RECYCLED: Nigel Calder // Yacht Systems Guru & Character!
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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#174 RECYCLED: Nigel Calder is universally recognized as the guru of yacht systems. His hardcover tomes grace the bookshelves of yachts the world over. On Isbjorn, his are some of my most referenced books. But while many of you will know Nigel for his writing, I'd bet that few know his background. I didn't. He came aboard Isbjorn during the Annapolis Sailboat Show last October and told me his backstory, which included living in a commune in the UK, years working on oil rigs in the Gulf and much, much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, gang, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for your patience during the couple weeks |
| 0:14.2 | hiatus. We've been very busy on our final passage of the year from Madera, from Lagos to |
| 0:20.1 | Madeira and back, and then a very |
| 0:21.7 | long weekend with Ryan and Sophie in Lagos putting the boat away. So shout out to them for |
| 0:27.6 | helping us relax in the evenings after spending all day and all, yeah, all day cleaning up and |
| 0:33.7 | putting Eastbearing away. Anyway, also, huge thanks to Lee Cumberland for producing the podcast over the summer while we've been out sailing. |
| 0:41.3 | It's a bit surreal to be sitting in my dad's living room in Pennsylvania recording this, having just flown over from Portugal two days ago. |
| 0:49.3 | And me and I are about to head to the boat show today, the same this publishes october fourth thursday we'll see |
| 0:55.0 | some of you at the show during our arctic talks on friday and sunday and also we are going to be |
| 0:59.9 | publishing on 59 dash north dot com slash boat show where you can find us on saturday we'll be at the show |
| 1:06.3 | all day saturday hanging out at some of our friends booth booths at different times a day. So those of you |
| 1:11.9 | that want to come by and say hi, give us a high five, whatever you want to do. We'll be around and look |
| 1:16.4 | for it there. Me is also publishing it on Instagram and Facebook. So follow at 59 North Sailing, |
| 1:22.9 | and you'll know where to find us on Saturday and we'll be at the show again all day on Monday. |
| 1:27.2 | So hoping to see some of you guys out there and really looking forward to seeing those of you who booked you'll know where to find us on Saturday and we'll be at the show again all day on Monday. |
| 1:31.2 | So hoping to see some of you guys out there and really looking forward to seeing those of you who booked tickets for the Arctic Talks on Friday and Sunday. |
| 1:35.1 | All right, without further ado, here is one of my all-time favorite episodes I've ever recorded, |
| 1:39.8 | a recycled one with Nigel Calder, who is just an incredible character and somebody I'm very honored |
| 1:45.7 | to have gotten to know. Enjoy this. New episodes coming out, October 9th. We're going to have a whole |
| 1:50.9 | bunch of new stuff this fall, including new season of how I think about sailing, a new season of |
| 1:56.2 | sailing stories, and hopefully I'm going to get back to a weekly publishing schedule on the on this show |
| 2:02.0 | on the wind the interview show so excited to be back ashore and working on some of this creative |
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