Herb McCormick // Cruising World Editor-at-Large

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

#249. Herb McCormick has made a career of writing about sailing, but it wasn't entirely on purpose. A fifth-generation Newport, Rhode Island native, Herb didn't even know that sailing was a thing at all until a chance meeting in his 20's. After vagabonding around for a while, he wound up with a low-level job at Cruising World during the heyday of sailing magazines, and slowly started working his way up, of course eventually becoming Editor. Herb has seen it all in sailing, from the racing and cruising scene to an epic 13-month Around the America's expedition on the 64-foot steel cutter OCEAN WATCH. I talked to Herb about what inspired him to follow his passion on the water.

On the Wind is presented by Rutgerson Marine.

And also supported by Offshore Passage Opportunities.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Andy Schell. First of all, happy Thanksgiving.
0:05.3	I know it's in a couple days, and we don't celebrate it in Sweden, but me and I are going to cook a chicken and pretend it's a turkey and have a little Thanksgiving dinner here in Sweden.
0:15.6	All right, we are going to be off the grid for the next two weeks or so trying to get a little vacation in before our season
0:22.3	starts again where I don't have to check email and think about all the behind the scenes business
0:26.1	stuff. So we're going to be off next week. That would be Tuesday, November 27th. So it's not going to
0:32.2	be any podcast next week, but there'll be another new episode coming out after that. A couple other
0:36.5	quick housekeeping items we
0:38.7	have some hoodies for sale now the first time ever we're doing 59 north hoodies they're black
0:44.3	with the circular sort of crew patch logo on the front i think they're really cool we have to get a
0:49.6	minimum of 12 orders in order to order them so go on on the website. They're right on the front page.
0:54.6	Just go to 59-north.com. Click on the hoodie thing there, and you can order them. There's 60 bucks, including shipping, and the deadline to order is December 1st. So if you want a good winter item, check out the hoodies, and you need to order by December 1st. Also, if you're in Sweden, December 5th, we are having our
1:12.5	first ever talk in Sweden in Maastron about our Arctic stories. I'm going to tell a bunch of stories
1:17.8	from Swalbard and show a whole lot of cool photos. So come and see that with us. All the details are 59-north.com
1:24.5	slash events, and it's going to cost 100 Swedish crowns and is presented and sponsored
1:30.1	by Rutgersen. So we're doing that in conjunction with them at their headquarters in Mastrand.
1:35.9	And last but not least, we've got a couple open bunks yet on East Bjorn in 2019. So starting in
1:41.9	April, sailing up from Puerto Rico to Key West and on to Bermuda. Both boats are
1:47.3	going together. We've got some bunks open for those trips. Check them out at 59-north.com
1:52.5	slash offshore. Okay, here we go. On the Wind is presented by Rutgersen Marine, our friends
1:59.4	in Sweden who make deck hardware,
2:01.5	all of it produced right there in their factory in Maastron on the west coast of Sweden.
2:06.4	Rutgerson's back for another season of sponsoring the show, huge thanks to them.
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