Simon Borjeson Returns // Isbjorn's New Skipper
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
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🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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#254: Simon Borjeson returns to the podcast as ISBJORN's new skipper for the first few two-boat passages later this year. Simon & I became friends when we met during the ARC Europe rally a few years back, and bonded on our love of sailing, skiing and endurance sports. Back then he was sailing his dad's X-42 EUPHORIA across the Atlantic, while simultaneously training for the 70km OtillO Swimrun World Championships. Simon came out to the farm in Sweden in December for a weekend of planning, and we sat down to discuss his love of sailing & adventure, the cutting-edge foiling motorboats he's currently involved in building, how he got involved with ISBJORN, his thoughts on leadership and more.
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| 0:00.0 | You question yourself sometimes and why can you not just... |
| 0:04.0 | Relaxed, settle down, relax and enjoy what you have. |
| 0:08.0 | I can't explain how or why it is that way, but that is the way it is. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey gang, greetings from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. |
| 0:19.0 | East Bjorn arrived here after a very pleasant four and a half |
| 0:21.7 | day passage down from Lagos, Portugal. Our first patches of 2019 and a really nice way to kick |
| 0:27.7 | off the new sailing season. It feels like we never left the boat, actually. Everything kind of |
| 0:32.2 | happened so fast, and now here we are back again, although the weather's a bit warmer than it was |
| 0:36.1 | last year. Anyway, we've got a week here now before the next crew arrived to cross the Atlantic. It'll be Mia's fifth crossing, my fourth, and it's the first time that I've done this east-to-west trade winds crossing, so I'm pretty stoked about that. It's going to be a nice one. It should be downwind and warm, and yeah, totally different from what we did last year in the arctic |
| 0:54.8 | today's episode is a special one in that it marks a sort of beginning of our efforts in earnest |
| 1:01.0 | to run a two-boat program with 59 north simon who's the guest today is going to be the skipper |
| 1:07.5 | for the first two passages that we were running with both boats this year, |
| 1:14.7 | starting with the Puerto Rico to Key West trip in April and then onwards to Bermuda. |
| 1:21.4 | I had called Simon from Iceland last August when we were about to sign the contract for the Swan 59, |
| 1:28.1 | and it was Simon's commitment to run the trips on East Bjorn. That was the last little nudge I needed to go ahead with the plan. As I've said on here before, Paul Exner is skippered with us, and it's him and my dad, |
| 1:35.9 | and really there's only a few people on this whole earth who I would trust not only to lead the |
| 1:40.4 | trips for us with our crew, but to take the helm of our beloved Swan 48 East Bjorn, |
| 1:46.0 | which no matter what happens with a new boat, is going to forever remain our dream boat. |
| 1:50.5 | So it's just a, it's a big leap for us to do that, and Simon's one of the few people that I trust to do it. |
| 2:00.0 | So anyway, thanks to the stricter regulations on Cuba this year, we decided not to stop in Havana |
| 2:05.2 | on that first trip with both boats, instead electing to explore the Dominican Republic on |
| 2:10.4 | the way to Key West in April. |
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