John Kretschmer RECYCLED // Andy's Hero & Mentor
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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#130 RECYCLED. John Kretschmer has long been a hero of mine, and has become a friend and mentor over the past 10+ years. John runs offshore adventure sailing passages on his Kaufman 47 QUETZAL (the inspiration for our own business), is a former delivery skipper and a renowned author of several books, including his latest 'Sailing to the Edge of Time,' which will release in November. Andy spoke to John back in 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | And then he needed to get it to Japan, and he decided he served at the adventure by having |
| 0:04.9 | it delivered. |
| 0:05.9 | So somehow he got my name. |
| 0:08.1 | He and I met. |
| 0:09.1 | I remember we were, we were met in a Sheridan Yankee Clipper, and he said, you know, |
| 0:15.2 | we talked, he was a nice guy. |
| 0:16.5 | He said, how much is the delivery? |
| 0:17.7 | I think, I'm dead sure if I remember this accurately, |
| 0:21.3 | but I think I said $20,000, which, you know, to me in that point, |
| 0:25.8 | it was like a million dollars in my life. |
| 0:27.6 | And Amy said, oh, okay, okay. |
| 0:30.0 | And he whips out his billfold and he peels out $20,000 in $100 bills. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey, gang, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:37.3 | It's Andy here. It's our last full back to the show. It's Andy here. |
| 0:38.7 | It's our last full day in the U.S. |
| 0:41.4 | Tomorrow, actually the day this comes out, we fly back to Sweden and have the next two |
| 0:47.4 | months at our house on the farm before we go back to East Bjorn on January 1st. |
| 0:52.1 | Mia, how excited are you to go back to Sweden? |
| 0:56.0 | I'm getting very excited. What's the first thing you're going to do when you get home? |
| 0:59.0 | Eat my mom's food. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, me too. |
| 1:03.0 | I want to take time to thank everybody that's been donating both to this show and to the How I Think About Sailing Show. |
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