Pam Wall // Emma & Pam Talk Sailing
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
#326: Pam Wall returns for a third chat on the podcast, this one with ICEBEAR mate Emma Garschagen, live in Ft. Lauderdale from Pam's living room! Emma was in town for her medical course and having both gotten vaccinated, Pam welcomed Emma into her home. Pam has been cruising for a lot longer than Emma has been alive and the two of them recount many of Pam's favorite stories and lessons from her life spent at sea.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, June 4th. I'm sitting in the parking lot at Liberty Marina in Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 0:08.1 | And from here, I can see the crew getting ready to hoist the Genoa on the four deck of Ice Bear with the help of Skipper Kristen Berry. |
| 0:16.6 | It's a nice cloudy, calm morning here, and we're going to push off in the next couple of hours and go meet Pride of Baltimore out in the Chesapeake Bay to start our race to Bermuda. |
| 0:28.7 | I wanted to get this interview out while I'm out at sea, actually, so Andy's going to be kind enough to produce it for me and get it published. |
| 0:39.2 | And I just wanted to record this quickly so that I could say hello at the top of the episode |
| 0:45.4 | and introduce briefly Pam Wall before Andy introduces her as well. |
| 0:52.7 | And he'll give a little update when he publishes this on Tuesday |
| 0:56.6 | of where we are in our trip to Bermuda. So Pam Wall is probably a name you all know, and if it isn't, |
| 1:06.0 | it absolutely should be. Andy has already done two really wonderful interviews with Pam that you should look up. |
| 1:13.2 | One is a video interview as well, which is wonderful at her house in Fort Lauderdale. I was in |
| 1:20.1 | Fort Lauderdale for a few weeks in April and was lucky enough to be fully vaccinated with Pam and get to hang out together. |
| 1:29.3 | And I feel really lucky to now call her a dear friend. |
| 1:33.3 | She is the warmest person in the world. |
| 1:37.3 | She's incredibly well-versed in everything sailing and cruising and just in life, it was really great to um to be in her |
| 1:47.1 | presence and get to know her and uh yeah pam you know this but i i appreciate you very very much |
| 1:54.1 | so it was an honor to to get to interview her we sat at her house in fort Fort Lauderdale right just next to her boat, |
| 2:03.3 | Kandarik, which she took around the world with her family. And yeah, Pam is a guru in all things |
| 2:10.1 | cruising. So if you have any aspirations to go off on your own boat, listen to every word she says. |
| 2:19.4 | I definitely am. So thank you, Pam, and thank you, Andy, for putting this episode together while I'm at sea. |
| 2:26.1 | All right. Well, I'll see you guys next time and hold fast. |
| 2:33.5 | Ahoi shipmates. Welcome back to the show. That was Emma, of course. I'm Andy. I'm sitting in |
| 2:38.7 | my kitchen in Sweden. Looking at the tracker, Ice Bear is probably about halfway to Bermuda at sea |
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