Mike Beemer // Maritime Education
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
#240. Mike Beemer is the department chair of the Marine Technology program at Skagit College in Anacortes, Washington. Mike & I were initially introduced by John & Amanda Neal from Mahina Expeditions, who work with Mike on some of their offshore cruising seminars. After trying to connect for over a year, Mike & I finally got to chat about his career. Mike started life as a vagabonding sailor & liveaboard, eventually discovering his passion for teaching. He's since become a sort of evangelical of marine technology, opening up doors for young people and cruisers alike in the field of marine tech. Additionally, Mike leads flotilla's in the summertime up the Inside Passage to Alaska.
On the Wind is presented by Rutgerson Marine. And also supported by Adlard Coles, and BRNKL Systems.
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| 0:00.0 | James, we've been talking about this trip for like a year. |
| 0:11.9 | We're in Issafeodor. |
| 0:14.7 | What's just like when you go home and friends and family, how are you going to describe this |
| 0:19.2 | trip to them? In what, like in one word to describe this trip to them in what like in one word |
| 0:22.7 | describe this trip in one word yeah like what what is how are you going to explain what we've just |
| 0:26.8 | been through for the last two months yeah I don't know what it's definitely not describable in one |
| 0:31.7 | word there's a ton of different stuff so obviously it's been blindingly cool like one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life |
| 0:40.2 | but there's also been pressures like because I'm a non-sailer so there's definitely been pressure |
| 0:46.6 | that I couldn't have anticipated stuff that I'm not familiar with and I guess I'll try and |
| 0:53.8 | convey that over to people who are interested. |
| 0:56.6 | What do you think are going to miss the most about being on the box? |
| 1:00.1 | I don't know. There's a ton of things, isn't there? So I wrote a list of things that I'm going to miss. |
| 1:05.0 | I guess, like, the thing I enjoy most is finding new places that I think are cool. |
| 1:13.7 | So, like, my favourite things about this trip were just getting further and further north in Spitzbergen, |
| 1:22.7 | discovering more landscape, more glaciers, and sort of it kind of opening the doors to |
| 1:30.6 | what I could, what was more approachable in the future. So that, I feel like a familiarity with the |
| 1:38.9 | West Coast of Spitsbergen at the moment and that opens doors. Cool man. Well, this will be a |
| 1:43.9 | preview because we're going to do a full interview later on. But hopefully we'll see you in Dublin for the talk. Oh, man. Yeah, absolutely. If I can get the time to do it and if all the chips fall in the right place, then I'll definitely be in it. Cool, man. Well, it's been awesome having you on the boat, and, you know, the photos you got for us are priceless, so super excited to share all that stuff. |
| 2:05.6 | Yeah, now it's been wicked. |
| 2:06.6 | Forever you will be East Bjorn's ships photographer. |
| 2:09.8 | Brilliant. |
| 2:10.9 | Thank you both. |
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