Erik de Jong #3 // Naval Architect & Adventurer
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
#68. Andy chatted with Erik for a third time about a month ago now, just after Erik had returned from 4 months in the Arctic on Bagheera. They discussed why he's drawn to sailing in the ice, how he made it all the way to 78º north, how he rebuilt his engine in Nuuk, Greenland, and his design ideas on the Adventure 40 he's working on with John Harries. Follow Erik on bagheera-sailing.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Vinner's live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey, hey, good morning and welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast. Andy Schell here. Sorry for sounding like I'm holding my nose. I have a cold. |
| 0:17.4 | I just got back from Portsmouth from the Caribbean 1500. We got a couple days before we head down to Tortola on Friday. |
| 0:24.1 | And I guess the stress of the week and not sleeping much has made me sick. |
| 0:28.1 | Great. |
| 0:29.2 | Anyway, this is episode number 68. |
| 0:31.9 | This is sponsored again this week by Caligo Marine. |
| 0:35.1 | Anybody that's listened to the podcast has heard me talking about Coligo. |
| 0:39.9 | I've known John Frantuff since 2009. |
| 0:42.6 | Our boat is rigged with Dynex Ducks, synthetic rigging, all the standing rigging, save from |
| 0:46.8 | the headstays, including lifelines, is rigged with Dynex ducks and Coligo and Fittings. |
| 0:52.2 | Coligo makes very innovative stuff for use with synthetic ropes |
| 0:57.4 | on sailing boats. John is a Tri-Maran sailor. A lot of the stuff goes for racing sailboats, but it's |
| 1:03.2 | also made with cruising sailors in mind because it's not that expensive. It's really cool stuff. |
| 1:09.0 | Check it out at Caligomarine.com. You can listen to John on the podcast. He was on about sometime this past summer, a really interesting podcast, and Brian Toss and I talk about synthetic rigging as well on the Brian Toss podcast. So thanks again for Caliggo Marine sponsoring this episode. And again, Caligomorin.com. Check out their stuff there. |
| 1:30.9 | This episode is Eric De Jong. Again, I spoke with Eric a couple weeks ago now, right after he returned |
| 1:36.9 | from his summer trip to the Arctic. He spent four months in the Arctic on Bagheera, his steel |
| 1:43.9 | sloop that he built designed and built himself |
| 1:46.4 | he sailed it as far north as 78 north i think they were trying to get to 80 degrees but uh ran |
| 1:53.1 | out of time had to come back but uh we spoke about his summer trip in the arctic what he was |
| 1:57.8 | doing up there and why he likes it up there so much. Really inspiring to me. |
| 2:02.9 | This episode's a little bit dated at the moment, but it's not that timely. It's just a really |
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