Dan & Kika // Sailing Uma Exclusive
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 154 minutes
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Summary
Dan & Kika of Sailing Uma return to the podcast to talk to Andy this time, and boy do they go deep! What started as a chance to catch up on the latest refit progress on Uma, turned into a winding tale of botched visas, border agents, airport jail cells, deportations, almost buying a new boat - in Canada! - and finally the ups and downs of rebuilding Uma, their home. Dan & Kika have never told this story before on any platform, so grab a coffee or a beer and cozy up for one of our favorite episodes yet!
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| 0:00.0 | And then so they're like, okay, follow me. |
| 0:02.0 | We'll send you to your hotel room, which was in the back. |
| 0:06.0 | And it was literally a jail sale. |
| 0:09.0 | Were you two separated at this point? |
| 0:11.0 | Yes. |
| 0:11.5 | He wasn't allowed to be with me. |
| 0:13.2 | So they took all my stuff, and they said, I'm allowed to grab, like, a little toiletry bag with me. |
| 0:18.5 | And they sent me in this room of, that had like bunk beds. |
| 0:23.4 | Like it's literally a prison sale. |
| 0:26.1 | And they closed the door behind me and then it was locked. |
| 0:29.8 | On the window, presented by Orca. |
| 0:31.8 | Go to getorca.com to check out the Orca Core 2 and the Orca Display 2. |
| 0:37.3 | I've been advocating for tablet navigation for many, many years. |
| 0:41.3 | And finally, I think we have a solution that just about does everything we want it to do. |
| 0:46.1 | I've been using it on Spica for the last several weeks of the summer. |
| 0:50.3 | And it is really, really great. |
| 0:52.7 | It's a combination antenna that you mount down below and plugs into the NEMA 2000 network |
| 0:57.2 | with a display outside. |
| 0:59.2 | I've also got an app on my phone and the iPad that mirrors everything, but the display |
| 1:03.5 | charges on an induction mount at the helm, and it's super bright. |
| 1:07.8 | And it's really, really does everything the iPad doesn't do and the navigation |
| 1:11.5 | software is great as well. So really encourage you to check it out. It's not that expensive. |
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