Jessie Zevalkink // Cruising, Land-lubbing, Parenting & Podcasting
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Longtime friend of the pod Jessie Zevalkink returns to the show ahead of her debut as host of ON THE WIND! We first met Jessie back in 2017 at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, interviewing her after she'd completed the Great Loop with her friend Katie. As it happens in the sailing community, we kept running into her, and starting next week she'll be co-hosting the show! Andy caught up with Jessie to talk about life after cruising, single-parenting and how she feels about filling-in on the podcast.
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This season of ON THE WIND is sponsored by Weather Routing Inc., aka 'WRI', 59º North's longtime weather routing & forecasting friends. To learn more and sign up for WRI, go to wriwx.com and tell them that 59º North sent you.
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This season of ON THE WIND is also sponsored by Boat How To, an educational website co-founded by longtime friend of the pod & sailing tech guru Nigel Calder. Check out the courses at BoatHowTo.com.
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| 0:00.0 | My little writing on the mirror just like yours that I see in the morning that is a little |
| 0:07.6 | reminder to, hey, like go out there and be brave, don't mess around, live it up. |
| 0:14.4 | And so here we are many years later. |
| 0:17.8 | Jesse, not so brave, land lover, lamb loving mother. Jesse's still trying to be |
| 0:23.9 | brave. It's very loud. I'm on Falcon. Hello, shipmates. It's 845 the night before |
| 0:33.7 | crew arrive. I'm in Galapagos on anchor. The fans are running. The water maker's running. So if you hear some background noise, uh, Aden's being noisy in the corner over here at the nav station trying to get expedition working. Um, yeah, uh, we're off to the Marquesas. Uh, well, by the time you hear this, we'll be somewhere probably more than halfway across the Pacific. Um, but I'm recording this the night before crew arrive. |
| 0:56.1 | We're going to leave on Monday. |
| 0:57.7 | And the Galapagos is an amazing place. |
| 1:00.2 | We had a couple of sea lion encounters on the way back from dinner tonight, which you |
| 1:03.7 | cannot avoid here. |
| 1:04.7 | It's hilarious. |
| 1:05.8 | They're like cartoon characters. |
| 1:07.8 | Anyway, I'm pre-recording this stuff because I'm going to be off the grid for a couple |
| 1:12.3 | weeks. What am I trying to say? Fifty-nine North. What's happening here? I think by now, |
| 1:18.4 | the 27 Falcon Calendar should be live on the website if everything goes to plan. Again, |
| 1:23.8 | I'm pre-recording this, so you never know. So check that out at 59-north.com. |
| 1:29.6 | It'll be on the homepage. |
| 1:30.9 | You can find it there. |
| 1:32.3 | Also, I'm fairly certain. |
| 1:35.2 | There's a better than good chance that I'm going to be sailing Gautland Runt this summer on Tapio Leitinen's boat. |
| 1:43.1 | Tapio, of course, did two, well, one and a half |
| 1:46.0 | Golden Globe races. His boat sank halfway through the second one, and he did a full |
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