Peter Gibbons-Neff // Mini-Transat Dreams
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
#349. Peter Gibbons-Neff - the namesake of PGN Ocean Racing - is a solo sailor from Annapolis aiming for the single-handed Mini Transat next year in 2023. Peter & I have crossed paths many times, most recently in Kinsale, Ireland - we were outbound on ICEBEAR heading to Sweden, and Peter was inbound on his Mini arriving from France. We traded photos and I promised then I'd get him on the show! Peter tells me the story of how we wound up in the same harbor an ocean away from home.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Hoy Shipmates, welcome back to the show. I'm one of your hosts, Andy Shell, and the founder of the podcast, although I have to step aside a little bit because August and Emma are doing such a good job on the show that it's taken some of the load off me, but also given some variety to the show and how we do interviews. |
| 0:16.9 | If you haven't listened to August interviewing Emma, which was last week's episode, you got to do it. I was listened to it yesterday on a run. And obviously, I'm a little bit biased because I know them. But it was so charming to hear them. And also just, I feel like a proud dad. It's like I created this thing. And now August and Emma are running with it and doing more with it than I ever anticipated. And it's just such a fun thing to have. And if you make it all the way to the end of the podcast, Emma gave me a little inside joke there because they were talking about August and Emma having to interview me. |
| 0:58.6 | And Emma said, yeah, let's interview the boss and blah, blah, blah, whatever. And she knows that I hate when she calls me the boss because I don't see myself as that, even though I am, I guess, |
| 1:03.9 | the leader of this whole show. Uh, I hate when she calls me the boss. And now, of course, because |
| 1:09.0 | of that, she calls me boss all the time |
| 1:11.1 | incessantly. So thanks for that, Emma. But yeah, anyway, go listen to that. It was super cool. |
| 1:16.7 | And I'm super excited to have those guys helping with the show now and providing some |
| 1:20.5 | different interviews with different people from a different perspective. But I'm back this week. |
| 1:25.7 | And I interviewed Peter Gibbons Neff. |
| 1:28.2 | We crossed paths in Ireland when Emma and I were on the boat heading to Sweden. |
| 1:32.0 | Peter was sailing in on his mini transat, his mini from France. |
| 1:35.8 | So it was pretty cool, kind of as we're sailing out of the harbor, he's sailing in. |
| 1:39.6 | And this is his story. |
| 1:41.5 | We're both from Annapolis, both know, know a lot of the same people, |
| 1:44.7 | and it's really cool to get him on the show. Before we get into today's episode, a couple |
| 1:48.8 | fun things to talk about some shameless self-promotion. Those of you that know me and have |
| 1:54.3 | heard of the show a lot know that I really like this business stuff, and we have some side gigs |
| 1:58.9 | going on. So me and my friend Lee Cumberland, |
| 2:01.7 | we've got two little side businesses. One selling the Harborburn cannons. So Lee and I met in Annapolis. I'm actually in the USA when I record this. I'm at my dad's house. So I got C. Lee a couple times this week. And we stamped some new cannons. I got one to take to East Bjorn. I got one to take to Spica, and we're doing some work on that. |
| 2:17.8 | So if you have a boat, you definitely need a cannon, so check out harborburn. I got one to take to East Bjorn. I got one to take to Spica. And we're doing some work on that. |
| 2:17.8 | So if you have a boat, you definitely need a cannon. So check out harborburn.com and buy yourself a |
| 2:22.8 | cannon. The other side business we've got going is this van rental company. Mia and I camped in our |
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