And he was up to his neck and water hanging on into the wheel.

So I went back to help him out.

He said, you okay, Stu?

And he's a Kiwi and very, you know, he's the king of the Southern Ocean.

He's done more laps than most people I know of the planet.

And he said in a very sort of deadpaned Kiwi drawl.

He said, Richard, I'm not very comfortable right now

always shipmates welcome back to the podcast i'm normally your host to andy but i am uh not hosting

today i'm not actually i think it's a niki episode today uh which you'll enjoy i'm in nucojiva

just wanted to give everybody a quick

update from the Marquesas. Getting ready to get the new crew here to sail to Tomotus and Tahiti. So finally getting to enjoy the South Pacific. It's surreal that we're here. I just drove to the airport and back to pick up a friend who's joining on the next leg and the roads on this island. There's two roads on the island and they just wind these switchbacks up and over the

mountain I think the top part of the roads on this island there's two roads on the island and they

just wind these switchbacks up and over the mountain i think the top part of the island's like 3,000

feet it's like being in Jurassic park it's it's wild we had mantarays swimming around the boat

yesterday in the morning like so close you could have reached down and touched them i got a video of that

so if you follow us on instagram you can see some of that stuff we're doing. A couple updates. We had a cancellation on a crew for the Shetland race on East Bjorn. That's coming up in June. If you want to do the Shetland race, that's with our skipper Eric. There's, I think, one or two spots open on that. So check that out. Mia's going to send a newsletter out as well. So if you're not signed up to our newsletter, do that at 59-north.com

slash news. that to check that out. Mia's going to send a newsletter out as well. So if you're not signed up to our

newsletter, do that at 59-north.com slash news. And as I said before, we've opened our 2027 calendar. Falcons heading back to the Atlantic. It feels like a long way away from here, both in time and distance. But those are open on the website now. And of course, our boat show events are live on the website, which is happening in October. Follow us on Instagram. I'm doing some more posts on there from the South Pacific. So if you want to see some pictures and what's going on there, do that. And last but not least, I've got a newsletter coming out from the quarter deck. So if you're on there, I've got some more behind the scene stuff happening on the quarter deck. All right, that's it for me. Enjoy today's episode. And until

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