August Sandberg RECYCLED // Viking & ISBJORN Skipper

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

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4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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#256 RECYCLED. August Sandberg is a Norwegian sailor and filmmaker who is the full-time skipper of ISBJORN. He has been co-hosting the podcast and leading as an admiral on The QUARTERDECK while we have worked remotely this past year. August lives on a small island off the coast of Bergen, Norway, where he has been doing a lot of skating, skiing, and ice fishing through the winter. Andy interviewed August in February of 2019, before he had ever sailed with 59 North.

ON THE WIND is exclusively sponsored by Dakota Lithium, an American company building tough, long-lasting lithium-iron-phosphate batteries for a variety of applications. We just installed 200 aH of Dakota Lithium on SPICA in Sweden, and are preparing for a major lithium conversion on ICEBEAR, our Swan 59. Check them out at dakotalithium.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to On the Wind. Today we check in with August Sandberg, who is East Bjorn Skipper, a very
0:07.5	familiar co-host of this podcast and a admiral on the quarter deck. He was sitting at home in
0:14.2	Bergen, Norway, when I called him tonight. And we had a great chat about how jealous we are that
0:20.2	Andy is in Antigua and sailing right now,
0:23.2	as well as what August has been up to in the last two years since he was first interviewed on the wind.
0:31.6	So, yeah, after I play the conversation that August and I got to have today. I'm going to play the first interview
0:38.9	that Andy did with August in February of 2019, two years ago. So thank you, August, for letting
0:45.4	me dig back in the archives and for chatting with me today. This season of On the Wind is
0:50.8	sponsored exclusively by Dakota lithium, a lithium battery company based out of North Dakota where the winters can get cold.
0:58.1	Up there on the Great Plains, the landscape can be unforgiving, high winds, deep snow, long nights.
1:03.2	Dakota lithium was born out of this rugged landscape, a battery designed to endure to help you do what you love longer, a battery made to last.
1:11.3	Dakota lithium has harnished the power of lithium chemistry and combined it with North Dakota
1:15.3	grit to build you a better battery. Their lithium chemistry is the Life Po 4, sometimes
1:21.4	you've seen it referred to as. It's basically lithium iron phosphate, which is different from the
1:26.2	batteries in your phone or computer and
1:28.1	safer for use in marine applications. In fact, I just put 200 amp hours of Dakota lithium
1:34.4	batteries on Spica, our little boat here in Sweden, and we are gearing up to do a lithium
1:39.4	battery conversion on Ice Bear sometime over the next year or two whenever we can fit it in our season.
1:45.8	So check out Dakota Lithium.com. They have an interesting origin story and it's an American
1:50.5	company and really cool people to work with. We've enjoyed working with them on Spica and on
1:55.7	ice bear. Thanks again to Dakota Lithium for sponsoring this season of the podcast. Again,
2:00.3	check them out at Dakota Lithium.com. season of the podcast. Again, check them out at
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