Siggi Jonsson // Captain of Arktika in Iceland
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
#239. Sigurdur Jonsson is the captain of and brains behind 'Aurora Arktika,' the adventure charter business based out of Isafjordur in Iceland. Mia & I had the privilege of joining Siggi and his crew for their first ski & sail trip of the season in early March, exploring the West Fjords aboard his new boat 'Arktika,' hiking up the adjacent mountains and skiing down to the sea. Siggi's business started with a chance meeting in Isafjordur with none other than Sir Robin Knox-Johnston & Chris Bonington, who had sailed in aboard Sir Robin's Clipper 60 on their way to Greenland for a climbing expedition. Siggi & Robin hit it off, and he later bought the boat - now 'Aurora' - and started his adventures.
On the Wind is presented by Rutgerson Marine. And also supported by Adlard Coles, and BRNKL Systems.
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| 0:00.0 | Mia, we're parked right in front of Arctic who we went skiing with in March. |
| 0:06.0 | How does it feel to be back here in Isafjord on our own boat this time? |
| 0:11.0 | Man, it's really cool. It was really neat coming in here too because when we were here in March, |
| 0:16.0 | obviously it was all snow on the hills and just being able to see it in a different landscape. |
| 0:20.0 | It's really amazing amazing it's covered |
| 0:22.0 | in green flowers everywhere and i think also it's neat when you've been to a place before and when |
| 0:28.9 | you then come in by a sailboat feels like you get an even stronger connection to the place and |
| 0:33.8 | really felt special coming in here through uh through the channel and into. And having Siggy, the captain and owner of Arctic, being on the dock greeting us, was also very cool, I thought. Yeah, I thought it was appropriate. Today is the day that Siggy's podcast comes out. So it's pretty cool that we're sitting here in, in Issafeodor, right in front of Arctic, and got to to go over the other day and kind of came full circle. |
| 0:56.4 | It feels like we have a bigger connection to this place now. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, it feels like one of our many homes in the world now. |
| 1:01.6 | Hey team, Andy here. |
| 1:02.8 | Greetings from Issafeodor in Iceland. |
| 1:05.1 | We are still 10 miles from the Arctic Circle, but for the first time in over two months, we are not in the Arctic anymore. |
| 1:11.9 | It's appropriate. I recorded this episode with Siggy back in March when we were here on Arctica skiing, |
| 1:17.5 | and now we are parked on East Bjorn right in front of Arctica in their home port of Issafeodor. |
| 1:23.4 | And it really feels like a home away from home here, having been here before and back to see old friends. |
| 1:28.9 | So, yep, this interview was recorded back in March, and here we are on East Björn in Isofjord. |
| 1:34.1 | By the time you read, by the time you listen to this, we'll be on our way to Reykjavik and eventually to Dublin. |
| 1:40.1 | A couple of things on the calendar. |
| 1:42.3 | We have finally planned the event we're going to do in Annapolis. |
| 1:46.6 | So Mia and I are going to give a presentation on our Arctic sailing on the Friday of Annapolis |
| 1:51.9 | Boat Show. So I think that's Friday, October 5th. It'll be a happy hour sort of thing in the |
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