Kirsten Neuschäfer // On Skip Novak & Solo Sailing

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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#335. Kirsten Neuschäfer is a professional sailor and adventurer, most recently working as a skipper for Skip Novak's Pelagic Expeditions in Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. At 22 she cycled solo 15,000 km from Europe to her home in South Africa, and is now preparing for her biggest challenge yet - the 2022 Golden Globe Race, a solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the globe starting next year!

ON THE WIND is presented by Forbes Yachts. Forbes & Jamie Horton are real-deal yacht brokers, living the dream everyone talks about having cruised the Bahamas and Caribbean in both sail and power boats, with and without kids! Visit forbesyachts.com to buy or sell your dream boat or listen to Forbes' latest adventures on a 35-foot lobster boat in the Bahamas in episode 332.

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0:00.0	Check, check.
0:02.3	One, two, three, four, five.
0:05.1	Greetings shipmates.
0:06.7	This is Andy.
0:07.7	I'm back hosting the podcast.
0:09.7	Sorry we missed a week last week because it was quite a hectic week as I got Ice Bear to
0:16.6	Portsmouth, England, met up with Nikki, dealt with this rudder bearing problem that we had.
0:21.6	If you haven't followed that, check it out on Instagram at 59 North Sailing.
0:25.8	And also, we've been talking about it on the quarter deck.
0:28.2	So good reason to join the quarterback, quarter tech, because as we have these in-season hiccups, we've been talking about them.
0:34.6	As I speak today, Monday, October 11th, they are reassembling Ice Bears
0:39.1	Rutter with the new bearing pieces that we had machined. Crew arrived yesterday, and with luck,
0:45.5	it will only be a one or two day delay before they get out of Portsmouth and across Biscay
0:50.5	to Kashkais in Portugal. Nikki Henderson and Emma are taking over from me, and I'll be back on the boat in November.
0:59.2	They run the next two trips, and by the time they're done, with luck, knock on wood,
1:03.1	the boat will be in Lanzarotti in the Canary Islands.
1:06.0	So anyway, back on track this week with the normally scheduled podcast program.
1:12.8	I am recording this from Lee Cumberland's house in Frederick Maryland. It's 6 o'clock in the morning. Axel has been up since
1:17.5	4 o'clock in the morning with his jet lag. We flew transatlantic yesterday from Sweden. It was a bit of a long
1:24.9	day. Our flight got canceled initially, so we spent six hours in
1:28.2	the airport in Arlanda, in Stockholm, and we're rerouted via Iceland to Washington, D.C., where Lee and Rachel picked us up. So we're hanging at their house until we go to Annapolis, well, tomorrow, the day this comes out Tuesday. So those of you that are going to be in Annapolis for the boat show come and see us. I think there may be one or two tickets left for the
1:46.0	woodwind sale we're doing on Sunday the 17th of October. And then we're doing the Cruisers University full day seamanship for offshore sailing seminar. That's happening on Friday. Though I believe that's sold out. But those of you that are signed up for it, looking forward to seeing everybody there.
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