John Kretschmer // Sailing Legend & Author
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2015
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
#130. is John Kretschmer, one of my all-time heroes and a mentor of mine. John's motto is 'never lost, just hard to find,' and it's a pretty good summation of how it was tracking him down for the podcast. I finally got in touch with him over Skype, me in Annapolis and he at home in Ft Lauderdale getting ready for another passage on his boat Quetzal.
John and I talked a bit about how he's inspired me to follow this career, how he got into it in the first place, about rounding Cape Horn in a 32' boat going to wrong way, his career as a delivery skipper, Hurricane Lenny and much, much more. Find John, online at least, at yayablues.com.
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| 0:00.0 | And then he needed to get it to Japan, and he decided he served as 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 he said, oh, okay, okay. |
| 0:30.0 | And he whips out his pill phone and peels out $20,000 in $100 bills. |
| 0:35.8 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:44.3 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:46.8 | Greetings. |
| 0:48.2 | Welcome back to 59 degrees north, the podcast about sailing. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm your host, Andy Shell, and this is episode number 130. |
| 0:59.5 | This week's episode is sponsored by Chesapeake Sailmakers in Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 1:05.0 | Chuck O'Malley and his team have been my sailmakers since I first moved to the Annapolis area |
| 1:09.6 | almost 10 years ago. |
| 1:11.9 | They built the sails for Arcturus before our Atlantic crossing, built Sojourner's main |
| 1:16.7 | sail before my dad's Caribbean trip two years ago, and have done all the maintenance for us |
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