Hey guys, welcome back to the show. Andy here coming at you from Ice Bear, the new Swan 59.

We are in Grenada, crew coming two days for our first real passage

from here to San Juan, so super looking forward to that. Mia and I, along with the help of two

awesome crew members, Jenny and Richard, who we had never met before, but answered the call to

help us get down from Guadalupe. We did 250 miles in like 30 hours. The boat

was super fast, really fun to sail. We were going to do the trip, just the two of us, but the autopilot's

not working, so we needed some extra help to hand steer the whole way. And man, it was fun. It was

blowing 20 to 25 knots the whole time, close reaching. The four deck was soaked the

whole time. Cockpit stayed pretty dry. But we learned a lot and we're going to tell you a little bit

about a little bit more about that passage on Thursday. Mia and I are going to record an episode of

how I think about sailing with some thoughts and feelings and first impressions on the new boat

and let you know what's going on

in the big picture with that. So look for that

on Thursday on how I think about sailing. for further day and folly by your goal. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Yeah.

Thanks to those of you guys who responded to my message last week about sponsors on the show.

As things tend to happen serendipitously, first of all, the only comments I did receive were

ones that said they actually liked the sponsorship, so that was good to hear. And in the meantime, since I sent

that message out to you guys on the show, we actually had our first, like, major brand contact

us to see if they could sponsor on the podcast. So starting next episode, we are going to have

Costa Del Mar sunglasses be the presenting sponsor

for 10 episodes. So I'm super excited to set that up. And that's mainly thanks to our

apprentice Ben Sufer, who's been a huge help in making contacts with people in sort of

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