Sidse Birk Johannsen // From Denmark to Greenland
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sidse Johannsen is a Danish solo sailor with major plans. When Andy spoke to her in June, she was in final preparations to sail her C&C 40 from Denmark to Greenland, where she'd worked as a teacher some years ago and always longed to return to. She talks about the trials and stresses of buying and outfitting a new boat for northern sailing, what life was like teaching in Greenland and how she hopes to inspire other women sailors like herself through her books and speeches.
Buy Sidse's book "Too Much & Too Wild: Alone at Sea" on Amazon!
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, yeah. I picked up my new bird in Finland this summer and I had such a huge beating on the Baltic Sea that, I don't know, I think it was the seized way to tell me, okay, you think you can sail. I will tell you something different now. |
| 0:20.1 | On the window is sponsored by Orca, |
| 0:21.8 | go to getorga.com to modernize your boat's navigation system. I've been advocating for |
| 0:27.1 | tablet navigation for many, many years now, and this solution is pretty awesome. I've been using it |
| 0:33.2 | on Spica all summer. I just delivered Spica from Stockholm into Ann Shopping. It's about a 50-mile |
| 0:38.2 | inland sail through a lake and the navigation was spot on right in front of me. Super easy. |
| 0:43.8 | One of my favorite things is it's a touchscreen, but it also has physical buttons so you can |
| 0:48.2 | press buttons to zoom in and zoom out and re-center on the boats, on the boats position icon. |
| 0:53.3 | Really, really cool, super installation, |
| 0:55.3 | can't say enough good things about it. I've had several people actually buy the Orca since we |
| 0:59.8 | started talking about it on the podcast. We've also got some stuff on Instagram about using it. |
| 1:05.0 | So check out GetOrca.com and thank you to Orca for sponsoring this episode of the show. |
| 1:10.3 | On the Wind and 59 North is supported |
| 1:12.3 | by Boldano towels. They make quick drying Turkish cotton, really nice towels that we use on Falcon and |
| 1:18.0 | East Bjorn, and we have them on Spica as well. And you can get 20% off if you use the code on the wind |
| 1:23.3 | on their website. That's boldano.com, B-U-L-D-A-N-O. And if you're going to be at the Boat Show, they'll be at, Michael will be at the Boat Show, which is where we first met him. So check them out at Boat Show in Annapolis next week, or go to Boldano.com. Ahoi, Shipmates, welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Andy. It is Monday, September 29th as I record this. |
| 1:45.9 | On Thursday in a couple days, Mia and I are flying to the U.S. with Axel. I'll be there for six |
| 1:50.7 | weeks, actually, mostly for the Boat Show, which is coming up next week. I cannot believe it. |
| 1:56.3 | It's almost here. And yes, we still have that exciting news to talk about that'll be coming next week i promise |
| 2:01.7 | but if you're going to be in the at the boat show in annapolis come say hi we have the booth |
| 2:08.4 | 59 north it's in 08 same place it was last year right in the marriott hotel parking lot area |
| 2:13.9 | there and we've got a lot of fun events going on. We've got a sale on the Woodwind |
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