Emma Louise Wyn Jones // Yacht Photographer
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
#143 is Emma Louise Wyn Jones, a very charming and inspiring 22-year-old sailor and yachting photographer from the UK. I met Emma during the recent Caribbean 600 Race. If you happened to catch that video that the race media posted about Paul & I discussing the weather for the race, it was Emma who shot it. If you didn't see it yet, check out this episode's show notes page for the link.
I was interested in talking to Emma about how she decided to go into yachting photography, her sailing history in general, and about what it's like starting from scratch and trying to move up in the sailing world. I get a lot of emails from college students and twenty-somethings looking for advice, so this episode is particularly interesting if you're one of those people wondering how to get your start.
When we left Antigua in early March, Emma had gotten a crew job aboard 'The Blue Peter', the classic, 1930s-era 65-foot wooden sloop you might remember me mentioning in the Race Recap podcast that barged in on us at the start. I met the boat's owner, Mat, who bought me a beer at the bar and apologized for the foul language his crew shouted at us! Anyway, Emma's on that boat now, and will remain in the Caribbean for the rest of the winter season, doing her thing. In case you're wondering, Emma has no secret formula for success, just a willingness to work hard and sleep in strange places. What a cool story!
Contact Emma...For more information, enquiries for commissons or photo requests, feel free to get in touch!
Email: elwjphotography@gmail.com
Antigua Mobile: +1268 7855073
UK Mobile: +447551939849
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| 0:00.0 | I ended up doing anything and everything it feels like, which has been great. |
| 0:09.0 | I mean, I had to sit down and interview some of the blimbing craziest people in the sailing world, |
| 0:14.0 | and I've never interviewed anyone before in my life, and I was just sitting there and holding my piece of paper with Roddy there with the camera like, how you doing? |
| 0:21.6 | Talk to me about your Mod 70 and I don't really know what the hell that is, |
| 0:26.6 | but I'm going to talk to you about it because I should. |
| 0:29.6 | And I don't know who you are, but apparently you won the America's Cup few times, so cool. |
| 0:34.6 | Nice to meet you, mate. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from sweden welcome back to the |
| 0:39.9 | f f fah okay hey this is anna winters live from sweden welcome back to the 59 north sailing podcast |
| 0:50.9 | with your host and the show Welcome back to 59 degrees north. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm your host, Andy Shell, and this is episode number 143 on the podcast about sailing. |
| 1:09.2 | This episode is sponsored by Mallard Marine Services. |
| 1:13.0 | I met Kevin Leidenheim, the guru behind Mallard, last fall during Eastpjorn's refit in Annapolis. |
| 1:20.1 | Kevin answered my call for volunteers during the haulout and absolutely blew me away with his work ethic, knowledge base, professionalism, and passion for |
| 1:28.1 | sailboats. Kevin spent five days with us designing and implementing a solution to East Bjorn's |
| 1:34.0 | pocket door problem, which you can check out on this episode's show notes page. And the result |
| 1:40.7 | was nothing short of extraordinary, certainly something I could have never done by myself. |
| 1:46.3 | Mallard Marine Services offers general boat maintenance and repair and specializes in electrical, plumbing, and mechanical work. |
| 1:53.4 | Kevin operates between North Beach and Chesapeake Beach, including the Baltimore Annapolis area, and holds ABYC certification in marine systems, marine electrical, |
| 2:02.6 | and marine corrosion. |
| 2:04.6 | I trusted Kevin with East Bjorn last fall and am in fact hiring Mallard again to do some more |
| 2:10.0 | work for us when the boat gets back to Annapolis in June coming up. |
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