Welcome to On the Wind, the podcast about offshore sailing.

I'm your host, August Sandberg.

Since this On the Wind debut on episode 359, two years ago, Ian Herbert Jones sailed 28,000 miles and rounded

Cape Horn twice.

In this episode, he tells the story of him joining the Ocean Globe race last minute at the

start in Southampton and chasing the circumnavigation that escaped him during his Golden Globe. All right, Ian, we're back on. Good to see you again.

And you, August. Good to be back. It feels like only yesterday.

It almost was, like just a couple of days. Yeah, though, I really enjoyed your GGR story the last time we spoke.

And yeah, it became clear then that we needed to split this into two parts so that we could hear the rest of your story as well.

Because GGR is not the only adventure that you've been out since

since last we saw each other in person. So yeah, thanks for coming back on again so quickly.

Thanks for having me back and sorry it all took so long on the first half of the conversation,

but never mind. We're here now that was uh yeah no

that was uh i i enjoyed it uh extremely and i um i believe our listeners did did to so um yeah it's

really cool to have you back and um yeah you're um you you know the GGR is, it's a little while ago now, but you very recently

came back from the OGR, the Ocean Globe Race.

And yeah, congrats, I guess, are in order for you won your class and everything.

Yeah, so we did okay in the end.

Yes, the Ocean Globe Race.

So I was on the boat spirit of Helsinki.

And we came in first in our class, the class was Sayula, class it was called,

and second overall. Second overall under IRC second to

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