Liz Wardley // A Sailor Smashing Records in the Worlds Toughest Row
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sailor, kitesurfer, and paddler Liz Wardley returns to the show to talk with Emma about her record-breaking row across the Atlantic. She completed the World's Toughest Row at the end of January after 44 days at sea. She beat the previous record by 15 days. Liz has competed many times in The Ocean Race and was last on the podcast in 2019 when she was skippering Maiden.
Emma talked to Liz while she was home in Australia, simultaneously recovering and preparing for the next challenge: rowing the World's Toughest Row Pacific. Liz tells stories from her solo row across the Atlantic, reflects on her path into sailing and now rowing, and shares plans for the double-handed Pacific row.
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| 0:00.0 | I was just completely in awe of the situation. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm out here in a tiny rowboat. |
| 0:05.0 | The sea is huge. |
| 0:07.0 | The conditions are amazing and I may never experience this again in my life. |
| 0:13.0 | Mia, I left the Caribbean the other day. |
| 0:15.0 | It was 30 degrees Celsius. |
| 0:17.0 | I was sweaty and tan and I came home and landed in a snowstorm. What the heck? Yeah, I wondered the same. We had 10 degrees and sunshine the day before and all of a sudden we had a snowstorm coming in and it's still snow on the ground. There's like four inches of snow on the ground outside the house right now. It is still March and Sweden usually have snow in the march. So it's not unusual, but still still you weren't expecting this were you no uh however |
| 0:38.7 | we still have the fireplace going we're sitting in our living room right now recording this the |
| 0:42.2 | night before this podcast releases and we've got the kameen kameen i'd say that it's a swedish word for |
| 0:47.5 | woodstove is blazing in the corner so that i have to say i really like i said to everyone that like |
| 0:53.7 | okay i'm done being hot and sweaty when I left Antigua. I don't mind the snow, but I wasn't expecting it. No, but it's beautiful. It's spring is in the air. You can tell the birdies are chirping. Definitely, yeah. Speaking of spring, this is a quick intro. Emma's the episode host today. So I just wanted to talk |
| 1:12.1 | quickly about we're headed to the US in almost exactly a month. Do you want to talk about the |
| 1:18.0 | workshop we're doing? Yes, me and Andy are hosting an offshore workshop in Annapolis the weekend of |
| 1:23.3 | March, no, April 2021. Offshore sailing essentials, I think we're calling it. So the gist is we're limiting it to 20 people. It's going to be a small group. And I'm trying to take the things that we talk about, like on Falcon and East Bjorn before a trip and expanding that out. Like we always say, I mean, I wish we had more time to talk about this stuff. So bring your ideas, bring your questions. We're going to be able to customize it because it's going to be a small |
| 1:47.3 | group. And we've got a basic outline on the website. Mia, where can people sign up? Yeah, you just |
| 1:51.5 | go to the website 59-north.com slash events. We're also getting pretty full on the boats for this year |
| 1:57.8 | next year. But I think you've got a page set up where people can find open bunks because we do have a couple openings here and there on falcon for sure this year |
| 2:04.4 | and still some stuff left in the pacific right yeah there's a few here and there this spring uh to |
| 2:09.1 | to sign up on and we have an open space on the biscay crossing in the fall on falcon but yeah you to see all the bunks, I'm not going to list them all here. |
| 2:20.6 | You go to 59-north.com slash bunks. |
| 2:24.3 | And then you will see all the open bungs for both 24 and 25. |
| 2:27.9 | So this episode, Emma interviewed Liz Wardley after she had sailed across the Atlantic. |
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