Nicole Trenholm // Ocean Science
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
#20. Andy chatted with Nicole Trenholm last week just before she and Matt Rutherford departed for California, the Strictly Sail Oakland boat show, and their voyage across the Pacific to Japan. Nicole talked a lot about her life before the Ocean Research Project, how she got into sailing, what it was like working on a tall ship and later as a scientist for NOAA, and finally, how she met Matt and got involved with the ORP. She wasn't much of a sailor before she moved to the Chesapeake area, but certainly has the chops now - she's done 6,000+ miles already with Matt and the ORP, recently got her captain's license and is about to set out again for another 7,000 miles in the Pacific! Nicole also has the distinction of being the first chick on the 59º North podcast! Thanks Nicole!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.6 | Good morning and welcome back to the 59 degrees north podcast. This is Andy Shell. |
| 0:11.3 | Sorry for the long hiatus once again. I just got back from another delivery, bringing my dad's boat north from Marsh Harbor to Annapolis. |
| 0:19.0 | And I just haven't had time to publish any |
| 0:21.2 | these podcasts though i did have time to record some so they're going to be a few |
| 0:24.2 | more here |
| 0:25.3 | uh... with some regularity now that i'm back |
| 0:27.8 | uh... anyway this is episode |
| 0:30.6 | not sure what number it is but this episode is with nicole trenholm |
| 0:33.8 | uh... you'll know her mostly for being uh...utherford's partner in the Ocean Research Project, |
| 0:39.5 | but in reality, she's kind of as much to do with it as Matt does. |
| 0:44.8 | Nicole is the lead scientist on the trip in the project and does all the research work and |
| 0:51.4 | plans all the projects and kind of is really taking the lead on |
| 0:56.3 | where they're going to do research and what kind of research they're going to do. |
| 0:59.8 | So I talked to Nicole about three, four weeks ago now. |
| 1:03.5 | Actually, I've been saving this one. |
| 1:05.4 | And we talked about her background working for Noah on the Chesapeake. |
| 1:09.1 | She used to work on the AJ Mirwald Schooner. |
| 1:12.3 | She's got a really cool background and it's kind of a neat story how she met Matt and how she |
| 1:16.0 | got involved with the ocean research project in the first place. So this was a really nice |
| 1:20.7 | episode. This one again is sponsored by Spinsheet magazine. I wrote another article about |
| 1:26.7 | the podcast that I did with Nicole for |
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