Steph Crawford & Conor Smith // Re-Entry
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
#312. Steph Crawford & Conor Smith have been out cruising for the past few years on their Brewer 44 GRACE, and are about to swallow the anchor and re-enter 'normal' society to pursue their careers in science. I talked to them onboard the boat in Annapolis, which they were getting ready to sell.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Steph, just to do a mic check, if you want to say your name and tell me what you have for breakfast. |
| 0:05.1 | Stephanie Crawford, I had an egg for breakfast. |
| 0:08.7 | Well, I was really bad today. |
| 0:10.5 | I went to McDonald's and had a steak, egg, and cheese. |
| 0:13.9 | It was greasy and delicious. |
| 0:17.3 | Excellent. |
| 0:18.4 | All right, cool. |
| 0:20.1 | Ryan, you've been at the Blospo refugee farm now for sailors whose dreams have been squandered. |
| 0:26.9 | Squandered, squashed. |
| 0:28.3 | You're going back to Curisal on Friday. |
| 0:30.0 | How do you feel to go back to Polar Seal? |
| 0:31.6 | I'm super excited. |
| 0:34.1 | It's good to go back to see your home. |
| 0:36.7 | Like, I'm excited about that, but I'm really more excited |
| 0:39.4 | about the level of vitamin D that will be like immediately plunged upon me when I exit the |
| 0:46.6 | plane. Even probably at night when we arrive, there'll still be more vitamin D hitting my |
| 0:51.4 | skin than during the daytime here at the refugee farm. |
| 0:56.0 | I've been home for a week and have not seen the sun yet. |
| 0:58.8 | It's just been a thick layer of clouds and a light drizzle since I got home last week. |
| 1:05.4 | Solar panels would be completely used this right now. |
| 1:07.8 | Not going to be off the grid this time. |
| 1:09.5 | It's been really fun having you |
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