcast, the Ocean Cruiser's podcast back. I don't know, it must have been September, October, November, sometime back in the fall. So if you want to hear me on his podcast, go check that out. This was a really good one. I was, this was deeper than I expected. I had met Andy. I actually never met him. I finally did meet him at the boat show, but that was after we recorded this. And he's, he is a character that is not easy to pin down on first impressions.

1:46.9

Um, so it was really interesting getting to know him during this podcast.

1:49.2

And I had a really good, deep philosophical conversation, uh, through this one,

1:52.9

especially a lot of parenting stuff in here as well, too, which was cool.

1:56.0

Um, aside from, uh, this episode, which I think you'll enjoy,

1:59.5

59 North got stuff going on, as we always do.

2:01.7

We have one, only one open bunk on Falcon for the rest of this year.

2:05.9

And that happens to be with me on what I think is probably the best trip of the year.

2:10.9

We are going from the Marquesas to Tahiti via the Tuomoto archipelago, the dangerous archipelago, as a lot of old-timey celestial

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