Hey guys, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, or as we say in Sweden, good Jule and got net

or.

I'll cut right to the chase.

This is a special Christmas announcement.

Delos, Brian, Brady, Karen, Alex, and their friend Kirill from South Africa.

They're flying up to Svalbard this summer in June or July, 2018, and we're going to attempt to sail around Spitzbergen.

That's the big island in the Svalbard Archipelago, and D Ellis is going to film along the way.

We invited them earlier this summer. They immediately

said yes. And what follows is a special podcast we recorded in mid-December, just two weeks ago,

with kind of the history of how that happened and what to expect. So those of you that are

fans of Delos, you're going to get to see them sailing with us for about three weeks on

East Bjorn and in the Arctic. I hope everybody's as excited as Mia and I are. Okay, enjoy this

little Christmas present from us at 59 North. I'm I'm I'm

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Okay. Well, I'll give you my side of the story, and then I'll ask you for your reaction. So basically, we were coming across the Atlantic this past summer, and anytime I have any downtime at all, I'm always like, wheels are spinning. What am I going to, how can we, what can we do something cool in the future, whatever? And we knew we had some time in Long Yerbean between trips. And we were thinking of, you know, having some friends and family up or just chilling out or whatever. And I just said, you know what? We're only going to be there. This might be the only time we ever get there. We got to make something really cool out of this. And then, and I said, I don't even know if I told me or not but I emailed you guys I said hey you know we met Karn and

Brian in Stockholm last year.

They were really cool.

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