Capt. Jan Miles // Tall Ship Capt.
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2015
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
#116 is one of the best yet! Yan Miles, captain of the tall ship 'Pride of Baltimore II' is full of stories, and boy can he tell them! Yan and Andy spoke from the captain's quarters onboard the 'Pride' itself, docked in Annapolis at City Dock.
He has been involved with the 'Pride' since it's inception in the 1980s. Yan tells the story of how he got involved in sailing, worked his way up in the private and classic yachting scene, the story of the 'Pride's' inception, the first 'Pride's' tragic sinking, the building of the second 'Pride' and what it's like barreling down the Bay during the Schooner Race and overtaking the schooner Woodwind, which Andy was aboard!
Join Andy on an offshore sailing passage on his Swan 48 'Isbjorn' at 59-north.com/offshore.
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| 0:00.0 | So I used it off and sure enough, the very, very initial puff, as I'm talking to me, was literally on the back of my neck, right behind the ship. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm thinking, oh, we're going to job. |
| 0:14.1 | Hey, this is Anna Vinner's live from Sweden. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:21.6 | Enjoy the show. Greetings and welcome back to 59 degrees north. I'm your host, Andy Shell, actually recording this intro from 59 degrees north. |
| 0:29.6 | We're in Sweden now. I'm just outside Saqom at Mia's family's house. Episode number 116 is sponsored by Forbes Horton Yachts. Forbes prides himself on his own experiences as a sailor, |
| 0:41.3 | something that helps him find his clients the perfect boat. Well, when I was in my 20s, I restored |
| 0:47.1 | an old 1970s tartan 34 classic S&S design because it was the biggest boat I could afford at the time right out of college. |
| 0:57.0 | And we gutted it and my wife and I took off on our honeymoon and spent a year cruising, |
| 1:04.0 | went down to the Caribbean, came back up to the Bahamas and ended up anchoring out in Spock Creek. |
| 1:09.0 | And here we are 10 years later, still looking out at Spock Creek and here we are 10 years later still looking out at |
| 1:13.1 | Spock Creek so go figure. I asked Forbes if he had any cool inspirational stories about some of |
| 1:18.7 | his clients. What kind of sailors were they and where were they going? I sold a boat to a customer |
| 1:25.3 | somebody I never met walked into my office sat right in that chair and said, my father and |
| 1:30.6 | I are going to sail around the world and we have X amount of money to do it. |
| 1:34.9 | And I think within the week we were surveying a boat in Newport and they got back after |
| 1:40.7 | a three year voyage just about a month ago and absolutely had the best time, loved the |
| 1:47.0 | boat, and did most of it double-handed. You know, those stories, I mean, I have so many people |
| 1:52.4 | come in and they want to do it and they dream about doing it, but it's a big commitment and |
| 1:58.0 | there's a lot of big ocean out there, so it takes the right boat and it takes a real commitment on an owner to do it. |
| 2:06.3 | Forbes Horton Yachts, finding you the perfect boat to enjoy all that big ocean out there. |
| 2:12.5 | To check out Forbes's listings and to contact him, check out Forbesyots.com. |
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