Jens Joachim Hiorth // Tall Ship Captain

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jens Joachim Hiorth is the Captain of the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the largest and oldest tall ship in Norway. The ship recently completed a circumnaivation around the great capes. August joined the Captain onboard the ship for a conversation on the particulars of running such a large ship on the high seas. Website: https://lehmkuhl.no

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0:00.0	Oh, I shipmates.
0:01.6	Welcome back to On the Wind.
0:02.9	I'm normally your host, Andy Shell. I am off to Falcon in Cape Verde tomorrow, although I have a long journey to get there. Overnight in Lisbon, I'll join the boat on Wednesday. So when you listen to this, I'll be there. I am ready to head out on my, what will be my eighth transatlantic, the second one via the trade win route. I'm hoping that the trade wins are kicking for us
0:23.6	and that we have a nice fast pass. on my, what will be my eighth transatlantic, the second one via the trade win route.
0:21.5	I'm hoping that the trade winds are kicking for us and that we have a nice fast passage
0:25.2	across in warmer weather than where I am now in Sweden.
0:28.8	A couple quick updates.
0:31.2	If you want to join us on the quarter deck, there's been a lot of fun stuff on happening over
0:34.7	there talking about East Bjorn's electrical system update August posted a
0:39.1	video tour of the Statsvar Lem Kul which actually is the subject of today's episode he interviewed
0:44.1	the skipper on board the ship and August posted a really neat like 30 minute tour of the entire ship
0:49.4	with the captain on the quarterdeck today so if you want to support the podcast the easiest way to do it is to become a member of the quarterdeck so go to quarterdeck today. So if you want to support the podcast, the easiest way to do it is to
0:54.5	become a member of the quarterdeck. So go to quarterdeck.59-north.com and check us out there,
1:00.7	and I think you'll enjoy the seamanship content that we're doing over on the quarter deck.
1:05.2	We also have some bunks available for this year and next year. I think last week we launched the East Bjorn
1:11.8	2025 calendar and we've got a handful of trips left on Falcon in 2024 in the summertime,
1:18.5	including a trip that Mia and I are running from Amsterdam to Mustron. You can see all the open
1:23.3	bunks on 59-north.com slash bunks. So that's not the entire calendar.
1:28.9	It's only the trips that have available openings on them.
1:33.1	Okay, with that, I'm going to hand over to August.
1:36.4	And next time you hear from me, I will be on board Falcon and hopefully making my way
1:40.9	across the Atlantic.
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