Sweden Open House // Crookhaven Stories
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
BONUS: Marcus Hutchinson comes aboard ICEBEAR for a coffee and some storytime in Kinsale, Ireland after our Trans-Atlantic passage! Emma & Andy reflect a bit on the trans-at and then Marcus tells a crazy story about salvaging an IMOCA 60 in a January gale.
Join us for an 'open boat' on ICEBEAR in Sweden! August 29th in Marstrand, on the west coast; and Sept. 20th in Stockholm on the east coast! Check 59-north.com/events for details.
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| 0:00.0 | chaos. |
| 0:01.2 | All right. |
| 0:01.8 | Crew come in an hour and a half. We were just talking about, oh, we always leave this stuff to the last minute. We could have done this in the last 10 days, but I want your quick reflections on your first transatlantic. This is going to go up as a little bonus episode this week just to talk about our fall events. But how do you feel now having one under your belt? |
| 0:26.4 | Good. It feels right. It doesn't, it didn't feel rushed by any means. I feel like I've been waiting for a little while to do that. And it was an extension of, definitely an extension of what I've been doing |
| 0:32.4 | since April now, pretty nonstop. So it was, it was great. I was, yeah, I have no qualms about it. Are you ready for |
| 0:41.7 | the next passage? Are you ready to go back offshore again? This was a long break. I am. Yeah, |
| 0:45.8 | I definitely am like getting sick of land life. It was, you know, driving around Kinsale today and |
| 0:53.1 | sort of bumping into tourists. |
| 0:55.2 | I was trying to get the grocery shopping done. |
| 0:57.2 | And, yeah, it always is nice to just get everything we need onto the boat and go. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, I'm excited for that. |
| 1:05.5 | How does it feel to be in new territory now? |
| 1:08.0 | Every trip now for the rest of the year, you'll have a new destination. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, I was just talking to someone about that today i'm excited to be i'm happy to be out of the bermuda triangle |
| 1:17.9 | which i was where i was for the last two years i got stuck uh and all those passages were great but |
| 1:24.6 | it's fun to start to yeah look at new charts and go into new territory. I think I used the same passage chart for every passage for like, yeah, at least the last year. So it'll be fun to have new ones. Who do you think is more excited to see Axel, you or me? I don't know. You saw him more recently, so maybe me. True. He is going to be a wild man. It's going to be hard to contain him on the boat. But my dad's coming to Sweden. Mia and Axler coming down. So our next landfall, in basically 10 days from now, they're going to be there waiting for us. I can't wait. It feels like going home for me. Yeah, I'm excited to see Sweden, too. It's all these places I've heard about and associate with you guys but have no context for us. So part of this podcast, we're going to have an open house on Ice Bear, two of them actually, one in Maastrand on August 29th. That's a Sunday in the afternoon in conjunction with Rutgersen, which is Marstrand's where their factory is. So if you listen to this and you live in Sweden, come down to see us. It's on the website under the events page. And then we're going to do another one in Stockholm, like three weeks later on September. I think it's going to be Monday, September 20th. We'll do like an after work type of thing, |
| 2:34.8 | 5 to 8 p.m. So that's going to be at Vasa Hamnan in Stockholm. So two chances to see the |
| 2:40.4 | new boat ice bear in Sweden if you're on the West Coast or the East Coast. There's no RSVP |
| 2:45.7 | needed or whatever. Just show up. You'll see the post on Instagram as well, and it's on our website. |
| 2:52.3 | How excited are you to bring, I forgot to ask you, to bring Alex on the, on your first, |
| 2:57.0 | his first like real trip to see you in real work mode. |
| 3:00.5 | I'm excited. Yeah, my, my boyfriend Alex flew in a few days ago, and we've been exploring |
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