Chris Museler // Racing Hugo Boss
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2014
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
#30. Andy and Chris met at the 2011 Caribbean 1500 when Chris was covering the rally. They caught up this morning on Skype and had a PHENOMENAL chat about Chris' experience onboard Hugo Boss in the recent New York - Barcelona IMOCA 60 race. It's the first time in history an outside journalist has been allowed onboard a shorthanded (double- or single-handed) to report objectively on what the crews go through in such a lengthy endurance test. Hugo Boss' normal skipper Alex Thomson is of course famous for his mast walk and keel walk escapades in his Hugo Boss clothing. Thomson couldn't make the race, so American Ryan Breymaier stood in...the won the race! Chris discusses life onboard, if it's possible to accurately document a double-handed race with a third person onboard (and Chris offers an awesome Heisenberg uncertainly analogy), what it feels like to sail a cutting edge rocketship like an IMOCA 60, and more! Towards the end Andy and Chris delve into fears offshore and some more philosophical ideas about sailing. Check the 59 North Facebook page for links to some of the stuff we talk about in the podcast. If you like it, please review it! Any comments or questions, interview ideas, etc, please email andy [at] 59-north [dot] com. Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. |
| 0:03.8 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | Andy Shell here again. |
| 0:10.3 | Really, really excited about this episode. |
| 0:12.5 | Episode number 31, before I get to it, I want to thank our returning sponsor, Weems and Plath. |
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| 0:55.5 | order off their website so thanks again for weems and plath for sponsoring the 59 degrees north |
| 1:00.3 | podcast all right on to episode number 31 this was easily i just finished recording it easily one |
| 1:06.8 | of my favorites uh i could have talked to this guy for many, many hours, but alas, I've got to run |
| 1:12.0 | to catch a train to Newport for the Newport Bermuda race. Anyway, this was Chris Musiler. He is a |
| 1:17.0 | journalist for the New York Times and is one of the few very lucky folks that gets to write |
| 1:21.5 | about sailing for a living for a national and world-renowned newspaper like the New York Times. |
| 1:27.0 | More than that, he's got to sail on a lot of these awesome races that he covers. |
| 1:31.2 | Most recently, the New York to Barcelona, Imoca 60 race. |
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