Katy Campbell // Founder of Sea to Sky Sailing School
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Katy Campbell is a world-class sailor, groundbreaking entrepreneur, and one of my lifelong friends. A decade ago, Katy launched her sailing school 'Sea to Sky Sailing'. Sea to Sky is now the only RYA-recognized training center on North America's west coast, and Vancouver's only school offering both cruising and racing programs, including a regular winter Caribbean race circuit which is where we recently got together to record this podcast. Google Katy, and the title: "Dinghy Sailor Turned Keel Boat Goddess" comes up. Yes, she really is a goddess, a wonderful friend – and as you are about to find out – a trail blazing source of inspiration for any of you who dream of carving your own adventurous path in this world.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that's the challenge. When you do have an adventurous lifestyle, that that is your job, |
| 0:07.0 | um, often you find yourself reaching for the normal. |
| 0:13.4 | Okay. We're quoting. Okay. We're doing this. We're doing it. Great. |
| 0:23.9 | So do you want to jump straight into this? |
| 0:24.5 | How do you want to do it? |
| 0:25.6 | Anything you want to say? |
| 0:28.9 | I'm incapable of being in charge now. |
| 0:34.5 | I've been in charge for two weeks and now I just have to follow in everything. So how long does it take you to recover from these races? |
| 0:39.6 | Well, I actually had this conversation last night because when we worked more closely, |
| 0:48.4 | I was like, you know, kind of rallying for all the skippers to need the amount of time off after whatever they do |
| 0:57.5 | as they had when they did it. |
| 1:01.2 | So like if you work for two weeks to have, you need two weeks off. |
| 1:04.2 | So I would rally that. |
| 1:05.3 | But of course, like I would champion that for everyone else. |
| 1:08.1 | But when it comes to myself, it's been like five days, |
| 1:11.3 | you know, and I'm like, why am I not recovered? So I actually think for racing, |
| 1:18.9 | I think I actually do. I think I need exactly the amount of time on the water as I need off. |
| 1:25.6 | Which doesn't make for a great financial program. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah, fair. |
| 1:31.4 | What is different about racing that it takes so much out of you? |
| 1:38.6 | Well, yeah, me and Alex talked about how it's so great that we get to race with 59 North |
| 1:44.0 | and we get to like sail |
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