John Kretschmer // Talking Seamanship & Philosophy in Bermuda
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ahoi shipmates. Welcome back to On the Wind. I'm your host, Andy Schell. By the time you hear this, we will be somewhere in the Middle of the Atlantic on the way to Ireland. I'm recording this on Ice Bear in Rockland, Maine right now, where crew are going to show up to the boat in about four and a half hours. And of course, it's raining because that's what always happens on crew arrival day it seems like um this is the last |
| 0:21.5 | episode of this season and i've been saving the best for last this is the episode we recorded with |
| 0:25.8 | john krechmer in bermuda where it was me emma august first time the three of us got together |
| 0:31.6 | in person since covid began and um and john was there on ketzal so we we all sat around the saloon on Ice Bear. |
| 0:39.8 | Taji was with us as well as Alex, Emma's boyfriend. |
| 0:43.5 | So we had a really nice roundtable discussion about all things, seamanship, John's career, philosophy, being a dad, all kinds of fun stuff. |
| 0:53.1 | A very, very wide-ranging conversation that was extremely fun and |
| 0:57.0 | extremely fun to include Emma and August. I've got a few things to mention coming up in our |
| 1:03.5 | world. I forgot to mention this, but we are going to do a full-day seminar called seamanship for |
| 1:09.7 | offshore sailing with Cruises University in Annapolis. It's going to be on the-day seminar called seamanship for offshore sailing with cruisers university in |
| 1:12.3 | annapolis it's going to be on the friday of sailboat show i think it's october 15th if you go to |
| 1:18.3 | 59 dash north dot com slash seamanship you'll be able to sign up via a link to the cruiser's you page there |
| 1:26.2 | there is limited attendance. |
| 1:28.4 | I know they have a lot of tickets sold already, but we'd love to see you there, |
| 1:32.0 | and it's, again, a full-day seminar on seamanship for offshore sailing. |
| 1:35.3 | We've got a Celestial Nav Workshop, which is a weekend, the weekend after boat show. |
| 1:40.3 | That's at 59-north.com slash celestial. |
| 1:43.8 | And we have just launched two new passages for later |
| 1:47.0 | this season on Ice Bear in November. So we're going to go from Las Palmas in the Canaries, |
| 1:52.5 | out to Horta in the Azores, and then from Horta back to Las Palmas. Two separate passages, |
| 1:57.6 | about 950 miles on each passage. Should be very nice weather in the Eastern Atlantic at that time. |
| 2:03.1 | And we're connecting two of the classic Atlantic Islands landfalls, both of which, |
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