Lutz Kohne // Golden Globe Manager turned Racer

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Sailing was never a part of Lutz Kohne's life growing up — it hit him square in the face as an adult, and completely changed his trajectory. He has since worked as a professional skipper, as Race Director for the OGR and the GGR, and he is now preparing to set sail himself, around the world, solo, retro and unassisted as a participant in the Golden Globe Race 2026.

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0:00.0	All right shipmates, welcome back to On the Wind. I'm normally your host, Andy Shell. This week, we've got August at the helm. I am here to talk about a couple upcoming things with 59 North. We have finalized our boat show schedule. That's the main thing this week. We're going to be back at Annapolis Sailboat Show in October. It starts on the 10th and runs through the 14th. That's Thursday to Monday.
0:21.3	And we're teaming up with Brady and Alex from Cruises Academy to co-host some events this year.
0:27.3	Okay, here's the rundown.
0:28.4	Friday, October 11th is our big events day.
0:31.0	We are doing a half-day workshop with Blue and Brady up at Ramshead on stage, a place we've been many times before.
0:37.8	Perfect venue for stuff like this. We're calling it offshore cruising distilled,
0:42.0	the shit that matters most. Mia and I are going to be giving an hour session on ocean sailing.
0:47.8	Blue and Brady are going to give a session on live-a-board cruising, and then we're going to
0:51.6	co-host a panel discussion with ourselves and some special
0:54.7	guests. That is nine to one half day this year and it's only 50 bucks. So we hope everybody can make
1:00.5	it to that. You do have to sign up. Go to 59-north.com slash boat show and find the link for
1:05.7	offshore cruising distilled. Also Friday, later that same day, we're having our boat show Sailor Social. This is the
1:11.5	same thing we did last year. It was really fun. We're hosting it at Jay World over in Eastport, and it's a great place to hang out with 59 North, with Cruises Academy, and like-minded sailors. Hopefully Matt Rutherford's Marie Tharp, Schooner's going to be there as well. It's free beer. All the proceeds go to Matt's
1:28.0	and Nicole's Ocean Research Project. Minimum ticket price is 20 bucks or you have an option to donate more. Again, all these things are at 59-north.com slash boat show. On the sailing front, we're almost ready to launch the 2026 calendar. Look for that later this week. I'm recording this on Monday, Monday, April 8th.
1:45.5	That's coming out. We're staying in the Pacific.
1:47.4	If you haven't heard and doing a similar route
1:50.0	to 2025 we've also got a few passages left on falcon and east beorn in 2024 you can see all
1:55.9	open bunks at 59-north dot com slash bunks with that i, I'm handing over to August and this week's episode.
2:03.0	Hope you enjoy.
2:03.7	I'll be back next week.
2:04.8	Until then, hold fast.
2:07.8	On the win is presented by Forbes Horton Yachts.
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