Jon Amtrup // Sailboat science in the High Arctic
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Jon Amtrup is an avid environmentalist, and one of the world's top high latitude skippers. He was an obvious choice for GREENPEACE for their arctic research expedition this summer, aboard their recently acquired sailboat WITNESS. She used to be named "Pelagic Australis" and was designed and built by Skip Novak. She is a unique expedition sailboat, as well adapted to the high Arctic as Jon himself.
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| 0:00.0 | Great. Mia, what did you have for breakfast? |
| 0:03.0 | I had also a part of Ryan's batch of scrambled eggs with a toast. |
| 0:09.0 | Amazing. So nice to have someone cook breakfast for you. |
| 0:12.0 | Not bad, not bad. How's your voice today? |
| 0:14.0 | It's really good compared to yesterday. |
| 0:16.0 | That is true. That's very true, right? |
| 0:18.0 | Sounds very like husky, like enigmatic. |
| 0:21.7 | Sounds like a smoked 100 pack of cigarettes in one night. |
| 0:24.8 | That's a great like ASMR voice, I think. Yeah, we shouldn't get that on. |
| 0:28.9 | Very nice. And we are all in the same room, which is pretty exciting. |
| 0:33.3 | Imagine that. That is amazing. |
| 0:35.5 | That is pretty cool. And it's my first time here in Annapolis for the Annapolis Sailboat Show. What do you think? So, like, I mean, this is the first time we were talking at the booth of the day. Like, you never gotten to see like the full-on craziness of like all the people that descend on the booth and all the fun and the workshop we had the day. What are your impressions? It's so great. It's |
| 0:54.9 | awesome to actually meet all the people who listen to the podcast. And, you know, we have tons of |
| 1:00.6 | old and future crew come to meet us here. And yeah, just like seeing so many faces and hearing |
| 1:07.0 | so many kind words and encouragement. |
| 1:12.0 | It's awesome. |
| 1:12.6 | It's great. |
| 1:15.2 | How do you think it's been this year, Mia? |
| 1:16.4 | I think it's great. |
| 1:22.6 | And I love, like you said, August, like on the boat, you have like five to eight crew coming, |
| 1:23.3 | and it's amazing. |
| 1:26.3 | But then here, all of a sudden, everyone kind of just getting together, |
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