Janne Larsson // 'Brave or Stupid', Circumnavigator
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
#125. is Janne Larsson, Swedish electrician cum-circumnavigator. This is another episode I recorded at Hallberg-Rassy's Oppna Varv in August. Big thanks to podcast fan – and now guest of the show! – Nuno Antunes for introducing me to Janne. Janne is another dreamer, and another example of how to make dreams turn into reality. An electrician living in Helsingborg on Sweden's southwest coast, Janne and a friend Karl made a handshake agreement one day after a wine-filled evening the night before, and agreed they'd set off together and sail around the world. Nevermind that neither of them had ever sailed before. That was just a detail. The book 'Brave or Stupid' was born.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, for me, some living in the boat was very easy to save money. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah, that's cost you nearly nothing to have the boat in the harbor in Helsingborg, |
| 0:09.0 | compared to what you have for paying for your house. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | And so I really learned to save money in that time. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing, with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:28.4 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:31.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome back to 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm your host, Andy Shell, and this is episode number 125. |
| 0:40.3 | This episode is brought to you by Sail Right. |
| 0:46.3 | Mia and I saw Matt Grant at the Boat Show this year, |
| 0:49.3 | and we're very pleased to hear how many people stopped by and said they heard him on the podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | So thanks to you guys for making them feel welcome. |
| 0:59.0 | I spoke to Matt a while back about what sort of tools he recommends for people just getting started. |
| 1:05.1 | And in fact, they're launching a new line just for that. |
| 1:08.5 | They always want to know what tools do I need. |
| 1:10.3 | So what we're doing right now is we're creating three tool packages that are sort of |
| 1:16.6 | starting packages that we can refer to in our videos and that we can put online and we can point people to. |
| 1:22.6 | And we've broken that into a tool kit for sale makers, a tool kit for canvas workers, and a tool kit |
| 1:29.9 | for upholstery. So what we're finding is that the basic tools, apart from the sewing machine, |
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