like you said like there's this huge element of luck that takes place like you can prepare and prepare

and prepare and that has no guarantee that your trip's going to be successful um it's going to

help and it's going to go a long way to making it successful but there's no real guarantee and so for me

a big part of it was you know what's going to go wrong this time and going

through that sort of trying to set, I guess, reality standards in my mind on expectations

of the voyage.

And I was conscious that because I've done it once, I didn't want to have the attitude

of like, she'll be right.

I've done it once. I can survive it again have the attitude of like, she'll be right, I've done it once, I can survive it again.

I wanted to make sure I still tackled the record with the respect that it required

because it was going to need the right types of sort of approach to different safety standards on

the boat and actions and things like that to allow me to be able to be able to, you know,

sail around Antarctica again.

Happy boat show week.

By the time you all hear this, the 59 North team will be gathering in Annapolis for the

annual sailboat show and all of the other things that come along with it.

We're doing a seamanship seminar on Wednesday and

Thursday of this week. And we have a women's happy hour at Federal House with women who sail.

And what else? There's so much more. We're going to be at the Harbor Burn Cannon booth,

the whole 59 North Admiralty

team minus August because he's in Norway on paternity leave. We love you, August. We will all be at the

booth for a couple hours every day. And then on Sunday afternoon, we have a sale on the schooner

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