Hey, this is Anna Viner's live from Sweden.

Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Shell. Enjoy the show.

Greetings from Snowy, Pennsylvania, and welcome back to the 59 North podcast. I'm your host, Andy Schell, again.

I just got back from Fort Lauderdale. Those of you that are friends with me on Facebook or on Instagram would have seen some awesome pictures of my sailing trip on Friday, Friday?

No, Saturday with ATN of AETN Inc.

He makes the mast climbers and the Spinnaker stuff and has been a sponsor in the podcast before.

But I got in touch with ATN and he took me out on his trimaran. mast climbers and the Spinnaker stuff that and has been a sponsor in the podcast before,

but I got in touch with ATN and he took me out on his trimaran. It was a 1970 Dick Newick design, 36 foot trimaran. And in the flat water off the beach in Fort Lauderdale,

with a westerly wind of about 12 to 15 knots, we were sailing like 10 to 15 knots boat speed. It was incredible. I've never sailed the multi-haul before, and it was a hell of a ride. It was awesome. So, huge thanks to ATN for taking me sailing down in Florida. Weather's a bit different here in Pennsylvania. But anyway, it's nice to be back home. This is episode number 86. This is Liza Copeland.

And before I get to talking about Liza, I would like to thank another returning sponsor, Weems

and Plath, back again for week two of a couple more here.

Peter Chogden helped me at my celestial seminar last weekend in Annapolis.

He gave me a coffee maker, which was very helpful, and he came by to see how the class was doing. And of course, we used all weems and plath plotting tools and that sort of stuff like I always use and like I have on the boat as well. I've been a big fan of weems and plath for a long time. They, of course the finest nautical instruments plotting tools clocks and barometers compasses um really neat real stuff uh you can find

them at weems dash plath dot com one other a couple cool things actually before the class i went

over to weems and plath in annapolis and p Peter showed me some prototype new products they have coming out this year.

So that was really neat to get a little behind-the-scenes glimpse of what's coming out and stuff that's come off of his creative desk.

And also, I got a pair of prototype binoculars.

They just came out with a new binocular line in the fall, specifically to compete on the highest levels of the market. So brands like Steiner and Fujianon, that's who they're going up against. And so far from what I've seen, I think they're going to do a very good job of it. I'm going to take the binoculars down to the Caribbean for the Serenity trip and give you a full report on those.

But they're pretty sweet.

And big thanks to Weems & Plath for supporting me and the podcast.

Again, check them out at weems-plath.com.

All right.

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