Jennifer & Ken Kaye // Schooner Woodwind
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2015
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
#132 is Ken & Jen Kaye, the father-daughter duo who, alongside Jen's mom Ellen Kaye, run the Schooner Woodwind out of Annapolis, MD. This is a very special episode for me, as crewing on the Woodwind was my first stint as a paid sailor, and I worked a whole lot alongside Jen and Ken, who usually were out on the water skippering the boats. If you're a longtime listener to the show, you'll have heard the stories of how i grew up sailing on my mom and dad's boat on the Chesapeake. That's all well and good, but I truly learned how to sail when I started working on the Woodwind. Jen and her dad are racing sailors at heart, and the Woodwind, while appearing pretty traditional on deck, has a modern, sleek underbody, fin keel, and huge, skeg-mounted rudder. She's a hell of a boat to sail, and Jen & ken sail her fast!
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| 0:00.0 | And they said to walk in, just put your hands on the wheel. |
| 0:05.0 | And Jen, you're gonna be underneath him |
| 0:08.0 | with a hand-bearing compass on your chest, |
| 0:11.0 | and you're just gonna steer this one degree. |
| 0:14.0 | So I steered the compass course. |
| 0:16.0 | Meanwhile, Christopher Walken standing right above me |
| 0:18.0 | and he's saying, |
| 0:19.0 | John the boy, come on come on back man the woodwind |
| 0:21.7 | for a while and I remember that he said that and I was like oh hey welcome to 59 degrees north |
| 0:30.3 | a podcast about sailing with your host and Ishell Enjoy the show. |
| 0:39.5 | Buenos days. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm your host, Andy Shell, recording live aboard East Bjorn in San Juan Harbor in sunny and hot Puerto Rico. |
| 0:54.9 | This is episode number 132. |
| 1:02.9 | This week's episode is sponsored by Chesapeake Sailmakers in Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 1:07.7 | Chuck O'Malley and his team have been my sailmakers since I first moved to the Annapolis area almost 10 years ago. |
| 1:10.6 | They built the sails for Arcturus before our Atlantic crossing, |
| 1:14.5 | built Sojourner's main sail before my dad's Caribbean trip two years ago, |
| 1:18.9 | and have done all the maintenance for us on East Bjorn's new sales. |
| 1:23.6 | Chesapeake sailmakers are also going to be building East Bjorn's new sails |
| 1:27.1 | prior to our next |
| 1:28.3 | transatlantic next summer. Your sailmaker relationship is an important decision, dealing directly |
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