Ahoi shipmates, Andy here, recording this from our little house here in Eastport, back in

Annapolis. I wrote a blog post last night about what it's been like living here while we're in

this house and not on a boat. So if you go to the homepage 59-north.com, you can read it there. It's

called refits and reflections from Annapolis. I was feeling inspired last

night, haven't written in a long time. So simultaneously feeling inspired, but also feeling kind of

down about this whole COVID thing and how it's going to affect the next six months of our life

and the next year and when we can get back on track. So anyway, have a read about that on the homepage

of the website.

A couple of notes before today's episode.

First of all, thanks to those of you that have joined the quarter deck, our new platform on

Seaman ship.

We are in the building stages of the quarter deck.

So those of you that have signed on as what I'm calling founding members will have a definite sort of

will have a definite hand in how we build this out and what it becomes we've had a lot of great

feedback already on what people want out of it and how we can use it so to that end we've created

databases on our favorite books we've extracted some quotes out of those books that we then discuss and talk about how they apply to seamanship we've created databases on our favorite books. We've extracted some quotes out of those

books that we then discuss and talk about how they apply to seamanship. We've created a database

of resources if you're doing work on your boat maintenance type stuff, both in books and

online. We're doing these seamanship scenario videos where August, myself, Mia, and some of our

other sailing friends post a short two or three minute video about

a C story that's happened to them. And then we ask the quarterdeck members to sort of reflect on

that situation. What would you have done in the same scenario? And then the final version of that,

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