Etienne Giroire // Whitbread Race

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2014

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

#19. Etienne Giroire! Andy and friend Billy Rudek (the third voice you'll hear) sat down with Etienne in his home in Ft. Lauderdale on their way to Marsh Harbor to deliver a sailboat back to Annapolis. Etienne is most know for his namesake sailing company, ATN Inc. (get it?), which produces spinnaker sleeves, trampolines for catamarans, the 'mast climber' harness system and other bits and bobs. But more interesting, Etienne is a sailor in the truest sense of the word. Raised in France on Eric Tabarly and Bernard Moitessier, Etienne became in his own right a single-handed hero just like those heroes he grew up with, winning his class in the famous OSTAR race and going on to sail maxi multihulls with some of the most famous sailiors in the game. He did a leg of the Whitbread with Magnuss Olsson and sailed his own boat single-handed in the Route du Rhum (which ended in disaster, but I'll let him tell that story!). Etienne now is a dual citizen of the USA and France, having come to Florida back in the 1980s and never leaving. He's a remarkably nice guy and a phenomenal storyteller, which is why this one runs so long. But listen right to the end, it's worth it! Thanks so much Etienne!

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show.
0:05.2	Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 degrees north podcast. This is Andy Shell.
0:09.7	We've got a really cool episode today. This is probably, well, at the time it was my favorite intro, sorry, favorite interview that I've done yet between this podcast and the two inspired guys
0:22.7	podcast that I've done in the moment, I enjoyed this interview more than any of the other ones.
0:28.7	And I, in hindsight, I don't know because I've had so many cool guests on, but at the same time,
0:33.8	this ranks equally up there with all of the best. This one is with Etienne
0:38.6	Jeouis, and I'm sure I'm pronouncing his name wrong, and I apologize in advance, but Etienne
0:44.0	and I got to know each other through John Franta from Caligo Marine during at the boat shows.
0:50.8	Etienne was always the neighbor of John's Collegro booth at Annapolis. So I probably met him
0:55.9	for the first time in 2009 or 2010. And then it turned out that we ended up being neighbors
1:00.9	with him at the boat show in Chicago for the last couple years. So over four or five days being
1:06.0	neighbors with someone at a booth, you get to know them, you know, not great, but fairly well, because you end up chatting
1:12.1	quite a bit. And Etienne's a super nice guy. And we talked about having him on the podcast in January
1:18.0	when I was out there in Chicago and finally had the opportunity to do that. Etienne runs a company
1:23.9	called ATN Inc. He makes lots of sailing gear that you'd be familiar with. The
1:28.2	Spinnaker sleeves have been around for a long time. He's kind of the one that perfected
1:32.4	that and most of those spinnaker sleeves are made by him. He makes trampoline nets for
1:36.6	catamaran's. He makes that mast climber, Bosen's chair, kind of harness type thing, among other
1:42.7	things. But more so than that, Etienne is a proper sailor
1:46.3	in the truest sense of the word. He's originally from France, and is now a dual citizen between
1:53.0	U.S. and France. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, and me and my friend Billy Rudec on the way to
1:57.7	Marsh Harbor to get my dad's boat. We stayed overnight in Fort Lauderdale
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