The First Voyage of Isbjorn //Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
#113. is an essay about the first passage of Andy & Mia's Swan 48 Isbjorn. They sailed to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, departing Annapolis on July 4, with Charly, Dan, John and Sean onboard as the inaugural crew. Andy talks about the passage and reflects a bit on how it all went down and what it felt like to reach this milestone. To see some photos of the trip, go to 59-north.com/passagelogs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Viners, live from Sweden. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:09.0 | Greetings and welcome back to 59 degrees North, a podcast about sailing. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:16.0 | This is episode number 113, I think. |
| 0:20.0 | Sorry for the delay. |
| 0:22.5 | It's Tuesday, July 28th. |
| 0:26.6 | Normally these come out Tuesday morning, but I only just got home last night. |
| 0:28.1 | I hadn't had a chance to record this. |
| 0:29.6 | So here it is. |
| 0:29.9 | Anyway. |
| 0:36.3 | No sponsor this week, because I'm going to promote some sailing passages we just posted on the website. |
| 0:40.9 | We've got the Trinidad passage in late January, early February. |
| 0:45.4 | We've got the Caribbean 600, which we have our first crew members signed up for that. |
| 0:48.2 | That's a race from Antigua at the end of February. |
| 0:52.7 | And I just posted a trip from BVI to Key West. |
| 0:55.8 | My sister's getting married in Key West in April, so we're going to sail the boat over from the Virgin Islands, about 1,100 miles or so via the old Bahama |
| 1:01.5 | channel. So that's going to be a really cool trip finishing back in the U.S. back in Key West. |
| 1:06.2 | So a really cool trip there. So check that out. We will then be doing a trip from Key West |
| 1:10.5 | back up to |
| 1:11.2 | Annapolis, just not sure on the timing yet. And we've got our first official crew member, |
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