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WI provide marine weather forecasts and routing advice to yachtsmen worldwide for trans-ocean crossings, coastal transits, area cruises, and day trips.

Indeed, we use WRI on all of our ocean passages

aboard East Bjorn.

I can personally attest that they are the real deal,

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In case you missed it, in last week's newsletter, Mia and I officially published our 2018

offshore passage calendar.

East Bjorn is headed north.

That's right, we're Arctic bound in summer 2018,

with passages to Scotland, Norway, Spitzbergen, and Iceland. Visit 59-north.com

for details and to register. So you guys get first dibs before the big launch at the

boat show in October.

You can come visit us there on Doc H at the Annapolis Sailboat Show to tour East Bjorn and talk about ocean sailing.

I'm Andy Shell.

Welcome to On the Wind, my podcast about offshore sailing. John and Amanda Neal have run adventure sailing

on their Holbegrassy 46 Mahina Tiare for over 20 years.

They've sailed 220,000 miles on the boat, taking her quite literally to the ends of the earth.

I chatted with them in person at the Halbergassie Boatyard in Sweden about their recent summer in the Arctic.

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