Lin Pardey & David Haigh // Cruising Memories
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Lin Pardey is a living legend, having paved the way for countless cruising sailors for her epic voyages in an engineless boat with her husband Larry in the 60s and 70s, beautiful boats they built by hand, by themselves. Now at 80 years old, she's still doing it. I sat down with her and her new partner David Haigh, himself an accomplished solo sailor in Annapolis to talk about life after Larry and what inspires her and David to keep forging new sailing memories.
Click here to support and purchase Lin Pardey's 2024 book, Passages: Cape Horn & Beyond. Also by Lin Pardey in 2024: Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and other Wildlife
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I shipmates. Welcome back to On the Wind. I'm Andy. It's Sunday, December 1st. This is the last |
| 0:05.9 | episode of the last season of 2024. I'm self-conscious as I'm recording this because Adam and |
| 0:12.0 | Alex are sitting at the table in Falcon. And if I had two more microphones, I would put them on the |
| 0:17.2 | spot, but I don't. So I'm just going to let them keep organizing and working. |
| 0:21.5 | They're laughing in the background here. You can't hear them. We're on Falcon. We just got done our |
| 0:25.6 | first ever staff weekend. It was super fun. We had like 11 people on the boat for two full days, |
| 0:32.3 | plus a couple travel days, hanging out, talking about the 2025 schedule, going to the Pacific. |
| 0:37.3 | Alex is organizing all the |
| 0:38.7 | Pacific charts and all the pilot books. It's very exciting times here. The 24 season is officially |
| 0:44.1 | over. The boat's getting ready for 2025. I'll be back here in three weeks with Mia and Axel and my |
| 0:50.3 | dad and sister actually to get Mia and Falcon ready for the 2025 season. They're doing the |
| 0:55.0 | first passage. She's doing the first two passages of the year on Falcons starting in January. So, |
| 1:00.7 | but this is the last episode of the podcast season. We'll be back sometime in January. This was a |
| 1:06.0 | particularly cool one. I recorded this back in Annapolis at Boat Show and Lynn Party obviously needs no introduction. |
| 1:13.1 | I think her and Larry were like episode number three on the podcast way back in 2013. And back then |
| 1:20.0 | it was like, you know, this is before 59 North before we did all this stuff. And Lynn and Larry were |
| 1:25.0 | like people that I never expected I'd ever get to speak to, |
| 1:28.4 | let alone interview for over an hour. And, and I've since gotten to know Lynn, uh, seeing her at |
| 1:33.3 | boat shows and all this stuff. And it's kind of one of those like pinch yourself, |
| 1:36.9 | pinch yourself moments where you realize that like all of a sudden we're all doing the same |
| 1:42.1 | thing. And, you know, it's just, it's just really cool to be kind of contemporaries um the kind of elephant in the room on on this one is obviously |
| 1:51.3 | that larry passed away um recently not super recently but uh and that was a big deal because |
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