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On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ben Doerr sat down with Matt from The Duracell Project YouTube channel. Matt and his wife Janni are refitting Mike Plant's famous Open 60 "Duracell" into a comfortable cruising boat. Sitting in the cockpit of Duracell outside of Port Townsend, Matt and Ben discuss Matt's cruising and boatbuilding past and the many challenges of building the boat and the channel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Ahoi shipmates. Welcome back to On the Wind. I'm normally your host, Andy Shell. Today, Ben Doer is filling in, having just returned from the Himalayas for a family trek over the holidays. I'm jealous of him. However, I'm not that jealous because I'm sitting in the cabin of Falcon in Portugal. I went for a beautiful sunrise run
0:22.5	this morning and it's nice to be out of the minus 20 degree weather in Sweden right now and I can see
0:28.0	palm trees out of the companionway. So that's cool. We are getting ready for the first passage of
0:33.0	2024. Crew come tomorrow. I'm recording this on Friday, January 5th, so it's in the past when you
0:38.6	listen to this. Alex is looking at the weather at the nav station. He's skippering this trip.
0:42.9	Mia's at the grocery store provisioning. She's the mate on this trip, and Adam is scurring
0:47.4	around installing clever items on the boat that are going to make life easier on board.
0:52.9	Adam and I get to go on a field trip tomorrow while the crew get here and then we fly our separate
0:57.6	ways as Falcon goes to see.
1:00.7	A couple exciting things I've been teasing happening in 2024.
1:04.5	We just launched a new website this week, so go to 59-north.com and check out the updates there. It'll look mostly familiar to those of you
1:12.5	that have seen the site before. It's just a little bit more modern, a little bit more organized
1:15.9	and better reflects the fact that 59 North has grown from Mia and me to a team of over 10 to 12.
1:23.6	I don't even know how many of us there are now. So check that out when you get a chance.
1:27.9	Most excitingly, we have new Maps for 2024.
1:31.1	So if you go to Maps.59-north.com, there's a whole interactive display there.
1:36.7	So you can see past passages.
1:38.7	You can see the live tracking and updates coming from the boat.
1:41.3	You can see historic trips.
1:43.5	And you can see upcoming passages. So if you want to sail with us this year or next boat, you can see historic trips, and you can see upcoming passages.
1:45.3	So if you want to sail with us this year or next year, you can click on the upcoming
1:49.1	trips. The numbers on each trip are actually clickable, and they'll take you directly to
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