Paul & Sheryl Shard // Distant Shores & the OG YouTubers
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Paul & Sheryl Shard of Distant Shores are truly the OG YouTubers, having filmed and produced videos of their sailing adventures for over 25 years. I met up with them in person at the Annapolis Sailboat Show a few weeks ago to talk about their transition from broadcast TV to YouTube and if that's changed their process. We also talked a lot about their new boat, a go-anywhere aluminum expedition yacht built in the Netherlands, which will launch in early 2024, and what they've designed into what is their 5th boat. You can follow Paul & Sheryl's adventures on distantshores.ca.
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| 0:00.0 | So the fact that you just said the live stream thing, this is a good segue |
| 0:03.0 | to another topic I wanted to talk about. |
| 0:05.4 | Well, obviously, we'll focus on the boat. |
| 0:06.7 | But you guys, you guys are the OG YouTubers in a sense. |
| 0:11.0 | Such OGs that we didn't know what OG means for a long time. |
| 0:15.8 | I finally had to ask. |
| 0:17.0 | It's swearing at us. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey, special quick announcement. |
| 0:21.6 | East Bjorn is getting a pretty extensive refit at Vindo on the west coast of Sweden, kind |
| 0:27.6 | of as we speak. |
| 0:28.3 | She's in the shed right now and going to be in until the end of January. |
| 0:31.5 | And the first passage of 2024 on East Bjorn, we are running as a delivery slash shakedown sale back to Bergen, |
| 0:40.3 | her home port where August lives. That's going to start on February 24th. It is going to be a |
| 0:46.0 | pretty gnarly winter passage. It will not be nonstop unless the weather is absolutely perfect. |
| 0:51.7 | We'll be able to coastal hop our way between Sweden |
| 0:55.0 | and Norway and around the bottom of Norway, seeing some spectacular scenery around the way, |
| 0:59.5 | learning some high latitude sailing from John Amtrip, who literally wrote the book called |
| 1:03.7 | High Latitude Sailing. It's going to be a proper adventure. And that is happening in February, like I said. So if you want to be the first people to sail |
| 1:13.3 | on East Bjorn after another refit and participate in this pretty uncertain delivery slash |
| 1:20.1 | shakedown first voyage on the boat back to Bergen, check that out on the website. It's at 59-north |
| 1:25.6 | dot com slash 2024. And we've got Bunks available for that. |
| 1:30.5 | So John hopes that you will join him on the delivery sale. |
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