James Aiken // Filmmaker & Single-handed Sailor
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
#243. James Aiken is a filmmaker and single-handed sailor that Mia & I met in Ireland after our passage south from Iceland. At the dock in Bangor, James saw our 59 North flag and as a fan of the show, came over to say hi. Coincidentally, five minutes earlier I'd been admiring this beautiful dark-blue boat at the other end of the dock, which turned our to be James' OAKEN YARN, a classic Tradewinds 33. Thus began a week-long interaction with James that included chasing him down under spinnaker in the Irish Sea and sailing less than a boat-length apart outside Dublin as we filmed each other. Check out James' incredible work on jamesaiken.co. On the Wind is presented by Rutgerson Marine. And also supported by Adlard Coles, and BRNKL Systems.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Lee here. Andy wanted me to let you know that they've added another stories from the Arctic Talk in Annapolis on Sunday, October 7th from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. This is going to happen at Federal House Bar and Grill, right in downtown Annapolis, tickets are $30 a piece. |
| 0:21.6 | That includes a light brunch coffee and some great storytelling. |
| 0:27.1 | To buy a ticket, go to 59-north.com, click on Boat Show, and you'll see it under the events there. |
| 0:35.1 | So we hope to see you down at the Boat boat show and on Sunday, October 7th at Federal House |
| 0:39.8 | for the second stories from the after talk. Enjoy the podcast. Hey guys and greetings from Dublin where I'm |
| 0:49.0 | recording this. This is a little pre- intro about James Aiken. We met him on the dock in Bangor, and it's not |
| 0:57.3 | often that I get such a good first impression about people. I kind of wish we would have |
| 1:02.6 | recorded this podcast at the end of our interaction with James because we actually did it the |
| 1:07.2 | very next day after we first met him. But, you know, I got a really good first |
| 1:11.7 | impression. I wanted to talk to him. He sounded like he had a super interesting career. But |
| 1:14.5 | the more we got to know him, the more I really got to like this guy and admire his work and |
| 1:21.1 | his attitude. He's got a beautiful little trade winds 33 boat. We sailed basically all the way |
| 1:26.6 | from Bangor down to dublin kind of |
| 1:28.2 | side by side with him pat he'd pass us we'd pass him we rafted up together in ard glass on the fishing |
| 1:34.1 | dock there's some cool photos of that and uh it was just a really nice time he i think we had dinner with |
| 1:39.7 | him three or four times and then um he set off to single hand from Dublin all the way down to Falmouth, England, |
| 1:45.2 | in a pretty rough passage. But I highly encourage you to check out his work, James Aiken.co, |
| 1:51.1 | and check out his Instagram, which is, I think, at James underscore Aiken. The guy is super |
| 1:57.3 | inspiring. He's done a lot of amazing work, and we're already talking to him about doing |
| 2:01.2 | some more filming stuff for us on East Bjorn and on the new boat. So really, really made a good |
| 2:08.0 | first impression on me, and I think you will hear more from James Aiken on this podcast. Not |
| 2:13.4 | surprisingly, James is also friends with some people we're friends with including a bunch |
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