It was a terrible metallic impact. It sounded horrible. It was just this like heavily loaded

tensioned screeching sound. And in fact, the people who were down below thought that we had lost

the rig. Check one, two, check one two, recording an intro from the salon in, uh, on Falcon

at Vindam Marine in Sweden. Let's see how this sounds. All right, welcome

back friends. I'm your host, Andy. This is On the Wind. Got a podcast today from Emma with

Lydia Mullen. It's a pretty dramatic one about Lydia was in the Bermuda race and their boat sank.

I'm very excited to listen to this. When I read a story that was in Sale magazine, Lydia is one of the editors at sale. And I actually asked Lydia to interview her and she's like, no, I already did one with Emma. So Emma, good on you. You got to her first. Excited to listen to this one. In 59 North News, I'm recording this from the salon in Falcon at Vindo Marine, where we've been here for a week.

And Vindo, the same boatyard that refit East Bjorn twice, is installing these helmboard leveling things on Falcon.

If you sailed Falcon, if you've seen Falcon, you'll know about the annoying triangles at the helm that you can prop your foot against when the boats healed over.

But we're doing basically what the Volvo boats do, where the... angles at the helm that you can prop your foot against when the boat's healed over.

Well, we're doing basically what the Volvo boats do, where there will be a platform at each helm wide enough to stand with a wide stance, and that platform is able to be leveled.

So effectively, when you're steering at the windward helm, you'll always be standing on a flat

surface. It's a super simple, super easy, elegant solution,

inspired by our first mate Alex, who used to work on Telefonica of Volvo 70. So very excited to have

that wrapped up and get the boat out sailing. Also, this weekend, if you're listening to this as it

comes out, August 23, 24, and 25, Falcons going to be in the Epitvarv Boat Show. That's at the Hallberg-Rassie production facility here on the island of Orris on the west coast of Sweden. So come to that. You can check it out. Meet Mia and myself, see this refit. I just talked about on Falcon, tour the rest of the boat, meet some of our friends and crew members who are sailing with us, uh, and see mea and I

speak on the Friday night. We're the guest lecturers at Hallbergrassie's annual dinner on

Friday night. You have to buy tickets for that. But if you go to our website 59-north.com

slash Hallbergrassy, you will be able to see a link there to buy them also on our social media.

So hope to see some of our Swedish friends there. on our social media. So I hope to see some of

our Swedish friends there. I know a few people that are going to be coming down. I'm excited to

meet any new people that we haven't met yet. So come see Falcon and hear Mia and I speak at the

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