always shipmates welcome back to another rerun episode of on the wind i'm your host andy shell i am still

sitting on ice bear at the nav station currently rocking out to some old talking heads those of you

that have ever emailed me know how much i enjoy the talking heads and if you haven't emailed me

give it a try and you can see why. Okay, this episode,

again, to kind of continue our theme, I'm going back into the archive to replay some episodes

that had a lot of meaning to me when I first interviewed the person and also have some sort of

relevance today, even many years later. In this case, this was an

interview I did in 2017 with the great Skip Novak. And the reason it's relevant to me now,

well, I should say the reason it was relevant then should be obvious. If you don't know who

Skip Novak is, just look him up. He runs Pelagic expeditions and is a hardcore sailor and mountaineer. He's been

around the world several times, was involved as skipper and crew in the early Whitbread days.

And it's just kind of one of the all-time great hero type sailors. And the reason that Skip has

come up recently is that Chris Kobush, who's been a

skipper for us recently and who will be a skipper for us on Falcon next year with his wife, Sophie,

who's also a skipper. They're going to take turns kind of like Mia and I do, because they have

a small kid at home as well. Anyway, Chris and Sophie most recently worked on Pelagic Australis, the big boat

that Skip had down in Antarctica for the past several seasons. And in fact, there's an awesome

feature in Yachting World about Chris and Sophie double-handing the boat back across Atlantic

from South America to Cape Town at the height of COVID.

Incidentally, Nikki Henderson, our own Nikki Henderson, was supposed to be on that trip with them, was airborne on a military flight on the way to South America, got turned around

mid-flight because of COVID restrictions that had changed during the flight and got sent

back.

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