Ben Shaw // Out the Gate & Across the Pacific

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ben Shaw returns to the podcast, this time in-person and onboard DOVKA, his family's Hallberg Rassy. Ben is the host of the Out the Gate sailing podcast and a former crew of 59º North. Ben and his wife Lauren sailed with us on ICEBEAR in 2019 to prepare for their own cruising adventures, and we met up quite spontaneously in Hiva Oa, after both crossing the Pacific to the Marquesas. We talked about Ben and his family's cruising plans - they've been living aboard now for two years with their young kids - ocean sailing, podcasting and much more.

This season of ON THE WIND is sponsored by Weather Routing Inc., aka 'WRI', 59º North's longtime weather routing & forecasting friends. To learn more and sign up for WRI, go to wriwx.com and tell them that 59º North sent you.

This season of ON THE WIND is also sponsored by Boat How To, an educational website co-founded by longtime friend of the pod & sailing tech guru Nigel Calder. Check out the courses at BoatHowTo.com.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	all of a sudden getting really uptight, like running around the boat pretty frantically.
0:05.1	And the girls are looking at me saying, oh shit, are we sinking?
0:10.1	And they don't know what's going on.
0:14.3	All right, Ryan, you have been involved in 59 North since trip number four.
0:21.0	You sail on East Bjorn with me and Clint back in the day in 2016.
0:27.1	And now you sail with me from Marquesas to Tahiti.
0:30.4	We're sitting in Tahiti as we record this.
0:33.1	What are your impressions of this trip,
0:35.3	but also of like the evolution of 59 North since the last time you sailed with us?
0:39.2	It's crazy to see how much it's grown.
0:42.2	Everything is bigger.
0:43.5	The boat is much bigger.
0:44.9	The company's bigger.
0:46.0	The operation's bigger.
0:47.6	It was really cool for me to get to see it how much has changed.
0:51.3	The passage is awesome.
0:52.8	It just feels like a privilege to be out here. And it also feels like we are at the edge of the world. We're just in the middle of nowhere out here. Can you describe? Like, I think we both agreed that like, so we started in Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas, stopped in the Tumotus, and now we're in Tahiti. And like, Tihidi is quite civilized. Like, there's,
1:11.3	it's basically a French city here, what it feels like. But like, New Cahivia and Tumotos are absolutely not that. So describe, like, what it was like in those places and that transition from one to the next. Because I was not, I'd say, I was not expected, not expecting how remote the Marquesas in particular were going to be.
1:28.3	Yeah, the Marquesas really are like the edge of the edge.
1:31.5	I mean, you fly to Tahiti and then you fly three and a half more hours into the oblivion
1:35.3	into this little piece of land.
1:38.0	There's no flat land at all.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andy Schell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Andy Schell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.