Martin Hasselov // Ocean Science
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
#179. Martin Hasselov is a sailor and PHD scientist based on the beautiful West Coast - which the locals call the 'best coast' - of Sweden. Martin has a lifelong love for the sea which started as a small boy fishing in his families rowboats. After college he built a steel ketch from a bare hull to explore further afield. Now armed with a PHD in marine science, Martin recently bought an ex-BT Challenge yacht - a steel 67-footer designed for a southern ocean circumnavigation the 'wrong way round' - and uses it as an educational platform for promoting marine science locally, and exploring the world's oceans further afield.
On the Wind is presented by Weems & Plath.
Come ocean sailing with Andy & Mia on the Swan 48 Isbjorn - visit 59-north.com/offshore for the latest offshore routes & dates.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can see my breath. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey team. If you want to support the podcast, you can fund us directly at on the win.com. |
| 0:18.0 | Just click the big blue fund button in the top right corner. |
| 0:22.3 | Or you can go to patreon.com slash on the wind to subscribe if you're a member there. |
| 0:28.6 | Even better come ocean sailing with Mia and I on East Bjorn, our Swan 48. |
| 0:33.9 | We just announced our final passage of 2017, an August trip traversing 600 miles in the Baltic Sea, |
| 0:40.6 | starting and ending in Stockholm and visiting the famous Nauter Yard in Finland where East Bjorn |
| 0:45.8 | was built way back in 1972. Sign up for that and our other passages in the Arctic in 2018 on 59-north.com slash offshore. |
| 0:57.2 | On the Wind is presented by Weems and Plath, |
| 0:59.5 | makers of fine nautical and weather instruments since 1928. |
| 1:03.2 | I spoke to Peter Trogden about the new revolutionary SOS distress light, |
| 1:07.3 | which can actually replace traditional pyrotechnic flares on recreational boats in the |
| 1:11.6 | U.S. |
| 1:12.6 | There's really nothing like it because of the way it meets the Coast Guard requirements. |
| 1:19.6 | So a little backstory on this thing, the Coast Guard put in their regulations in the 70s, an |
| 1:26.6 | electric light that could be used for night distress signal. |
| 1:31.3 | And it could be an electric light that meet, that has all these requirements, which means it's waterproof, it floats, it has to be bright, it has to last for a long time. |
| 1:40.3 | And this was in the 70s. |
| 1:42.3 | And nothing was ever created that met all those requirements, |
| 1:47.1 | but the Coast Guard has never changed the CFR that says what this product does, and no one's |
| 1:53.7 | ever built it. Until now, modern, energy efficient LED tech and a clever lens design has allowed |
| 2:00.1 | the USCG regs to finally be met. |
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