Okay, Mia, you know the drill. Tell me your name and what you had for breakfast this morning, please.

I had my standard breakfast. Oh, my name is Mia, and I had my standard breakfast for, my standard breakfast for breakfast.

Which is? Oatmeal with sunflower seeds, apple sauce, and milk. And then I sneaked in a small piece of knacky bread with butter on it as well

nice okay standby on the wind is presented this season by two old friends of the podcast

Rutgersen marine a hardware company in Sweden close to home for me and OPO offshore

passage opportunities run by our good friend Hank Schmidt fan of fan of the podcast, friend of the podcast, former guest of the podcast, which is a place where you can join Hank's mailing list and basically sail for free as a crew member on various deliveries that Hank organizes.

It's a great way I kind of started my career doing deliveries.

And obviously, we'd love for you to come sail with us at 59 North, but if you don't have the time or can't afford it, you can pay.

I think it's up to 150 bucks a year now to join OPO and you get lots of opportunities to go on deliveries as a crew member.

So check that out.

That's saleopo.com.

As for Rutgerson, I am in the process of ordering a new rig for

spica new rig and sales and part of that project is going to include installing a bunch of rutkerson

stuff on the mast and sales so we use the rutkerson bat car receptacles for the sales we use

rutkerson clutches for the mast and a bunch of other hardware items.

A good friend of ours, Ludwig is the designer at Rutgersen, so it's really cool to basically have

access to that. And unlike most other hardware companies, everything at Rutgersen is designed and

built in Sweden. Ludwig's office is upstairs at the factory, and the factory is downstairs. So when there's like a design question, Ludwig walks downstairs to the production floor and they can sort stuff out. It's really cool. We've had a lot of fun using Rutgersen stuff over the years. They make really high quality stuff. And yeah, I highly recommend it. So check out Rutgersen Marine. That's M-A-R-I-N. There's no E on that.

Rutgersenmarine.S.E.

To see all that stuff.

And I'm sure next time you go to your local channel,

look around and see what the Rutgerson stuff that you can find there because it's quite ubiquitous, really high quality. And a very cool story. Those of us in the U.S. know more about Harkin.

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