Matt Rutherford // Wolfhound Salvage

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 40 minutes

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#2. This is the riveting story of Matt and the R/V Ault's dramatic five-day salvage attempt on the abandoned Swan 48 Wolfhound, told by the man himself. I caught up with Matt just after his first Ocean Research Project expedition to the Atlantic Gyre. He and scientist Nicole Trenholm were collecting data on the plastics accumulating in the 'Great Atlantic Garbage Patch,' for lack of a better description. They came across the abandoned Swan 48 Wolfhound 700 miles east of Bermuda on their return voyage. The boat had been sighted several times previously, as reported by Charlie Doane on sailfeed.com. Matt knew nothing of this, and went over to investigate, fearing the worst.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show.
0:05.8	Okay, so before we get to this episode, I just have to relay a quick little story here from last week.
0:10.5	Mia and I were down in cows at the main office of the World Cruising Club on the Isle of White in the UK.
0:16.5	Really cool to meet everyone down there, by the way.
0:18.8	But we were down at the Southampton Boat Show
0:21.5	after we did a corporate members lunch for the World Cruising Club, and we were just walking around
0:25.7	the docks, kind of killing some time, waiting for the train to come. And we saw this guy on the,
0:31.8	standing by this big oyster and chatting with someone. And I was like, Mia, Mia, that's, that's
0:36.4	Robin Knox Johnston. That's, that is Sir Robin. And I was like, Mia, Mia, that's Robin Knox Johnston. That's, that is Sir Robin.
0:40.3	And I was like, that has to be him.
0:42.0	He was wearing a blue overcoat and really, you know, just looked.
0:45.7	He's got a very distinct look.
0:47.5	And I think anybody that's ever read any of his books would recognize him.
0:52.0	He, of course, was the first person to sail nonstop and solo around the
0:55.9	world in 1968, and sort of by default won the Golden Globe race when Bernard Mautessier
1:03.4	sort of just decided he was going to be a hippie and continued around the world on to Tahiti.
1:09.2	Anyway, I said to me, I was like, I have to say hi to him.
1:13.1	I know he was one of Matt's biggest heroes, and I know he had corresponded with Matt a little
1:18.4	bit, so I felt like I had a little bit of an excuse to say hi because I'm friends with
1:21.7	Matt, and anyway.
1:23.7	So we walked down the dock, didn't want to interrupt this conversation, kind of just stationed ourselves by a turnoff point, and just wanted to see where he was headed. So he walked away then on his own again, and it was one of those sort of starstruck moments for me. It was, I was really nervous, but I stopped him, and I just said, Robin, and he looked at me and I said, I'm Andy Shell.
1:45.0	I'm friends with Matt Rutherford. And he said, oh, okay, Matt, Matt and I have emailed a few times and Matt was over here. And he's like, I've never actually met Matt, but yeah. And I said, yeah, I said, you're a big hero of Matt's. he he said, oh, well, Matt's done pretty well for himself,
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