Paul & Sheryl Shard Return // Distant Shores TV Show
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
#148. Paul & Sheryl Shard talk to us live from Toronto about their start in sailing, how they got into movie-making, combining their passion for movies, travel and sailing, Paul's career as a boat-builder, Sheryl's theatre background and lots more! Audience Q&A included throughout.
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I wanted to post my episode about Cuba this week, but being at the rally has left me with little time to finish it up. It's a very cool story, but I think I can make it even cooler, so I'm putting it off a week.
Instead, episode 148 is another interview with Paul & Sheryl Shard of the Distant Shores sailing tv show. I've been hanging on to this one for a while now - we recorded it live in Toronto back in January - and it's a really cool deep dive into their sailing history, the popularity of their show, some of their favorite stories from over the years and all their traveling and lots more. Paul & Sheryl are professional media people, so they do a really nice job of storytelling. We mixed in a few audience questions throughout as well.
Mia and I have gotten to know the Shard's quite well over the past several years. They're some of our favorite people in sailing, and we love catching up with them at boat shows and on the water. In fact, while we were racing Isbjorn in the Caribbean 600, we saw them sailing north, and downwind, as we sailed south and around Montserrat, beating our brains out upwind in the race!
As for Isbjorn, she remains on the canal next to Pam Wall's house in Ft. Lauderdale. Mia and I head back down on May 15th ahead of our next leg north to Annapolis. We have some very cool projects in the works with Pam that I'll just tease now, but which won't release for a while, so stay tuned for news on that. Our passages are sold out for the rest of 2016, but we've got a lot of cool stuff happening in 2017, including two Atlantic crossings and some sailing in the Azores and Scotland, so check out the calendar and register at 59-north.com/offshore to come sailing with us! And just today I got the maps for our 2018 passage routes to the Arctic and Iceland from our graphics guy Steve Olson, which is VERY exciting! I'll be opening those trips and publishing the full schedule soon, for what will truly be the adventure of a lifetime!
Finally, if you enjoy the podcast, please do me a favor and review it on iTunes. I appreciate all the great feedback - if you've emailed me at some point and I haven't replied, send a gentle reminder and I promise I will! I genuinely try to get to all of them, and really enjoy hearing from our fans.
Okay, with that, please enjoy my latest conversation, live from Toronto, with Paul & Sheryl Shard!
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| 0:00.0 | I'd always like building things. |
| 0:02.0 | I built furniture, I worked on my own car all the time, and I built pieces of furniture. And I just liked woodworking and all that. And I thought, oh, there's lots of wood in a boat, right? So the fact is, there's a whole lot of fricking in a boat is what there is, and pumps and all kinds of difficult stuff. The woodworking was all crammed into about eight months at the end. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome back to the... |
| 0:26.6 | F fa. |
| 0:28.6 | Okay. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome back to the 59 North Saline podcast with your host and the show. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:39.3 | Hi everyone, excuse my crappy sounding voice. I have a cold. I'm recording this from Portsmouth, Virginia and the start of Arc Europe, 2016. |
| 0:50.3 | By the time you hear this, the boats in the fleet will be at sea. |
| 0:58.1 | They left on Saturday from Tortola and on Sunday from Portsmouth, |
| 1:02.5 | heading first for Bermuda, and then they'll go on to the Azores and finish in Portugal. |
| 1:07.6 | If you want to follow the fleet, go to worldcruising.com slash arc Europe. |
| 1:16.2 | This episode is sponsored by Broadreach, my former employer and one of the coolest sailing jobs I've ever had. |
| 1:18.5 | Aside from being an amazing place to send your kids for an adventurous summer, listen up you |
| 1:23.1 | parents, they're on the lookout for skippers and mates to work the upcoming summer season out of St. Martin. |
| 1:29.9 | Broadreach is an IYT training partner and offers courses from introduction to yachting to flotilla skipper, among lots of other stuff. |
| 1:38.4 | Skippers sail and live with students aboard 40 to 50 foot catamaranes and monohalls. |
| 1:43.8 | Broadreach programs are limited to 12 students |
| 1:45.6 | per program, ranging from 12 to 31 days, and are led by a team of two to three instructors. |
| 1:51.7 | Program instructors live and travel with students 24-7 for weeks at a time, so a high level of |
| 1:56.6 | energy is necessary, along with strong leadership and communication skills. In addition to sailing, instructors are expected to help out with all aspects of the program, |
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