John Harries, Round 2 // Arctic Sailing
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
#157. is John Harries, the founder of morganscloud.com, AKA 'Attainable Adventure Cruising,' and in my opinion the foremost authority on safe and simple ocean sailing boats & equipment. He's an accomplished high latitudes sailor with over 150,000 miles under his keel. Mia and I met him for a round 2 on the podcast in Lunenburg, where he dinghied out to Isbjorn for an in-person chat.
We discussed sailing in the Arctic, Isbjorn's original owner Warren Browne, who John sailed with, Skip Novak, batteries for offshore cruising boats, the Adventure 40 project, podcasting and media in general and much, much more.
We're joined in this episode by some of Isbjorn's crew for the leg 9, south from Lunenburg to Annapolis. They chime in later in the chat with their own comments and questions, and are my good friend Tom Herrington, the guy with the Richmond accent; crew member Dan Levine; my producer, Liz Karamavros; and Mia.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Marine Electric Systems in Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 0:05.2 | Patrick Toos and his crew are gurus in electrical systems and design, |
| 0:09.3 | from the guts of the system like batteries and alternators to electronic nav aids like radar and autopilots. |
| 0:15.9 | Marine Electric Systems, specializing in custom electrical and electronic system design, installation, consulting, service, repair, and education. |
| 0:26.0 | Visit marineelectricsystems.net to contact Patrick and get started designing your dream system. |
| 0:32.0 | That's marineelectric systems.net. |
| 0:35.1 | Hi, gang, a quick message about today's show. |
| 0:39.0 | You'll have noticed new podcast artwork and a new title. |
| 0:43.8 | So this is basically the evolution of 59 degrees north. |
| 0:47.1 | It's the same podcast feed and the same episode format. |
| 0:51.0 | We've just changed things around a bit after 156 episodes. Also, there's a few things |
| 0:57.3 | happening in other spheres like video and print that is related to this change, which I'll be |
| 1:03.3 | talking about in due time once we're ready to announce that. One other note, we're joined in |
| 1:09.6 | this episode by some of East Bjorn's crew for the |
| 1:12.3 | leg nine passage south from Lunenburg to Annapolis. They chime in later in the chat with their |
| 1:19.3 | own comments and questions and are my good friend Tom Harrington, the guy with their Richmond |
| 1:25.1 | accent, crew member Dan Levine, my producer, Liz |
| 1:29.8 | Karamavros, and finally Mia. |
| 1:33.6 | But I still remember the morning we got to Greenland, and the west we were going bound |
| 1:40.1 | for nook, and the west coast has these mountains that you can see on a clear day from |
| 1:44.8 | 50 miles. I kid you not. I mean I know that sounds like an exaggeration but you're |
| 1:48.5 | no I believe yeah. And so we saw the mountains going and then we're sailing towards this |
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