When I put my feet on the floorboards, there was already water almost up to my knees.

And the water was just rushing in from between the companionway ladder steps.

Hi everyone. Mia here. I'm in Antigua on Falcon, getting ready to sail up to Bermuda next week.

We just got an opening on the next leg, Bermuda to Annapolis, due to a last-minute cancellation,

so we're hoping that we can find someone who would like to join us.

The passage starts on June 4th in Bermuda and ends on June 12

in Annapolis. If you would like to join us, go to 59-north.com slash sign up and fill out the application.

Or you can send us an email to holdfast at 59-north.com if you have any questions. So I hope I get to see you in Bermuda. Hey-do. Ahoy, shipmates, welcome back to On the Wind, my podcast about offshore sailing. I'm Andy Schell. I'm back in the US of A. It's Friday, May 19th as I record this. Really nice to be back. I won't be back in Sweden until the middle of August. I've got six weeks here, seeing friends and family. Mia arrives in two weeks after her next passage to Bermuda. And then I get to go sailing starting July 1st, 1st. We're going to, I'm going from Annapolis, up to Lunenberg, my all-time favorite harbor, then on up to

St. John's Newfoundland, and across Atlantic via Greenland to east of Fiord or Iceland to see

some old friends up there that we first met in the 2018 Svalbard season. So very exciting about that.

This is a very exciting episode today with Tapio Leightinen. Tapio's been on the show before,

and if you're not familiar with him, he's the Finnish sailor that was, has done the Whitbread race back in 87, I think, and then was readying his

boat to do the round the world golden globe single-handed race.

And probably was, if not the one of the most prepared entrance in the race, and it didn't matter

because by the time just after he got clear of South Africa, his boat sank in fair weather

in sort of mysterious circumstances, and his race was over. He was rescued, and his race was over.

Interestingly, though, his offshore campaign is not over because he basically once got rescued and went back to Finland. He charged ahead with his plans for the OGR race, which starts this September, around the world crude race. He's sailing on a Swan 55 in that race. And so we talked a lot in this interview about like, what were the emotions surrounding his rescue and how did that affect any of his

plans for the OGR? Tapio's very philosophical. So we got pretty deep on some of this stuff.

And it was just a really interesting look at like preparation and expectations

and all the rest because no, you know, no matter how prepared you are, there is still a certain

risk to going offshore. And Tapio was like both stunned and saddened by the sinking of his

boat because he thought he had done everything he could and yet and yet here he was

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