Paul Osborne // Sailing Around the World for Down Syndrome
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Paul Osborne is the dad behind Osborne Adventure. Paul's family, including his wife and three kids, are planning a unique circumnavigation over the next few years to raise awareness for Down Syndrome. Paul has spent a lifetime traveling, mountain biking, white water kayaking, climbing, camping, and hiking, and in real life is a photographer and designer. I spoke to Paul about his adventure planning, life with kids, being a dad, sailing and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I have always since childhood truly loved sailing. |
| 0:04.8 | There is a connection that I have with it that I don't have with a lot of things. |
| 0:09.7 | And so I love the experience of sailing. |
| 0:13.8 | It doesn't even have to be getting somewhere. |
| 0:16.3 | I've always loved it. |
| 0:18.3 | There's something about it for me that it's just, it's enough. |
| 0:26.6 | You're back. |
| 0:27.8 | I am back home. |
| 0:29.1 | How many transatlantics is that for you now? |
| 0:31.2 | I've done eight in total. |
| 0:33.3 | You finally caught up to me. |
| 0:34.7 | I think so. |
| 0:35.3 | I think we're both eight now. |
| 0:36.8 | What's it like coming back? |
| 0:39.7 | You were gone for basically six weeks. |
| 0:41.9 | Not only like environments, it was warm and sunny and now it's cold and snowy. |
| 0:46.2 | But like you've been away from the family. |
| 0:48.8 | You've been away from Axel who's about to turn five. |
| 0:50.9 | It gets, I think, harder as he gets older to do this. |
| 0:53.7 | How did it feel to be away |
| 0:55.1 | and how does it feel to be back? I was talking to my sister about this yesterday and actually |
| 0:59.8 | feels both worlds, both being on Falcon and both being home, feels 100% normal. So it almost |
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