Nuno Antunes // Inspirational Cruiser
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
#123 starts out with a short story about the refit on Isbjorn. Andy reflects on the past three weeks and what he, Mia and a whole host of friends, old and new accomplished on the boat. There's still lots to do, but boy have we come a long way!
The guest this week is Nuno Antunes. Nuno's from Portugal, but has lived in Sweden for over 20 years and has a fascinating personal story, including growing up in rural Portugal, becoming a Navy diver and being involed in the Balkans War.
All the while, Nuno had a dream to sail over the horizon. His relentless pursuit of that dream and his unconventional means of making it come true are precisely why I wanted to have him on the show. This episode is one for the dreamers out there, a real-life example of one family who made their dreams come true and a practical lesson in how to actually do it.
You can follow Nuno and Jenny's adventures on dreamalive.se, where he'll be keeping an ongoing blog of their trip. Nuno is also the Swedish distributor for the Air Head composting marine toilet (why he was at the show), so if you're in Sweden and you're interested in one, visit his sit at airheadtoilet.se.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And when I went to the booth there for the diving, they looked at me and said, look boy, this is nothing for you. And I'm like, why not? No, no, no, this is for real man. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And they were, no, no, you're not going to manage, you know, it's really you should try something else. And I'm like, no, I want to be a diver. You know, if I'm going to be stuck here to 13 months, I want to be a diver. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey! really you should try something else and I'm like no I want to be a diver you know if I'm going to be stuck here |
| 0:21.4 | 13 months I want to be a diver |
| 0:23.3 | hey welcome to 59 degrees north |
| 0:27.1 | a podcast about sailing with your host Andy Shell |
| 0:31.0 | enjoy the show |
| 0:34.1 | greetings welcome back to 59 degrees north, |
| 0:39.1 | a podcast about sailing. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:46.3 | This week's episode is brought to by Sailwright. |
| 0:49.3 | It's boat show time here in Annapolis, |
| 0:51.1 | and Sailwright is gearing up for it. |
| 0:53.5 | Matt Grant and I |
| 0:54.4 | chatted briefly about this a while back. You guys are going to be at the Annapolis |
| 0:59.9 | Boat Show, I assume. Do you guys have anything going on during the show that you want to |
| 1:04.7 | mention? Yeah, Annapolis Boat Show, we traditionally run a 10% off sale on everything at the show. I think one of the things that makes our booth very interesting at the Annapolis Boat Show is that we're not just there selling stuff. We're there answering questions. We are fully demonstrating the sewing equipment. So if you want to actually take over and test |
| 1:28.6 | sew on a machine, we'll have all of the ultra-feed machines there to take over. |
| 1:34.3 | And if you want to have somebody demonstrate how to build a cushion corner, we do that sort of thing. |
| 1:39.3 | If you want to have somebody discuss seaming construction, basically anything. We talk about sale design there. |
| 1:46.0 | We'll talk about your cushion applications, your cover applications. |
| 1:50.0 | We try and take our most knowledgeable people to that show, |
| 1:55.0 | and that's where we really like to communicate with our customers face to face. |
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