Paul & Sheryl Shard // Distant Shores' New Boat
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
#232. Paul & Sheryl Shard of course have the popular TV series Distant Shores, and for 25 years have been sailing the world on their boats of the same name and documenting their travels. Mia & I met them again in Toronto in January where they were excitedly awaiting the launch of their latest boat, a new Southerly 48. We sat down with them between seminars to talk about the design process, how Southerly are now owned by Discovery Yachts in the UK, what they wanted in their new design, and about how they're getting ready and planning for the next phase of their cruising life by sailing trans-Atlantic and getting ready for the Pacific!
On the Wind is presented by Forbes Horton Yachts. And also supported by Weems & Plath, and Broadreach.
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| 0:00.0 | I made a joke on your film there, and I was serious about that. How do you change your joke now, Paul? You're on your fourth boat. Yeah, I hadn't been thinking about that. What I really meant was that when we built your boat, actually to build it yourself, and we've only built one boat ourselves. So I think to build a boat with another company is a nice way to do it. You can just tell them what to do and tell them to fix it, |
| 0:23.2 | and it'll all come out perfect, hopefully. |
| 0:26.7 | Hey, everyone, Lee here. |
| 0:28.5 | Andy and me have started the trek north for the summer, |
| 0:31.0 | and I'll hopefully be posting some audio from their adventures |
| 0:33.9 | when they have a chance to send some. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm checking the website now and it looks like |
| 0:39.1 | they've just made landfall in the far north of Scotland. The interview this week is with Paul and |
| 0:45.3 | Cheryl Shard, who have by now just taken delivery of their brand new Southerly, which they call |
| 0:51.3 | Distant Shores 3. The new boat sounds amazing and I hope you all enjoy the interview. which they call distant shores three. |
| 0:58.0 | The new boat sounds amazing and I hope you all enjoy the interview. |
| 1:05.2 | On the Wind is sponsored by Forbes Horton Yachts. |
| 1:09.8 | I recently went down to Forbes office and chatted about buying and selling boats. |
| 1:14.6 | We eventually got to the topic of surveyors. So how do you go about finding a surveyor and I guess more importantly finding a good |
| 1:20.6 | surveyor to look at a potential boat? |
| 1:23.6 | So what I do is I have a list of surveyors that are the top guys in the area. |
| 1:28.3 | I will pass it on to a buyer. |
| 1:31.3 | You know, if they want to see it. |
| 1:33.3 | If not, I point them to the NAMS and SAMS website. |
| 1:38.3 | NAMS is the National Association of Marine Surveyers and Sams is the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors. |
| 1:46.2 | And those are both sources where you can search by geographical area for a surveyor. |
| 1:52.7 | There are some big dud surveyors in some areas and there are some really, really good ones. |
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