Jahn Tihansky // Racer, Sailmaker, Coach and Entrepreneur
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Andy Schell and Jahn Tihansky sit down in Annapolis to discuss Jahn's long and exciting sailing career. He's been racing and beating some of the biggest names in the sport, built successful sailmaking and sailing businesses, and served as head sailing coach at the U.S. Naval Academy for many years.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We ended up building the sails that won the Whitbread Round the World Race on a boat called |
| 0:05.4 | Yamaha. |
| 0:06.2 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:06.6 | In 1997, I think. |
| 0:09.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.4 | And we built the sails that won the Americas Cup in 1992, America Cube. |
| 0:17.9 | Those were almost all built in Annapolis at the Sobstadt. |
| 0:20.7 | Really? |
| 0:21.2 | Right here. |
| 0:21.6 | Right here. |
| 0:22.4 | On the Wind is presented this season by two old friends of the podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | Rutgersen Marine, a hardware company in Sweden, close to home for me. |
| 0:31.1 | And OPO, offshore passage opportunities run by our good friend, Hank Schmidt, |
| 0:35.0 | fan of the podcast, friend of the podcast, former guest of the |
| 0:38.0 | podcast, which is a place where you can join Hank's mailing list and basically sale for free |
| 0:43.7 | as a crew member on various deliveries that Hank organizes. It's a great way I kind of started my |
| 0:49.6 | career doing deliveries. And obviously, we'd love for you to come sail with us at 59 North, |
| 0:54.1 | but if you don't have the time or can't afford it, you can pay, I'd love for you to come sail with us at 59 North, but if you |
| 0:54.5 | don't have the time or can't afford it, you can pay, I think it's up to 150 bucks a year now |
| 0:58.9 | to join OPO and you get lots of opportunities to go on deliveries as a crew member. |
| 1:04.3 | So check that out. That's saleopo.com. As for Rutgerson, I am in the process of ordering |
| 1:09.8 | a new rig for Spica, new rig and sales. |
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