Suzanne Heywood // Wavewalker: Breaking Free
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Suzanne Heywood was raised on a sailboat. What started as a three year circumnavigation with her family turned into a decade of living aboard, sailing, and struggling to get an education. Suzanne's book, 'Wavewalker,' tells the story of that voyage. In this episode, Emma and Suzanne talk about 'Wavewalker,' Suzanne's relationship to sailing now, and her thoughts on giving kids an unconventional upbringing.
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| 0:00.0 | Harborburn Canon Company is presenting this season of On the Wind. |
| 0:05.0 | Harbor Burn was founded by our 59 North founders and some of our friends. |
| 0:11.0 | And it was founded on the idea that if you own a boat, you need a cannon. |
| 0:16.0 | Harbor Burn sells these very cool signal cannons that fit into a winchholder and look very shiny and |
| 0:25.5 | impressive and make a loud bang and a puff of smoke to celebrate a sunset or the beginning of a race |
| 0:32.6 | or just to entertain hopefully your neighbors in the anchorage. |
| 0:38.5 | I have had a lot of fun experiences with the cannons on board, the 59 North boats, |
| 0:44.7 | up at 80 degrees north in Svalbard. |
| 0:47.4 | We fired one off on East Bjorn, which was really special. |
| 0:51.4 | And we also fired one towards a sailboat that we overtook in the middle of the Atlantic on Ice Bear. |
| 0:59.9 | Andy and I were towards the end of a transatlantic passage to the Azores. |
| 1:05.0 | And we were overtaking a Danish sailing vessel, hailed them on the radio and asked permission, which you should do, |
| 1:13.2 | to fire our cannon in their general direction. And we explained everything about it. And they |
| 1:21.1 | thankfully said yes. And everyone was up on deck on our boat and on their boat and cheering. |
| 1:30.2 | And, you know, we blew by them, shot off a cannon and then saw them a few days later |
| 1:36.9 | in port and got to laugh about it and share stories and videos, which was really fun. |
| 1:43.2 | So if you think that you might need a cannon for your boat, |
| 1:46.9 | which I too am now a Harborburn canon owner on my boat, |
| 1:52.7 | you should check them out at HarborBurn.com, |
| 1:55.5 | and they can custom stamp your boat name or anything you want onto the cannon, |
| 2:00.4 | which is pretty special. |
| 2:01.8 | That's harborburn.com. |
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