John Harries // Lithium Batteries, Small Boats & More
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
#366. John Harries of morganscloud.com returns to ON THE WIND yet again for another rambling, technical chat with Andy on all things seamanship. John & Andy start things off with an extension of their lithium battery conversation, which started on The Quarterdeck, moved over to morganscloud.com, and is ultimately being published in an upcoming issue of SAIL Magazine. This is a technical episode with a lot of takeaways, so get your notebooks ready and enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings, friends, and welcome back to another new season of On the Wind, my podcast about |
| 0:06.5 | offshore sailing, or I should rather say 59 North's podcast about sailing as we've added |
| 0:11.6 | several contributors to the show. |
| 0:14.9 | We've had a busy summer and all of us have been very scattered. |
| 0:18.3 | August just got back from the last trip on East Pjorn, sailed into |
| 0:22.5 | Bergen, I believe yesterday from Iceland. That's the end of East Bjorn's 22 high Arctic season. |
| 0:28.2 | It's been a huge success with their trip up to Svalbard. So August is going to be on parental leave now |
| 0:33.3 | for the rest of the year, hanging out with Amund in his house in Bergen while his partner |
| 0:38.2 | Carolina gets to go back to work. Emma, meanwhile, just got off Maiden. She was sailing for four |
| 0:43.9 | days on that iconic all-female boat from the 1985 Whitbread. She got to sail the boat from |
| 0:49.9 | up in New England towards Newport. I forget exactly where to where, but we'll definitely be |
| 0:54.0 | talking about that. |
| 0:54.9 | That was right after Emma got back from her first skipper job down at Broadreach, where, of course, I got my, earned my stripes, so to speak, with my first skipper job back in 2008. |
| 1:06.8 | So excited to talk to Emma about that. |
| 1:09.3 | Meanwhile, Nikki, you guys have heard me talk to her on the quarterdeck. |
| 1:13.2 | She is back after a summer sailing with Utremer and doing all sorts of different things. |
| 1:18.4 | And now she's back working full time for us and taking care of the quarterdeck. |
| 1:22.5 | So lots of fun things happening on the quarterdeck. |
| 1:24.8 | This will be my plug for that. |
| 1:26.0 | Check out the stuff we're doing over there at quarterdeck.59 will be my plug for that. Check out the stuff we're |
| 1:27.5 | doing over there at quarterdeck.59-north.com. And now is a great time to join on there as we are ramping up what's happening there since Nikki is now in charge. In fact, this week, I believe on tomorrow, actually, if you're listening to this the day it comes out, and Nikki and I are going to do a quarterdeck podcast about anchoring. That's going to be live on the quarterdeck |
| 1:46.7 | for those of you that listening to this the day it comes out, and Nikki and I are going to do a quarterdeck podcast about anchoring. That's going to be live on the quarterdeck, for those of you |
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