Peter Trogdon // Weems & Plath Nautical History
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
#18. Peter Trogdon. New intro song from the Blaggards, 'Botany Bay'! Andy sat down with Peter in January in Annapolis to talk all about Weems & Plath, Peter's history as a sailor, the history of navigation, and the new exhibit on navigation at the Smithsonian Institute in DC. Peter also discussed some of his other non-sailing hobbies. This episode was sponsored by SpinSheet magazine, and is the first in a series of podcast/article projects. Read the article that came from this podcast in the March 2014 issue of SpinSheet, available all around the Chesapeake or on SpinSheet.com. Thanks Peter & SpinSheet!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:04.9 | Greetings, greetings, greetings, greetings, greetings. |
| 0:07.4 | Welcome back to 59 degrees north podcast. It's Andy here again. |
| 0:11.8 | I am recording this from the nav table of my dad's boat Sojourner, and we are in Marsh Harbor at the moment. |
| 0:18.5 | Just got in from a six-day passage up from St. Croix, |
| 0:21.6 | which was actually just a stopover on a passage up from St. Lucia. So we sailed about |
| 0:25.6 | 1,200 miles in the last two weeks. |
| 0:27.6 | Phenomenal sailing, broad reaching the whole way. It was the easiest 1,200 miles I've ever done. |
| 0:33.6 | Really good crew, really fun people. Really nice weather and great sailing. |
| 0:38.3 | Anyway, I'm doing the intro for this episode. This one is an episode I recorded a couple |
| 0:44.3 | weeks ago back in Annapolis and this is with Peter Trogden, the owner of Weems and |
| 0:50.3 | Plath, the traditional navigation company that most sailors are familiar with, |
| 0:58.9 | they make the clocks and barometers, but more importantly, the chart work stuff that you get, |
| 1:04.4 | the plotters, the dividers, parallel rules, all that good stuff that you generally use when you're doing paper chart work. Most of that stuff comes from Weems and Plath if you're an American sailor. |
| 1:09.1 | So Peter took over Weems and Plath, I think something like 18 years ago, |
| 1:12.6 | and he's really passionate about the industry and he's been a sailor his whole life. So we talked a little bit about his history as a sailor, how he got into it, how he ended up at Weems and Plath, how he ended up as the manager and then eventually the owner. And also some cool stuff about a new exhibit they're doing at the Smithsonian in D.C. |
| 1:29.8 | about the history of navigation that he's been involved in. eventually the owner. And also some cool stuff about a new exhibit they're doing at the Smithsonian |
| 1:29.1 | in D.C. about the history of navigation that he's been involved with and that Williams and Plath |
| 1:32.9 | has been involved with. So really cool episode. This one is in conjunction. This is the first |
| 1:38.9 | of a series of podcasts I'm going to be doing that I'm also turning into articles for Spinsheet |
| 1:43.2 | Magazine. So Spinsheet magazine. |
| 1:47.9 | So Spinsheet is partially sponsoring this episode of the podcast. |
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