Pam Wall // Cruising Pioneer
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
#133 is Pam Wall, circumnavigator and another of my sailing heroes. Pam is a staple in most of the sailing magazines and seminar circuits, and made a career in sailing working for and with West Marine after sailing round the world in her beloved Freya 39 Kandarik. I spoke to Pam during her lunch break one day at Cruiser's University in Annapolis this fall, where we were both on the speaking schedule.
Pam's sailing career started in the 60s when on a whim she moved to Ft. Lauderdale to pursue a sport she knew little about. Inspired by Australian sailors who had worked their way all the way into the Great Lakes, where she grew up, Pam decided the life was for her. Pam describes what it was like back in the day in Ft. Lauderdale, a yachtie town if there ever was one, and how she met her husband, Andy, their plan to build a boat and sail away, how she became involved with West Marine, Andy's agonizing death not too long ago and how she's only now starting to recover again from a hellish few years. Pam, recently let go by West Marine, now works for Steve Dashew and was on her way to New Zealand after our chat to get acquainted with Steve's revolutionary long-distance motor yachts.
Get in touch with Pam on her website at pamwall.com.
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| 0:00.0 | But the Freya design was the famous racing boat in Australia in the 60s that won the Sydney Hobart race three times in a row. |
| 0:09.0 | So if you were a young man like Billy or Andy, you always wanted to buy a Freya or build a Freya. |
| 0:17.0 | And he said, there's a young man out in Petaluma, California, who has built a mold, he's an Australian, of Afrea. |
| 0:24.4 | He got the design from Magnus Alberson, and nobody will buy hall number one. |
| 0:29.2 | So I'm going to give you cash for caranade. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to sale caronade. |
| 0:33.6 | And you go out to California, and for me, you build a Freya and you name it Kendarek. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:50.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:53.2 | Ola amigos, welcome back to 59 degrees north, the show. Hola amigos. |
| 0:55.5 | Welcome back to 59 degrees north, the podcast about sailing. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm your host, Andy Shell, again recording this one from warm, sunny, and again, very warm San Juan Harbor in Puerto Rico. |
| 1:08.2 | And this is episode number 133. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you. in Puerto Rico, and this is episode number 133. This episode is sponsored by East Bjorn Sailing. |
| 1:18.0 | Yep, that's us. |
| 1:19.8 | Mia and I have just put the finishing touches on our 2016 and 2017 sailing passage calendars, |
| 1:25.8 | and I'm excited to finally talk about it. |
| 1:31.3 | Big thanks to Steve Olson for creating the passage maps. Go to 59-north.com slash offshore if you haven't seen them yet. |
| 1:35.3 | They're very gorgeous. Thank you, Steve. |
| 1:37.3 | Anyway, we've got some exciting stuff coming up. |
| 1:40.3 | There's one space left on our Virgin Islands to Trinidad Passage on January 23rd, and two left for the trip back, starting in Trinidad on February 4th. |
| 1:49.9 | There'll be an excellent combination of ocean sailing and island exploration, with guaranteed wind in the trades and hopefully lots of wildlife. |
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