Daniel Alfredsson // Golden Globe Race 2026
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Alfredsson is a commercial diver living in Bergen, Norway. He is preparing himself and his boat to sail around the world solo, unassisted, non-stop with an old boat and retro technology as a participant in Don Macintryres 2026 Golden Globe Race. I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel and to record this conversation aboard the boat that will take him, hopefully, all around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | On the Wind is presented by Orca, Navigation for the Modern Boater. |
| 0:04.6 | We've always used tablets for navigation on Isbion, and they have been great for a number of reasons. |
| 0:10.6 | But iPads were never designed to live on the ocean. To make them work for navigation, |
| 0:15.9 | you need to work your way around or accept a few issues. All of these problems have now been solved by ORCA. They just sent me an ORCA display too, and it's a waterproof navigation tablet tailor-made for sailing. The charts and navigation is excellent, intuitive use with weather routing built in. You can even test out the ORCA app on |
| 0:39.1 | your phone or tablet for free before investing in the display itself. Thanks to ORCA for sponsoring |
| 0:45.6 | on the wind. Check them out and get your display today at getorga.com. Oh my shipmates, thanks for |
| 0:52.4 | tuning back in. Very excited to bring you this conversation with Daniel Alfredson. I got to travel to meet him and his boat. And I also filmed a video tour of the boat and all of his projects for the quarterdeck. So I thought that was really fun to be able to share. |
| 1:13.3 | So do you go and check that out. |
| 1:15.4 | If you're not yet a member of the quarterdeck, that's quarterdeck. |
| 1:18.0 | That's quarterdeck.59-nort.com. |
| 1:20.5 | And if you want to see more of Daniel and his boat, |
| 1:23.3 | you can find him on Facebook and Instagram at Sailing Daniel underscore GGR. |
| 1:30.0 | Such a treat to meet him face to face always makes for a better conversation. |
| 1:34.6 | And speaking of which, the Annapolis Boat Show is coming up where you can meet 59 North face to face. |
| 1:41.0 | Makes it world a difference, I promise. |
| 1:43.2 | If you like what we sound like through the |
| 1:45.2 | internet, then you will be blown away by our physical presence. Not mine though, sadly. It |
| 1:51.6 | collides with some mandatory military service, but Andy and Mia and others will be there, and you can |
| 1:57.3 | meet them, you can party with them, and we just published our annual Woodwind |
| 2:01.9 | sale. |
| 2:03.2 | A very limited number of tickets for that one, so go and grab yours now, and you can find |
| 2:08.7 | info of all the other events as well at 59-nort.com slash boat show. |
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