Mara Løvenskiold // From Fencer & Bobsled Athlete to the Golden Globe Race
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The rumors are true - 59º North has bought the Schooner Woodwind business in Annapolis! Andy, Mia, founder Jen Kaye & new GM Ryan Ellison share some behind-the-scenes at the top of today's show. Come help celebrate with us at Annapolis Sailboat Show, and meet today's podcast guest Mara, who will be at the show and hanging around with 59º North in tent O-8!
Mara Løvenskiold is a Norwegian athlete-turned-sailor, getting ready to start the next edition of the nonstop round-the-world Golden Globe Race in 2026. She's been a professional fencer and bobsledder and turned to sailing after a chance encounter got her on a catamaran headed around the world. After circumnavigating over three years with Sailing Ripple Effect, Mara set her sights on her next big challenge in the Golden Globe. Andy talked to her from Sweden about her career and GGR prep.
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| 0:00.0 | I will prepare really, really well. |
| 0:03.2 | And I know myself and I know that I'm good under pressure. |
| 0:07.3 | I know that I can deal with being alone. |
| 0:09.6 | I know that it's not going to be my fault. |
| 0:15.1 | If it doesn't work, if it doesn't work out, |
| 0:17.2 | it's because something happens that I don't have control over. |
| 0:24.4 | And like, that's nothing I can do anything about anyway. So I will do everything I can with the things I can, |
| 0:30.2 | and then the rest just has to happen. But, yeah, in my mind, there's just no way I'm not going to make |
| 0:36.5 | it. |
| 0:37.5 | On the one is sponsored by Orca. |
| 0:39.5 | Go to getorga.com to modernize your boat's navigation system. |
| 0:43.8 | I've been advocating for tablet navigation for many, many years now, and this solution is pretty |
| 0:49.5 | awesome. |
| 0:50.2 | I've been using it on Spica all summer. |
| 0:52.3 | I just delivered Spica from Stockholm into |
| 0:54.4 | and shopping. It's about a 50 mile inland sail through a lake and the navigation was spot |
| 0:59.2 | on right in front of me. Super easy. One of my favorite things is it's a touchscreen, but it also |
| 1:03.9 | has physical buttons so you can press buttons to zoom in and zoom out and re-center on the boats |
| 1:08.9 | position icon. |
| 1:12.8 | Really, really cool, super installation. |
| 1:14.4 | Can't say enough good things about it. |
| 1:16.9 | I've had several people actually buy the Orca since we started talking about it on the podcast. |
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