August, Emma & James // Sailing in Svalbard
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
#368. August & Emma explored the High Arctic lands of Svalbard on ISBJØRN this summer with four crew and our ship's photographer James Austrums. James has been sailing with 59 North since 2017 as friend and photographer, and this was his second time to Svalbard aboard ISBJØRN. During our time in Svalbard, we sailed as high as 80 degrees North and saw incredible ice and wildlife. Freshly inspired after three weeks in the Arctic, we sat down in the main saloon to talk about our experiences.
James is a photographer and videographer, spending most of his time in outdoor adventure spaces. He is also a professional arborist and avid climber of many things, from trees to rocks and ice. He has sailed many thousands of miles with 59 North, always documenting the trips expertly. You can find his work at jamesaustrums.com
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want to describe that scene, like walk us through that scene? |
| 0:03.8 | Yeah, so where were we in? |
| 0:05.8 | Just into Leafy Fjordland. |
| 0:07.9 | And we were heading down towards a Texas bar, |
| 0:12.2 | and there was a whole bunch of fairly sizable chunks of ice, |
| 0:17.3 | I guess you would call them. |
| 0:19.0 | Growlers, bigger than growlers. |
| 0:21.5 | Yeah, those were quite icebergy. |
| 0:23.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.1 | Some of them. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | And we were, we had the drone out, so we were trying to get some shots of the boat with |
| 0:29.6 | some ice in the foreground. |
| 0:31.8 | And then we spotted two very large pieces a little further down the fjord. I think you said, what did you say, |
| 0:40.4 | those that looked like legendary pieces of ice. Yeah, and then you two looked at each other and |
| 0:46.5 | we're like, we're going that way. Welcome back to On the Wind. It's Emma here, recording from |
| 0:53.1 | Ice Bear in Marstrand, Sweden. I'm about to go on a passage |
| 0:57.4 | with Nikki and Mia and six women as our crew. It's 59 North's first all-female passage, and it's |
| 1:05.2 | been in the works for a while now. I've been thinking about this for a couple of years, and Andy and Mia helped me to plan |
| 1:14.3 | this trip last year when we were figuring out Ice Bears calendar. So I'm really excited that it's |
| 1:19.8 | finally happening. I think it'll just be a ton of fun, and it'll be really cool to see what an all-female |
| 1:27.3 | trip is like for 59 north we |
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