Magnus Olsson // Volvo Ocean Race Legend
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
#24. Magnus Olsson was on the Two Inspired Guys podcast a while back, and I'm relaunching this episode now on 59º North. I interviewed Magnus in downtown Stockholm, at the 'Sprit Museet' (Alcohol Museum) on Djurgården. Our boat Arcturus was tied up in the harbor there after we'd sailed her across the North Sea. Magnus and his partner Vica cycled down to the harbor and had coffee with us on Arcturus before he and I did the podcast. It was initially about an article I wrote for Yachting World on code sails, but turned into a discussion on sailing in general Magnus was truly larger than life, which comes through in this episode, and it was with great sadness that the sailing world learned of his passing last summer in Lanzarote, where he was training with Team SCA, the all-female entry in the next Volvo Ocean Race. I only knew him for short time, but it was a privilege. Thanks for the memories - and the podcast! - Magnus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.2 | Greetings and welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. I'm Andy Schell and this is episode number 24. |
| 0:10.9 | Got a lot to cover in this intro, so I want to get right to it. Big thanks to our returning sponsor, Weems and Plath. |
| 0:17.7 | This is the third episode they've sponsored and I hope it will continue into the future. I have a pretty cool relationship with Weems and Plath. This is the third episode they've sponsored, and I hope it will continue into the future. |
| 0:21.3 | I have a pretty cool relationship with Williams and Plath. They've been sponsoring awards for the |
| 0:26.2 | arc rallies, and they've been providing some stuff for my celestial navigation workshops, which I'll |
| 0:31.4 | get to in a second. But basically, for over 85 years, Williams and Plath has supplied reliable |
| 0:36.4 | navigation products and weather instruments |
| 0:38.4 | to sailors the world over. And it's really cool being a part of them now in a way because it's |
| 0:45.9 | stuff that I've always looked up to as a kid. I mean, we have an old Williamson Plath clock and |
| 0:49.9 | barometer hanging on the wall in my dad's basement that came from his boat that he took to the Bahamas in |
| 0:55.0 | 1979. So this stuff has been around forever and it's just really neat traditional type stuff. |
| 1:00.8 | All their products stand up to the test of time and they continue to innovate with new designs |
| 1:05.2 | from their Endurance II collection, which has a finish on it that doesn't tarnish to their new |
| 1:10.3 | electronic barometer. They also |
| 1:12.9 | still support celestial navigation, which is really cool. They provide a lot of the, or they sell |
| 1:18.0 | a lot of the plotting tools and stuff that you need to do paper chart work, which I actually |
| 1:22.1 | still do on my own boat, as well as the plotting sheets, and you can actually still get a sextant |
| 1:26.4 | from Weems and Plath nowadays, which is kind kind of cool so check them out at weems dash plath.com |
| 1:33.2 | or you can listen to the episode i did with peter trogden the owner of weems and plath on the |
| 1:37.5 | 59 degrees north sailing podcast that was a few episodes back now but check that out if you want to |
| 1:43.0 | learn a little bit more about his history |
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