Cosima Franchini // Yacht Captain & Business Owner

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Cosima grew up on the Puget Sound where her family nurtured a love of sailing and old classic boats. In college she worked on tall ships in the PNW but eventually she landed on the east coast where she found a community of friends who worked on private classic yachts. She spent her twenties pursuing positions and racing aboard big rig schooners and other classics throughout the Caribbean and Mediterranean. Today she is Captain of a 108' sailing yacht based in Europe and running her charter business, Olympia Sailing Company, with her family.

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0:00.0	Ahoi shipmates.
0:01.5	Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Andy Schell.
0:04.0	Host this week is Emma Garshagen with another exciting episode for you.
0:07.9	I'm excited to listen to it as a fan myself.
0:10.5	What's going on at 59 North?
0:12.6	Falcon is 30 miles from making landfall in Las Palmas on the first trip of 2024 as I record this on Friday.
0:19.5	And I'm very excited to hear from Mia and Alex and Jojo about how
0:22.9	the trip went. They've been sending in blogs. So if you go to 59-north.com slash track, you can
0:29.0	see the passage map as well as the longer form blogs that they've been sending in almost daily
0:33.9	that I've been posting to the new website. In other news, East Bjorn is about three weeks away from launching on the West Coast of Sweden
0:40.9	and starting her 2024 season.
0:43.3	And the 2025 passage calendar for East Bjorn was just released.
0:47.6	So it is live on the website now as well.
0:50.0	You can go to 59-north.com slash 2025 and link over to East Bjorn's calendar there.
0:57.0	Headed back to Arctic Norway, doing a Shetland race again, heading out to the Faroe Islands,
1:03.1	down to Scotland, and across to Sweden again.
1:06.2	So a nice North Sea passage calendar in 2025 for East Bjorn, so check that out. Last but not least,
1:13.3	if you want to support the podcast, we're asking everyone to go to the quarterdeck and sign up
1:17.7	as a member there. That's our online community of like-minded sailors looking to share and learn
1:24.0	about seamanship. August and I post regular content on their videos, articles,
1:29.4	and such. And there's a really thriving community of people that talk amongst themselves
1:35.2	on the Focal Forum about boats, about gear, about routes, about routes, about all sorts of
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