Maik Brotzmann // Living & Sailing in Iceland
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
#234. Maik Brotzmann has been a friend of the podcast now for a few years, having joined Mia & I in Annapolis two years back to attend one of our Celestial workshops. He grew up in East Germany and lived through the fall of the Berlin wall, before later moving to Iceland to pursue his career on the waterfront. Maik is educated as a metrologist, but his interests are wide-ranging, from weather forecasting and routing to yacht design and naval architecture to sustainable marine tourism. We caught up with Maik on his own turf in Isafjordur where we stayed at his humble quarters, as he calls them, before joining Aurora Arktika for the ski & sail adventure we did in March. Find Maik online at haf-strand.com.
On the Wind is presented by Rutgerson Marin. And also supported by Adlard Coles, and Weems & Plath.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In high latitudes, you know you have the whole time no wind and you kind of feel comfortable |
| 0:08.3 | with it because if the wind comes, you know, it's going to possibly break something and you really |
| 0:13.4 | have to get the ship in shape for it all the time and be prepared for it and never let your guard |
| 0:17.6 | down. And it's so easy to let your guard down. |
| 0:20.7 | Hey, everyone, Lee here. East Bjorn and its crew just arrived in the location. and never let your guard down. And it's so easy to let your guard down. |
| 0:21.4 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.0 | Lee here. |
| 0:26.0 | East Bjorn and its crew just arrived in the Lafortan Islands. |
| 0:30.8 | And he sent me an email this morning, and it said, quote, |
| 0:32.1 | It's amazing here. |
| 0:34.9 | We'll send some photos from our anchorage last night. |
| 0:39.7 | Forged mussels at low tide in this little cove and had a feast afterwards. |
| 0:40.6 | Unquote. |
| 0:44.8 | So that sounds like they're having a great time up in the Arctic on Eastbourne. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm enjoying following along on Instagram, enjoying all those puffin photos, especially that they posted last week. |
| 0:52.4 | Anyway, enjoy this episode of On the Wind. |
| 0:56.9 | Hey guys, Andy here. I'm excited to announce today Rutgersen Marine as our new presenting |
| 1:02.2 | sponsor on the podcast for the summer. In fact, I'm recording this from Rutgersen's headquarters |
| 1:06.7 | in Mustron, Sweden, their de facto sailing capital on the west coast. We finished our |
| 1:12.8 | 2017 season here on East Byrown last summer, and fittingly, we're back again to start the 2018 |
| 1:18.2 | season. By the time you hear this, of course, will be well underway, bound north for the Arctic. |
| 1:24.5 | As with all the sponsors on the podcast, I have a personal connection with Rutgersen, having |
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