Nat Philbrick // 'In the Heart of the Sea' Writer
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
#233. Nat Philbrick is the author of 'In the Heart of the Sea,' the famous story of the whaling ship Essex, which sunk in the Pacific after being attacked by an angry sperm whale. This true-life story became the inspiration for Herman Melville's classic 'Moby Dick', and at the time, was one of the most well-know sea stories. Of course Nat's book, which recounted the true story from the perspective of the ship's cabin boy, went on to become a Hollywood movie of the same name. Nat's also a sailor, and actually lives on Nantucket, the whaling capital of the world in the 1700's. I chatted with Nat about his career as a sailor and writer back in February.
On the Wind is presented by Forbes Horton Yachts. And also supported by Weems & Plath, and Broadreach.
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| 0:00.0 | We had a six-page article on how to walk down a dock with, written by Robbie Doyle |
| 0:13.0 | and actually had Robbie Doyle in the pictures of how to walk down a dock and stuff like that. |
| 0:21.4 | That's so cool. |
| 0:23.5 | Hey gang, greetings. Andy here. |
| 0:26.4 | We have just crossed the North Sea on East Bjorn and I am recording this in Orkney. |
| 0:32.3 | Big thanks to Lee Cumberland, who's been producing the episodes this summer while we're away. |
| 0:37.4 | We've got one trip in the |
| 0:39.1 | books. We had a beautiful North Sea crossing. We sailed just over 600 miles in about three and a half |
| 0:44.7 | days. Didn't even have to start the engine. Got to see some dolphins. One of the crew saw a whale. |
| 0:49.9 | We stopped for a swim. The water was only 48 degrees, but hey, you only live once, right? |
| 0:55.3 | Makes you feel alive. |
| 0:56.9 | So we're sitting here between trips right now. |
| 0:59.0 | The next crew arrive in a couple days. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm recording this on Monday, May 14th. |
| 1:03.6 | We're going to hopefully stop at Fair Isle, where we stopped last summer to look for puffins. |
| 1:08.4 | It was a magical place before, and I'm hoping to get a weather window to stop there. |
| 1:12.4 | And then hopefully we'll go nonstop all the way to northern Norway. Our first stop there is going to be |
| 1:18.7 | in Boda where we're going to pick up James Ostroms, our photographer. That's actually in the Arctic. |
| 1:23.8 | So once we leave Scotland, hopefully next stop will be in the Arctic. We've started doing |
| 1:29.6 | some stuff with Delos already. They wanted us to film some people in different places and ask them |
| 1:35.8 | what they thought about Svalbard, if they had any idea where it was or what was there or whatever. |
| 1:41.0 | And we just happened to catch this guy on the dock here in Orkney. Proper Scottish, |
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