Oyvind Nilssen & Jon Amtrup // Arctic Sailing Round Table
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
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🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
#369: What happens when you put three of the saltiest, Norwegian, high latitude sailors on the same boat? They record a podcast, of course!
August and Emma were joined by Oyvind Nilssen and Jon Amtrup on ISBJØRN in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Oyvind founded and runs Duen Experience, offering charters on his epic sailboat in Arctic Norway. Jon is an author and sailor, and has literally written the books on sailing in Norway and the high latitudes. Jon has also been skippering ISBJØRN this past summer.
The four of us discuss what's unique about sailing in the high latitudes and the Arctic, from ice to polar bears to weather forecasting.
We filmed this episode (thanks James Austrums!) and you can find that video on The QUARTERDECK.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, the weather forecasts in general are very uncertain. |
| 0:04.1 | How do you manage that on DUN? |
| 0:07.8 | The best we can. |
| 0:09.4 | We download the grip files, but they are often very wrong. |
| 0:14.9 | It could just like give a mild indication, |
| 0:16.8 | but it could be also 180 degrees off of what is reported. |
| 0:24.6 | When I came in for the last trip here about a week ago, it was a very strange local conditions. |
| 0:27.6 | I was looking out and looking at five different vessels on the anchorage |
| 0:30.6 | were all pointing in a different direction. |
| 0:33.6 | I felt like I was in a twilight world or something. |
| 0:36.6 | Like, what is this? |
| 0:45.0 | Like everything, my experience from the mainland and what I little bit I know about weather doesn't count for shit up here. |
| 0:48.2 | Hey, on the wind listeners. |
| 0:57.3 | I just wanted to quickly say that we have a lot coming up in the next month at 59 North. The boats are put to bed for the season. So we will not be sailing in the next couple of months, but we have a lot going on online and |
| 1:03.4 | in person, specifically at the Annapolis Boat Show. So keep an eye on our social media and our website |
| 1:09.8 | and an ear on the podcast. We'll be sending |
| 1:13.4 | out some emails to our newsletter as well with announcements about various events that you can be a part of. |
| 1:20.3 | Specifically, the seamanship seminar is one I'm super excited about. And if you just go to 59-north.com, you'll find that in our events page. |
| 1:31.2 | On the Wind is presented by Earth Fed Muscle, a family-run independent business that is close to |
| 1:36.9 | my heart founded by two of my childhood friends, brothers Dane Miller and Brooks Miller. |
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