Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show.

Well, I might as well record this now. It is zero dark 20. And that would be 20 after midnight.

And I'm recording this from the cockpit of Sojourner, my dad's Vokier, Hood 38-foot sloop that Mia, him, and myself are

sailing down the bay to Port Smith, Virginia for the start of the Caribbean 1500 cruising rally,

which Mia and I are running this year again. This episode is Donald Street, the legendary donald street which i had

in studio in person

uh... well

in his studio which happened to be the small office slash apartment above weems

and plath in annapolis

but uh... no less face-to-face chat with with the donald himself

uh... sitting at his round table that doubled

as his desk for that morning. And I have had a connection to Don's, I don't know, for three

years now maybe. Yeah, I think it was about three years. I originally wrote an article for All

at Sea Caribbean about how awesome his Imre Isle-Air charts are.

And not the charts on the front, but the sailing directions that he puts on the back.

Mia and I had used them extensively during Broadreach when we were teaching kids sailing down in the Caribbean.

And I stressed the importance not of what was happening on the front of the charts, but what was going on in the back.

And there's so much good advice back on the back of those charts that they're almost more, well, they're definitely more valuable than the front of the chart.

Well, anyway, I had written this article and Street had seen it and had emailed me of all things out of the

blue and asked me if he could print it and use it at one of his seminars at the boat show,

which was mind-blowing at the time because this was kind of three years ago before I really got

into this writing gig and before I was doing a lot of this professional sailing stuff.

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