Paul Heiney // A Voyage Well Made
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
#356. Paul Heiney is a well-known writer and broadcaster, as well as a seasoned ocean sailor. His voyages include a singlehanded race across the Atlantic, a long passage from England to Cape Horn and back, and a cruise around Iceland. His work is published regularly in sailing magazines and he has written several books, some about his sailing trips. Paul is also the commodore of the Royal Cruising Club.
Paul has also been an organic farmer and keeper of working farm horses. He is married to columnist and broadcaster, Libby Purves. They have a late son, Nicholas, and a daughter Rose. Paul and Libby live beside the seaside on the Suffolk coast with their dog.
You can find his latest book, Farewell Mr Puffin, wherever books are sold. See more about Paul's life and work at paulheiney.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to On the Wind, a quick boat update. Both boats are about to be at sea again. |
| 0:07.6 | August left Bergen just yesterday with a crew of five to sail down to Orkney and then down to Lurwick |
| 0:15.8 | Shetland. Cool thing about Lurwick is it's actually Ice Bear's home port, but Ice Bear has never been there, at least with us. |
| 0:23.6 | So East Bjorn will go say hi for her. |
| 0:26.8 | Ice Bear is in Antigua with a variety of setbacks, but they are nearly all resolved, and their crew will be leaving Antigua hopefully very soon |
| 0:39.7 | to head for Bermuda, where Andy and I will join the boat in just a week or so for the |
| 0:46.1 | transatlantic. |
| 0:47.6 | Ice Bear, as you may be heard on the episode last week or saw on our social media, had |
| 0:53.3 | a engine failure. |
| 0:55.0 | She needed a new fuel injector pump, which is not the easiest to source down to Antigua, |
| 1:02.0 | nor is it the easiest to install. |
| 1:04.0 | So that was a tricky process, but we finally have a smoothly running engine, |
| 1:10.0 | thanks to Chris, the skipper, Adam the mate, Costa, |
| 1:14.2 | a crew member who has been extremely helpful in volunteering his time, and Jesse, the Antiguan |
| 1:20.7 | mechanic who put it all together. So thank you guys so much for your hard work, and I look forward to seeing Ice Bear in Bermuda soon. |
| 1:30.5 | All right, enjoy the episode. |
| 1:32.6 | On the Wind is presented by Athletic Greens. |
| 1:35.0 | As I've started to travel again, heading back towards the 59 North sailboats for a summer of sailing offshore, |
| 1:42.5 | it's been really nice to have a habit that can come with me. |
| 1:45.5 | I find it really hard when I'm leaving my on-land life and going to my at-sea life to maintain |
| 1:53.3 | the healthy habits that I'd maybe built up while ashore. So I'm glad that athletic greens can |
| 1:59.6 | come along and be a really important supplement to |
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