Ep. 820: 75 Years Young and Still Sailing Around the World - Revisited - Lin Pardey
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
When Lin was tired of the “college type" guys that she was always surrounded by, she decided to get to know a couple of sailors as an outlet from the mundaneness of campus life. She quickly fell in love with one of the guys, Larry, who was completely different from the folks she spent her days in class with. Lin was eager to learn so he began to teach her how to sail.
Once she was comfortable on the water they began helping other folks deliver their boats around the area and they also began building their own. Not long after, the idea to live full-time on the 29-foot sailing vessel was born.
Fast forward 47 years, 210,000 miles, and 77 countries later and we have Lin now sailing around the world on her own and having written dozens of books about her and Larry’s epic life. Lin has a lot to teach us in today’s episode and I encourage you to check out her many books.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:24.5 | You'll probably notice we didn't have an episode on Monday. My apologies there. |
| 0:29.4 | Just ran out of time. Gosh, just got, had a lot to do this weekend and I just wasn't able to get one up. |
| 0:36.0 | So I thought, you know, we'll just, we'll just save |
| 0:38.0 | something for Thursday. So today we have a revisited episode that's pretty special. It's |
| 0:43.4 | Lynn Party, famous sailor. And I didn't know this, but, you know, we talked to so many guests |
| 0:50.4 | on the show. You never know just how big they are sometimes in the area or the |
| 0:55.1 | very specific niche that their adventure sport is in. And sailing by no means is small, but it's |
| 1:01.4 | still a world I am still not that familiar with, even having interviewed many sailors. And so we |
| 1:08.3 | had someone over last week, and they were, they're a sailor because we live really close to a marina here with lots of sailboats. |
| 1:17.1 | And so lots of sailing, big sailing culture right here where we live. |
| 1:20.5 | And we had someone who lives on a sailboat over to our house for dinner. |
| 1:24.9 | And he's like, yeah, so who are some of the people you've had on your show? And I said, uh, the first one that comes to mind is Lynn party, Jerome Rand. He goes, wait, wait, you've had Lynn party on your show? And I said, yeah. He's like, oh, my gosh, that is crazy. And so it was just pretty cool to hear that, uh, you know, Lynn is genuinely a legend in the sailing world, and she has been sailing for over |
| 1:47.0 | 50 years now, and her and her partner, Larry, who were huge, huge in the sailing world together, |
| 1:53.6 | wrote tons and tons of books. Larry, unfortunately, passed away two years ago after a fight |
| 2:00.1 | with Parkinson's disease, and Lynn is still sailing |
| 2:03.5 | on her own. But we're catching up with Lynn in this story from a couple years ago. And again, |
| 2:09.0 | my apologies for not getting an episode up, but enjoy the episode, learn something from it, |
| 2:13.8 | and we'll see you on Monday. |
| 2:25.9 | Thank you. from it and we'll see you on Monday. What part of California are you in? |
| 2:28.5 | I'm in the place called Camarillo with my family. |
| 2:31.7 | Is that where you're from or no? Yeah, I was born in Detroit, but I was dragged up |
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