Hey, this is Anna Vinners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.

Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast. I'm your host, Andy Schell. I am recording this live from the Caribbean 500 Rally HQ here at Ocean Marine Yacht Center in Portsmouth. The 1500, the 25th anniversary of the

1500, starts next Sunday, November 2nd. Fingers crossed, weather's permitting. So we're in town for the

week. Busy stuff going on. I'll be posting about it on the World Cruising website and on 59-north.com.

So if you want to follow along, see some photos, see what the fleet's doing,

you'll see that. This is episode number 66. It is sponsored again. Welcome our returning sponsor, Caligo Marine. I've got a long history with John Franta. He's been on the podcast.

You can hear us talk about Caligo Ducks Ringing. Me and Brian Toss talked about it.

I had featured it on a few episodes.

Anyway, Coligo makes some pretty cool and very innovative technology for sailboats.

Started with the Alaskan fisherman with this Coligo Ducks.

It's a dynema-based synthetic rigging.

I use it on my boat. I just hooked up my friend Lee. He's

going to re-rig his Tiana 37 completely with Dynex ducks. And Kaleigo makes a bunch of hardware as

well, some really nifty, no moving parts, blocks and pad eyes and bits and pieces, furlers,

luff line roller furlers, which I have on the boat as well,

top-down spinnaker furlars, that kind of stuff. Really cool stuff. He's kind of an innovator in the

marine business when it comes to synthetics and fancy, not even fancy, it's really made for

cruising boats and it's very cost efficient. So it's really cool stuff and it's not prohibitively expensive like some of the other

fancierge stuff. So check out CaligoMarine. It's caligomorine.com. Again, thanks to John and

Coligo for sponsoring this episode of the podcast. A few quick reminders. Thanks to everyone's

feedback who got back to me about the coffee idea. For the most part, it's gotten a good reception, so I'm going to keep doing it. I think it's a good idea. I think it's fun. The coffee is one of the things I'm passionate about, so why not offer it and get a chance to make my own with some really cool people like Sean Firestein at Fat Puffy Coffee Coffey Coffers? So it's fun. I'm going to keep doing it. Those of you that want to buy it, that's one way you can support the podcast. Those of you think the coffee's a dumb idea, but still want to support the podcast. I've got two new systems set up. You can subscribe to the podcast and the website. Basically, you go in, create a monthly donation. You can choose from between $5 and $50 a month, or you can come up

with your own amount, and that'll automatically be deducted from your credit card or bank account

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