Ep. 305: Sailing Around the World Updates - Linus Wilson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Linus Wilson is back on to bring us up to speed on his continued slow boat sailing around the world. Linus is a financial professor who uses his vacation time to continue his progress. He's always good for some laughs while on the show, so tune in and enjoy!
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Nate Marr & Vieques hurricane update: At the beginning of the episode, Curt gives an update for Nate Marr with Marauder Sailing. Hurricane Irma hit Vieques fairly hard. If you are looking for a way to help out after Irma, please head to Nate's GoFundMe link to chip in. Marauder Sailing will match the first $5000 raised in aid. https://www.gofundme.com/helpviequesafterirma
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My crew member was keeping a good watch. |
| 0:03.0 | He was at the helm and he was looking up. |
| 0:06.9 | And as he was looking up, boom, we hit something. |
| 0:10.4 | I thought at first maybe it was just a rogue wave or something like that. |
| 0:15.0 | But then a 20 to 25 foot whale surfaced. It reminded me of a humpback, but it was too small to be a humpback. |
| 0:25.5 | Episode 305. Linus Wilson returns to talk more about sailing around the world part-time. |
| 0:31.7 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:35.6 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you |
| 0:38.3 | the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving |
| 0:42.7 | if you're already there. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. Before we start today's show, I wanted to give you an update that we received from Nate |
| 1:02.5 | Marr with Marauder sailing in Viacus, Puerto Rico. |
| 1:06.4 | Nate was on the show back in episode 172, and wanted to let know, Vyakis did get hit pretty hard by Hurricane Irma. |
| 1:14.1 | It wasn't the direct hit that they were nervous about, but they still got hit pretty hard. |
| 1:19.4 | And Nate tells us that he is fine, his crew is fine, and his boat is fine, which is all great news. |
| 1:28.3 | But Vyakas got hit hard enough that people there really do need help. |
| 1:31.7 | He reports that the average annual income on Viacus is only $15,000 a year |
| 1:36.4 | and that many of the people there couldn't prepare for the hurricane |
| 1:39.4 | because they couldn't even afford to go buy extra groceries. |
| 1:41.9 | So now they're really hurting. |
| 1:43.8 | So Nate has set up a GoFundMe campaign to try to help out the people of Vyacus. |
| 1:50.0 | And you can find that at gofundme.com forward slash help Viacus after Irma. |
| 1:56.0 | And Vyacus is spelled V-I-E-Q-U-E-S. |
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