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On the Wind Sailing

Chris Stanmore-Major // Spartan Ocean Racing

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8593 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

#227. Chris is a long-time ocean racing sailor, having competed in the Velux 5 Oceans Race, skippered a boat in the Clipper Race and later building his own charter-racing business called Spartan Ocean Racing. Chris & Andy met at the RORC Caribbean 600 in Antigua in 2016, Isbjorn's first attempt at the race, and finally got the chance to record a podcast in January 2018!

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On the Wind is Presented by Forbes Horton Yachts, and also supported by Weems & Plath and by Broadreach.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings from Sweden. Me and I just got back from Austria. We were skiing in the Alps for a week with another sailing family that we met in the Azores. So it's always really cool who you meet on the high seas. And yeah, these guys live in Munich right in center of town so we got to spend

0:23.3

a day in Munich the music you hear in the background is from the Hofbri House of course we couldn't

0:28.9

go to Munich without drinking our required three liters of beer at the Hofbri House so after

0:34.3

four days skiing in Austria at their cabin we we had two nights in Munich, and it was fantastic.

0:41.6

Huge thanks to Christoph and the boys, Tino and Phil, for being fantastic guides.

0:47.4

Lee Cumberland, who is the producer on the podcast and host of Sailing Stories, was also with us.

0:52.6

So we had an epic week in the Alps and some good times at the Hofbri House.

1:03.0

On the Wind is presented by Forbes Horton Yachts.

1:06.2

We're trying something new this week with this sponsor, so let us know what you think.

1:10.8

Our producer and the Sailing Stories podcast host Lee Cumberland.

1:15.5

He recently met with Forbes in Annapolis to check out a Robert Perry designed Tiana 52.

1:21.6

And Lee is putting together a series of 92nd, almost many episodes about that.

1:26.8

Here's the first one.

1:31.8

All right, I'm headed down to Annapolis to check out a Tiana 52 with Forbes, and it is a cold

1:38.7

mid-January day, and it snowed about an inch this morning.

1:43.2

So pretty interesting day to go check out a sailboat.

1:47.8

All right, so this is a tie-in of 52, right? This is the tie-on at 52. And it's kind of funny to be

1:54.0

out here in the middle of January, you know, after a snowstorm. Yeah, extra. Sringcraft.

2:00.6

But it's a great way to qualify a buyer.

2:03.6

If someone wants to come out on a day like today,

2:05.6

you pretty much know they're not just kicking keel.

2:08.6

Yeah, this is nice. It has a, you know, the fin keel and the skeg-hung rudder,

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