Lisa Roland & Nini Champion // Team Ocean Grown Rowing

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

#328. Lisa Roland & Nini Champion are setting out to row nonstop across the Atlantic in 2022. Lisa grew up in Canada as a foster kid, and "aged out" of the foster program, never having been adopted. Meanwhile, Nini grew up in upper-middle class Annapolis, sailing with her family aboard their Hylas 54. They both work in the maritime industry now, Lisa as skipper of a charter boat in Greece, Nini as a rigger in Annapolis. After meeting in Antigua, they teamed up to create Team Ocean Grown, where they'll use the challenge of the Atlantic crossing to raise money for foster kids to create a scholarship to help inspire and facilitate foster kids' dreams of entering the maritime industry.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to On the Wind. I'm your host, Andy Schell, recording this from Mission Control at our farmhouse in Sweden. If you can tell, I've got a little bit of a cold. Actually, a lot of a cold. I've been sick for like a week. It's very frustrating and annoying, but it hasn't slowed me down. I've got a lot of things to do, but I sound like crap doing it. yeah speaking of slowing down you know we had the year off last year basically with
0:23.8	COVID and now but I sound like crap doing it. Yeah, speaking of slowing down, you know, we had the year off last year, basically, with COVID,
0:24.3	and now amazingly, we're busier than ever.
0:27.4	Both boats are well underway into our seasons.
0:30.9	Ice Bear is on the way back to the U.S. after another stop in Bermuda.
0:34.6	She's heading to Maine instead of Canada because of the border situation.
0:38.7	And then I am heading back to Maine in about three and a half weeks from now to bring the boat across the Atlantic.
0:44.3	Meanwhile, East Bjorn has already crossed the Atlantic.
0:46.7	She is up in Scotland, and I am very, very happy and jealous to report that August is in Oban
0:53.2	and has reunited with ship's photographer James Austrums,
0:56.3	who we haven't seen in two years. And they are together eating shellfish and hanging out on
1:01.7	East Bjorn in Oban between trips. August is headed home next to his home port in Bergen.
1:07.5	And I actually think we still have one spot open on that passage. So if you want to do a
1:11.7	last-minute trip from Scotland to Bergen, we have a spot available, so get in touch about that.
1:18.7	Otherwise, I think we're pretty much full, but if you go to the homepage on 59 North, there's
1:22.2	some open bunks links on there. We've now opened the calendar for 2023 on Ice Bear Bear, which is the lead-up to the OGR for us.
1:29.8	So there's a lot of fun OGR-specific training passages you can get involved with, even if you're
1:34.4	not on the OGR crew, as well as some of our normal passages where we are going to be sailing back
1:40.3	and forth across the Atlantic twice on Ice Bear in 2023, amongst many other things.
1:44.8	We've also had a lot of things happening on the quarter deck. I have been making some online
1:49.8	virtual workshops, basically, where we record like 20 to 30 minutes segments under different topics.
1:56.1	I've done one on rigging so far and one on electrical systems. The idea being that over time, we'll build up
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