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Greetings, greetings, and welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast.

I'm your host, Andy Schell, and this is episode number 43.

Big thanks to our returning sponsor, Collegro Marine.

John Franta is going to be on the podcast

next week. He is the brains behind Caligo Marine and the founder. And Caligo does ducts rigging,

synthetic rigging for cruising boats like we've got on Arcturus, which I think we were the first

monahole to cross an ocean with Caligo ducks rigging. They do luff line roller furlers for

things like code zeros and light spinnickers. They do spinaker furling gear. They do Coligo

ducks for lifelines. They sell lifeline kits, do it yourself lifeline kits or they can make them

for you. We've got ducks lifelines on our boat as well. They do fair leads,

blocks, snatch blocks, boom vangs, all sorts of clever stuff using Dyneema as a technology and with aluminum fittings, anodized aluminum fittings. So super, super slippery stuff that

requires no moving parts for snatch blocks, for example. And it's not, it's kind of high-tech-tech stuff but it's not very expensive it's designed around the cruising sailor and yeah it's great stuff we use all of it on arcturus and also like I said before they do the emergency shroud kits out of coligo ducks you can buy those on 59 dash north.com slash gear if're thinking about going offshore, even if you've got a wire

rig, it's a great thing to have stashed away, won't rust in the bilge, and easy to repair a shroud

if you get caught with a rigging failure offshore. Again, check out caligomorine.com, and if you

order anything off the website, just mention in the order form that you heard it through 59 North

and you get a nice discount from John and the guys over at Caligo. So thanks again to them

for sponsoring this episode of the podcast. Some upcoming events. Reminders, we've got the 59 North

live podcast at World Cruising Club's Ocean Sailing Forum on Saturday, October 11th during Annapolis Boat Show.

You can buy tickets on worldcruising.com slash training. The ticket also gets you into the boat show. So it's the same price as a regular boat show ticket, but you get to come to our forum as well, which is the Saturday morning before the boat show, which we're going to be recording as a live podcast. We've got special guests, Paul and Cheryl

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