Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. Good morning, good morning. It's

Andy Schell here and it's episode number 22 of the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. I've got a lot

of stuff going on that I want to talk about before we get into this episode. If you happen to be

in Annapolis this weekend, I'm actually on my way down to the Annapolis

Spring Sailboat Show, which is starting this morning in about an hour, actually, down on CityDoc.

Today is April 25th Friday, so those of you that listen to this later, you're out of luck.

But if you're in town this weekend, come see us.

We have my dad's boat Sojourner in the show to display what a real ocean-going boat looks like. We just got back from delivering the boat from St. Lucia back to Annapolis a couple weeks ago. We did it in two stages. But the boat still fitted out for ocean sailing with all the safety gear and all that kind of stuff. Probably going to do the same thing in the fall boat show if we can pull it off,

so this is a nice little test.

But come down and see us at the Annapolis Spring Sailboat Show if you're around this weekend.

Also, I'm giving two talks tomorrow morning with the Cruises University,

one on mentally preparing to go offshore and the other on problem solving.

Problem solving, solving problems problems offshore so that should be

pretty fun uh you can check that out um on the annapolis i think it's uh us boat dot com they've got

the links to the cruisers university so check that out uh there's also a link to it on my website

at five nine dash north dot com finally on sunday the last day of, Spinsheet Magazine, whom I've been writing for for quite a while now, they're hosting a crew party from four to six, and just before that, they're doing a start sailing now panel, which I'm going to be a panelist on that, and we're going to talk about how we got into sailing, and I'm not really sure how it's going to go. I've never done it before, but it sounds like it's going to be fun. That starts at 3 o'clock over at the Maritime Museum in Eastport and the crew party starts immediately after that. After that, I've actually head down to Portsmouth to start the Ark Europe event and then off to Bermuda. So it's a busy spring. The next event that you

can register for on 59-north.com is the Celestial Navigation Workshop in November. So check that out.

And don't forget to sign up for the newsletter at 59-north.5.9.com. All right, we'll get right

into it. Episode number 22. This is with an old friend of mine, Ashley Rogers, who I met in St. Martin when we both worked for Broadreach. She was a scuba instructor and I was a skipper at Broadreach. I always said that was my favorite job. If that was year-round and if I could do that all the time, I would. It was phenomenal. We were live aboard

sail training and diving expeditions in the Leeward Islands with up to 12, 13 kids. And I just

had the time of my life. I did it two years in a row. Mia came down with me the second year.

So Broadreach is a super cool thing. Check that out sometime if you ever have kids that want to go

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