Lisa Blair // Around Antarctica Again
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Andy and Emma talk with Lisa about her upcoming solo adventure around Antarctica: how she plans, prepares, and finds funding for these world record setting endeavors.
If you missed Lisa's first 'On the Wind' interview, check it out here.
To learn more about Lisa's record setting projects, visit her website lisablairsailstheworld.com, where you can also find her book about her first Antarctica record, Facing Fear.
To support Lisa's next Antarctic circumnavigation via her 360 Degree Sponsor program, which starts in December 2021, click here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends, Andy here recording from Mission Control. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm home for a couple days before the next trip to England. |
| 0:07.2 | Emma and I are getting some podcast stuff ready to go. |
| 0:11.1 | A quick reminder about some of the fall events we have coming up. |
| 0:13.9 | First of all, by the time you hear this, we will have had our Stockholm Open House. |
| 0:17.5 | So thanks to everyone who came out and got to see Ice Bear meet Mia Axel and Emma and get to |
| 0:23.3 | hang with us in Stockholm. In Annapolis, in October, we've got some stuff going on at Boat Show. First of all, |
| 0:29.3 | we're going to be at the show itself exhibiting for both 59 North and a new little project that |
| 0:35.0 | me and some friends started. We're actually manufacturing and marketing signal cannons. |
| 0:40.4 | You've seen us tease some of this on Instagram, but the first batch is there. |
| 0:44.5 | Hand stamped and numbered for the first run, |
| 0:47.0 | and we're going to have them on display at the boat show. |
| 0:49.4 | Get in touch if you want a black powder signal cannon. |
| 0:52.8 | They're super cool. |
| 0:54.6 | And then we have, let's see, Friday of the boat show, October 15th. |
| 0:58.7 | We have the Cruises University all-day seminar called Seaman Ship for Offshore Sailing. |
| 1:04.0 | You have to sign up for that on the Cruiser's View website, but there's a link on our homepage. |
| 1:08.6 | Then Saturday, we're having our OGR launch party fundraiser. So very |
| 1:12.5 | limited tickets. I think we only have space for about 40 people. And you'll get a limited edition |
| 1:17.6 | t-shirt that says you were at the event. And we're going to have some former Whitbread crew there |
| 1:22.9 | to talk about the early days. And then we're going to go over our plan for ice bear, what the |
| 1:27.2 | schedule looks like for the next two years, introduce some of the OGR crew and talk about |
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