Mats Grimsæth // Explorer and Photographer
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Mats Grimsæth is a professional skipper, photographer and lecturer. He's the youngest person to ever skipper a boat around the island of Spitsbergen on Svalbard, which is where he first met August. He has a great passion for the sea and for his fellow human beings. Having had a difficult time in his teenage years, he's now using his considerable energy and outreach to help others in the same situation.
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| 0:00.0 | A hallway shipmates, welcome back to On the Wind. I'm normally your host, Andy Schell. This week, |
| 0:05.8 | we've got August hosting and interviewing Mattz Grimsef, fellow Norwegian sailor and someone we met |
| 0:12.4 | actually on the way to Spitzbergen in 2018 and who in fact loaned us charts for most of the |
| 0:17.7 | coast of Norway and Spitzbergen in 2018. Thanks, Mats. I'm excited to listen to this |
| 0:22.5 | episode with August. A couple quick updates. If you've been supporting on the wind through Patreon |
| 0:28.7 | or by donating directly to us, we're making it simple and getting rid of all that stuff and asking |
| 0:35.2 | you join us on the quarterdeck go to quarterdeck. |
| 0:37.8 | 59-north.com where August and I spend a lot of time talking about seamanship. There is a couple |
| 0:44.4 | years worth of articles and resources on there now and we post regularly on there, whether it's |
| 0:50.2 | video, audio, or written content, usually once a week, sometimes more, |
| 0:55.7 | sometimes less, depending on how much we're sailing. But it gives you a chance to see behind |
| 0:59.4 | the scenes at how we make the sausage here at 59 North, so to speak. So please consider |
| 1:04.4 | being a member. Again, go to quarterdeck.59-north.com. And thanks to the 500 or so members |
| 1:10.1 | who we already have and to everyone else who |
| 1:11.9 | supported the podcast over the years. We're winding down the year and a couple of things |
| 1:18.2 | that I'm working on in the background. We're going to have a new website launching in |
| 1:22.0 | 2024. It's not going to look that much different. It's actually just a refresh using some |
| 1:26.4 | newer technology. So it'll be more fun ways to display the stuff that we're offering on the website. |
| 1:32.4 | August is wrapping up East Bjorn's 2025 passage calendar. So that is going to go live with the |
| 1:37.6 | new website in early January. And we are in the final processes of filling our apprentice slots |
| 1:44.0 | for 2024. |
| 1:45.2 | If you want to be an apprentice with us, if you have a desire to make a real career in sailing, |
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