John Martino // Isbjorn's Former Owner / Annapolis School of Seamanship
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
John Martino is the former owner of 'Isbjorn', then 'Patriot', and he's also the founder of the Annapolis School of Seamanship. I spoke to John in Eastport at the school's headquarters about his history as a sailor, how he founded the school, and of course how he came to own 'Patriot' and what he thought of her as a boat!
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, that's so understanding that, that fury, I say that I make the joke that it's a two-way conversation with God in a hurricane. |
| 0:11.5 | And I would say later in life when I was sailing Patriot, which is now East Bjorn, I made decisions because I knew what I didn't want to experience |
| 0:23.9 | and see. So many of you will know me as the writer in the family, but Mia is actually |
| 0:29.6 | been first to be published in a book. She was asked to be involved in a project to help Hurricane |
| 0:35.3 | Irma and Maria victims in the Caribbean. |
| 0:43.5 | There's a book published in Swedish and Danish called Motenny Horizon, which I'm not saying that right, but it means towards a new horizon. Mia, if you want to just give the quick kind of |
| 0:49.2 | background as to how you got involved with it and what the book meant to you. |
| 0:53.6 | Yes, so the book is actually called |
| 0:56.2 | Mot a New Horizont, and I'm not even going to try to pronounce the Danish name of it, but I'm, |
| 1:02.5 | like I said in both books, and it's 11 authors who got together and wrote about a story from the high seas basically. So I shared my story when |
| 1:14.4 | we first crossed the Atlantic on Arcturus. And it's everything from sailing down to south |
| 1:19.9 | Georgia to cruising around the world and crossing the Atlantic. Really good stories from |
| 1:25.4 | Swedish sailors in Danish. |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, so unfortunately it's not available in English, but you can pick it up in Swedish or Danish. |
| 1:36.2 | People can still buy it before the holidays, I think, right? |
| 1:37.0 | So where do they get it? |
| 1:39.0 | Yeah, you can buy it. |
| 1:49.0 | The Swedish version is found on OceanDream.es.e slash Irma and the Danish one OceanDream.D.K. slash Irma. |
| 1:53.4 | And all the money goes straight to the Caribbean. |
| 1:57.5 | And even the print and the cover was sponsored. |
| 2:00.7 | So all the money goes straight to the Caribbean. |
| 2:04.4 | Hey guys, some quick news from Weems and Plath. |
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