I go into the director of planning and zoning,

and I say to him, Zinghua,

this boat is broken.

And there's a silent, silent period, silence.

And then he looks at me and he conjures up the one word he can think of

that might be appropriate, he said sabotage.

Hey, this is Anna Viners, live from Sweden.

Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Schell.

Enjoy the show.

Greetings.

Welcome back to 59 degrees North, a podcast about sailing.

I'm your host, Andy Sch Shell, and this is episode number

110. Episode 110 is Duncan Hood, a longtime sailor and technically an Annapolis resident for more

than two decades, but who's traveled the world teaching instructors how to teach sailing.

Did you get that? Duncan works for the American Sailing Association, known of course,

as ASA. Not technically the governing body of the sport in the U.S. that would be U.S. sailing,

but the acknowledged authority on recreational sailing and cruising. Years ago, Duncan got asked to

travel to China to help start a sailing school in the south near the border with North

Korea, and his story of that misadventure makes up a good chunk of the middle of this

episode. Duncan's a great storyteller, and it's a riveting tale. Duncan's also an actor, which

might become obvious when you listen to him talk, and while he dabbles locally on stage, you

might know him from his voiceover

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