Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show.

Greetings, greetings, welcome to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. I'm Andy Shell.

Today we've got Jim Carrier chatting with us on the podcast. I actually didn't record this today.

This was a few weeks ago when I was still in Sweden and I talked to Jim from his home out in the Midwest.

Anyway, Jim is a fellow Allied Sea Breeze owner. His boat is also a yawl, like my

arch tourists that we have over in Sweden right now. And Jim and I actually first got in touch

when we were looking at buying the sea breeze,

and I had emailed Jim to ask him a few things about the boat,

knowing that he had sailed the boat across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean

a few years prior to us buying the boat,

and kind of just wanted to get his ideas on the seaworthiness of the boat as an ocean-going boat.

And it was his email that sort of intrigued me enough to say,

okay, this boat's going to work for us, we're going to buy it. So I've had email contact with Jim now

and then, and I got in touch with him about doing the podcast because I know he's also a writer.

And I knew he wrote for Cruising World. He's a contributing editor for cruising world. But what I

didn't know was that he's

written for newspapers and magazines and civil rights groups and and everything and he's much much much

more of a of a writer than uh than i can even consider myself um you know sailing writing is one thing

but jim's a real writer uh So we talked a lot about that.

Jim's got a new website that he's putting stuff on called byliner.com.

One of the things we talked about was how difficult it is in the new media society we live in for writers to get paid for their work now that newspapers and magazines are sort of going

away.

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