Homey shipmates, August here, welcome back to the show. While listening to this episode,

go and check out our online sailing community, the quarterdeck at quarterdeck.59-nortorty.com.

I'll be posting a bunch of cool photos on there of Andy and me performing this anchoring technique

so you can see exactly what that looks like. If you've not been on the quarterdark recently,

you're missing out. I've been doing some really cool live streams on there recently where we

have discussed weather routing for East Beyond live watching the boat on the tracker page

and the weather coming in and advised the skipper. It's been really fun and there is more content on the way.

There is a two-week free trial to all new members, so go to quarterdeck.59-nort.com right now,

and you can check out those anchoring picks, and hopefully you'll sign on with us.

Today's topic is something that I believe is pretty unique to Norway and Sweden.

I don't think this is practiced anywhere else.

It really shapes the way people sail and cruise up here.

It confuses foreigners and it's taken for granted by the locals.

And recording this episode got me thinking of how different sailing

might be in other parts of the world that I don't know about, where local conditions create

their own unique cruising techniques. So if you know of similar practices where you sail

or that you know of, please let us know know we'd love to hear from you all right

august orca has been sponsoring this season of the podcast um it's a Norwegian company i think

Norwegian and Spanish i was significantly impressed with the week i had on spike it's basically

like you and i have been talking about tablet navigation for years, and they finally, I think, figured it out. It's a maronized tablet with an induction charging mount. You can put it at the helm. It's fully waterproof. The charts are great. I love it. I've used it only for a week, so the jury is still a little bit out, but I know you just installed it on East Bjorn, and you mentioned that John Amtrop, one of your skippers, has used it for years and is a fan. So tell me about your experience with it. Yeah. I mean, I've only so far just played around with it and installed it, but I mean, the installment was a fantastic experience. So it was, you know, it's just, you have the tablet, which is, which is great, some maronized tablet. And then you also have the work at core, which is this kind of compass hub thing. And you, um, you just plug that into your N2K network. And then that's it. It took me five seconds to install. And even, I know, I was like, I was, I couldn't stop smile. Like, you can't believe, like, and it just

talks to each other. It just works. It's like, finally like modern technology that just like works.

Like, it was amazing. Yeah. Power, I felt the same thing.

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