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On the Wind Sailing

Porter Fox // Climate Change & Sailing with John Kretschmer

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8593 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Porter Fox is a writer, lifelong sailor and author of the new book Category Five: Superstorms & the Warming Oceans that Feed Them. I was referred to Porter by our mutual friend John Kretschmer, who is a major character in the book. Porter is also the son of Able Marine founder and grew up in Maine amongst sailboats and boatyards. Porter and I had a long and winding conversation about sailing, weather, science and family. His new book is out now and widely available—I highly recommend it.

Buy his book HERE.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, Mia, you know the drill. What's your name? What'd you have for breakfast?

0:03.6

My name is Mia, and I had a piece of cheese for breakfast. That's it? Yeah, very sophisticated. How's your voice feeling? Much, much better. I can talk, but it's still very raspy. But much better. For those of you guys have met me at the boat show, I apologize if I couldn't talk to you. So we're less than one week removed

0:21.7

from the boat show. Maybe you can just describe the setting. We've been on a van trip since

0:25.8

boat show with Axel. Just fill us in. No, it's been great. Yeah, we left the boat show and we

0:31.9

went straight south to Andes on the way to Andy'sin's house and camped out for the night and driving

0:38.9

around an old VW camper van that we own together with a friend. And it's just been really nice

0:44.3

to introduce Axel to not just boating, but also van life. Well, different boating. We're at my cousin

0:49.7

Blake's house who lives on Lake Norman outside Charlotte and we've been water skiing and wake surfing

0:55.1

and Axel has been loving it and it's like so fun. He's like as a of an age now where you can

1:01.2

actually do stuff like this, go on adventures with him and it gets, you know, it's tough sometimes

1:05.4

to get him to go to sleep at night. I mean, he's had a heck of a week. But it's really fun that we can

1:09.5

actually do these family adventures now pretty easily.

1:13.1

Yeah, I think he gets a little bit overwhelmed at times, as do I, but I think that's, that's good. I mean, it's completely different from what we do at home, so. Yeah, and you're going to be in the U.S. for another couple weeks, and then you and Axel are headed back to Sweden while I deliver my friend sailboat from Annapolis down to

1:28.5

Oriental North Carolina. So I'm looking forward to that. Are you, how, and then you and Axel are headed back to Sweden while I deliver my friend sailboat from

1:27.7

Annapolis down to Oriental North Carolina so I'm looking forward to that are you how much are you

1:32.1

looking forward to the solo parenting plane flight home that's not that bad nowadays and it's going

1:35.8

back home to Sweden's a shorter flight and also overnight so and yeah just putting me from the iPad

1:41.0

yeah uh end of season for us neither boat is at sea except... Yeah,

1:46.2

Nikki and Alex and the 59 North offshore race team is in Malta right now, or somewhere around Malta

1:52.7

doing the Middle Sea race. Yeah, they're at sea. It's a, this is Sunday, two days before this

1:57.2

publishes. So they're at sea currently. There's an app you can download called YB races to check in on them in real time. They probably will be finished by Tuesday by the time this comes out. I would hope they're finished by then. But yeah, and then the next race they're doing is Carab 600 in February. Is there any spots open for next year's racing? No, at the moment. There's a wait list on the 600, but I think we have one or two women's spaces open in the middle of sea race.

2:20.2

So hopefully people get inspired from this race and wants to join. Cool. And that's October 2025. Yep. And we released East Bjorn August, I think, and you were working on East Bjorn's calendar for 2025. We have some more openings there. Do you want to talk about that yeah so in the end of 25 or like

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