Matt Rutherford // Streets of Cleveland to the High Seas

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

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4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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#315. Matt Rutherford returns to the show to reflect on the tenth anniversary of his departure for the Around the America's solo passage, a record-setting, nonstop trip through the NW Passage and around Cape Horn. We also discussed his origins as a drug dealer on the streets of Cleveland, and how staying out of prison - and alive - helped him become a 'defensive' sailor. Checkout Matt's podcast SINGLE-HANDED wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Ahoy Shipmates, welcome back to On the Wind. I'm your host, Andy Shell. We have another new episode this week with an old-time friend on the show, Matt Rutherford, who's been on more than anybody else and whom I've known, oh man, now since I guess 2006, 2007, something like that. So known him since before my offshore career, and it's been really fun getting to know him
0:22.4	over the years, and always fun to talk to him on the show. Before we get started, typical pre-intro
0:28.7	stuff this week. I don't have too much to talk about other than some of the fun stuff that's
0:32.5	been happening on the quarter deck. But what I did want to mention is, I don't know how anyone else is
0:39.5	feeling out there, but I have to admit, I've been struggling since the new year. You know,
0:46.0	trying to plan the business stuff with COVID still here and what's going to happen. I'm
0:51.7	supposed to go to the boat in February to run two trips,
0:54.4	which are sold out, which is great. But, you know, I still feel weird about traveling
0:59.5	myself and for everyone else, whether I should be asking people to travel or not. I talked
1:04.6	about this last week. But those of you that listened to the episode I did with Angel Collinson
1:09.3	back in November, October,
1:11.8	I guess it was now. And we talked about mental health and all that stuff. I'm struggling with
1:16.9	that. I'm struggling with my depression. I've had a lot of foggy brain moments lately. I'm having
1:25.5	a hard time concentrating. I'm not sleeping that great at night.
1:29.0	I'm not sad, depressed, so to speak, but I am very fatigued and lacking motivation. And I think
1:36.5	I share those things with a lot of people this last 12 months because of COVID. But it's not
1:43.4	because of that in my case, not entirely anyway. It goes back to when my mom died, as I've talked about before, all the way back in 2012. So I don't know, I just wanted to share this with everybody. If anybody out there's listening, that's also struggling with this stuff, you know, feel free to reach out because it's not been an easy road. I'm able to do the things I have to do. I'm still exercising.
2:02.5	I'm still getting my work done. I'm still doing this podcast, which brings me happiness,
2:06.1	and I love doing this. It's just harder to do everything right now for me. It's hard to get
2:11.6	to feel motivation, and that's something I've never had to deal with before. So I wanted to share that with you today before the
2:19.2	show starts. On the other hand, talking to Matt is always motivating. So this was a conversation we did
2:24.5	last week that was live on the quarterdeck. So thanks to those of you that tuned in to listen to us
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