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Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.

Hey, hey, from Svedia.

Welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. Andy Schell here.

That was just a little bit of behind the scenes fun with Annavinnars, one of our very good friends,

who is the intro and outro voice on the podcast. I recorded those intros with her in person down in London last winter or last September when Mia and I were down in London visiting some of Mia's other friends. So we had a lot of fun with that. It was about a three minute long thing and she recorded those intros many, many, and we had a lot of good laugh, so I thought I'd just throw in a little outtakes in there. So before we get into it, this is episode number 33. Very special guest on today. I want to thank first our sponsor, Weems and Plath, returning yet again for another episode. They have been making traditional nautical instruments and navigation equipment for over 85 years. If you're an American and you've been on a sailboat, you've most likely used one of their chart plotting tools or seeing a clock and barometer on a boat. It's pretty much ubiquitous and it's recognized as being pretty much the best in the business anywhere you go. We just got a the sea plath,, Mirker, I don't know how to say that, compass for

Arcturus that we're going to put on the boat when we launch it on, well, when you listen to this, it'll be yesterday. Well, hopefully, knock on wood. I'm recording this on a Wednesday, and this is going to come out next Tuesday, and we're planning to launch the boat on Monday. Anyway, check out weems dash plath.com and use the offer code 59 North.

That's 59 capital N-O-R-T-H to get 30% off your order. Again, that's on weems dashplath.com.

And a big thanks to them for sponsoring this episode. Lots of really cool stuff coming up on the podcast.

I'm doing a couple in-person interviews in Sweden over the summer with a guy that designed the yacht Toska that was in Ark Europe, the VPLP Katerman designer.

I've also got some live podcasts in the works for the Annapolis Boat Show in the fall.

So stay tuned to my website, 59-nash-North.com, to get tickets for some live podcasts.

We're going to try and get some very important and well-known guests that you'll definitely enjoy hearing live,

and then we'll be publishing those as podcast episodes.

So it'll be a good chance to hear some of this in person and answer some, get some Q&A done with some people that I think you'll really enjoy listening to and meeting.

So check that out and I'll post some updates as we finalize that stuff.

This is John Ruminere, one of the sailing writing legends of the last 40 years who I had the

very humble pleasure of meeting in person in Bermuda

after the Newport Bermuda race. John has a ridiculous sailing and writing resume, which many

of you will be familiar with. His most popular, most well-known books are the Fastnet Force

10 about his experience and the subsequent disaster of the 79 Fastnet race

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