Matt Rutherford // Building a Boat
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
#Bonus. Thanks to Weems & Plath for sponsoring this episode of the podcast! Matt Rutherford joins the show once again to discuss his imminent departure for Japan and the whirlwind of a time he's had in California for the past fortnight getting the boat ready. Matt and Nicole Trenholm arrived at the WD Schock facility on April 1 to find their loaner boat, hull #1 of the new Harbor 29, still in the mold! Over the next two weeks he and the team at Schock managed to finish the boat in time for the Strictly Sail Pacific show in Oakland, and Matt and Nicole hope to shove off on the Ocean Research Project's second major expedition on April 20. Matt tells Andy the story of how it all came together in California over the past two weeks. Check out 59-north.com for more content from this episode. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.3 | Greetings, greetings. Welcome back to 59 degrees north sailing podcast. This is episode number 21. |
| 0:10.6 | And before we get into the goods of what we'll be talking about today, I have a very exciting announcement to make. |
| 0:15.6 | We've got our very first ever outside sponsor for the 59 degrees north podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | I would love to welcome Peter Trogden and |
| 0:22.5 | Weems and Plath, the Maritime Instrument Company down in Annapolis. I've been working with Peter |
| 0:28.5 | now for the last year or so. He's been providing the plaques and stuff for the rallies that I run, |
| 0:35.2 | and I bought a bunch of stuff for my first ever celestial |
| 0:38.6 | navigation workshop that I did in January and actually stayed in the apartment above Williams |
| 0:44.0 | and Plath where Donald Street stays during a boat show and also where I did the Donald Street |
| 0:48.4 | episode of the 59 degrees North podcast. So check that out. It was recorded above Weems and Plath. |
| 0:54.0 | So I have a kind of a personal relationship with Weems and Plath. And I think anybody that has a sailboat around the U.S. has some piece of Weems and Plath gear on the boat, whether it's a divider for their chart plotting or a classic clock and barometer or one of their oil lamps. My mom actually got Mia and I an oil lamp for |
| 1:12.2 | our boat before we cross Atlantic as a wedding present. But anyway, Williamson Plath, |
| 1:16.8 | first ever sponsor on the show. And for over 85 years, Williams and Plath has supplied |
| 1:21.6 | reliable navigation products and weather instruments to sailors pretty much the world over |
| 1:26.2 | who embark on epic ocean voyages. |
| 1:29.5 | All their products stand up to the test of time, and Weems and Plath continues to innovate with new designs from their endurance to collection to their new electronic barometer. |
| 1:39.0 | To learn more about Weems and Plath, check out their website Weems-plath.com, or you can listen to the episode that I did |
| 1:46.1 | with Peter Trogden on the podcast here, which was a few weeks ago, and I'll have a link up to that on |
| 1:51.2 | this one. |
| 1:52.2 | But this episode is Matt Rutherford again, sort of a bonus episode. |
| 1:57.1 | Matt is about to take off on a 7,000 mile nonstop voyage across the Pacific. |
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