Louay Habib // The Master of Sailing Media
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Louay Habib is a true sailing insider. Everyone who participates regularly in any of the major offshore races around the world will know Louay. In fact, if you yourself follow sailing – say races like the Fastnet, the Ocean Race - you probably know Louay too – well his writing at least. Currently he is the communications manager at the Royal Ocean Racing Club. But for two decades, Louay has reported on sailing. He is a master in conveying the drama and passion of the sport – to both sailors, and non-sailors. I figured, someone who has been so deeply embedded in this industry for so long must have garned some wisdom and insider knowledge worth sharing. I hope you enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, dolphins going around a boat when you're doing like 27 knots in a gale and they're having a laugh. |
| 0:06.5 | You know, I think nature's always, or whale breaching, you know, so there's great surprises in nature. |
| 0:13.3 | And it's absolutely wondrous when you see things like that. |
| 0:16.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:18.5 | Did you go swimming yesterday? |
| 0:21.3 | Yeah, at spa. |
| 0:24.2 | At the spa. |
| 0:25.6 | And can you tell me the name of your boat? |
| 0:29.0 | Spike! |
| 0:30.4 | Oh, it's shipmates. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome back to On the Wind. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm your host, Andy. |
| 0:34.5 | Axel is sitting next to me. |
| 0:35.8 | Axel, can you say hi? |
| 0:37.1 | Hi. And this is the next to me. Axel, can you say hi? Hi. |
| 0:38.3 | And this is the last episode of this current season. We'll be back mid-April, so we're only taking |
| 0:43.9 | about a month off. This is another one hosted by Nikki. She recorded this one down in Antigua |
| 0:49.4 | during the Caribbean 600 at 1600. Caribbean 600 right before the race. A couple updates from us. Mia and I have been |
| 0:57.2 | working on the 2027 calendar for Falcon. That is going to publish around the time the next |
| 1:03.0 | podcast season comes out sometime in mid-April when I'm gone. I'm leaving April 1st to go to Falcon, |
| 1:08.4 | to meet Falcon in the Galapagos to sail across the Pacific to Tahiti. So I'm excited about that. Very excited to announce the 27 calendar. We're coming back to the Atlantic. It's going to be a lot of places we've been to before that we're excited to go back to. So look out for that. If you're not on our newsletter, go to 59-north.com slash news to sign up for that. You'll be the first to know when the calendar |
| 1:28.7 | publishes. Also, if you want to support the podcast, besides sailing with us, the best way to do that |
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