Kamau Iandiataiyero // Building a boat
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2014
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
#82. Kamau Iandiataiyero is a learner. He discovered sailing in July 2013 on a Rainbow in Annapolis, and has taken to the sport incredibly quickly. So quickly, in fact, that he's building his own bluewater boat - one that he also designed - and hopes to set off by 2017.
Kamau is not your average sailor. He's not average anything - at 6'7", he found production boats literally don't fit him. But they don't fit his personality either, which you'll soon discover in this very cool episode with a very inspiring dude. We talked about Kamau's project, how he got into sailing, how he took the leap to desing his own boat and more.
Kamau is using Erik de Jong as his naval architect in fact, so there is definitely some crossover here. Kamau actually first reached out to me before the boat show in Annapolis this fall to have me pick apart his original design on the boat.
Check out Kamau's YouTube channel for some very insightful videos at youtube.com/user/kamauiandiataiyero.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Viners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome back to 59 degrees north. I am your host, Andy Shell. I have no idea what episode number this is, but I assure you it's a good one. |
| 0:19.0 | I had a chat with Kamau ian dotiero. |
| 0:23.3 | Sorry Kamal if I'm butchering your last name, but that's, I think I got it right. |
| 0:28.4 | I was supposed to go down to Tausen to see him in person, but we did this on Skype today. |
| 0:32.5 | This was, this is released on a Tuesday. I just recorded it the day before on a Monday. |
| 0:37.4 | Really cool interview. |
| 0:38.7 | Kamau is new to sailing. |
| 0:41.2 | Only started sailing last summer in July 2013, so a year and a half ago or so, and is about |
| 0:47.5 | to start construction on a new 50 plus foot sailboat that he designed himself and will |
| 0:53.1 | build himself. |
| 0:56.4 | Kamau has an engineering background and is in the construction business. He has his own business, some company doing contracting |
| 1:01.5 | projects, and he's just an avid learner, I would call him. When he gets into a project, he takes |
| 1:08.2 | it to the logical conclusion, and he's certainly doing that with |
| 1:11.2 | this sailboat project. |
| 1:13.3 | But Kamau is also a really interesting student of sailing. |
| 1:16.4 | He learned that he liked it, so he did as much research as he possibly could, which |
| 1:21.0 | makes sense because he's also a historian and has taught history classes and stuff at local |
| 1:25.1 | schools around Baltimore and Annapolis, which we got into. |
| 1:28.7 | Kamau also has a really cool YouTube channel that he records updates to his boat design, |
| 1:34.1 | as well as things that he learns about sailing as he goes. |
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