And I'm steering, and all of a sudden, in silence, the tiller goes soft over.

And the boat comes hard up into the wind.

And I was like, and I wiggled it, and there was nothing.

Oh, man.

Mia, it is August 31st as we are recording right now.

The last time you and I sat down in this container office at our house in Sweden together was back in April. It has been a pretty

ridiculous year up to now for the two of us, both good and bad, stressful, lots of fun. I just got back from

Greenland. You sailed across the Atlantic again. Can you describe what this year has been like

for you, sort of in the context of the last eight years at 59 North in general and how you feel

right now? Like, how is this year felt compared to some of the other years we've had? And

what are you

looking forward to now having gotten over this hump of ours?

I mean this year has been yeah like you said it's been pretty stressful in one way

because we and we started the year we're still having a falcon refitted and it was a pretty

unknown at that point because we had not sailed falcon with crew.

And here we are, what is it, eight months later.

And I think we've had over 100 or close to 100 crew sailing on her now.

And that's really cool to like, we've done two transatlantics.

I did one, you did one.

And I've been visiting some really fun places we

are familiar with and also been to new territories. I think in February it was pretty stressful

just with the unknown. Like we have a newly refitted boat that we did sail try, but you never really

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