Ep. 796: Thirteen Years Living at Sea and Counting - Revisited - Brian Trautman
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sailing around the world: Brian Trautman's decade-plus journey after quitting his job, selling everything, buying a boat, and sailing from Seattle to New Zealand – visiting 6 continents, 40 countries, crossing every ocean on his 53-foot ketch SV Delos, and sharing countless adventures on his YouTube channel with over 100 million views.
Originally aired August 16, 2019
Have you ever wanted to just quit your job, sell your house and head out on an adventure for a decade? Yeah, me too. Today we chat with someone who actually did that and is still doing it, Brian Trautman.
After being unsatisfied with the “perfect job”, house, car, etc., he came across a book about sailing across the ocean and knew that was what he needed to do with his life.
He sold everything he owned, bought a boat, and sailed to New Zealand from Seattle. That first experience started a trend that would extend for more than a decade and lead to countless adventures that have been chronicled on his YouTube channel: Sailing SV Delos, gaining over 100 million views in the process.
To date, Brian has visited 6 continents, 40 countries, and crossed every ocean on his 53 foot Ketch.
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| 0:00.0 | and your plumbing and your electrics and everything, |
| 0:04.0 | and then taking it and putting it into like a corrosive, damp saltwater environment, |
| 0:08.9 | and then like shaking it around, |
| 0:11.3 | and then being like hundreds or thousands of miles away from Home Depot |
| 0:15.8 | where, you know, you really can't fix anything. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. you know, you really can't fix anything. Hey folks, hope you're doing well. Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. |
| 0:38.9 | Today is an episode from a few years ago, but I did want to say you probably noticed the show's up a day later than usual. |
| 0:46.6 | I wasn't able to get to it yesterday, so it's going to be today. So happy Friday, maybe a little |
| 0:51.3 | something to listen to on the ride home or the ride to work today. |
| 0:55.1 | So this one goes back a couple years. |
| 0:57.2 | We're talking to the S.V. Delos crew, Brian Troutman, about living aboard a sailboat for literally |
| 1:05.6 | over a decade. |
| 1:06.7 | And now he has a family. |
| 1:09.2 | And I'd love to do an updated episode with him soon because this is one of our most popular episodes ever. |
| 1:14.4 | And so I thought it'd be cool to feature again, just something to get you inspired to start off the new year in a world that you might not be super familiar with. |
| 1:23.7 | And if you really want to get more into their story, definitely follow them on YouTube |
| 1:27.8 | because that's really what they're known for. They have a very popular YouTube channel. All the |
| 1:33.1 | links for that and the show notes. And funny enough, I'm getting ready to go sailing here soon. So I'm |
| 1:38.0 | pretty excited to give this one a listen. And you never know. Maybe I'll be recording this one |
| 1:42.5 | day from a sailboat. So'll see all right let's go |
| 1:46.0 | ahead and jump in things i don't know anything about the world of sailboats, despite growing up on the ocean in Florida. |
| 2:02.8 | I'm not too experienced. |
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