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All right, welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast.

On a roll now with a couple really cool episodes in a row.

This one is Eric De Jong, who I actually learned about after talking to John Harry's last week from Attainable Adventure Cruising,

Eric is the one who is designing and going to hopefully build the Adventure 40.

But we didn't talk about that much during this episode because Eric's such a cool guy otherwise that we had lots of other stuff to talk about.

And basically there wasn't much more to say about the Adventure 40 than what John and I talked about last week.

Anyway, Eric is originally from holland

built his own boat sailed across atlantic to canada with his dad and has since

relocated to halifax where he's lived for the last five years or so

he works as a ship builder and ship designer

uh... so like industrial type shipping stuff stuff a lot of cool stuff that he mentioned

about that he and i got along really well this was probably the most relaxed i've been in a in a

podcast once we kind of made introductions to each other in the beginning and got the conversation

going uh we have a lot in common both of us grew grew up sailing with our dads. Eric decidedly a little more

extreme than what my dad did, but spending summers up in Norway as far north as Spitzburg and

North Cap, and that's what really kind of got him excited about going to the Arctic. But there's some

really awesome stories that Eric tells about him helping his dad build boats and then his dad helping

him build a boat and drawings that he's found as a kid and basically like this being a ship

designer and being around boats was everything he wanted to do since he was four years old and I can

totally relate to that it's just a cool you know know, you almost feel like you're, you're headed in this career direction without any, you know,

help by yourself. It just sort of all happens. And that's sort of where he's at, too. He's also a

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